VOL. VII.
SO MOVES THE WORLD.
Wa tlrt sail ad '"P' '
Th " l'rrI hrothaf Sa :
j hr dark KartB Mlowa. whll la bf lllpMt
And buuiaa thlnaa. rwlnraln on thnilTa,
JUiith onward, ledln op tha gulika Jr.
The apple crop of the nation Is report
ed large aud likely to be ol good quality.
Vermont has panned a free school book
bill, which cauuot be rejcaled for fire
year.
Mrs. Lease and Governor Stone of
Missouri have had a joint debate at
Nodowa, Mo.
The South Carolina dispensary law is
o manifestly a success that oppOHition
to it is fust dying oat.
The Chicago and Eastern Illinois has
restored wages to the scale ol 1893, ten
per cent. 1,000 men are affected.
The English language is now used by
135,000,000 people. This includes 18,
000,000 Hindoos, Mohammedans, Budd
hists, etc., in the east.
At Bluefields, Wi Va., the striking
miners have threatened personal violence
to miners who keep at work. Serious
trouble is expected.
Ten thousand union glass workers
were locked out by the glass trust which
refused their demand for a 14 per cent
advance, to former wrges.
Hoe & Co., of New York have just
turned out a new printing press which
has a capacity of printing and folding
48,000 eight page papers per hour.
John Gilmer Speed guesses that there
are now a million people who ride the
wheel in this country, and that ten years
hence fifteen million people will use it.
Business news of last week contained
reports that twelve large manufacturing
establishment had raised -wages,, some
of tbem to the level of wages before the
panic. . .
It is stated that Mr. Harvey's books,
Coin, etc., have sold up to nearly three
quarters of a million copies. Only one
of the books baa been published more
than a year.
A prominent Chicago banker said re
cently that he did not believe that any
ordinance granting a franchise had been
passed in that city in the last fifteen
years without boodle. '
Two of Chicago's aldermen have been
indicted by a special grand jury far levy
ing blackmail to the amount of several
thousand dollars upon two large ice
companies which wished protection
against certain ordinances.
Mr. Carl Vrooman, president of the
inter-collegiate debating union, and hold
ing all the highest oratorical prizes given
by American colleges, besides honors
conferred at Oxford, England, and the
Paris University, is coming back from
Europe to devote his talents to the
cause of the Populist party. He begins
work in the Maryland campaign at a
seven-day political revival at Cambridge
ild., Aug. 14. .i
COXEY NAMED FOR GOVERNOR.
Ohio Populists Have a Candidate
and a Platform.
Columbus, O., August 2. The whole
of the forenoon to-day in the Populist
convention was spent in tearing to pieces
the platform reported last night by the
committee on resolutions. Jacob S.
Coxey, of Maasilon, was nominated for
governor.
The platform reaffirms the principles
of the Omaha platform; Coxey's non-
.mi-icBi, uunus ana gooa roaas Dins;
issuing enough legal tender paper money
v iui ilia country on a casii basis; lree
u umuimeu coinage; nationalization
of public monopolies; denounces in terent
iiearing bonds; denounces process in
"S jury; favors law ntrninNt, nAimipnt nl
any debt iu gold; demands immediate
--"uuniiiiient oi national bauks; lavors a
Per diem service pension bill.
As to state affairs, the platform de
mands the referendum plan; reduced
salaries; tax reforms; regulation of coal
SCreeilS: ellllt-linni Anv nnnnuaa fnuinn
, , , J v;.n. 13 .unity..
"Iin Old IlllPtilin- fiiirn uk.nfl r1 oil
officers, state and national, by direct
i' people; state control of the
i.iur irumo without profit, and en
dorses union labor.
i lie 1 opulist state ticket completed is:
Jacob S I'm.. t i '
! : "lm Crofton.of Hamilton, lieutenant
- ueorge narper, ol Urceno,
u.c, mum in nuKer, ol Licking, at
torney general: K. I). Kinrt nrrWnh
1N'Kenm judge; William A. Glovd, Tub
oarawns public works; Thomas M. Hick
borrow, clerk of the supreme
The Hiiriinivt.. i
bfii,.:.i """" oeen cnosen ine
P'llcial route for I,nniiii n i n v.
&T"h 8PeciBl tr,wn with Comraan-
tinVuJ i- "uu otnu oiso woman
iSt 2:13 P-m;
li-rivn in pi :oo p. m., ana
Iih at L h'C earl next morning
H d . T,Vi"? via "nsylvhnia Line
C.i r bleeping car accomndntlona
pthout
El'tha 1 . .CBUl TUUUU9 IU
or tun . BU "8 arranged lor.
or lull inlormation and tickets apply
id 0 street- n 17 S'"09 cornBr 10
C.P.&T.A.
Orgaalss ladastrlal Igluas
Editor Wealth Makeim:
Wsftrntly riut try Dpar
devoted to our party to kwp constantly
standing in theircolumns the two notirM
given below, and urge editorially, at
least ones a month, the people to organ
hie and send for certificate. We otust
have money for 1890, aud we must
organize or we will fail.
CIRCULAR.
"Organize the Legion in every voting
precinct in the land." The national com
mittee have urged this for two years.
Live recruiting officers wauted; 1 ,000 le
gion scouts needed at once. You can
organize by sending to Paul Van Iter
voort, Omaha, Neb., for paprs. Io it
at once. Eternal vigilance is the price of
liberty.
Hanq it in the parlor. Every true
patriot should have the certificate of
membership sold by National Legion for
campaign fund. Only f 1,00, and prem
ium given worth the money and more.
Legion button, YanDervoort'a book,
Peffer's book, and Kansas City address,
with pictures. All who stand on Omaha
platform should have it. Good enough
to frame in any parlor. Don't delay. We
must have the money to organize, and
for 1896. Any one sending five names
for above will get one free. Liberal com
mission allowed. end money in express
orders, money orders, or money; no
checks or stamps. Early orders only get
reller s book. Paul V .vsDehvooiit,
Station B, Omaha, Neb,
What Is Bryan Aiming At?
The free silver people are inclined to
the opinion that W. J. Bryan is honest
and that he is endowed with good bone
sense, but what object friendly to free
silver can he have in the course which he
is pursuing? If he hopes for free silver
or any kind of reform through the Dem
ocratic party he is too green for any uso.
If free silver and reform with him are
only secondary matters, subservient to
his personal interests, he is not honest,
The question is, what is he aiming to do?
He claims to be a Democrat and to be
working to carry bis party for free silver
If he is a worthy leader he probably alms
to carry the greatest possible free silver
strength to the national convention and
there, alter it bas been shown that the
Dartv is booelesslv nnder the crin of the
gold bags, lead a bolt to the Populist
party. The bolt will not be to any other
lree silver party lor tnere is no other and
will be no other. This is isryan s only
escape as an honest sensible man.
If this is Bryan's plan the chances are
against him. He will probably find in
the end that be has done the cause of
silver more barm than good. He will
find himself, his followers and the cause
of free silver sold out to the gold bugs.
The gold standard wing of democracy is
preparing for this move that Bryan and
his class of leaders are making. Cleve
land, Carlisle and their kind will be pleas
ed to have a great free silver demonstra
tion made at the national convention.
They want it to be as big as Bryan and
his friends can make it. They want the
free silver people corralled where they
can handle tbem. A bolt in such a ease
will not be permitted. The platform will
be made to favor free silver. The candi
date will be selected so as to please and
bold the free silver Democrats. The gold
bugs will make a show of strong opposi
tion but will be careful to appear in the
wind up not to have bad their own way.
They will want Bryan and his friends to
feel that they have gained a glorious
victory. Then when the convention is
over the gold standard Democratic bosses
will go about to see that the Republican
candidate is elected. Whatever course
the Democratic party is made to take it
will be guided in the service of the Wall
Street managers. Bryan will not be al
lowed to succeed in leading a bolt from
the Democratic national convention, and
failing in this what other good can he
hope to accomplish? Cedar Itapids Ke
publican (Pop.)
Accident at tlin Fenltentlsry,
Jefferson Cut, Mo., Ang. 7. Two
convicts, Sullivan of Kansas City and
Hooley of St Louis, are in the prison
hospital possibly fatally hurt. Twenty
prisoners are more or less injured.
The prisoners working in one of the
shoe shops were being marched to
supper across a bridge twenty feet
long, connecting the second stories of
the factory buildings. Suddenly and
without a moment's wsrning the
bridge broke and all of those who
were on it were precipitated to the
ground Sullivan and Hooley were
among the first to fall. Strange to
relate no bones were broken.
Wreckera Wreck the Wrong Train.
Warsaw, Ind., Ang. 7. Early tbfs
morning tram wreckers tnrew a
switch on the Pennsylvania road at
Eagle Lake station, two miles east of
here, for the evident purpose of wreck
ing one of the fast exprsss trains. A
freight train plunged into it Instead
and the locomotive and several can
were thrown down a steep embank
ment The trainmen escaped by
jumping.
All druggiaU sell Dr. M1W Fain 1111a.
LINCOLN, NKB., THURSDAY, AlKiUST 8, 1895.
.TmciTHl
1)1
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Vest to Declir Tbeir Prinoiplu and Komi
lata Candidate!
A WIH5LH0 TICKET IS HAMED
la Better Ihapa to 8uccsed Than Ever
Before Platform Solid and Satis
factory to Sensible People
Ticket Bbould all be Elected
The People's party of Lancaster county
met in convention last weeli at Bohauan's
ball, Lincoln, Chairman McNerney pre
siding, and Secretary Thompson reading
the call Ex-Mayor Weir was elected
chairman of the convention, F. L. Mary
secretary, Wm. Foster assistant.
Committee on credentials was named,
consisting of J. M. Thompson, J. V.
Wolfe, Jerome Sbamp, tt. T. Chambers
and W. F. Wright.
Committee on resolutions, G. H. Wal
ter, C. G. BuUock, F. D. Eager. J. II. Wil
cox and G. H. Gibson.
Governor Holcomb was introduced to
the convention at the opening of the
afternoon session and made a strong
speech. He expressed himself in favor of
standing squarely by our demands and
advised that we yield nothing of them.
This is the kind of talk that takes with
Populists and be was strongly applauded
The committee on resolutions reported
the following platform, which was finally
adopted without addition or subtrac
tion:
The delegates to the People's Indepen
dent party of Lancaster connty, Neb
raska, in county convention assembled,
do hereby reaffirm our belief in the prin
ciples of the Omaha platform and here
by pledge ourselves to stand shoulder to
snouider in support oi inese principle.
We pledge ourselves to the establish
ment of the initiative and referendum as
a part of onr legislative system; and we
call npon tbe people of all parties to
unite with us to thus take tbe power
from tbe grasp of the politicians and re
store it tbe tbe people.
We demand the pnblic ownership of
public utilities, as opposed to private
monopolies.
We demand that congress shall submit
to the states, if necessary, an amend
ment to tbe constitution enabling con
gress to pass a law providing for a grad
uated income tax.
We view with alarm tbe judicial usur
pation of power which is imprisoning
labor leaders and striking down labor
organizations by an unprecedented use
of injunctions in tne nan as oi judicial
autocrats.
We are in favor of tbe free coinage of
gold and silver at tbe present ratio of lo
to 1, believing tbat it should be treated
by tbe government the same as gold.
We declare for a liberal service pension
for all honorably discharged union sol
diers and sailors of tbe civil war.
We demand tbat the compensation of
all public officers be readjusted to con
form to the present conditionsof business
interests; that all officers, both state
and county, be paid a reasonable salary
and no more, in accordance with tbe
labor performed and skill required, and
that all fees be turned into the general
fund for state and county nun).
Proceeding with tbe work of nominat
ing candidates the name of Jndge A. a.
Tibbetts was presented by V. I). Eager
and the nomination seconded by E. C.
Iiewick and Judge Leese. He was chosen
nominee by n vote of 222 ont of 200
votes. H. F. Horn was named and elect
ed second candidate for tbe second place
npon the bench, iut he has since declined
to run. J. C. McXerney was nominated
for third judge on the ticket, bnt on corn
ing into the hall soon after withdrew his
name. These vacancies will be filled by
the central committee.
Three delegates at large to the State
convention were chosen, namely, J. V.
none, u w. noxie and E. V. iiewick.
The other delegates chosen were as fol
lows: Precinct delegates: First ward. Nate
Reynolds; Second ward. F. L. Lefithton:
Third ward, A. II. Weir; Fourth ward.
Dr. H. Ai. Casebeer; Fifth ward, O. E.
Goodell; Sixth ward, George II. Gibson;
Seventh, J. H. Johimtone; iiuda, Arnold
Ager; Lentervill, H. O.Gnffin; I-uton, J.
W. Olney; Elk, Ed. Lynch: Grant. L W.
iiaytij ji i,imrj, n, M, 1 nrKII, JvUII'
coster, 0. II. Walters; Little Salt, A. T.
f .M. II:. .).(. I u st i... -i. .. r
rainier; Middle Lrtk, (). K. Adams; Mill
A. E. Sutherland; NVmnha. John Hart-
line; North Bluff. Gideon Purbauifh: Oak
J. C. Miigifleton; Panama, C. F. hpnnger
Hock treek, . Norton; Saltillo, K, II.
II ale; Sooth Pass, E.E B!ackbiirn;Ktock-
ton. S. V. IarUI-y: Slevns lk.
Jarnes Fergoson; Waverly, i. II. Ciii ;
West Lincoln, Charles T. Jenkiri; Wt
Oak, J. F. Bishop; Yank Mill, E. J.
Cooley.
The name of Elias I'.nVr for county
clerk was presenfu'd bv ll. S. MoikHt in a
nominating sprh, and E. C. Bwck
seconded tt. There was eome eanx-st
vigorous opposition to Mr. Unkt-r be
cause bs bad allowed ths Democrat to
use bis mime on their ticket, wbkb ppo
sition led Mr. Baker to make a sim h io
wbicb bs claimed to be a straight Popo-1
lit. The vols for rl. rlt stood 'J'JH for
lUker, l ngsinat and U for A. K. Suther
land. Fml A. Miller, pmtent Inruinlw-nt, was
pliuvd in nomination for sheriff. The
same objection was raised ngninat Miliar
aaitKftiuftt llnkor. lis rvwiml U17 votes
ami wns nominated.
Ex-Mayor Weir was named for county
trvoourer, and on suiM-naiou of the rules
he was noiiiinntHl by niTlniuntion,
Prof. G. II. Walter of Cotner Univer
sity and A. J. Huberts v Onk precinct
were proposed na candidates for ths
olliceof county rlcrk. Prof. Walter re
ceiving 14Mvotewndpclnred the choice.
G. V. Hi tit was nominated for ths
office of county judge by J. C. McNernpy
and wan selected convention candidate
by acclamation. Mr. llerge exjireesed
biliiMelf a Populist from principle, which
no one who knows liini can doubt.
Prof. M.S. Bowers was chosen for the
county atiMriutendeut's place on ths
ticket, adding no little strength thereto.
Dr. Lowry ol Lincoln was nomiuated
for the olliee of coroner, aud approved
by the convention.
II. E. Richardson of West Lincoln was
convention choice for the place of county
coinmiHsioner.
F. D. Eager was choaen chairman of
tbe county central committee. Members
of tbe new county central committee are
as follows:
First ward, Thomas Connelly; Second,
F. L. Leigbton; Third, CO. Bullock;
Fourth, Geo. W. Blake; Fifth, A.Sherrick
Sixth, J. W. Emberson; Seventh, W. T.
RolofHon; Buda, J. C. Collins; Centerville,
C. A. Lundel; Denton, A. Vaughan; Elk,
William Beeson; Grant, J. Biuford; Lan
caster, L. H. Babcock; Little Salt, Geo.
Neff, Middle Creek, O.N. Dunn; Mill, G.
Hickle; Nemaha, Johu llartline; Oak, J.
C. Mutfgleton; Panama, W. B. Pickett;
Rock Creek, Alfred Peterson; Saltillo, M.
Kates; Stevens Creek, W. B. Knigbt;
Stockton, Fred Hester; Waverly, David
Iteitz: West Lincoln, i'red rjchwiytrcr
West Oak, John C. Thompson; Yankee
Hill, James Grey.
Dates of Populist Conventions
People's Independent convention 14th
judicial district at HctooK, Bept. i.
People's party 5th judicial district con
vention at York, August 1 1.
Keya Paba county Populist conven
tion August ii.
Butler county convention at David
City, Aug. 24
Saunders county Populist convention
at v aboo, Aug. 2.
Holt county convention August 17.
Garfield county convention meets Aug,
17.
Tbe Productive and Non-Productlve
Ownership of Land Contrasted
What are tbe conditions necessary to
confer benefit In trade or the transfer of
title to property?
Ia every trade two parties are con
cerned.
Benefit or useful improvements are of
two kinds private and public
Both are produced with labor.
Under existing laws governing trade,
two distinct dosses of things are put on
the market and sold.
One class consists of natural oppor
tunities, such a land, coal, natural for
ests, etc.
Things belonging to this class are not
produced and furnished by man in the
transfer of title to property.
1 he other class of thinini put on tbe
market and sold consists of things pro
duced witn human labor, sucn as lood.
clothing, machinery, etc.
It is only useful service or this class of
thing that are produced and furnished
by one party to the other in the different
branches ol trade.
In order to prevent confusion of
thought in tbe discussion of the labor
problem it will be necessary to keep the
two classes ol tuinirs named separate.
and not confound one with the other.
It is a self-evident truth tbat no one
confers a benefit to another in trade.
only to the extent of w hat be produces
aui lurniRiics,
Where there is nothing prod uwd. noth
ing furuifched.
in this discussion t he word land when
used, will include all the natural oppor
tunities utilized in the production of
wealth.
In the natural order of tbiuurs land
precedes bnman labor, end is the prime
paeMive factor in the production of
wealth in its different forms.
Human labor of mind and body is tbe
prime active factor or producing cause
of the many nseful things called capital,
wealth, Improvements, property, etc.
Wealth in It d-ffereut forms is passive
in its nature and does not exist only as
it is produced by tbe labor of man.
It i perishable aud has no power to
produce and re-produce Iteelf.
1 1 exmtence. whether iu the lorm of a
bouse, tool, clothing, food, etc., is suffi
cient proof that soiij one or more have
produced it, and therefore justly belongs
U the producer according to the moral
axiom, iliattvbich auy one produces
juntly Monies to him.
Ln.J'-r eimting laws governing trade
tbirte is no distinction mode between the
Mua produced and furnibed by tbe
h-.ior ol man aud tboae tbat are not.
Land is being exchanged for tbe pro
duce wrought out of it with human
labor, and vie verea.
.No one can truihiuiiy say tbat he pro-
du.vs aud !urmns tbe land to another.
When anyone produce something use
ful trom ths land such as a hnne, grain,
te., ami stehsng ths same lof some
thing ueul that amithar party has pro
duoed as tiivlnnta, then both parties
become mutual benttartors.
No mors) reason can be given why nn
party should demand more useful service
In a trad than what he loans or giro
out.
This moral principle Is Ignored by law
to tlissitent it protect partiwi In exact
ing the produce of others for ths land.
What is the law governing trade for?
Should it not lie for ths sxprews pur
pose of protecting equally rnch producer
in bis lull samitig or produce that
which sustains lifsaud gives comfort to
the body?
Outsiilnot public purposes, two dis
tinct (srivals titles to laud ar recognized
by law.
One is for ths purpose of deriving rent
from it, which menus a private incomo
acquired through ths labor of auotheror
others without compensation.
Parties holdiug land under this title
produce nothing from it.
For example: A Is protected by law
in holding 150 acres of wild lund abovs
what he needs for present Uhs, which he
rents to H for a term of years for 400.
During said term B Improves said land,
puts ths produce of his labor on tbe
market and satisfies tbe claim A holds
against him according to the contract.
In this trade B bns benefitted A to ths
extent of 400 which represents his (B's)
produce, whils A has been a detriment to
him to that extent, for tbe reasou tbat
he (A) furnished B nothing as the result
of his (A's) labor.
The title A bas to said land Is properly
called the non-productive title, for the
reason he produced nothing from it with
bis labor.
The price exacted for land is of the na
ture of rent, or interest.
Rent is ths amount of useful service
exacted in trade above what ii riven out
scuich (,'ope!y belongs to from
whom it is axacted according to tbe
moral prinoiple, that which any one pro
duces justly belongs to them.
Tbe exaction of rent destroys the lives
and happiness of those from whom it is
taken, oy taking from them without
compensation that which sustains their
lives and those dependent on them.
Rent also affects the producers from
whom it is exacted tbe same as so much
property stolen from them; therefore it
partakes of the Bature of murder, theft,
the use of deceptive weights and meas
ures, the counterfeiting ol money, the
sale of strong drink as a beverage, etc.
In tbe transfer of title to land benefits
are conferred in proportion to the useful
improvemenes located on it.
When there are no improvements put
on it, no benefits are conferred.
Holding land in any way without
occupancy and use gives origin to rent,
to competition, to a reduction of wages,
to non-productive business, etc.
It is the basis of chattel slavery under
a disguised name. ....
Wages or earnings proper signify in
come acquired with labor.
Interest, or rent is not properly wages
or earnings, for the reason that incomes
tbus acquired are through the labor of
tbe labor of those from whom it is
exacted.
Holding ths land without occupancy
and use gives origin to a rental price in
it.
Tbe rental advances in proportion at
tbe homeless bid up against each othei
for tbe land.
In proportion as tbey bid up against
each other for the land are tbeir wages
reduced.
Hence in proportion as rent is abolish
ed by law wagesorearnings will advance
in the hands of tbe producers of wealth.
On the other baud, in proportion as
tne rental price ol land advances wages
among the producing class will be re
duced.
In other words, it will become harder
for the homeless to get in possession of
homes clear ol debt.
The damage from the wear or use of a
bouse, tool, etc., made good by tbe bor
rower is not of tbe nature of rent or in
terest. It is simply returning labor for labor
as equivalents.
No one in justice has anything to sell.
give, loan out or lose until be first pro-
uuces it.
It is a greater moral crime to insist on
rent, than the neglect or refusal to pay
it according to agreement.
Why should any one insist on some
thing fornotbing?
Rent properly belongs to those from
w hom it is exacted.
Houites aud improvements acquired
through rent, aud then let out for a
rental Income, is equivalent to producers
paying reut for that which justly belongs
to tbem.
Suppose A loans B the 400 which he
received of him (B) as rent for the 150
acre of wild laud, at a rate of interest.
In the tranaaction It in fact pays to A
in tercet ou ths money tbat represents bis
(B's) produce.
Uur laws as tbey exist, make no dis
tinction between holding land for a
rental income, and on the other baud for
actual occupuuey and use, and as the re
sult of it, no distinction between a rent
debt and debt a labor.iucome mads with
out work and with work, non-productive
business and productive business, com
petition and co-operation, etc.
I bus it is tbat confusion and injustice
under existing laws take tbeir origin in
the nou-productive title to land, and as
the inevitable result, the entire system of
trade ia corrupted.
J be other private title to land consists
initsowuerahip for actual possession and
NO. 9
, the amount corresponding with ths
nadirs ot thshtisinrnm.
For Instance, limiting the carpenter,
ths blacksmith, ths manufacturer, ths
miliar, the farmer, tu ths amount
of land that an Individual or co-operative
bodi require for thslr reetiv
occupations.
This Is simply ths homestead titls ap
plied to nil industries.
Il this title to the land will hold good
for the space of flvs ysars for farming
purposes It will forever for evsiyr occupa
tion in lite with a general homestead law
to that effect.
Why not Impose a heavy penalty oe
any on who attempts to hold and trans
fcr land in any way, except for actnal
use, tor the same reason that chattel
slavery Is made a crims by law?
Holding ths land without use on which
to put human beings is what nmkes chat
tel slavery possible, and also interest
bearing mortgages.
No ons can occupy and use two tracts
of land remote from each other product
ively any mora than be can occupy two
houses at tbs same time.
Holding land for aotual use only debars
no on from producing all tbs wealth bs
sees proper.
It simply abolishes rent and places all
on an equality bo far as tbe land is con
cerned. It give the greatest possible protec
tion and encouragement to producers in
all branches of productive industry.
Nothing injures and discourages ths
wealth producers so much as the exac
tion of their hard earnings without com
pensation. The disabled under any system of land
holding must be supported and cared (or
at the expense of the labor of others.
It is the duty of society to make ample
provision for the proper care of this
class, aud at ths same time prevent the
ablebodled from, acquiring incomes
through rent or h labor ol others.
. ""."!".. tr Vsvsf wettlth. v. ,
All who areas should be compelled '
to support themselves as nearly as pos
sible, for tbe reason that consumption ol
produce wfthout labor comes from tbs
labor of others without compensation.
What one party gains in trade without
labor, tbe other party loses.
Tbe rent of land in any particular
locality affects tbe producers directly
and indirectly in every other locality a
tar as trade extends.
Tbe oppression, poverty and crime that
grows out of the rent of land would all
Be abolished under a general homestead
title perpetuated, on the principle that
opposite causes produce opposite effect,
other things being equal.
Under a complete productive title to
tbe land co-operation would take the
place of competition; no ons as a rule
would have anything to sell until he first
produced it.
Tbe various private industries would
beownedand controlled by the producers
and operators of them.
Land tbus held for private purpose
would inure to the equal benefit of all.
Labor would be free to turn Itself in
tbe direction of producing the many use
ful things when and a they were needed,
whether for private or public purposes.
It is the only title that will place labor
and capital in harmony with each other.
In proportion as the land is held and
exchanged for use only will both parties
use the same measure, by exchanging
labor for labor as equivalents or confer
ring mutual benefits.
There are only two principles involved
in tbe discussion of this problem.
Ons prove true to tbs general pros
perity of the people, the other false.
For instance, private title to land with
out use, rent, interest, incomes acquired
without labor, deceptive weights and
measures, counterfeiting, theft, non-productive
business, etc., prove false to tbe
producers ol wealth.
On tbe other band, private title to land
for occupancy and use, the abolition of
rent and interest, incomes acquired with
labor, true weight and measures, pro
ductive business, co-operation, etc.,
prove true to ths producers of wealth.
Under moral law things of a like na
ture are classed together and contrasted
with their opposite.
For instance, rent, chattel slavery,
murder, covetousness, idolatry, etc., are
grouped together and condemned under
moral law.
Their opposites, freedom, the preserva
tion of life, Christianity, etc., are ap
proved by the same moral law.
All statutes governing trade and the
general welfare of society must be ia har
mony with the law of justice and moral
ity, in order to accomplixb the greatest
good to the greatest number.
It is uujust for a party to be protected
by law in insisting tbat the other party
shall feed, clothe and educate him for
nothing in return.
Yet it is practically done to the extent
that the law protects and defends ths
exaction of rent.
There are only two ways of acquiriug
wealth.
One is by honest toil In the different
productive industries.
The other is through rent under differ
ent names or without rendering uselut
service for it.
A just law protects equally both par
ties iu their full produce.
A partial law is based on iujnstice.
The law of society is to prevent and
punish any one who willfully attempts
to injur or trespass on the rights of
another.
Nothing injures auv ons so much a to
have hi bard earning taken from him
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