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VTT "VSfPglWpir --J7Wy W! iv -- A jg:? -Av,v The Commoner. 7 ..-".- 14 VOLUME 6, NUMBER 13 'i'- M I' w i Then you will nsk: "How do you propodo to bring this about?" I - answer as follows: "Tako your own county for Illustration. It contains eo many acres of land in private own ership, part urban and part rural. Thoro la a certain number of ownors of those lands. Divide tho quantity ' of each class by tho number of its owners, and thoro wll bo certain re 1 milts. For working purposes, arbi trarily make those results tho present maximum limit of ownership for the respective classes of lands. Obvious ly many of tho present owners have Joss than this maximum amount; a few of tho others may have this amount; each of tho rest owns more than tho amount. Qlvo to each' of tho last class his choice1 of his holdings to tho maximum amount, and make the rest of his holdings public lands , subject to acquisition under tho exist ing public land laws adapted to the purpose; or under any better ones that may be devisable. Then provide tho nocossary official agencies for tho operation of tho system, and by taxation, provide the necessary funds for tho compensation of tho present owners when any part of their hold ings may be taken in the manner pre scribed. Of course, upon the approach ing exhaustion of tho lands so pub licised, the system is to be applied again in the same way; and again and aga'n as may be required by the sue aesilvo apropriations of tho publicised lands. Do you not see that tho condi tion which you deplore and deprecate, " and also all those unfavorable econ omic conditons which exist, whatever they may be, are duo at least chiefly to the lack during the past of such a system as I have outlined? And Is it not plain, therefore, that the remedy for all these conditons Is the adoption and mainlaraenco, of such a system? In other words, is It not plain that the thing needed, and tho only thing that is needed economically, is this public land system as an adjunct to tho private land system? Ex isting conditions aro duo to this wrong of omission on tho part of everybody; not to tho wrongs 6f commission on tho part of tho" present owners of tho natural resources.. They have proceeded simply in ad cord anco with the laws that have been adopted. And -those laws are all right. But additional laws aro needed in behalf of accruing members of society. For they are as much entitled to natural resources virtually free of cost except their own exer tions in making the appropriations as any of those who, on these Terms, acquired all that is now owned by any body. The system proposed ought to have been adopted at the same time that tho private land system was i adopted. If this had been done, these conditons which are so wrongful to so many would not exist. But its adoption now would speedily dissipate existing conditons and bring about proper conditons. Why is it that this fact is not seen generally by human beings and action taken by tnem accordingly? William G. Crafts, Deer Harbor, Wash. When that railroad rate bill has dragged its way through the house of its enemies the United States senate I hope you will publish in plenty big letters the names of senators voting aye and nay ou any amendment thereto offered with the object of making of no effect a "fair" rate established by the inter state commerce commission under that bill until the same has ler passed upon after probably some years of procrastination by the high est court of the land. The people want to know who aro their enemies. The interests of all' demand that the rate established by the commission bo effective at once. Let the railroads appeal to the courts if they don't like it. E. B. Cook, Cambridge, 111. Allow me, - to congratulate The Commoner on its sixth anniversary. Young in years but quite able to stand-alone. There Is no doubting that youth is coming into manhood, and by the time ho enters his teens he will bo able to hold his own on any debatable sub ject. Just look at the things this youth has to battle against graft, truBts, corruption in official place. Honesty of purpose in dealing with na tional affairs, pure politics ana no buying of official pusltion wth money extorted from poor widows and or phans. I think The Commoner has done more to expose some of those big swindling grafts 'than all the sub sidized press. The Commoner Is not owned by any such gang, and dares speak out in meeting. I do not find in all my newspapers such reading as The Commoner publishes. I must say keep at it. iJy tne time The Commoner Is twenty-one years old he can clear the ring. Success to The Commoner and all the laborers con nected. . WHERE A WOMAN ALWAYS RULES One of the most interesting of the rulers who greeted the prince and princess of Walejbn their arrival in India was the begum of Bhopal, for it seems at first sight a curious incon gruity that a Mohammedan state should be ruled by a woman. Bhopal This department is for tho exclu sive use ol Commoner subscribers, and a special rate of six cent word per insertion the lowest rat has been made for them. Address all communications, to The Com moner, Lincoln, Nebraska. TAILOR AND DRESS-MAKERS YOUR buttons made to order from your own material. Davies 297 Atlantic Ave.. Brooklyn, N. Y. YIRGINrA DAIRY FARM FOR SALE; miles from Danville 18.000 population. 7-room residence, 20 acre orchard, stable for -KTcows, hydraulic ramt " cash, balance 1. 2 & 3 years. Selling to settle estate. D. F. Dun lop. L. & I. Agt., Boxwood, Va. AGENTS WANTED "FOR A. J. RUESS Wash-E-Z. Big Money. Wash-E-Z Co., Tlflln, Ohio. L - - - OKLAHOMA HOMES. WHEAT FARMS,' Fruit farms, Stock f arms, O. 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