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Tho ronl platform of tho people of
.Now York, ao of tho old peoplo of
tho United States, was the speech
of Thoodoro Roosevelt as temporary
chairman of tho Saratoga convention.
Tho "declaration of principles"
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put forward with tho perfunctory ac
quiescence of tho convention must be
taken as a manifestation of the sur
vival of tho old habits the wiggle
of the tail of tho serpent that
"doesn't dio till tho sun goes down"
an echo from the era of yesterday,
when party platforms were as sound
ing brass and tinkling cymbals and
had no meaning beyond their melody.
Not all at once, even with a great
example and through fine inspiration,
can tho customs of years be over
come. It is doubtful whethor the peoplo
of New York expected as much truo
representation as they got from these
delegates. They won their fight with
the election of Roosevelt against the
combined forces of standpatism and
political graft. They forced their
views, through him, upon a reluctant,
struggling organization. Their com
mand was for direct primary legis
lation, and that they 'enforced.
Direct popular government is the
open door to what Roosevelt stands
for. It is the necessary first step for
enacting tho square deal into law.
With the power of political action in
their own hands tho people can have
such control of government as they
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SOCIALISM
Lincoln, Neb., October 7. In or
der to get an intelligent idea of this
or any other subject it will bo neces
sary to class things of a like nature
together and compare them with
each other, and contrast them with
their opposites.
Effects partake of the nature of
their primary causes.
Things may bo called by different
names, but that does not change
their nature or their effects.
Opposite causes have opposite ef
fects, other things being equal.
This principle will hold good in
economics as well as in other things.
For instance, all speculative in
comes, exacted of the wage working
or producing class under the profit
ownership of property, would be re
tained by them under tho use or col
lective ownership of all the instru
ments of production and distribution
in the different productive industries.
It requires the expenditure of
man's mental and physical energy co
operating together in the production,
distribution and conservation of the
different kinds of commodities or
labor products.
Tho labor of many workers enters
into the production, distribution and
conservation of each single commo
dity or social product, the value of
which is measured or determined by
the total average social labor time
expended by each worker in helping
to produce and distribute each single
commodity.
To the extent that prosperity is
acquired as profit and then used as
a basis for consumption and addi
tional profit, to that extent the pro
ducing classes are deprived of their
social products or their exchange
value.
To that extent they are denied
their right to "life, liberty and the
pursuit of happiness." To that ex
tent we have, on the other hand, a
non-producing class in society, whose
labor and time are expended in up
holding and defending the system of
speculative ownership of property,
which has its origin in the rental or
non-productive ownership of the nat
ural opportunities, furnished for the
use and equal benefit of the whole
human family. Economically, the
labor of each individual in society
is expended in helping to build up
the useful industries and the nreser-
vation of life and property, or on the
other hand, helping to destroy prop
erty, and life and the enjoyment of
tho same.
All are consumers, more, or less,
whether they are engaged in helping
to produce tho necessaries of life or
not.
The producing or wage working
class are the real producers of both
the value of the wages thoy receive
and tho profits exacted of them.
In order to give to each producer
the full social share of the value
of tho property that he or she helps
to produce or its equivalent In value,
it will be necessary that the whole
system or rental, interest, pront or
speculative ownership of property be
abolished, and substitute in its place
the collective ownership for us or for
productive and transportation pur
poses, of all the Instruments of pro
duction, and by so doing establish
complete co-operation in all the "(lif
erent branches of productive busi
ness, which would make it possible
for the producing class to retain the
full social share of the value of the
property that each one helped to pro
duce, and not be compelled to sup
port a on-producing class, to tho
extent of the profits exacted of them
as tho result of the speculative own
ership of property.
To point out the increasing desti
tution and hardships that the pro
ducing class as a whole have to un
dergo, as tho result of the specula
tive ownership of property, and con
trast it with the economic advantages
that woitf(Lbe gained by them under
the collective ownership for use or
for productive purposes, would be an
endless task.
HENRY SCOTT.
A NOBLE THOUGHT
"No north; no south!"
It is a thought all patriots cher
ish. It is a thought which causes
tho Tieart to swell with pride in "our
union, and with admiration for these
heroes whose self-sacrifice won tho
victories of the civil war.
And now when there is no north
and no south why should there not
be an amalgamation of the veterans
of the country? "It is a noble
thought of the commander-in-chief
of the Grand Army of the Republic,"
says tho Paxton Register, ''that here
after there be but one annual na
tional encampment of all veterans of
the civil war, union and confederate.
Both north and south have glorious
memories, records of unextinguish
able brilliancy that will live as long
as American history is read or tradi
tion revered. The men who engaged
in these stupendous battles are rap
idly decreasing in number, bent with
age and crowned with honors. Well
may they devoto their remaining
years to the cultivation of that spirit
of fraternal affection and unity which
has grown out of the great conflict.
One camp fire for all, the blue and
the gray. It is a splendid conception,
and would furnish a spectacle and a
lesson in exalted ideals and high pur
poses for the world and tho nation.
Next year will see the passing of a
half century since the inception of
hostilities, so bravely and fearfully
fought out and with such a splendid
outcome. It would be an apt time
for the consummation of the commander-in-chief's
idea, when all the
old warriors might meet as one great
army, tho pride and inspiration of
the union." Illinois State Register.
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