Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1850-1854, 1850-04-26

| ties: but the rewards for labor would increase.
IN accordance with the axiom of all political eco
! nonlsts who have written upon the subject of
supply and demand. So the working classes
who remained in the cities would have less rent
TO pay and would also get better wages. Thus
a gradual equalizing process would 90 on, which
would offer no violence nor injustice to any one.
! The present plan of surveying and laying off
| the Public Lands is admirably adapted TO carry
ont the reform herein advocated In every town.
ship one section in the most eligible spot for such
q purpose should De laid out in small lots for
village, for mechanical, and other pursuits not
aercutural; and no individual should possess
more than two-one for dwelling aud one Tor
place of business. Persons so situated would
soon create capital sufficient for all good purposes
nor could it be made use of as an engine of OPP
! preston, for the reason that every man being his
own landlord, his homestead being secure from
Urcble seizure and sale, the position OF all being
! equal, all attempts TO Cypress would, OF course,
be successfully resisted, and capital would be re-
ciprocaiIy used for the mutual benefit OF all.
Third | would have tendency to weaken,
and, we believe, would finally break up the des-
pouc governments of Europe, by drawing from
them the most industrious energetic and va uablU
part Of their OpuIauOns-leaVlng Kings, Nobes,
Landlords, and paupers to form the mass OF their
people. This consideration should be sufficient
to induce every American Republican TO be ia
vorable to the measure. There is no reason to
/ be frightened about over population; the Public
Lands of the United States are more than suti-
cient to sustain abundantIy all the inhabitants OF
the globe
Permanent funded debts, money paid for land
or its usage, ana interest on money, are the great
absorbents of human industry, tor which labor
receives no equivacn-nOte even Il shadow fit.
And this kind of tribute is continually increasing
and multiplying in greater ratio than the pro-
ducts of labor, lUhict alone can pay Il. Conse-
quently, time must come when the annual
amount OF this canker worm tribute will exceed
the annual products OF labor; III which case those
persons to whom this tribute is due will be the
owners of all the wealth OF the world! And we
think nothing can prevent the occurrence OF such
fatal result if the present funding system OF CT
Wilton progresses, as it now does much longer.
Nothing can save us from universal ruin, repu-
diation and bankruptcy, save and except the mta-
sureS herein advocated.
Ii would be well for the general government
to ascertain, as near as possible, the amount OF
the kind of tri5nte abOVa mentioned III the United
States, so that IL might be compared with the an
aHaJ productions OF the country. Our Legislators
must look to it.
Inasmuch then, as the legal establishment of
property in land it being false princIpIc false
picotai center in the organization OF society--is
established, which divides Ii Into two antagonls
teal portions thus destroying the natural and
true relation between man and man, must OF ne
cesstv generate force in the social intercourse
OF mqnkInd in lcrOng direction, producing a
most all the crime and misery, which now so
greyousIy a1ilct all 50 called civilized connnni-
ties. We therefore, logically conclude, that if
a new pjrotu caA'er IS established upon the Pub
lie Lands OF the United States, recognizing the
true principle, making all the elements OF nature
free TO the Use OF man, without money and with
I out price, an Impulse to our political, moral, and
social intercourse would be given in the right
dirccjion, Wish would finally Earmonize all the
relations hi life, and gradually br NJ about that
happy state whichal good men are so anXiOusy
looking for, without doing violence or injustice
to any one. 1t must be SO, or evil is superior TO
good and the negative is superior to the positive.
The freedom Of the public lands is objected to
by many, on the ground OF It's supposed injustice
towards those who have been obliged to purchase
tn If land II there is any weight i'll this objec
toe, it must hold equally good IN precisely 81
miar case. Suppose man who had formerly
bccua slave, but had purchased his freedom, were
/ to complain of the wrong and injustice done him
by shareholders in setting their slaves free with
! out payment perhaps from conscientious motives;
would not such man be only laughed at! lhe
absurJity is too garlng, not to be seen at glance;
| yet there can be no greater absurdlty involved
in the former case than in the latter. II there Is
/ difference directors ought to show it. For
/ whether man be taken from the land or the
! land from the man the result is precisely the
same; his very existence depends on the will OF
others. We DO not advocate the Russian doc
I trine. that man belongs TO the land but that the
] 81 HI, lf,t.r .i,,F,
/ he therefore loses a portion OF his manhood, and
/ becomes a Save.
Some object to this measure on the ground that
( many persons would hot take the land, even as a
/ Gilt, bat would rather proWl about tie cities in
/ poverty and dienoss. In plain English this OBJ
/ ection stands thus :-Boctuse some persons will
1 do tcryHg and make themselves miserable, there
/ fore, those thai would ito right, and make them
/ selves happy, ought not TO be allowed the OPP
! porlunity OF domE So
Another objection is frequently urged against
/ this measure on the ground ef meXpedlency.-
! The directors say that if men could get land
without paying for it, they could not properly
appreciate its value, etc. To such directors We
merely remark that, perhaps, we Go not proper
! w appreciate the value OF air for breathing pUr-
/ poses, because we are not taxed or made 10 la
| Dor for it, Suppose, then, that government
/
men to be called Lords q the Atmosphere, with
/ power to tax every body, except items Ives, for
! the use of air: those who had money, were
able to give labor in exchange for it, might en-
/ jov it; but those who could give neither should
! nave no air to breathe. Would it be right p
/ Most certainly not Yet there is quite as much
propricty in having Atmosphere Lords as in hav-
! ing Land Lords; and if the rulers of mankind
could have controlled the air so as to have been
able to dole it out at much per gallon, or quart,
they doubtless ere this, would have imposed
tax on their fellow men for the use OF 1t, and in
that case we might, probably, be enabled TO
properly appreciate It's value: every one, no
doubt, would work exceeding hard 10 get some
of it, Bat the question is, 1eOu!d il be rlght =
/ If not right in the one case it cannot be right
in the other-;here is no getting away from this
conclusion.
Otherobioctors tell US that this measure would
weaken and paralyze the arm of industry
would restrain man 5 energias--check useful en-
/ terprse, etc Now, is it fact, that man re-
| Iaxes his energies in industrial purs lis IN an
/ inverse ratio 10 the amount he receives of the
fruits of that industry-the less a man gets for
his labor the more wiling he is 10 perform ii =
The assertion l. ridiculous ab4 no sane IndlVid-