The Kansas herald of freedom., 1855-06-23

there remain for freedom, and for social
elevation.
What ought to be done? What can
be, and that Immediately :?
Stop monopoly Stop the monopoly
! fsthat at least that man cannot, did not
create, and once disposed of cannot be
re-ereated as ordinary property can, or
restored. Sop monopoly of the land.
Hold this IS You do every other principle,
power, element or property of govern.
ments and society, as You do me elective
franchise, freedom Of speech, worship,
de-, free from thFaldom, whetherby pur-
chase or prerogative for land is not in
any just sense property, it belongs to the
raee-to society Locations upon it are
made valuable, (calIed property but
are only made valuable by the aggregate
settlement, Improvements and industry
in upon, and around them, and thence it
becomes social wrcng-an Ultimate
source Of social ruin-that any one or
any few should be entitled BY any pro-
cess to monepolize THAI to which all give
the value, and shows how barbarous man
still is when he permits those who have
money to enslave those, enthusiastically,
who have it not. by preventing them
from getting homes by charging saeh
values upon land as they are unable to
pay,-justifying themselves BY the In
crease Of population snd industry as If
these were not the very reasons whythey
should not charge for an inerssseof val
ne to locality, since every party giving
rise to this increase of population and In
dustry is as equally entitled to such in
crease as himseif-nay more-for that
increase, real or unreal, is the result Of
their enterprises and aggregation. and
not that of ownership or monopoly
Land limitation laws are thence the only
reliable laws that can be instituted in
society to prevent tyranny and that spe-
cies of social injustice and crimes that
must eventuate in the total or semi-pau-
perism of the many.
We limit social man, very properly, to
one suffrage, one vote, one right of wor-
ship, one right of speech, and one man
hood, and prohibit him from purchasing
or corrupting his fellows in the exercise
of these elements of government-and
yet we have hitherto permitted him to
buy up and monopolize that chiefest and
highest of all rights-the right of land ]
right more sacred and more protective
of his individuality than any political
and social equality or right you acknowl-
edge and protect himinb by legal restraints
and why? In ignorance mostly one
would hope-but can we per contra, hope
that the boasting free West viii set bounds
to the future cupidity aud tyranny of
capital? That she win establish laws
binding the power of money so that it
shall not enslave the land, and thereby
cripple industry while buying for a "mess
of pottage" mans best and only protect
i've social right? Will she do this has
she the intelligence and patriotism to do
it :? or shall Wall street andits represen-
tatives, and the little Nicholasses of the
land under one guise and another do for
the West ultimately, what slavery has for
the South?
Let the great West answer these points
by action and by practical demonstrations
that shall give encouragement to freedom,
to free labor-and secure free soil to free
men. Land-limiting laws are as essen
tial to freedom, to social progress, as
free suffrage or free speech-while all
monopolies of the land retard civilization
and end in as they cause. Slavery. white
and black.
WILLIAM j. YOUNG.