Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1878-07-24

and his gang would substitute committees
instead OF families to govern the people.
The Spartans, tribe Of Greeks, tried the
communistic plan of government-that is. a
certain set Of them organized government
OF the utmost freedom among themselves.
Ihey were free lovers; they ignored all
such things as family relationship; COM
mlttees provided for everything there were
no private places among them COMMITTEES.
provided the victuals; committees took
charge of the children that we're born. and
raised them; but the incentive to work for
such common herd of course was not
found In itself. and they resorted to slavery
as the method to provide themselves with
means, and while they exercised the most
unbounded freedom among themselves, they
exercised the most absolute control over
the slaves, who were not black people, but
white people. Whenever the slaves in
creased too rapidly in numbers, or when
they had too many TO employ protitably.
they would kill them Off. They would
mask themselves and go among the slaves
at night and kill them with as much hilarity
as boys would XIII bumble-bees.
The Communists of this country have not
said just what their system is to be, only
that all things are TO be in common. Just
what Old Hickory would do with the Com
munists can't be told, but 1 guess he'd
storm worse than when some mean fellow
slandered his wife 1t kept his wife busy
long while to prevent him from shooting
the slanderer He believed in the one.wite
system, and in the system of government
that gives man the right TO engage in any
business he may choose. and TO earn as
much as he can, honestly, and what he gets
dishonesty, he believed in punishment for,
but he didn't believe in the doctrine that
when man earns fifty cents he must share
it With some fellow that earns nothing.
Old Andy would have called that proposal
to steal. If some one had said to him, ssMr.
Jackson, when you earn dollar you must
divide with me-" he would have looked on
him as a robber. 1t is not hard to conclude
what Old Andy would think of such man
as kearney, who, when talking to the peo-
pie, tells them, "There are houses, and rail-
roads, and banks; you built them by your
labor; they are yours why don't you take
them and divide them among yourselves
Why don't you divide the land l'' / don't
like to say what Andy would say about a
fellow who talks such stuff as that.
Pll tell you, boy, if I thought you were
struck with such false notions, would drop
you like hot cake, and never have any
thing to 90 with you again. Such doctrine
is the worst kind of political and social
poison Such doctrine, if put into prac-
tice, would ruin the country in a few years.
Just TO think of it, a man who saves his
earnings to be robbed in that way. They
say that property belongs to all. So il does
to all who earn it, or inherit it, but to none
ese- ssThe world owes a man a living"
but a man owes 1t to his fellow-men that he
makes his own living, and becomes no
charge on his fellow-men, unless he is un-
fortunate, SO as to become an object OF
charity, and for all of such cases the people
tax themselves in every township and
county and State TO keep the poor, build
poor houses, and build asylums, and SO
forth.
am talking about the Communists fore
ing their doctrines. OF course man may
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as much as he pleases, among his fellows.
But that peaceable Communism is not OF
the kind that we are talking about. The
peaceable Communism is of the kind that
the Apostles organized, after Christ; it is
of the kind that Ananias and Sapphira
ioined under the Roman government; but
the kind | am talking about is the forcibe
kind that would make the government a
Communistic government, just as g lot Of
fellows tried to make the Roman govern
ment a Communistic government, before
the days of the Apostles, but the Romans
would not stand their fraud, and arose and
exterminated tie whole herd. If the early
Christian Communists had attempted any
thing but peaceable organization, such as
they had, they would have all been cut off,
Isn't it high doctrine for a man or set of
men TO get up and speak and write in favor
of taking other peoples property, under
the plea that labor built the houses and rail-
roads and worked the farms, and therefore
labor should own themi Isn't it high
doctrine to advocate, that when a man who
saves his earnings till he can buy piece of
! land and build house Oh it, that he must
divide with every other person in the land
He earned his money, or he inherited his
money that put up the house. He paid the
man that owned the ground; he paid for
the labor that dug the cellar, that hauled
the stones and other material; he paid for
/ the labor that cut and sawed the timber;
he paid for the labor that put the house to-
gether; he paid the plasterer and the painter,
and the amounts of what he paid is the
value of the house, and that he paid and
now, when all this is done, up steps Mr..
| Communist and says, Wen now divide
I the value OF l1e nOuse. hibu uOSdihS,
that; high enough to make Old Hickory
say, "By the Eternal!"
| Old Hickory believed in one individual
wife and husband, and the closest family
ties, individual earnings and inheritance,
and individual ownership, that when man
paws for a thing it is his. That is what Old
Hickory believed in. He didn't believe in
a common commingling of men and women,
to suit the fancy Of the men and women !;
he didn't believe in a common ownership of
property, managed by central committee
or government; he didn't believe in a CEN
tral committee or government that takes all
the children born, to raise and elothe them,
SO that the parents could have nothing to
do with them he believed in no such false
notions, and the man who does, will never
amount to anything in this or the next