Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1881-09-08

to improve and cultivate, is the rich
mans land; the landlords land"
This, in little different form, Is
what has been advocated for long
time by few pestiferous Socialists of
Chicago and New York. 1t comes
down to the claim, after all, of a COM
mon property-a common enjoyment
of property. The man who has work
ed for years, and by the sweat of his
brow has saved up a few dollars, and
honestly bought and paid for few
acres of land, must not be allowed to
collect a dollar for it's use, although
there may be hundred men ready to
cultivate it and pay a fair price for Its
use! Oh, no, indeed! But some Farm
er, we suppose, who has not had the
industry, economy, or skill to buy aud
pay for bit of land for himself, must
have the high privilege of coming
along and lighting down on the bit of
land thus honestly paid for by the
other, and enjoy it, gratis-and that,
We imagine too, upon the principle that
"all men are born free and equal" free
to pounce down on the other mans
property when needed! But, marx you,
another necessitous "Farmer" comes
without land-and he pounces
down on the same patch; he can culti-
vate it better, he thinks, or needs it
worse. What then? There is to be
no ownership Of land-Who is to con-
troll it, care for it, keep it?
The man, we have supposed, earned
his money and paid for tract of land.
Farmer" says he should not be per-
mitted to rent it. That is landlord
ism;" hence is to be tabooed, cursed,
despised, inhibited!
But now, mark you, Farmer" can
earn, in the same way, the same
amount of money, and he can invest it
in horses. He can hire out these hors-
es-which represent the same capital
exactly as that which the other man
has put in land-and "Farmer" can
get his dollar day for each horse so
hired, and will think this fair, hon
est stroke of legitimate business. Yet
he is a Landlord" of horses-he is
horse-lord!
If he buys house with more rooms
than he needs for his own use, does he
let them stand empty for the owls and
bats? Does he give them to be occu-
pied gratis? No. He rents the rooms
to some one who needs them for price
which gives him some return on his
outlay.
Or, perhaps, Farmer" has a few
hundred dollars. and he does not care
He does not need to use it for time
as in the other cases put, he did not
need to use his horses, or his extra
rooms, ,himself-buth his neighbor wants
to buy houses or land, and has not the
money. He goes to"Farmer" and does
just what every honest man would do
If he were going to hire a horse, or a
house-he offers to pay Farmer" fair
rent or hire for the use of the money
needed to make the purchases.
Farmer" has made his money by
honest means; he has saved it by his
economy and frugality. Why should
he not have some pay for its use just
the same as if he had invested it in "a
horse, in a team, or in a canal boat? In
each instance SO many dollars are rep
resented.
Whether in money. in land, in hors-
es, or any species of property the own
er may choose to put his industry into,
1t is all the same. One man prefers to
put his earnings in lani, another in
horses and carriages, another in farm
stock or grain, another in mills or rail-
ways, another in merchandise and
trade, and another prefers to keep his
money in kind and let others use it.
In each case, we take it, it is right and
honest that each should be equality
protected in his property, and should
have equal eight to rent out and hire
to others whatever he honestly owns.
'The rich mans money-the rich
mans landu' HIRE is an echo from
the ghostly streets of Paris during the
reign of the Commune: Down with
the rich man! Away with him to
the guiilotine"
Every man who has money good
enough to draw interest, or of use
enough to pay for hiring-every man
who owns land good enough TO rent
is rich man; for does not Farmer"
say that the Gr-enbackers now recog-
nize the fact that "money that will draw
interest is the rich mans money;
land that does to hire y is the rich
mans land?'
Under the guise of war against
erich men'-..the rich mans land"-I
it is really war 1gajnst all right of
aud this poor man who may
happen to have an acre of land that