The Labor enquirer., 1882-12-23

unjust laws tIlS Id" I1aI SI4SIdN6S u6u.
He buys that land, not because he needs
it, not because he intends 70 use it him
self. but because he knows that those
who have no land are coming, that the
rising generations are coming, that the
children unborn are coming and must
have the land must come to his terms
They cannot have bread to eat unless
they have access to mother earth and
what is the result? They are his slaves
for perhaps the best part oi' their lives
The 100 acres that he paid $I0O forI he
asks them $1,000 or $4,000 He makes
that man and woman, those little, Aalf-
fed children toll and sweat and drttdge
eight or ten years-for what? What
service has he returned them for their
eight or ten Years of labor? lie gaye
them permission to 20 onto motherparth
and labor--a right they had when they
were born but a rightthat mans unjust
laws deprived them Of, the same as his
unjust laws deprived the colored man of
his freedom few Years ago. Another
man will buy or appropriate 100 or 1000
city lots. not because he needs them, but
because he know, others will need them.
He, is aware that they must slave and
ton a portion Of their lives for him, be-
fore he will allow them to make home
on the lots. This is one If the grand
secrets why those who labor none enjoy
all the uXuries, and those who labor are
destitute. The many are slaves to the
few and don't know it. This is the
reason why one man owns one thousand
houses and homes, and one thousand
men do not own one.
The people must next abolish nteres
on money. How - BY laying oti' al
the national debt with money issued by
the government and thereby throwing
that money into circulation. and sayin,
one hundred million dollars year inter
est. bv abOIiSning national banks, ant
bv the government establishing l0aI
| banks from which the people could bor
row money at | ner cent by giving tn
same security tney now have to rive tC
other banks when borrowing at - or Z,
per cent, which per cent labor mas +,
pay.
: The government, which means tht
whole people. must own and run all rail
roads and public highways in the inter
est of the whole people, and not eve t.
d few men the chartered right to rob ant
plnndpr the people as is now DONE Tht
new railroads must be built by the gov
rrnment, and the grading let in con
tracts, not tp one or Two contractors, anC
thereby make them tIe slave-lriyer5 o
twenty or it1y thousand men who DO the
work. No Il few men ulust not get the
work that world employ 10000 men one
year. \ h.W men mt,1 not nave the
pu" ~ to stand brtwpcn the WorkMrn
and the labor. Ike the i = in the man
C,,r. who would not eat nay himself non
allow the horse 10 eat il. The poor man
or Il dozen m'n vino can fake only one
fourth or a haIi mile of the @raIe shall
receive the same consideration as the
man who can t;.ln ten miles. Then the
men who 10 the work shall. receive the
money and not tn" boujcd rontrart"r>
w+1n 10 Il" work, and in many Eases don't
understand how the work ~honId ha
Iunc
These reads are aud snail be for the
service ~ hanetjt Of the people, ;nd
run only +" iry expenses, and then the
lo'or man r,n afford lo ride Is we'll a.
the wealthy. tI} the r,HI. irou ore and
oi. Go1 ami Nature pat in tn" earth
for thr benefit Of all the people who
dwell in the nation, udSt br owned by
tie -o:rrunnnt and worked in the in
trrr>t> "f tie proulv l. must 20; be
lex III til" power " trN - Lpt "on1rD.
OF iA4 ryu IL Pennsylvania or whatever
state it may ne ln 4 few men mus
net Lave the nowcr 10 say t. the people
Of the nation I'VE have the rooI-wr
don't need ii. III" people n.cJ it, but
they must pay us tribute; they are at
ourmcrcy.; We have the power to damp
rn the fire ou every hearth-stouc in the
nation. Such j. now the case. AWAY
with such barbaric laws,
Another Of the thousand laws by
which labor is robbed, is the patent right
law. Labor saving machinery is every
day being invented. The government