The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1883-08-19

q man must i've u virtually NV oNHcI"Hip
Of the man himsclf aud in acknowledging
the right of some individuals to the
exclusive use and enjoyment Of the earth,
we condemn other individuals to slavery as
C implicitly as though we had formally |
made them chattels" Elsewhere he says |
The extent to which mOnopolizors Of
land can, through rent, levy tribute upon
the earnings OF labor Is correlatlye with the
lowering OF the wages ol that labor"
Again, hc says "sinco poverty increases
and decpens OK wealth extends TO monop.
olization OF Hand, We must remove the evil
we cnn remove II in but ono way, and that
Is to substitute ioI the individual owner
shin NJ land, a common ownership. This,
aud this alone, is the remedy Tor the unjust
aud unequal distribution Of wealth In mod
prn civilization, and for oil the evils which
How from IT," Elsewhere he says There
is In naturo no such thing as a fee simple
In land there ia on earth 10 power which
can riEhtlully make grant of exclusive
ownership IN land. Has the first conner Mt
banquet the right to take oil the food ?
Docs the first passenger who enters arail-
road car obtain the light to scatter his bug-
gage ard himself all over the seats to the
exclusion Of olhers2'
And Mr.. GEonor IS not alone in these
views MIR HEEBEBT SrENcrg one of the
clearast thinkers and boldest writers of the
age, in his Social States, says; Equity
les not permit property in land. Exist
ing titles to such property are illegal, VIC
lonce and fraud force and cunning--these
are the sources TO which those titles arc
traced. The original deeds were written
with the sword rather than with the pennot
lawyers, but soldiers, were the convey.
ancors; blows was the current coin given IN
payment; and for seals blood was used In
preference to wax. Now, what was orig
nally wrong can never grow into right
Neither sale nor Request can generate a
right where II did not previously exist.
1 And this denial OF landlordism may be car.
ried ont without involving communism
of goods. The change required would SIM
ply be change Of landlords, Seporats
ownerships would merge into the joint
stock ownership.socicty to which we would
pay rent instead OF TO an isolated indiyid
ual, All men would thus become equa
tenants with equal rights. This co.heir
ship OF all men vs. consistent with th,
higheat civilization, and equity com
mands that It be brought about
Along with this position We also find M
less prominent parsonage, as practica
reusOner and author, than JOHN SruAR'
! MILL lie has powerfully advocated II
bis Political Economy that "in view OF III,
essential iniu0lice of private property II
land, II fair estimate 6hould be made OF th
market value OF all the land In the king
dom, and such price paid tor'it, and Tia
whole property be taken possession Of b,
the state Tho difference between hr
and Mr.. GEORGE, therefore, beng, thu
while Mil would make compensation, "a
latter would apply the moreheioic aud cat
terizing remedy and sweep ownership on
of existence, even as the United State
did In the cause OF slavery
And with these comee now now write
and one OF the best we have read ON tn
subject, Mr.. J. Ii. BAILEY, OF Atlant,
+ Georgia, who SAYS; "As vice and misery
in a great measure, are dependent upo
poverty, so too, poverty, in its last analysis
is dependent ON non.possCssiou OF land b
, the many, and this result will ever be III
consequences where private property In Ian
is recognized as the basis OF any country
civilization"
Nor is this doctrine OF a commouality {
: a community ofproperty wholly new, iC
, We find that the earliest body " disclple
, those who constituted what Is termed IN
church OF Jerusalem, did so interpret III
teachings Of their Master, aud had II
things in common, and sold their posse
!, sions and goods, and divided them with al
. as every man had need" The same stat
= ment is repeated still more fully and Ill
, tinchy in the fourth chppter OF the Acts
e There was no one among them tn
4 lacked" Glands and houses were sold, IN
Q the produce laid at the Apostles feet &
Il general distributions" neither said al
n man that Nught OF what he possessed w
}. his own, but they had all things common
I Surely language could not be palmer.
Is THIS may seem like dangerous do
trine, but as MIR, Mill has somewhere o
served, mo one can be a true thinker wi
II does not recognize that as thinker Il is h
u first duty TO follow his intellect to whatev
u conclusions It may lead" so, II we III
that present ownership Of land traces
} title back to those who seized and possess
" II only by force of arms, rap,ne aud sup
y rlor physical power or cunning, we n
II compelled TO the, conclusion that the title
~ indeed defective. So, too, II we admit Tn
exclusive private ownership may be legal
W permitted for one acre, the area under 4
y prlnoiple becomes llmitless, and any doz
y or any one man may possess (
y whole earth, and keep out in
a space any individual Of the entire |, 40
/" 900 600 individuals, the worlds populate
who may be found trespasslng upon Il.
I the waters.are tree and the air Is Free W
IS. should not the land be equally sop W
3. shall say that the one thing is different ~
rs the other in the matter Of ey>A'-r's'o' q
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