The Labor enquirer., 1884-09-27
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1 inoone i about 80 1000 day. If we
sI,ow the wages of the Workers to aver.
sce s. Z day Il Will require the labor Of
3opoo men every day to produce enough
to psy the income Of thisone man, and
leave TO each wori sr 81 for himself and
family. AS this ol,e mar isn't any better
than any one of the workers. don't it
strike you Is kind O. queer that he re-
ceives $4,000 times as much as one o.
them .does2 Yet ill the devotees of ig-
Z norsnce and stupidity think this is all
right. They ouehh to JOIN the militia.
What would be the RESULT If all the
vace-workers-the last one OF them
should suddenly take notion to leave
the city of New York for good and all,
and 90 somewhere else? Where would
the millionaires,be2 What would old
Damnthepublic Vanderbilt do? And
Bill Astor, with his 500, 900, 600 worth Of
real estate, where would be be-?
AS nearly all Yage-workers believe
private ownership If land is robbery, IN
order to attract more attention to the
justice of our causti it is a good time
now to start the an n,i-rent agitation. He
who pays rent is slave, toifing long
and late to support other persons who
perhaps do nothing. You rent-payers
should think seriously about this matter
and when you do y3u will conclude that
there are several Invisible stomachs in
your family which are being kept filed
by your labor. When the working
people fatty refuse TO pay any more rent,
real estate -'sthe basis OF all wealth.
will become cheap enough for everybody
to get home. The idiotic ideas which
the mass of the people haye, on this rent
question is what keeps Dur ffths OF
humanity slaying their lives out to sup
port the other fifth. There is no such
thing as natural right to ownership in
land, and all.laws to that effect are frauds
and lies. Land is public property the
same as air and water. No man can
rightfully say he owns sand the land
owns him; he grew up from it and be
will 60 back to it. To allow man to
control land which iae never uses is to
give him power to say whether other
human beings shall grow up from the
earth or not in fact he has the power
to keep dormant the forces of nature,
like spirit of darkness, while humanity
at large withers anil diea This rent
business ought to be put an end to, and
when that's done we can begin to talk
about liberty and equality Let us have
some talk on this subject. j.
When once it becom mes thoroughly
known what the objects Of the, Peoples
party are there will be no trouble what
ever about Its complete success The
difficulty now is to get men to thinking
as to what those objects are; but this is
a difficulty which can and will be over
come. What the Peoples party proposes
to do may be stated in a nutshell: 1t is
first to compel the government to take
control Of the currency of the nation,
taking it entirely out of the hands of
private parties, known as bankers, who
use it solely for the purpose of their own
aggrandizement against she interest OF
the people, particularly the producers.
This is the most important object al
present which the Iysw party aims to
accomplish, but there are numerous
other questions affecting the welfare Of
the people which Will receive earnest
attention and an effective remedy APP
piled. What is meGnt by government
control of the currency may be summed
up somewhat thus: All paper money is
to be abolished except the greenback,
which will be legal tender for all debts
public and private; government to estab'
lish its own banks IN every section oi
the country where they are needed,
these banks to be conducted by govern,
ment officers, the system being similar
to that of the postofice department; the
rate of interest for the use of currency
is not to be above per cent per year,
this interest to be applied to the pay,
ment of salaries and other. expenses OF
the department; the amount of cur
rency kept on hand by each bank to be
limited only by the demands of the
business where the bank is located
money to be loaned TO all applicants to
the extent of one half the value of the
security which they offer. This scheme
will make the people entirely indie,
, pendent of priEste capital, and the few
men who now have the power to dictate
every movement of nhe people will be
shorn of that power, which they use
only for evil. Wages will advance
rapidly and become 30 higa that every
one will be able to EASILY OBTAIN all the
necessaries and comforts of life, while
poverty will in time totally disappear
The working classes will then not only
be able to stand up like men and call
their souls their own, but they will be
able to obtain homes of their own anC
thus destroy that horrible source of deg
radiation and misery all over the LAND
called "rent."
This one object alone Of the People;
party is enough to attract all the bes
men of the country to it, hut unfortun'
ately the money power anc its minions
have imbued the masses with such