The Labor enquirer., 1884-11-15
The Univer..i Republie.
rrsprsc1rs OF eovERsaEsr.

10 restore Titles TO land IOT e4au1pieJ
to the play of natural forces is not neces-
sarily Anarchism.n 2 says Zeno. That is
true only if the archon, ruler, tyrant, ar
bitrary government, sustaining privi-
lege, be construed as an element Of
Nature for in one sense, all that is, was,
or may be, is natural but by general
consent, the term natural is used in con-
tradistinction to what is forced or arbi-
trary, a''53.zz :s.#z--s..- -.
Land monopoly has been fostered by
United States sales and grants. Govern
ment land officers have permitted the
embezzlement of large tracts even with
out complying with the legal forms.
Congress winked at this, and the supreme
court interyenes to retard or Illustrate
the dispossession of forfeited grants.
Government IN all its forms and branches
is the natural agent and servant of priv
ilege. Freed from the prejudice of law
and intimidation by the armed forces OF
this government, actual settlers would
promptly combine to arrest land monop-
oily and continue to prevent it.
he.peopIes of Europe are used to
pull only in governmental harness.
Emancipative space and pioneer enter
prise have Individualized the American
and accustomed him to improvise re-
sources, whether civil or military, to
| meet the OCCASION. Let him alone and
he will take care of himself. Local au-
tonomies he will organize at discretion
but general governments are a Nuisance
to him, unless he is an Office seeker
The most dangerous rarDlent that is
prowhng around the farmers hen-roost
is Uncle Sam himself l therefore re-
state my distrust of that State Socialist
policy which wants to get into the old
mans bosom in order to stab him to the
heart (supposing he had one). am
afraid that lie. would find the nest too
snug, the loaTes and fishes too convent
ent.
Mr.. George ia personally stranger to
me, and his book ls' lying by me unread.
He is only one Of many of the same
school. but he must have put his come
ther pretty strong over Zeno. who calls
me "pe,tifogger" because in censuring
general policy I cay do not criticlse a
book never looked into. There Is logic
and courtesy combined. Now, Uncle
Sam is not an individual, but tendency,
which through successive multiples OF
Representative formation, has been grow
ing more and more wicked and extrava,
CANT ever since knew him, and | am
not srping chicken. He is certainly not
fit to be trusted with either land or
money.
The correctness of this diagnosis de,
pends upon our point Of view. There is
that of the dupes, and that of the
knaves. The knaves, who know that
the real objects of government are trib-
ute and privilege, regard ours as one of
the best. Thus Mr.. Blaine blows -four
ish of trumpets about our increasing
prosperity, which is true Of the privi'
legged classes. assume the point of view
Of the dupes, who imagine the object oi
lgovernment, to be the maintenance o1
general prsperity and healthy order in
4 the social organism. The United States
passes for social organism. Two symp'
toms demonstrate its morbid tendency
they are parasitism and'the management
of elections. Parasite growths, fnngi
are peculiar to weakly, diving or dead
trees. In my herd ofgOats, ont of more
than hundred, have observed only
one or two infested by ticks. They were
weakly and bore other evidences Of dis
ease. At the hospice de St. Louis, where
cleanliness is strictly enforced, l have
seen the white sheets and skin Of pa.
tient, in the last stage ofa chronic dis
ease, covered with large lice, as if by q
spontaneous conversion Of the human
into insect organisms. Our swarms. OF
office seekers or office holders are the
lice on Uncle Sans body. Several
lhlosted ticks in his ears bear the initials
V. G. II. G. & Co.
The monstrosity Of private fortunes
signalize the decline of public virtue.
Elections: Never a wire -pulIer fol
George Washington. In 1860. the elec.
tion expenses of Philadelphia for the
presidential candidacy were $4,000
This year, they are estimated at $1,000,
100 for the same republican party, fol
brass bands, torch lights, fire works, and
such hambug. The estimate is made by
their organizer himself the editor of the
Philadelphia Times Ratio in century
O: | 100 up TO date. Everybody knows
that this city is but drop IN the bucket
a practical instance of a general fact.
As for the railroads, between Wander
bih, or Huntington & Co, it is pull Dick
! lpull DeviHwhich is the biggest rogue il
is hard to say. To wrest from the former
the fee simple of his land and subject
:, him asa tenant to the control of a gov
ernment land agent, is conception that
:. argues very sick brain. It might suit g
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