Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1886-11-27

laws of this state these savings and &C.
foundations on policies are chiefly
loaned ont on mortgages n real
estate. When, by mea of your in
genious scheme of appropriating the
| rent Of land by taxes you have destroy.
ed its value TO the owner, what securi.
ty will remain to the depositors in saw
ings banks and the holders of policies
of Insurance.? You will reply that the
buildings and improvements will
MAN But what value do
these possess as a security when the
virtual fee of the land ia destroyed, and
what shadow of security will remain
on unimproved lands and on farm
lands where the improvements are a
secondary considerationy" Listen now
to q
from Mr.. Georga's book; it will show
you what a mistaken idea he has of
you. He writes: YWhen one is mas
ter and the others serve, the one will
control the others, even i'll snch matters
as votes. Just as the English landlord
votes his tenants, so does the New
England mill-owner vote his opera
tives.pp Now, please tell me, it you
will, where is the mill owner who has
i'll his employ a set of men who are
thus driven to the polls like dumb cat
tlep Mr. George is wrong thus to talk
Of intimidation by employers; why,
the worst intimidation that has ever
been known in this country was that
practiced by the followers OF Mr..
George in the late election. Any union
man who dared to vote Independently,
according to his conscience, was de-
nounced as being guilty of treachery.
If the employers should treat their
w%Orkingmen with the same tyranny
with which some wOrkingmen have
lately treated other workingmen, we
should have q revolution in this coun-
try In less than a year. l told you a
year ago that if labor organizations
were run like steam engines without
governors, they would tear themselves
all to pieces. What do you think now !?
Do you suppose that any labor organi-
cation can hold together if it attempts
to gain power by prosecuting every
man who will not join it? You know
better. Mr.. George hardly does justice
to the intelligence OF the average work
ingnan. There are in this world many
poor wretches who are but little better
off than slaves, but after, all, the bone
aud sinew OF our country Is made up
in great measure of industrious work
who are proud of the. fact that
they are afraid of. no one, and are
abundantly able to support their fami-
lies in comfort, and to give them many
things which, fifty years ago, would
have been considered Injuries. In Or
der that you may plainly see that Mr..
George is mistaken in his theories, let
suppose for a moment that he has
been successful IN bringing about
the naturalization of land. How
would the home work here in Brock
toni Of course, the only way to de-
eide who should use a certain lot of
land would be tt let it out to the high
bidder. Mr.. George himself says
this "would meet all economic re-
quirements." Very well. that would
introduce a system by which the rich
man could
GRIND THE MAN
who was a little less rich with about
the worst tyranny you can imagine.
Just think of it; perhaps some of
you have saved q few hundred dollars,
with which YOU are intending to build
a house. You want land, you hire it
of the government, you build your
house aud you are rejoicing in the COM
portable shelter you are able to give
your family, when. before you think,
the time comes around when a re-
valuation of land must be made. You
have got to be the highest bidder, or
else hire somebody to tear down your
fences, destroy your .wife's little flow
er-garden and put your house on
wheels to be taken, nobody knows
where. All this must happen if you
are not the highest bidder. The ques-
ton is cal you afford to be the highest
bidder? Perhaps, under ordinary cir
culnstances, you can, but now let me
tell you where the tyranny may come
in. You may have an enemy. He rubs
his hands with fiendish glee, and says:
Nov | will have revenge; 1 will get
ven with the man L hste.a hat has
he to do? Nothing, except to run you
up at the auction; then he has the salts
faction of seeing you bled, or of seeing
your homestead ruined and your little
cottage carried off OH wheels.
If American workiDgmen prosper,
the paupers and outcasts of the whole
world will come here to live on our
industry unless we have more rigid re-
strictions upon immigration. Every
honest aud industrious man who comes
to this country with an ambition to
live decently is to be welcomed, be-
cause he is a consumer as we'll as a
producer, and, while with his own
labor he creates wealth, he increases
the demand for the labor of others by
buying the products of others to satisfy
his own needs. But no immigrant
should be permitted to land here unless
he al show by the exhibit of a certain
sum of money that he is capable of
taking care of himself. IT Mr.. George
could Danish poverty from this country,
how long do you suppose it would be
before a feet of Great Easterns would
be required to bring across the seas the
millions of tramps from every nation
who would want to come to this
country? When they had arrived, does
more poverty here? One of the best
things about Mr.. George is that he is a
free trader; if you will read his work
on free trade. you will there learn the
dec%eitfulness of that which is falsely
called protection" l have now only
to say, read Mr.. Georges books and
watch him, but if you see Blaine with
a coil of rope in his hand, aboutto cast
an "anchor to ~windward," and if you
see that he throws it in Mr.. Georges
direction, just keep your weather eye
open.
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