The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1888-12-13

The present ace n not so couGe6siye,
Not content with the form OF equality,
II demUuda tho substance, Equality Of
condition Is the genuine craving Of this
practical age, WHt
Land acts like Gl0dglOLe'g, theories
Ike those Of Wallace, George aud Spen'
Ger, state s0ClallsmB Ike that of lis
marCk, are efforts nc compromise;
some, shadoWy outlines, others, tempo,
rary eXpcdieuts, intended 10 fence of
revolutions and 10 hedge In so,cNllcd
vested rights against irreyerent an
arches; yet others, drastic theories
welded for permanent use, But the
world cannot escape In the future what
has been the rule In the past.
Periodical rcadIuslmcuts OF property
have come with every epoch Witness
the case ~ the monastery lGudS In the
sixteenth century that OF the Jews IN
Spain la the fifteenth, the JCguits Ia
the ulghtpputh, English Catholics under
Ouern Elizabeth, Cromwell sweeping
the Ccl,8 from three IOurthg Of ireland,
and the revolution OF the tenure OF
property Ion France In one night, and 10y
The light Of ten thousand Blazing man
| or houses,
with such examples before ug, with
| the credO OF loyalty and obedience eN.
| tuct, noting Che ]bro0dcutd desires OF
I iucu, knowing Chat such revolution.
/ act us safety wives Co the social mech.
| anism. what can, we expect but q tran.
/ giliOu aud revision of ideas on property
| rights How marked this tendency q
may be- dIgtcrued IN the mitigation Ol
! judicial penalties, formerly Indicted lOI
oUeuses against lands and goods, Men
are no longer hanged for stealing non
does the treypagspr take his HE I'm hll
hand. Rather ia keeping with On,
audacily of The age iG the spectacle OF
the hunted and laudless turning upon
the anluent landlord with the cry OF
"slOp thief
DogmGs Of property, says the writer
like dOgmls Of religion, must, IA order
10 be hcld sacred have something OF
Wchan geUhleueSS and Consistency
about them, Here, hoW ever, are Maine
and De Layalaye finding out through
Independent investigation that proper
Is Qandl was originally owned In com
mon by village communities. Vht
ieudal lord was a u8lrper, Yet thC
world soon forgot how he acquired hil
title, His invalid claim appears to have
become valid nc u certain rate per an
mum, and time actually had power L
change an original wrong into q sacret
right,
The present age, which reads history
makes Investigations, repudiotes worn
out sanotities, and out grows tn,
charms of obedience aud loyalty, can
not be expected to endure hardship o
to starye, out of respect TO dogmas o
property, and vested interests, whiCl
have such q history and such nm origin
The vulgar by.word, Second thief
best owner will occur TO the handles
but common. schO0led Knight of Labor
and the spoils Of the children Of III
medieval robber knight and baron wi
be endangered
In Democratic communities the stat
is now the lord paramount Of the sol
All the courts and all the constitution
uphold the right Of eminent domain
But all the courts and all the ~c0nstitu
tons cannot limit or set bounds to Tn
operation of that right, IN the hands 0
a determined landless majority. IN
Peopie are the state, and II Is rather
harmless fiction which suppOseS soCiet
TO be anything separate or distinc
from the mass Of human beings VIII
compose II, The right Of the people :
take private property 0and) for q raj
way track, or a canal, or n public builc
ing, is susceptible Of being made
potent lever for industrial revolution
There can be no obstacle to the pe0pl
enacting by legal process the re-adjus,
ments, which IN other days wer
secured by invasions, explosions, rot
berries and revolutions,
Heretofore individual ownership q
property 0and) has been secure /
America, because the interest Of th
overwhelming majority lay IN sustain
ing II. Every mar possessed his ow
home, and the prospect for further Nc
Quisition was open to all. II Is no
says the writer, any thing having IT
main spring in the moral sense, nc
any religious precept, neither the con
mandments nor the rights Of man, tina
has kept us so respectful toward th
claims of private property. AS long I
the great majority have an interest !
the land so long win they fight for Til
principle on which the right rest
Self-interest is the foundation Of tn
whole sup%erstructure.
But suppose we arrive at the cond
ton, which seems to be reached evei
tually In oil nations. suppose w
MINORITY lose iheir interest IN the lNnt