The Labor enquirer., 1888-02-25
Laws Antagonistic to Natural
Rights Must be Wiped
Away
RREEPRESSA
viii Hurl the Upper Glass Parasites
from Their Places - Makers Of
Laws to Facilitate Robbery.

man. Human laws are made to
protect US in our natural rights.
Whenever a human law infringes
on our natural rights II is nun and
void from the beginning. Every
human being has a right to do
whatever he chooses provided
such act does not infringe on the
rights of others, All are endowed
with the untransferable right to
life, liberty and happiness, and
the right to these abstract ele-
ments implies right to the con
crete elements that will produce
these or make them possible.
Land is absolutely necessary to
life; from it we are made and from
it we must draw onr entire susie
nance during life and to it we again
return at death, to deny the right
of any person to land implies the
right to deny to that person the
right of life; but that they can be
driven into the sea as the crofters
of Scotland, the rack-rented peas
ants of Ireland, the fellahs Of
Egypt, the poems of Mexico and
the ryots of India have frequently
been by the land lords, who
claimed the right from the Crea-
tor of the universe to regulate the
life and happiness of those less
fortunate. But it is not necessary
to go SO far from home to fully
appreciate the evils of private
ownership in EAnd system
founded in wrong and maintained
in injustice to the many. This
class of citizens who claim the.
right simply because they have
the power to extort from anoth&
class a rent for the use of Gods,
free gift to man claim it merely
because the man-made law giveS
them the power. The law howl
ever is made by men, and they
only had certain powers delegated
them. AS soon as they exceeded
these, their so-called laws were no
longer laws with any just claims
to enforcement. They were not
endowed with the power much
less the right to grant away to any
individual or set of individuals
any part or parcel of the peoples
domain. Consequently the for
eign or domestic syndicates, trusts
or corporations have no title
whatever to the land they now
control and hold for speculative
purposes, and with the intention,
as soon as the vacant land is prin-
dipally occupied, to be able to use
it as an instrument to wiring from
the laborer all except barely sufi-
cient to give him a miserable
existence.
1t is marvellous to me that men
who style themselves freemen;
who boast of their liberty; who
applaud their government as the
best ever made under the magnif-
cent canopy of heaven; that their
laws are more divine than human;
that all men are born equal and
have equal chances, will permit a
system to exist that has not one.
admirable feature, that is only
sustained because the class, the
rich, mostly benefited now con-
troll the reins of government and
are only interested in making laws
to enrich themselves at the ex-
Pense of the toiling herd of poor.
Will the American acquiesce in
slavery7 viii he calmly close
his eyes; serenely fold his hands
and become utterly inactive while
the so-called upper class chain
him down in perpetual bondage7
1t is to be hoped not. Let every,
lone with healthy brain and al
strong arm pledge himself to do.
his part. So long as free speech
and free press are tolerated agita-
tion will arouse and educate. And
if these are continued a few years
more the masses of the disinher-
tied will come to realize their
power and when this is done their
demands will be accorded them.
Every effort however is being
made to throttle these invaluable
rights by the oppressors who at
present make the laws.
F. H. M.
| DENVER. Colo. Feb. IL 1888.