Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1889-07-23
A WORD OF WARNING.

say they have it, how can it be remedied ?
Tax il TO its full rental value. We don't
propose to interfere with anyone's hold
ings.
II person wishes to hold a million
acres be can do so, provided he pays the
taxes. If he can't afford to hold it, let him
sell it for what he can get, or otherwise let
II revert back TO the government. Then a
person would have right to all he wishes
to pay taxes upon. This would put stop
to the monopolization Of land it would kill
all speculative values of land. 1t would
give every one free access to natural OPP
pOrtunities. What right, pray tell me,
has one person to Withhold a natural oppor-
tunity, and one he cannot use, from others
who would use it. This dog in the man
ger'' business has held sway too long. A
change must come. To kill land monopoly
would eventually knock the props from
under all other mOnopolies. To give every
one free access TO natural opportunities
would cause people to leave the over
crowded cities and give them a chance to
employ themselves, which would rapidly
do away with psuper labor and in
voluntary poverty and ldleness'
Then labor would no longer go begging.
Then labor would be sought, and the toll
ers could put their own price upon their
muscle. as they Of right should do. The
toilers, the producers Of wealth, should
he masters of the situation. Labor pro-
duced the first dollar; it produces oil
wealth. Muscle was before money, and
should take precedence, and will in time.
Lincoln said Labor is paramount to
capital, and should receive tie higher con
sideratiOn. Over sixteen millions OF our
broad acres are owned by foreign capital
lists aud syndicates. Some think the poor
foreigner should be excluded from our
shores. They say America for Americans.
When the capitalists come here and gobble
up the land and hold it to speculate upon,
10 the exclusion Of Americans, there is
nothing said. Whatever the capitalists,
syndicates and aristocrats see fit to do
is done, and scarcely murmur is heard.
Ia this Injustice to continue? Is this fair
land of ours to be handed over to nonled
obligarchy? Are our rights and liberties
to he frittered away and the Republic of
our fathers be no moreP Is the tree of lib
erty our fathers planted to be shorn OF its
prestige, and the sons OF toll reduced to
beggsry and want? No nation on the face
of the globe to-day is making miliioDaires
on one side and psupers on the other as
fast as they are being made in this country
of ours. Justice demands that this bust
ness be stopped. Let US act the part Of
wise men. Let Justice be done. Let US
establish a system which will prevent such
a rapid rise of millionaires and the rapid
increase of poverty, pauperism and crime.
This world is broad enough. There
would he room enough for all if
none had more room than they could use.
There would be enough for all if none had
more than they need. Instead of this
Sunday School" administration making
such an ado ABBOTT Sunday mails and
trains and rscreations, it had better set
itself about righting the wrongs under
which we exist. Let us have laws which
would do the greatest good to the greatest
number. Let laws be enacted which
would do full Justice to the wealth pro-
ducers and there would be no more trsmps,
strikes, riots and bloOdshed. Then would
we become a prosperous, happy people.
Then would want and the fear of want
disappear from our mIdst. II our politi-
clans and officials would bring about this
glorious cOnsumuation they would be
hailed as the emancipatOrs of labor, and
their names would grow brighter and
brighter as time rolls on. They would be
honored and revered by generations yet
unborn. A. ALLEN NOE.
Wheeliag, July %, 1889.