St. Landry democrat., 1890-03-15

luAH tiuft LII tiiDG we get SOuiG sage
advice from the newspapers about saw
ing. They tell us tile way for US to be-
come prosperous is to save. | propose
4 to show in few words that it is impos-
sible to save our products and every at
| tempt at saving but helps to impoverish
the race. What shall save? | make
cotton which cannot benefit me till sell
and exchange the money for such things
as | need. If | fail to buy -four and
choose to live on corn cakes, the pro-
ducers of wheat and -four must, to the
extent that fail to demand -four, cease
to buy cotton goods. The same may be
said if go barefooted and wear rabbit
skin caps and homespun. The pro-
economic can only demand my pro-
ducts with their products Failing to
sell their products they cannot buy mine.
Money is OF no value except to facilitate
the exchange of products. Wealth in it's
various forms is produced to meet ii de-
mand. and, it there is no demand, it
will not be produced. The human fam
! lily have gone into the saving business
on tolerably extensive scale and are,
for that reason, rapidly returning to the
savage state.
Look at the absurtlity of the thing.
Let lis suppose the human family to
suddenly ascend into space leaving be-
hind all the wealth there is in the world
to be enjoyed by four men and their
wives. These eight people will have
pretty fair start in the world. But OBJ
serve. what happens. Rats aud other
vermln deyour the grain, all manufac-
tured goods soon perish, trees and bram-
hles 0vergroW the railroad beds, steam
ers rot, vines cover the houses, WliaryeS
and bridges decay and fall and in half
a dozen years at most these eight peo-
pie become poor indeed. Meantime do
nestle animals will have returned to
the wild state and wild beasts so have
increased in number as to seriously
threaten the very existence of our four
wealthy families, and it will be quite
Impossible for them to produce more
wealth, since it is necessary for large
number OF people to cooperate in order
support life. Wealth is produced and
maintained by continual labor. and the
wealth produced six years ago does no
more good than the dinner eaten week
before last. The wealth served to keep
the wealth producers in a condition to
produce more wealth. The portion of
wealth notconsumed by man must have
been consumed by nature--must have
returned to the general matter of the
universe from which it was taken. Ma
tnre forbids saving.
hope, dear friends, yua are now in a
position to understand tho words of the
Master when He said "Take no heed
OF the morrow what We shall eat, nor
what ye shall drink, nor wherewitLal we
shall be clothed seek We first the king
dom of God and His righteousness and
the rest shall be added unto ye.n And
again: 1T is easier for camel to PASS
: rough n needles eye than for a rich
man to enter the kingdom of heaven
1t is impossible, as have eonclusiyely
shown, by the utmost industry, skill
and frugallty to become rich since all
forms OF wealth begin to decay as soon
as the process of production is complete.
Saving moneyIis no more the same as
saving wealth than hiding the pole saves
the persimmons. Because even as the |
perslmmons fall to the ground and de-
cay ii not consumed, even So does
wealth goods on the market awaiting
exchange decay i not bought and con-
sumed.
There can be no heaven, but a con-
tlnued hell, SO long as we remain out of |
harmony with the laws Of nature. 1t is |
n0G saving OF trying to save that makes
a community prosperous and happy it |
is in spending and taking no thought of |
the morrow. One can become rich in I
only one way, and that is, by taking ad- !
vantage OF unjust laws and intercept /
lug the wealth produced by others. |
am not one OF those who believe that /
any man really desires TO do this. Those
who take this advantage do it because
they cannot help it. This mnst happen
under system OF laws which takes the /
earnings OF the Industrious and divide
them among the idle.
A man bought 1000 acres Of land fif-
teen years ago at ; per acre. He went
to sleep and woke ND day before yester-
day and found his land worth $l5 per
acre. lie made 100 per cent. per annum
by being idle. The land increased i'm
value by tEe labor of those who built
up Il civilized community around the
vacant land Those who, to tile best OF
their ability, fulfilled their mission upon
earth were punished in fines and taxes.
The man who ploWeG field was taxed.
The man who drained swamp: the
man who built houses Was taxed. rhe Il
value produced was absorbed BY taxes
md by the Increased price which the
die. man was enabled to demand for his I,
and. Those who produced wealth bad
I confiscated for.the benefit OF him who
checked The production Of wealth.
whoever at any timo owns the land,
'WDs also the people thereof. White
1aTasols and elephants mad with pride
IRE the fruits OF grant Of land. ~ Sir
William Jones translation from the Him.
loo.] The papers tell us that the land
,fiice disposed Of $4,000 acres to the i
Watkins land company. This was worse
han Burke's stealing Burke perpe-
rated n huge robbery and decamped,
.ut this is continuous robbery for ali
inc focomo. Il was. in effect, placing
gentlemen have spoken to
ne in terms OF bitter denunciation of I
ormer transactions of the same kind.
re they nranared 70 ini . l., : ,arotoa4