Workmen's advocate., 1890-11-08
\ Letter 10 Anarchists.

In thi4 letter dount eo much desire c. make controversial conquest a5 f" try lo obtain harmouy nt action among rcIurmrrs | bpIlryc Iu S.pr NocIoh7m ami locd commulsul us well a7 m iu- dWidmll-u. bat d., upJ consider lt necessary for mc lo c1u1ru to oa my view, the ppraou, hopo to as7ori1,tr with m work, we rturmJy consider bcncl,riol.
 i u,.Icvr that uulN m commuuisl,r society can the rights of each mdyldual br muy respected and that ,p long as there Is "prl,Nlp Irourrty', there will be invasion of individual rights never heard of any such lI,va-lou cmlScd by communism, and do not know of any kind of property that has not caused ll,- vasiou.
 The tune will come when people will not devote one hundrcdth of thplr time to thinking of property -oi any kind. N0r. we have httlc time to think of anything but wopcrty, and, in that respect, we are m noWlso superior to the beasts uf the liell or tUt hog,peu. ~urrij the people of thls age should be 4bir to agree on some method by which iuvy can live without perpetual thought abpul filling their private swlIl trough !. Let Ills cease to have "pr''alc propcrty" ,, anl we shall have time for such enJoy- ment ut life as is now utterly impossible for any per,ou,~rrh ur poor'
 If the earth is not rightlulIy private property. neither can a nugget of gold, or any other portion of the cartn-mn- eral or vegetable HtttuIIy be private property As for labor, 1t rWulpt be owned, any more than blow can be owned. I}y use of la Dor, thing may he made more valuable; but unless we cuu mghtfuIy own the earth as private property, We cannot own parts thereof; and there Is no valuable terrestrial thing that Is not part of the earth.
 \ dozen men cut down the greatest and finest tree in the world. The living tree was so highly prized, by millions of people, that they would rather have given the men all the lumber they could use. than have had the tree destroyed. Whilst the tree WAS living you admit comrades Anarchists hat It wa, not rightly private property. Does the per mcious feIhng of the tree make 1t any the more private property and why'
 \ man finds d two ounce dlamund- the finest m the world. Is 1t HcH his and why: If not, wit he make 1t his by polishing one small facet on it-and, again why: We cannot separate the result of labor from the thing labored on, and that may be considered one reason why even the results of labor cannot be private property.
 Private property I@ conventional "right', conferred by sotleV. There Is nola "natural' rghtto dHypnyate Own- ership of any thing on the earth or in the heavens. tThink of one of the gods find ing the planet Venus and claiming to own 1t a. his private proPerty on account of his having found II, Md having started 10 polish t up q ultl
 | want no own,Ian1p. of anything, but tU want tNeybou( lp nave OPpoF tunlty to rightly USc everything they need.
 When there is no private property there is Lo office seeking. no spells, anC no governmeut-eXcept ot children anc insane persons; and there k no possible way of abolishlug government except by abolishing the conventional right O1 property. The Socialists State can not be other than voluntary associa tion. to maintain the common rights and to produce and distribute commodo