Nevada County picayune., 1891-07-30
MAN NOT FREE AND EQUAL.


 LaGrange (Texas) Journal The Floresville Chronicle does not think that "all men were created free and cqual,' the declaration of indepen- dence to the contrary notwithstand- ing. When Jefferson penncd that document, being a slave owner, he probably had ouly the Caucasion race in his minds eye.
 Dallas News: Papers and people that devote themselves to labor agi- tation and complain because wealth and it's concomitants are not divided equally among all mankind seldom look beneath the surface of affairs. Pope's lines which say that order is natures first law and that some peo- pie must be more fortunate, wealthy and wise than others is enlarged on in prose by another pope, the pope of Rome. He says in his encyclical on labor:
 Let it be laid down, In the first place, that humanity must remain as it is. 1t is impossible to reduce hu- man society to level. The social ists may do their utmost, but all striving against nature is vain. There naturally exist among man. kind innumerable differences of the most important kind; people differ in capability, in diligence, in health and in strength; and unequal for tuEe is necessary result of inequal- ity in condition. Such inequality is far from being disadvantagcous eith- CT to individuals or to the communi- ty; social and public life can only go on by the hell of various kinds of capacity and the playing of many parts. If any there are who pretend differently-who hold out to a hard pressed people freedom from pain and trouble, undisturbed repose and constant enjoyment-they cheat the people and impose upon them, and their lying promises will only make the evil worse than before If one man hires out to another his strength or his industry, he does thls fer the purpose of receiving in re- turn what is necessary for food and living; he thereby expressly pro- poses to acquire full and real right, not only to the remuneration, but al- so to the disposal of that remunera- tion as he pleases. Thus, if he lives sparingly, saves money, and invests his savings, for greater security, in land, the land in such case is only hls wages in another form; and con- seQuently, working mans little es- tate thus purchased should be as completely at his own disposal as the wages he receives for his labor. But it is precisely in this power of dis posal that ownership consists, wheth- CT property be land or moyeable goods. The socialists, therefore, in cndeavoring to transfer the posses sions of individuals to the communi- ty, strike at the interests of every wage-carner, for they deprive him of the liberty of disposing of his wages, and thus of all hope and possibility of increasing his stock and of better ing hls condition in life.
 Pope, the poet, says;
 order Is heavens first law, and this confessed, some and must bc greater than the rest,
 More rich, more wise; but who iufcrs from hence ! That such happier, shocks all common. .scusc."
 As theory or dream socialism would be harmless enough, but for the political agitators who make it their business to excite the prcjudI- ces of the laboring classes against others and teach that labor, on which the comfort, progress and happiness of the world depends, is curse in- stead of the blessing it really is, both to those who practice it and the rest of mankind. No one is so fool ish as not to be able to see what the world would become if capitalists should lock up all their money and all labor cease.
 The Modern Portia.