The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1893-05-05
A NEW SOCIAL ORDER.
Old Things Must Give Way for a Better
system An Outline of the COuntry's
Evils Given and Comprehensive Rem
edy Suggested.


during the dark ages, when there ap-
peared to he no law and universal an
archy seemed to prevail, our present
order was evolved. The law Of progress,
unseen and nnrecognized by the people
of that age, lifting up to Il higher level
the tide of civilization, as the moon in
fuences the oceans waters, made the
Christian world what 1t now is. The
birth, growth, decay and death of ma
tions is in accordance with fixed i'm
muta BILE law, as of individuals. Is the
United States now in its period of youth,
growth and advancement, or has it
passed into its decline? There is won
derful progress in inventions that in
crease material wealth; but milliOnaires
abound on the one hand and tramps on
the other. Pauperism is increasing;
marriages are becoming less frequent
in ratio of population: families are
growing smaller and smaller and chill
dren fewer and fewer. Of course this
implies decay. Is the increase of mate
rial wealth and its Capitalization in few
hands about to do for US what it did for
ancient Rome-destroy civilization?
/ do not want to take a pessimiStic
view of things: but if the good sense of
the masses-the religious instinct, the
patriotism and public spirit-do not
lead them to call halt all will be lost.
There must be radical change made
IN our. social order TO save us Inc Ola
order Is outgrown, as IN France prior
to 1850. Nothing short OF radical
social reorganization recohStructlon
OF social relations an overturhinS ana
rebuilding OF the structure OF so-called
soclety-will suffice. The change from
our present order to the new that is to
be must be as great as was the change
in France from the old to the new,
produced by the revolution.
Definitely speaking, the new order
will give: First, free lands: second. free
tools; third, free money
Free lanos' 1ree TOOLS ana 1ree mon
ey are the enas thao must ne sought
a1ter py .ne irlenos Oh hah-'r"e re-
formers OF to-day.
WHAT need to argue the necessity OF
1ree lands when -'ponanza farming Is
becoming the system OF agriculture IN
the west and soon Will be the common
system of the United States? Already
only one-th1rd OF the actual pioW nod
ers own, free from incumbrance, their
farms. One-third are encumbered by
mortgages that amount toan eXtortlon-
ate rent, and one-third are renters
Land monopoly must be brought to an
end. II by the Henry George plan, we'll;
but think that land limitation will be
enough. The financial policy OF gov
ernment that has operated so as to
place the farmers of the northwest
hopelessly IN debt has brought rum to
the south. Inc capltallsts OF Walf
street, New York city, ana OF New En-
gland have made the south tributary TO
them, and the ownership OF the pro-
ductlve cotton ianos Will soon De py
synd1cates OF YANKEE capitalists, II re-
lief cannot be mad from washington
to the southern aSrlculturists.
The southern planter, then, is no
longer capitalist. He is a tributary
slave to the money power. The only
hope for the south and west lies in the
direction toward which the Farmers
Alliance polntS-thc coinage OF land
into money at a rate OF interest, or
tax on circulation, like that of ma
tional bank currency. not above one
per cent. per annum. l am not partlcu-
lar how the goal of free money may
be reached. There are many roads
leading that way. 1t may be reached
by the ''sub-treasury path, or it may
be reached by the state bank route,
with land as basis for banking. But
we cannot have the old wildcat banks
or wildcat bank paper again. But by Il
state system of banking, authorized by
national law, the bills made ''receiv-
able the same as are national bank
bills, l. e.. quasi legal tender, the farm
ers will find relief. provided each farm
er may hypothecate his homestead as
basis for banking stock in bank and
security for the paper money issued.
OF course that money, made practically
legal tender, will never come home for
redemption, for the redemption of one
money with another. both legal tender,
is preposterous. 1t will never be called
for. Let us favor any measure, that
promises relief. Let us not be sticklers
for '.our PLAN l care not what road
1 take SO l may reach the altar of safe
ty-redemption from mortgage indebt-
edness and ''S per cent" that is eating
the world up. The trend of evolution
is toward an increase of land values.
The cities will become tenantless by
means of rapid and cheap transit pro-
duced by electricity and public owner
ship of railroads. Population will
spread all over the country and flats
in the towns will be Ito let" They
will be deserted. The workers will
own little homesteads in the free and
joyous country, with orchard and pas
ture and. small field to employ their
boys in the healthiest of pursuits and
the best adapted to develop true and
noble manhood-tillage.
The tools of production must be re-
leased from private control. By capi-
talists owning and controlling the tools
of production is labor robbed of its
rightful reward. All that capital aims