The advocate., 1894-09-05

means of living without work of living upon the necessity
of their fellow If there governmental protect
it, famshed would make short work Of this valuable
property
Take another illustration AtLeavenworth Kansas once
during rise of the Missouri few men sitting In saloon
resolved to try experiment. and in next mornings paper
The Great American DrftwOod company advertised for
five hundred men TO catch drift shares Hundreds
responded and worked hard all day the water catching
driftWOOd and turning half to the company" At
last some man of suggested to them that the COM
pany had more right to drift wood than to the amOs
phere and thereupOn the employees of The Great Amer
can DrftWood company went on strkeand began catch
ing drifwood their account Now suppose the law
had given the company the exclusive right to catch drift
wood then the would have protected this Va
able property with policemen and with army, if
necessary, against " trespasseTs."
No man made the coal which the miners dig from the
earth 1t made by the action of sunlight and moisture
upon dead prmeva trees and decyng vegetation ages ago.
Whence the right then of any to say" All the
fuel put by Nature beneath this earth belongs to
sone not another human being though he be perishng Of
cold may touch this gift of Heaven to mankind Govern
ment gave him the title to the mne in the above
supposed gave title to the spring in the DESERT anditpro
tects that title property The Creator put the coal in the
earth weary miners risk their lives to get to the surface
while to who has done nothing whatever government
gives the power to say to the backened aborer as he
belongs to For your labor in digging it will long
it pleases to do so allow you to live than
prison fare and to sleep in hut the savage would
Were it not that PRISONS scaods bayones and gatng
guns stand ready to "proec the arrogant assumptions
not that for generations have been taught from
the cradle to respect something sacred this cruel
nopoy of Natures gifts think you the men who have
deved in the mines would yield to an der nneenths Of
the product of their hard and dangerous labor merely
cause he claimed itP Wherein does mining coal for
differ from catching dftwood sharesP Would they not
very pertnently say"God put the coal in the earth
have taken it out but youpray what have yOU done to
earn of tP But for the protection given the
nopost by government the laborer would claim and right
fully claim his wages the entire product of his labor
Natural wealth cannot be boarded. 1t will not keep if
stored up One would not relish eggs saved for him by
thoughtful ancestors Spring chickens, if saved up for
few years. would verify the poets observation that
is not always spring
Iron will rust; the stOutes masonry will crumbe in time
Grain will rot moths will destroy the richest fabrics From
the Wgwam to the palace from the first garments infancy
the purple robe of royalty every actual thing tends de-
cay Did riches consist of natural wealth alone Adam
Smiths remark would not be true-that "for every rich
there must be five hundred pOOr for there would be
poor at ALL No would take than he needed Of
whatcoud not be kept if taken and to take
than he needed there would be the greatest abundance for
ALL Look about and whether there is scarcity of the
things needtu for happy living Hear we not Chatthe very
trouble with is that have too much of everything
that have committed the economic sin of "oVeprOduc
ton"
Government does not protect in the use Of the EARTH
He who actually lives upon farm and cuVates it fears not
disturbance from any but from government itself
The farm may be taken for taxes for debt by
andshark, who, having discovered flaw in the farmers
title, has bought qucaim deed Not the OF land
but the speculatorthe land monopost is protected by
government There is land enough for all were they al
lowed to use it add not government protect men