Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1894-1895, 1894-11-02
Getting His Eyes Open.

UettnS Ills Eyes Open
James Houston In the Topeka Adj
vocate says:
Believing there are others thinking
along the same lines as myself, L come
now Offering Il few crude thoughts.
expressed perhaps in cruder phraseol
ogy, hoping to draw from ADLER pens
than mine better exposition of the
views herein advanced.
/ have always been a Republican,
and am now, to the extent of indoors
ing, as an entirity, the principles of
the party, but have come to believe
That the party Is not progressive
enough for the times neither is the
Democratic party.
Lack of sufficient progression in
these parties have caused thousands
upon thousands of these restless, dis
contentel voters and the number is
constantly and rapidly being aug
mented This state OF unrest arises
from II deep-seated and well-founded
conviction that there Is something
about our Government either In its
administration or fundamental princi-
pies radically wrong.
found in any one or more of what we
are pleased to term the great political
ISSUES of the day? Had our revenue,
currency ami other laws, which are
brought forth periodically, first one
and then another, as ISSUES" been at
all as nearly perfect as it were possible
for human ingenuity to devise, this
feeling of discontentment would not
have been stayed beyond the present
time, because the true cause of this
feeling does not lie directly or indi
rectly III any one or more of these issues
which are raised for the purpose of TO-
menting party strife and creating Sec
tional hatred to such degree and to
the end that the minds of the masses
may be kept from questions the solv-
ing of which would drive abject pow
erty from the land and at the same
time dispossess the classes of their un-
just powers and i!l-gotten gains.
Men, through passion and preju-
dice, are often blind to their own in
terests. Leaders of iolitical parties
are we'll aware of and rely on this fact
hence ISSUES.
Is is not about time the masses
realized this and stopped to think for
themselves, and TO discover that the
great and real evil of to-day and yester
day is to be found in our land laws?
Ignoring paper titles and recognizing
only those of occupancy and actual Use,
real poverty would be thing of the
past. Are paper titles of divine origin
Did the Creator place mankind urOn
the earth. some with paper titles and
others without? No. Paper titles
were born of greed and brute force and
continue to be born of the same parents,
even unto this day.
Every man has a natural and inalien
able right to a portion of mother cart
on which to dwell aud make q living.
Laws interfering with this right should
be set aside, and by force If necessary.
The contrary cannot be maintained
if We concede, as We must, the princi-
pie tina every man has the right of
self-preservation.
Without paper ii les ther would be
no tributes i'll the way of rents to
society leeches. Earnings and profits
would go back into business else go
toward building homes and providing
comforts of life.
What keeps the merchant, the farm
er, the mechanic and the laEorer poor?
Do they have more than scanty liv
ing left after paying their rents?
The amount paid in rents is appall-
ing, and Is eXtorted from the actual
producers of wealth who should he
and are edit led in natural Justice to
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be before the masses would have homes
of their own could they use their mon
ey i'll buying material for same instead
of paying rent? There can be only
one conclusion.