The advocate., 1894-09-19
BURNS,

AS poverty then the result Of government as hereto
fore constructed and administered it fOosh Vagary
to suggest change in its construction or its adminisra
tionP We derided POpuss think not We are persuaded
that happy homes would be better than PRISONS that work
shop and field where work would be play would be better
mouders of morals than sCaffods be- Our
ention is that government instead of producing poverty
should set itself abolish it, The state has the power to
extpate the evil it potent enough to Open
rous discussion grant proposal s but is it rng
in itself that laughter and eers should greet its very enun
citation? such project unworthy the consideration
Of thoughtful men? Surely change the construction
or the policy of government put end to hesoca
hell in which most people now are doomed from birth to
Wrhe every good must yearn for the change every
man who loves his fellow must earnestly hope that
holy enterprise may succeed Should we expect that
all men would seriously discuss the project and discuss it
with the burning desire to find possible of achievements
trust my readers will be eager am to believe in the
possibility of this noble consummation and will lay aside
for the time their present views and preudices and read
what follows with candid minds.
AS artificial wealth is but the creature of laws and as
maintained by government, able philosophers have
proposed that should simply repeal all the laws abolish
government and leave mankind free to act upon natural
principles Profound and noble men, among them Emer-
have prophesed that grow better and wiser all
government by force will end and love Of man for men will
be the only law society will know No thoughtful man
doubt that such to be the ideal which the world shall
day reaze for said by George Sand and repeated by
Matthew Arnold, "Ideal life is none other than mans
normal life shall day know it." 1t is toward such
social state that all the teachings of Christ himself GER
tany tend But were single nation to abolish its govern
ment noW and dsorganze itself to be incapable of
speedy and united resistance the country would almost
certainly be invaded by foreign power seeking to ex
tend its dominons appealed to by the dethoned monopo
s and the people would be again subjected to the rule of
organized greed.
Must enlightened people, therefore, remain in chains
till all the nations of the earth ready for freedomP Be-
Sides liberty could not be maintained within the country
itself The world has endured ages of the paternasm
which have described in the foregoing pages and the
multitude have learned respect rghtfu at least as
inevitable the selfish scheme For this generation at least
vast proportion of those who have been so long the vic
TINS of poverty and oppression will be too seve to resist
the former masters of the world should they if scrowned
seek to regain their lost power Not all the peoped
ghened enough to the injustice of the existing state of
things nor will they be while that system continues to de-
grade them And must those who the niquity re-
main Victims and leave their children Victims of injustice
and poverty because others yet too serve to feel their
chainsp Make men economically free and they can be
trusted to adopt in time such arrangements liberty will
commend Let be task to destroy rent interest and
dividendsthe whereby the few live upon the
labor of the many. Then all men will be of one class all
will have the same common interest, and growing nte-
gence and experience will guide them to the best nstu
tons.
The Peoples party program is to make of the government
the instrument not of the rch but of the peoples its object
not the peptuaton of monopoly but the happiness of
ciety Society, being natural institution subject to
natural law That natural law is that each shall find his own
happiness only in the happiness of ALL To obey this law
man must SEEK not his own but the general good The
products OF labor must be for ALL services must be rendered