St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-10-14
FROM THE LABOR PRESS.

FEOM d ~ u tBOit fhESS.
Government is useless and oppressive
at that point where il ceases to do that
which is necessary to be done for the
material weli-5eing Of all tile people
who help 10 support IL. "A nation"
SAYS Coleridge, us unity OF the pto-
pie" and d United States ought To be
united. but they are not. We have a
group OF commonwealth Ill which
wealth is not common among those who
produce IT; a group of states which are
the prey of politicians and monopOlists,
with machine i'll each OF them for
grinding out patchwork legislation
mostly in the interest Of thieves ana
corporations. And the machine Will go
Oh spinning its varirgated humbuggery
till the people at last discover how they
are being fooled. linen the insanity of
parlylsm will be hustled to the tomb
and united peopie-the United States
will wreSt the government from the
hands of plutocra!S and establish the
cooperative commonwealth.
The people of this country united i'll one
body, animated by true patriotism and
operating all industry for pleasure Ill.
stead Of profit, would look back with
anu practical" politicians who declare
that to "enlargc the fundtions (of the
people's) government is not safe" The
people sometimes Outrank the philos-
ophers in common ssase. They are be-
ginning to see wnat the philosophers
are blind to, that no insuperable and
impossible barrier TO progress has been
erected by national control of the post
office b siness. They are beginning 10
see what many of the philosophers don't
want them 10 understand, that no line
can be drawn beyond which the same
good results would not follow what the
nation in its collective capacity may de-
eide to do i'll other directions.
II How can the laborerS live decently
when they are robbed Oil every article
of life? How can their wages supply
the legitimate demands of a comfort
able existence when they pay 10 cents a
gallon for oil worth 2 cents, or cents
for sugar worth cents or 20 cents for
, coffee worth cents, admitting that he
! gets the genuine article, which he does
not. And everything else he uses is
| just the same way. The people have
! never studied the elements of cost in
| the articles. and hence can form no ad-
i euuate conception of the real labor cost
| of given article. Until rents, interest
/ and profit are eliminated. as is done in
| the postal system, the laboring people
| of the country will be the newers of
wood and drawers OF water for the idle,
! Scheming classes.
The right to live carries with it the
| right to land, air, water. light and heat.
! Man is entitled to these because he is
/ foI1
f; brought here by an overruiing intelli.
gence, then it was intended that he
| should have free access to the means OF
sustaining life, or he would not be mere
! at all. Mans right to the natural re-
sources Of the earth carries with it the
! right to enjoy the results of his labor
| applied to these resources. and any law
! custom or usage which prevents suct
| enjoyment, and imposes unnecessary
hardship and suffering upon him, is no
only an infringement of the rights o.
man, but denial of the laws Of God.
The right of man to enjoy access tt
natural opportunities has been recOg
! nized by Mayor Pingree, of Detroit, il
i practical way. He has secured abou
5000 acres in vacant lots and propose
to give the poor and unemployed of tn,
-
their own use next winter. The mayo
says he lis sure the Almighty will fur
nsh the rain and sunshine free of al
charge" He has fought several gallan
battles against monOpOliStS, and know
! that if it were possible they would syn
dictate the sunshine and barrel up tn
rain if the means for doing it were a
hand.
Every time man gives his note. h
is selling money short, just like gamb
ling in wheat. He agrees to deliver
certain number OF dollars to a certal
. person or his order at given futur
time, and he will have to sell the prod
ucts of his OF her wage.slave's labc
] on the market to get his dollars. Tn
men who have cornered the money al
compelling borrowers to give theI
more and more of their labor by dt
pressing prices. The average numt
4 skull can't see through it. He depend
I on the bankers to do his money thinkin
I for him, and they are doing it!
Banking being very profitable, WI
3 do banks fail? Having used the bani
to transfer the wealth of the Peep
into smaller number of hands, Il
\ men who have a corner on the money
B the world are now squeezing the BAN
q to get the milk. 1t is fight betwet
& robbers for the spells, just the same
s. railroads. Transportation has alwa
3 paid Irany the times of operating.
g railroads are Dankrupted to concentra
& the business into fewer hands. T
g people foot all the bills by their labt
q 1t is crime before the law for lab(
q ing men to boycott. but the boycott
EE the rich is all regular. They can do
81 wrong. Still there is bright side
So this. The working people have tri
H every conceivable plan to better tn
II conditions but the right plan-the b
"a lot for labor party-and the plutocr
are determined to force them to ad,
81 that by closing every other avenue.
good finally comes OF the tyranny of
81 courts.
The sentiment in favor Of elect
81 senators by direct vote is gaining m
II rapidly than any other reform sugg