The advocate., 1894-09-19

should have his equal share of the social fund of happiness
WehaVe violated the social law long that our whole So
ca system has diseased and we cannot rAfor so
as to recover social health Legislation is needed as med
clne to restore the system to nearly possible
condition; then nature will do the rest AT present the
great majority cannot obey the natural law of society be-
cause they lack the natural of obeying it, Without
the free useof natural opportunities man can no more no
tu brother to his fellow men, no more discharge pe
fecy his natural social functions than he could breathe
without lungs We must make monopoly get off the chest
OF society so that may be free to breathe may in time re-
cover tne use OF Its lungs Let briefly review the means
by which the Peoples party proposes to accomplish
MoNEY-MOney should simply be convenience: a mere
medium OF exchange Its value should be rep sentavenot
intrinsic dollar should represents much food raiment
tuel, or other useful things, much amusement it
should not be much valuable metal This has ALWAYS
been the theory of money If it must be made of some pre-
clouS metal then the owners of that metal will have mo-
nopoy OF money! and men cannot get the counters with
which to make their exchanges save by the permission of
the monopoSts who csn when they choose withhold the
medium of exchange and thus check or parayze industry
AS no money be had but by applying them they can
charge interest for it's us and thus live without work upon
the labor of Others Bankers have similar monopoy of
bits OF paper which represent metal money they too
can live upon those who toll.
Now, WaVng all discussion of the opposing theories Of
hat and OF intrinsic value, if the government owned all
teegraphs in Short all the materials and means of produc
ton and all the nsrumentaes of distribution and should
issue mere bits OF paper it issues postage stamps
to be redeemed not in gold in silver but services or
IN the materials or the products of labor would not such
money just available any now in useP What will gold
buy now that these bits of paper would not buy them And
If the government ITSELF without the intervention of banks
should lend this kind of money directly to the people with
out interest charging only the actual cost of the ransac
tlOn, then the
tal would never get timd" and Withdraw" if freemen
dared express openly their honest opinions business would
never be checked by lack of confidence" and pancs
would be unknown This would be true even under the
existing state of things as to all else.
TRANSPORTATION lines traverse the the coun
try in every direction Are they needed by their owners for
their exclusive personal use? The railroads are built ex-
pressy for public use They not operated by their
owners but by Workngmen The owners do nothing what
ever but draw dividends interest on inflated issues of
bonds. The roads used simply means of enabling
few men to live in oSentaous dleness and spendor upon
the labor and misery of the people Let the
the railroads it the other highways now and
they could be used by everybody for the actual cost
OF the service; products could be freely exchanged
between different parts of the country, and every
body would travel and travel in precisely the same style as
everybody else. Private would be gone and railroad
and other snobs have but their naturally vulgar char
acteristics to distinguish them from useful fok-rom
people of brains and culture Who would beinjured? The
only injury done would be that few hundred upstairs
would be deprived of opportunity to live off the indus
trous people at whom these upstarts sneer.
What has been said of railroads will apply also to street
car nes eectrcght and power plants, gas plants water
works and all other public utilities Service could be
dered at cost and to everybody ake and few thousand
derS would find necessary to work for their living in
stead of deprivmg other people of theirs.
LAND AND NATURAL RFSoURCFs-There is land enouOh