Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1894-08-15

Inc drummer system used by COM
petition costs the consumers of our
country as much as the expense OF
running the government. Then add
to this the system of advertising.
Every newspaper is filed with them.
Bills, books, cards-even the fences
on the highways and the walls Of
barns are decorated by flaming adver-
tisements. The cost is all charged up
to the consumer. Governments COM
pete with each other. This whole
tariff business is the fruit of COM
petition. One government levies a
tariff; the others retaliate. The only
effect is, it raises the price of goods tC
consumers, and makes offices for men
that are too lazy to labor for living.
The toiling millions must pay the bills
of erecting custom houses and sup
porting revenue collectors; whether
the collector collects any thing or not.
Then governments competing with
each other under the show of main
tanning the balance of power, NAM
tain large standing armies. Europe
is loaded down with armies number
ing millions in time of peace. These
useless masses, organized for murder
on gigantic scale, must be supported
off the labor of the toiling masses.
Then add the expense of war ships.
forts and arsenals, guns and ammu-
milton, military schools, ETC., etc.
What burlesque to parade these
agencies of death, of murder, of blood,
with all their glitter and call this
Christian civilization. It is vastly
more develish than Christian. The
expense saddled on the poor is slav-
cry.
The world must be emancipated
from this system of competition in
order to be free. We must substitute
love for hatred
Socialism applied to the money
question would emancipate labor
forthwith. Every idle man in the
United States might be put to useful
labor in a week. Let the people de-
mand 1t at the ballot box.
There will never be a settled state of
society in our country, nor no where
else in the world until COVE rnments
adopt and act on the foregoing lines
Justice demands that governments
secure to all its citizens equal oppor-
tunities Socialism applied will do
this Competition prevents it.
This cry against socialism is heard
everywhere. We hear it in the press,
on the stump, and in the halls Of con.
gress. This - cry of the hypocriti.
cal class about "paternalism, is the
stop thief cry to cover up their own
meanness. They control the govern
ment and operate it in their own in.
terest.
Itreminds us of the cry "aboliti on
ism," and ''nigger equality" that
filled the air just before Mr.. Lincoln's
first election. The enemies of free
dom worked it for all its worth. Now
the same cry of paternalism is raised
| against social equality tor the same
reason. 1t demonstrated the ignor.
ance or meanness, or both, of those
who make it.
All evil is perverted good. We have
had socialism perverted to Cypress the
masses for ages Governments have
been used in that way.
Every trust, every com bine, every
corporation, is socialism for the bene.
fit of class. 1t is perverted social
ism. 1t is this class of socialists who
cry out against true socialism. True
socialism, the kind that the world
needs, is government socialism, OF
socialism of all society instead OF
classes in society. Let the govern.
ment, all its citizens, De the only
capitalist Individualism will still
have ample scope for operating,
limited only by not being permitted
to levy tribute on society.
True socialism is coming. We might
as well undertake TO make the Missis-
sippi river run toward the north pole
as to try to stop its coming.
For six thousand years, nearly, the
world has been ''groaning and travail
ing in pain" under the grinding law
of competition. Now the seventh
thousand year period, which is to be
Gods millennium is at the door and
the world is going to be "born again.
We are in the throes of the new birth
now. In that new era civil law will
be in harmony with divine law. AS
it is now human law is elevated above
divine law,
This is the disturbing element which
distracts society all over the world.
Our definition of usury elevates mans
law above Gods law. Our land tenure
laws do the same thing. Out of these
! two errors have come all the strife
and commo;ion which vex and
egitate society. In the millen
NAL period which is being
ushered in, civil governments OF
law will be just. and in harmony with
divine law. That is all the millennium
means. There will be no monopoliet
and trusts then. They shall build
houses and occupy them, plant vine
Yards and eat the fruit. They shall
not build and another occupy; they
shall not plant and another eat" etc
Every family will own home of then
own, across The Threshold of which
no officer of the la " can cross with
writs of ejectment for non-payment o
rents or taxes, for interest and rent.
will be no more, and every man shall
sit under his own vine and fig tired
AMI none to modest or make hin
afr aid" oh. happy day! Oh, gloriou
era. The Lord hasten it on.
Richview, H., July 2. 1895