Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1895-02-15
Lord Dunraven 10000 acres in Colora,

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do
Lord Houghton $1,000 acres in Florida.
English Land Co. $4,000 acres in Call
fornia.
English Land Co. $4,000 acres in Ar
kansas.
Syndicate No. 10000 acres.
Alexander Grant $4,000 acres in KaE-
sas.
NJ. Elfenhanser 100000 acres in West
Virginia.
Syndicate No. $4,000 acres in Florida.
Now this does not include American
holders which in some instances are very
large. l only note this to show how the
lands are aggregating in the hands OF the
few as well as the industries. One hun
dred thousand people of the United
States aggregates more wealth than all
he G4,90
Ten thousand people own nearly all OF
New York City with population OF
100000
These combines and corporations have
destroyed all former economic conditions
and swept from the field all competition
thereby arbitrarily fixing prices to pro-
Queer and consumer and also fixing
prices of labor They overtop states and
dictate national legislation in their own
interest.
Now, as result of individualizing the
LANDS and industries by private owner
ship the lands and industries by our laws
of transfer has passed from individual
holding and control to combine or class
control with the power to dictate nation
al legislation and command the service
of the national troops to sustain them.
Now | have shown how our boosted
republic has inetamorphosed into an en-
bryotic oligarchy. Its completion lays
in their ability to increase the regular
army to one hundred thousand men as
advised by leading general and the
mobilization of our State forces under
control of the war department as has
been proposed by bill in Congress.
What is the cause that. transforms re-
publics into obligarchies on Empires? l
answer individualism. / call it individ-
ualsm because it proceeds by individual
izing the land and industries, by placing
them in the hands Of the individuals.
In our plan of government we have sac
rificed the general welfare by making
the individual interest and control in
land and the industries paramount OF
the government.
Now the situation summed up is this.
One hundred thousand people OF the
nation own and control nearly the entire
industries and a large portion of the land
They receive 81 cents out of each dollar
of the product of the labor and one half
of the product of the land as their re-
ward.
How many people under present con-
ditions can read their titles Gle ar TO life
liberty and happiness?
We have changed from u government
for the masses, withe economic equality
to that offs government of the classes
with inequality for the masses.
Individualizing the land and industries
has caused this present abnormal civil
cation. 1t is the direct cause and the
logic for the saying that the destination
ofrepublics is empire.
1t has made gold and property the God
to be worshiped above either natural law
or God. 1t has created an intense thirst
for gain and.is the logical incentive tc
all crime such as lying, hypocracy, theft
purgery, burglary, embezzlement, train
robbery, forgery and murder. 1t has
seized the church and obscured the glo
rions mutualism of Christ. In place Of
producing a christian civilization it has
produced an industrial hell and damna'
ton.
Individualism in nations, industrial
systems has been the stumbling block
over which all republics have tripped in
to the black gulf of oblivion. We are
today IN oligarchy minus the military
paraphernalia which Congress is now
trying fit to the situation.
1t is condition that confronts the
people. | have pc nted out the cause
which produced it. The remedy lays in
turning back to all the people the land
and industries from which all must live
to be operated by all the people for al
the people. Protective tariff will not de
it, tariff for revenue will not do it, more
silver will not do it, Prohibition will no
10 it, then what will?-Nationalism. Ma
tionalize all the land and industries by
taking them over step by step into thu
hands of all the people to be oper
ated for all the people. That is the onl
way out. Lord Macaully says our govern
ment is all sail with no.anchor. Nation
alism lie that anchor. 1t establishes pc
litical and industrial equality. A house
divided against itself cannot stand. A
nation half nationalized and half indiv
idualizcd can not stand. nation bull
on the shifting sands of individualism
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