The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-12-29
TO THE EDITOR
1.-THE HERALD under this heading prints COM
municaticns, but does not assume responsible
ity for the sentiments expressed.
Let Us Have Peace

Let Us Have Peace
EDITOR HERALD: -The late appeal of the
500 English authors to their literary
brethren in America, in behalf OF peace,
does credit to their heads and hearts and
should be met by hearty and sympathe-
tic response.
The appeal to arms over the South Amer
lean dispute. Is not only unchrIstian and
barbarous but very absurd and inconsst-
ent, especially on the part of the public
officials and newspapers that have CO.
operated with English and other foreign
usurers in fastening upon the United States
a mortgage that never can be paid in
principal and whose interest alone amounts
to no less than 81 per capita for every
man, woman and child ia the nation.
Under the pressure of this English-Ger-
man gold interest bearing mortgage glacier
millions OF our citizens have been pauper-
ICED and many of them crowded from nap
by homes or paying empioyments to re-
cruit chain gangs.
Before this gigantic crime, in which the
president has himself been the most proml-
nent and effective agent, me vene1ulsan
boundary line, and even the Monroe doc
trine. with all that it involves and implies
sink into insigniticance.
But / presume our English literary
friends. like many of our Amer can states,
men, have not studied foreign financial
encroachment and invasion from the
standpoint of the Monroe doctrine"
Yet why not?
But there will be no war because Roth
child-who. if not on intima'e terms with
the prince of peace, is the prince of usurers
-forbids it.
He has ever been known to deprecate
war when by the shedding OF blood ne
could place nation under gold interest
bearing bonds of Indebtedness. Its only
when the mortgage is firmly and securely
! fastened and when war would mean re-
! pudia ton that he prays Tor peace, 10 the
/ end that all the laboring men. women and
| children may be spared to work our their
! salvation with fear and trembling" and
| keep up the annual payment OF interest. :,
Rothchild, like other loan "constrictors,'
| and like all trust and corporation auto
! Gratis, is a firm believer in that economic
creature styled laissez faire. The term
laissez faire is polite foreign abbreviation
! of leach one for himself and the devil take
the hiudmost."
/ Laissez faire in the economic realm and IN
| pioneer stages, when there was an aouno'
ance of unoccupied land and something
for everybody to do, meant sort of peii'
NELL, healthy and exciting race tor a
competency. 1t now means a hapd-to'
hand, Iife-and-death battle for bare exist
| epce on the part of toiling and producing
millions who in the United States alone
create eight billions of wealth annually
three-eiphths of which they retain for theii
! own use, while fve-eighths go to enrlch
''managers," midde-men and usurers
who have cornered not only the results
but the means of production.
The latter class call this 'business" anC
Finance but thoughtful people of all
classes are coming to regard 1t as indus
| trial slavery on the part of the masses, AND
| cx,stou,izoH aytnrtiOn and ODDr9SSlOn or
that of the classes.
The primitive expression and growth Of
competitive commerce were no less natu
raj and lawful than are the beginnings Of
great rivers, which, though at the source
owned and controlled by private par
ties, at last widen and deepen into public
waterways and become parts of the com
monwealth, as the great industries mus
finally do.
Competition is the alpha and omega-the
root and the fruit-of the war spirit, and
in the last analysis is war.
The same spirit that will cheat and rob
and, without regard to abstract equity
evict and drive fellow man from home
under the protection of the Flaws OF con
tract" is the spirit that will no
hesitate to murder the victim wheI
the fear of penalty is removed
This is why corporations are ever ready t
defend. not their power especially, bu
their stocks and surplus gains-acquiret
through legalized robbery-with grape anc
canister and wholesale slaughter. This il
why that eminent divine, Joseph COOK
proclaimed some four years ago in pub
lie lecture in Portland, Oregon, on tn
Single Tax and Socialism, 1--WE are ready
if need be, to meet the landless poor ant
the noneyless poor at the cannon
MOUTH This why General Miles, in tn
true murderous military spirit, calls TO
''fifty thousand soldiers to put dow
strikes" This is why General Howard
that 'model Christian hero" suggests
! that in lease of strikes the militia shoul
be sent into cities and localitie
remote from their homes in orde
. that they might IN. not ,o;I be CON Din
friends," but be enabled to murder straI
gers in the interest of corporations. Thi
is why the public press, both sides OF tn
ocean, in discussing the chances OF war pt
tween this country and England over tn
Venezuela question, devote their column
to the great com mercial interests involved
. while they hardly refer to the prospectiv
, slaughter of tens of thousands of huma
} beings.
Modern commercialsm necessarily il
wolves the absurd proposition that tn
s'property rights of the corporations al
, more sacred than the inalenable right
) life, liberty and the pursuit Of happiness o
the part of the masses. The natural evol,
, ton of Christian civilization toward soci;
J democracy has been temporarily arreste
and it's altruistic spirit partially paraiyze
3 by private combinations, organized I'll
3 Ger and protected by laws backe
3 and enforced by policemen's clubs all
Y gattling guns.
: Nevertheless, if civilization is to expan
or even continue to live the private trli
and corporation must surrender TO I.
! commonwealth.
I This is the white socialistic elephant tn;
a lust now claims the attention OF Chrlstel
! dom, and the atttudinizing OF both II
! American eagle and the British lion CA
!. not conceal the creatures dimensions M
v suppress it's ominous trumpetlngs and
!, steady onward tramp.
: In conclusion, let me recall the tin
when Roths hid did not raise his voice
behalf of peace. But that was during OF
civil war, and before his class had Sill
E ceeded in converting fraternal blood I'M
q a perpetual gold interest bearing rnortgal
l on the United States. JAMES u. CLARK.
The Economic Value of the Kindergarten
Nothing could better prove the limit
tons of our much Wanted "maternal j
stinct'' than the existence of so mar
mothers, yet who do not approve of tt
a kindergarten That it means simply Il
lack of the power to understand those n