Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-01-01

1of stipulated time. Instead of eX-
pressing prices already fixed by labor, it
sets and fixes prices on labor and all
the products of labor. We read every
day about the price of money What
a perversion. The price of a price.
With equal propriety we might say the
length of length or the weight of
weight.
1t is owing to this perversion of
money that the usurers and money
mongers cling so tenaciously to coin
money. Coin money is property money.
So long as the masses can be made
to think or believe that money is prop
erty, coin will be used for money. But
if the world can be made to see that
money is not property, this money of
barbarism, coin, will be rejected.
Another great evil growing out of
this perversion of money is, it causes
it to be personal thing. Money is not
an individual thing. individuals don't
make money. 1t is the creation of So
ciety. 1t is made by society govern
menD for society. But being considered
property, it is held by individuals as
hoard in order to sell. 1t is made to do
business with, not to deal in. About
all the debts in the world have been
caused by money-mongers, men who
deal in money. Give the world true
money, and there would be no money
mongers, or men who deal in money.
The perversion of money, making it
property, has destroyed all the great
governments of the world. 1t does it
by usury. 1t concentrates the property
in few hands, enslaving the masses,
producing poverty, vice, crime and bar
barism. We are travelling the same
road old Rome and all the great govern
ments, Egypt, Greece, Persia, ETC., did,
and but for the diffusion of knowledge
among the masses by the printing press
we would soon land where they did.
If in thirty-five or forty years half the
wealth is gobbled up by thirty or forty
thousand families, how long will it re-
quire to get it all? But the printing
press has SO enlightened the masses
that they cannot be permanently en-
| slaved. The schoolmaster has been
abroad in the land. "You can fool all
| the people part of the time, and part
of the people all of the time. but you
| can't fool all the people all of the time. .
This is one of Mr.. Lincoln's proverbs,
and it as true as Solomon's.
Perverted socialism is the cause of
| our national unrest and troubles, and
| true socialism is the remedy. There
| can be no settled state of society until
| the brotherhood of man is incorporated
into commercial law The human race
is one family 1--WE be brethren. -
Every man is Ibis brothers keeper"
AN injury to one is the concern of all. y
| All the civil governments of earth
are in the hands of the class who be-
lieve in and practice perverted social
| ism. They delight in it. Why do they ?
Because by it they can rob the wealth
| producers, grow rich, live in luxury,
| enslave the masses and the masses not
know it. But, o, how they hate true
| socialism. Why? Because if true So
cialism was applied this favored class
would stand on level with the masses
They would have to work or starve
| For this reason they fight socialism
They say it would ruin society. They
| tell the people that it is anarchy. They
move heaven and earth (and the other
place principally to destroy socialism
The great newspapers are enlisted
against it. School books are doctored in
its interest. Dictionaries are made tc
lie or suppress the truth for them
Even the church is cowed down, and or
its knees before this enemy of God an6
man. Perverted socialism may, and il
all probability will, produce violent
revolution; but out of that ordeal viii
come true system of money, and {
government "of the people, by the peo
pie, and for the people," or true, ant
not perverted socialism.
| Richview. Ill.,, Oct. 81, '95.