The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-11-29

ton to it. The distinction
wish to draw exists between that capt.
tai In which use and ownership can be
combined, or more accurately speak
ing. in which ownership exists for pur-
poses of use, and that capital which
exists for purposes Of ownership alone
That capital which the owner holds
not for purposes Of use by himself, but
Tor use by some one else.
RIGHTS OF LABOR.
'It is manifest that In one of thess
cases mutually does not exist between
labor and capital, or between laborer
and capitalist, because the qualities OF
ownership and use are combined In one
person; In fact. the distinction be-
tween laborer and capitalist Is blotted
out, and the two are arnalgamated into
one, and the mantle human being
possesses in such case as absolute a
right TO his capital, that is, his tools OF
his clothes or other articles of personal
use as he does to the limbs of his body.
because they are, like his limbs, the 4
Instruments with which he labors,
which he uses
FBut on the other hand, the man who
possesses thing not for the purposes
of his own use, but for purposes OF
somebody else's use, and whose interest
i'll IT. is limited to the compensation
which he can extort from others for
entirely different position and must be
viewed from an entirely different
standpoint
I then illustrated the kind of property
falling within the last mentioned class
and the line of distinction between ii
and the one first mentioned by citing
the monopolies and the quasi public
institutions, such as the trusts and
combines, the railroads, ETC.. claiming
that as to such the paramount right OF
the user existed not only in the nature
Of the property and purposes to which
dedicated by the owner, but the same
had been confirmed to him by legisla-
tive enactment and decision of the
courts.
DOSTER HAS PRECEDENTS.
While not part of the address in
question, I take the liberty in elueida-
ton Of the distinction 1 tried to draw
between the two classes Of property
and in defense of the position assumed
by me to cite some eminent Republican
authority.
William A. Phillips, twice Republican
congressman from the state Of Kansas,
says in his book, Labor, Land and
Law" pages 1912, capital is Of two
kinds. The capital which is produced
for use and used by the man who owns
ii, such as houses, cattle, homes. We
hicles, furniture, machinery, etc. Then
there is a capital man has accumu-
lated that he does not personally need
or USE Out Of this he expects to make
an income from those he permits to
use it. This is the kind Of capital that
requires the supervision of the public,
or it will impoverish all labor and
create an aristocracy among men"
Out Of this kind of capital Chief
Justice Waite, Of the United States
supreme court, in his celebrated deci-
sion of Mum against The People Of
court report). affirming the right of
the legislature to control the charges
Of railroad, warehouse and other like
companies said: when, therefore.
one devotes his property to a use in
which the public has an interest, he, in
effect, grants to the public an interest
in that use, and must submit to be
controlled by the public for the COM
mon good to the extent Of the interest
he has thus created"
FAvORS WOMAN SUFFRAGE.
If, therefore, when a man dedicatesN
his property to the use of the public
he grants to the public an interest in
the use Of the same, and must submit
to public control in respect to such use,
it necessarily follows that the rights
of the public, to Wit-the users, are
paramount to those Of the owners.
AS to whether ever said that trent
is robbery" or anything equivalent TO
IL, l. answer, NO. III QuDllSneQ fOufCn
Of July addresses, when describing the
conditions Of unrest throughout the
world, and in speaking Of the various
classes Of dissatisfied people and their
theories and complaints, I said: 'Do
you know that million of men have
arisen who challenge the conscience of
your life and the utility of your
methods; who denounce your political
economy as a sham and g. fraud; who
declare that money Is useless, that rent
Is robbery" etc. 1 merely stated the
fact that such extreme views were held
by classes Of dissatisfied people without
indorsing in the slightest degree the
opinions held by them. These purport,
ed quotations are partisan 1ibels, utter
ly baseless so far as anything / ever
said or any views I ever entertained
Judge Doster is the recognized cham
pion of woman suffrage in Kansas. He
has advocated the right Of women to
vote in every speech made in the re-
cent and former campaigns. He Sc
cured a resolution favoring equal suf-
frage in the Populist state convention
in 1894, after one Of the hottest fights
ever waged in a political convention in
this state. Now that their champion
has been elevated to the supreme bench
the women OF Kansas believe that their
complete enfranchisement is no. far
distant.