Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1896-01-02

for a stipulated time. Instead Of ex-
pressing prices already fixed by labor, 1t
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 price.
With, equal propriety we might say the
length of length or the weight of
weight.
It is owing to this perVerslon OF.
money that the usurers and d, 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
@ty, coin will be used for money. But
Il 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, 1t causes
it to be a personal thing. Money is not
an individual thing. Individuals don't
make money. It is the creation Of So
ciety. 1t is made by society govern
menO for society. But being considered
property, it is held by individuals as
property. Money is made to use, not
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 1t
by usury. It concentrates the property
in q few hands, enslaving the masses,
producing poverty, vice, crime and par
barism. We are travelling the same
road old Rome and all the great govern
ments, Egypt, Greece, Persia, etc., dld'
and but for the diffusion Of knowledge
among the masses by the printing press
we would soon land where they did.
II in thirty-fve or forty years half the
wealth is gObbled up by thirty or forty
thousand families, how long Will 1t re-
uuire to get it all? But the printing
press has so enlightened the masses
that they cannot be permanently en-
shaved. 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 "his brothers. keeper. "
can injury to one is the concern OF all.
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,
enslaye the masses and the masses not
know 1t. 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 1t is anarchy. They
move heaven and earth land the other
place principally to destroy socialism
The great newspapers are enlisted
against it. School books are doctored IN
its interest. Dictionaries are made to
lie or suppress the truth for them
Even the church is cowed down, and on
its knees before this enemy Of God and
man. Perverted socialism may, and II
all probability will, produce violent
revolution; but out Of that ordeal viii
come a true system Of money, and
government "of the people, by the PEG
pie, and for the people" or true, and
not perverted socialism.
Richview, ILL.,, Oct. 81, '95.