Industrial freedom. [volume] (Edison, Wash.) 1898-1???, 1898-10-22
is GOVERNMENT
a Failure +?

That depends. The original idea
of government was to ensure equal
and exact Justice. That presupposed
that there existed two classes of
people: Those strong enough to OPP
press, and those too weak to resist
oppression. Government stepped in
as a mediator between these two
classes. to enable the weaker to cope
with the stronger. Had all men been
honest and just, or had each man
been able to fight his own battles and
secure his own rights, then there
would have existed no need of gov
eminent. To secure justice was the
end of government, to prevent the
strong from depressing the weak was
It's mission, and the means through
which Justice would be reached. Now,
if government has done this it has
accomplished it's mission: if not, it
has proven itself a failure. The
question is, has it failed? We answer
it has. Government is human in
stitution, and, like all things human,
is liable to be faulty, and we would
not have our readers understand that
we are ready to condemn the whole
thing because of the fact that, in
some particular, it has failed to &C
complish its end. Nor would we pur-
posely convey the idea that no good
results have accrued from govern
ment, for all governments of which
we know anything have been attend
ed with some good; but the point we
are aiming to make is that, taken as
a whole, and especially that of the
United States, it-has not only failed
to do these things, but it has so
changed that it has itself become an
agent of oppression.
Take one thousand honest, indus
trious men with their families and
place them on a fertile island a
thousand miles away from civiliza-
ton and government, and without
tools or money. Leave them there
for one year and you will find that
each of them has home of his own
and roof to protect him and his
family from the elements. Go again
in five years and we warrant that
every Industrious man on the island
will be surrounded by all the neces-
saries of life, not to say its Injuries.
There are thousands today in Utah
who can attest by their own observa-
ton and experience that such is the
case. This desirable end is reached
without the aid of money, railroads,
telegrapbs, telephones. street cars,
or any of the modern inventions of
the day whose presence is supposed
to add so materially to our happiness
and prosperity. Take another thous-
and men, equally industrious and
irIgal, place them either together or
scatter them throughout the most
civilized portion of the country;
where there is money, and railroads,
and telegraphs, and telephones, and
street cars, and every other modern
invention, to say nothing of 1.-THE best
form of government on earth. Call
on these men one year after, and all
VIII be living in rented houses, call
on them again in five years and prob
ably 30 per cent of them will still be
homeless, hopeless renters and PEN
sioners on the bounty and fawners at
the feet of ontps 1andlord uaya thax,
not been Industrious? Yes. Have
they not been frugal? Yes. Have
they not tried hard to make ends
meet? Yes. We submit this ques-
ton to the early settlers of this
state: Is it not fact that 1t was
easier Tor poor man to get a start
IN life here in this valley in ls+S than
1t is in 1898? You cannot but answer
this with an emphatic yes. Then
there must be a cause for these
things, and we hardly think that any
sane man would attribute 1t all to the
uemonetization of silver, or try to
think that the reconciliation of sill
Yer would change IT, Then what is
ltF Start your think works a going
ana see If you cannot ferret it out.
In this beautiful city are thousands
aud thousands of homeless people;
people whose whole time and energy
oi mind and body is taken up in de-
Nlsing some means to exist and pay
rent Vet Moroini, as he keeps vigil
On the pinnacle of the great temple,
gd1es down every day upon probably
oVVVO lots of vacant land that pro-
uuces naught but noxious, malaria
breeding weeds. What. Vacant
'and and homeless people in the same
CITY And that governed by the best
1orm OF government the world has