The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1898-07-07
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to bed and early to rise, makes O man
healthy, wealthy and WISE" To-Day the
men who rise early and go TO work at z
o'clock are not the men who are gather
ing the wealth of the world, and their
wisdom nobody wants People today
want money getting wisdom and they
don't want any other.
The men who are gathering the wealth
of the world tlday ara not the early
risers, simply because vicious systems
have made it possible for them to own
the earth, consequently they are the kings
of the earth and don't have to rise early.
Consequently Poor Richards motto has
no foundation In fact today. McKin-
ley's front porch song during the last
presidential campaign was "Open the
mills instead of the mints; start the
wheels of industry and prosperity will
follow" Well the mills we're opened,
but the mills that sIe doing the business
Of the country today are the court house
mills grinding out executions and orders
of sale, and it don't bring prosperity
either. The busy men of the. country
are the sheriffs and constables executing
these orders.
But this Is the natural result of cap
italism. Smaller capitalists first gather
the wealth as labor PRODUCES It; then the
larger ones gather 1t from them. Thus
the producing classes are impoverished
by tbs power of capital, aud the weaker
capitalists are in turn eaten up by the
stronger ones, while their children or
their childrSn's children are doomed to
swell the ranks of pauper labor
believe that by natural law mon as
rule wants to do what is right.at least in
dividually If not politically, but the
promptings of his selfish sentiments
causes him to do wrong, and the more
he yields to thu perverted promptings of
any Of his mental sentiments the further
he gets from the right. Herbert Spencer
says: "Given a race with wants ard
desires, given everything necessary to
satisfy these wants and desires" 1t
follNws that any act of man that will
obstrIct the channels thorugh which man
must obtain that which nature has crea-
ted to satisfy his wants and desires is
wrong, authority, law, education or
public sentiment to the contrary not
withstanding. Everybody condemns the
man or syndicate of capital that will
corner the necessities of life in order to
make money, while we sustain systems
that enable capital to corner the earth,
the very source from which all the
neoessaries must come.
Now what man most wants is food,
clothing and shelter. These must be
drawn from the earth by labor, and any
system that will enable one man to own
the earth, that system ecessarily
obstructs the channels through which the
necessaries must be obtained. He nry
George ouco told Dutch school teacher,
an ardent greenbacker, who persisted In
asking George this question, during one
of bis lectures: Suppose you had all
the land in the world and had all the
money in the world, what would you
do9" Mr.. George replied: 81 would tell
you to get off my land and 1 would have
as much Of your money as wanted be-
fore would have time to get hungry"
1t Is evidently wrong for any man o
draw tribute from his fellow man for the
use CT the earth, and an injury to society.
To ILLUSTRATE, suppose A owns a lot In
town that cost his grandfather about one
dollar. The rental value of that lot is
$40, 900 per year today. A never did any
thing to create that value, only as a unit
In society. His father, grandfather or
great grandfather never did anything
more. Yet that value is there and A
that value' Evidently the increase of
society. Society gave to that lot its
present value, to society belongs the
benefit of that value by right. The same
is true Of all other land ranging in value
from So to $500 per acre, and as society
should see to 1t that such value be taken
to defray the expenses of such govern
ment, as that is the only thing that So
cietyl has without draining on the in
dividual.
Nobody disputes the right Of taxation,
and as government is for the benefit Of
society, the value that society creates
should first be taxed by right before the
Individual is taxei, and II this was done
the government would have an abun-
dance Of revenue for all the needs of So
ciety. 1t looks to me like folly for
capitalists or organized labor to fight
capital SO long as capital owns the earth
and gets its rental value.
A socialist friend at my elbow suggests
that the power Of capital to corner the
earth can be prevented only by the power
Of some political party organized for that
purpose. / give my friend the benefit Of
his idea but il he can get any political
party to do what is right he can do more
than ever saw done. A. j. KNIT.