Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-07-17

the people and the legislators. The more of
the work OF government relegated to the whole
people, the more democratic and progressive
our government will be.
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| From the Coming Nation
! As to whether government ownership would
be good thing or bad thing depends entirely
upon who is the government.
Socialism says that no man is entitled to
more than he earns. Capitalism says he is en-
titled to all he can get and keep-out of Jail.
There is no such thing as making living
without work. You've either got to work
yourself or work somebody else. And the great
trouble is, everybody is trying to get in on the
latter deal.
| Even capitalist would hardly advocate pri-
vate ownership of the air, yet he believes in
the private ownership OF the land on which we
must have place to stand to breathe the air.
don't see any difference, do you?
When seven-eighths of the wealth of ma
tion is owned by one-eighths of the population
and it exists in this country-it does not re-
quire the gift of prophecy to predict the out
come. Private ownership OF property upon
which all must depend foi life cannot long re.
| tain its character of sacredness
No man ever earned a million dollars, but IN
spite of this fact, we have in this country sew
| eral hundred millionaires. If they didn't earn
| million dollars, how is it they have million
dollars2 Do you know2 If you don't, you
had better study Socialism and find out.
| Kansas can vote no relief from the state
treasury to help the food sufferers, because it
is unconstitutional. 1t is constitutional to hire
soldiers to protect property, but unconstitutional
to protect life! 1t occurs to me that the con-
stitution should be changed.
| Justice demands that 10 the laborer shall be
| given the full product of his labor Socialism
proposes way by which this may be done
the collective ownership of the great social
machines OF production and distribution. If
you have better plan, trot it out.
| John D. Rockefeller can make or break any
bank in this country. There is not railroad
that could stay out OF the hands of receiver
fifteen minutes if John D. SO decreed. This
power has been given him by the fourteen
million voters of this country. You are one of
them. Did you lose your vote?
-" 81 ag p. q.
From the New Time
The working man who howls for expansion
when he has nothing to export but his rags
will beqeuath them as a legacy to his offspring.
| The man who thinks Socialism is govern
ment ownership by the same government that
issues injunctions and shoots strikers has much
to learn.
So long as workingmen are satisfied with
''full dinner pail, the masters will manage to
make life endurable at Newport by caressing
their chowchow pugs.
Every time Socialist local is organized, an
other prop is knocked from under those who
would continue the old rotten system of pri-
vate ownership and competition.
If the Socialist idea prevails those who are rob-
bing our mails to-day would have no object to
rob the mails and our postofice scandles would
all be nipped ia the bud.
The men who are loudest against the social
ed cooperative theory of government owner
ship, to.wit: the capitalists, are cooperating
into the most powerful Trusts neaiu VI III az.
cient or modern times.
Sel6shness, strife and disoord within is what
breaks up families, homes, communities, local
organizations, and even nations. Then If this
is true, we who desire better condition of at
fairs should make the effort of our lives to pre-
vent such conditions.
R l. ADAMS,