The independent., 1903-03-26

(3) The so-ealled right of one man
to work for another is not right,
but privilege. A privilege that is
asked for and begged for by the one,
and granted or refused by the other.
But the right of every man to produce
is secondary only to his primary right
to breathe. ta
(D Not only is every American boy
born with the right to work for HIM
self upon, and produce for himself
from. the richest and most conven-
lent natural resources of the land OF
his birth; but he is also as naturally
and as justly entitled to stand at the
approaches Of his country's greatest
harbors, tits natural commercial gate
wayst and exchange his product with
his fellow producers and with for
eigners. Any laws therefore which
ignore or deny these obviously uni
versal and fundamental natural rights
are in the highest sense unconstitu-
tional and ought to be abolished be-
cause they outrage natural law. in
terfere with the plainest provisions
Of the Creator, and are thereby in dl-
rect conflict with the divine constitu-
ton of nature. r
We demand, therefore, that when-
ever and wherever the good of So
ciety, the necessities of business, the
perpetuity of the home, or the security
of the state, demand that exclusive
ownership or possession OF any OF
Americas valuable resources or choice
locations be vested in or given to any
individual or corporation, 1t shall be
with the distinct proviso that the
holder, or holders, of such resources
and locations shall pay into the pub
lie treasures for the benefit of all the
people, the full annual value of such
natural advantages, exclusive Of i'm
provements. The chief object and
purpose of such proviso being to Sc
cure to every American boy, either
directly or indirectly, the full annual
value of his equal natural inheritance
in the land of his birth.
TRANSPORTATION AND COM
MUNICATION.
Recognizing our great railroad. tele-
graph and telephone systems as SIM
Ply modern means of transportation,
distribution and communication, and
as improvements on the old highways
and post-roads of former times
We demand that all such modern
highway facilities be acquired by the
national government, as the postal
business was; and be operated at cost
for the good of all the people.
MONEY AND CURRENCY.
As the postal and telegraph sys-
TENS are but modern means for the
exchange of thought, SO money and
currency are but commercial utilities
for exchanging products.
We therefore demand that all mon
ey and currency shall be issued by the
national government direct to the
people, and that no power or privilege
to issue currency, or coin money,
shall be delegated to banks or other
corporations; and as money was Gre
ated to exchange wealth, not men;
and as there would evidently be no
use for money among people pro-
ducing or possessing no wealth-no
matter how numerous the popula-
ton; and, as it is evident that
country of small population, but great
wealth, has larger uses for money
than country of large population
and little wealth land, as all expert
ence shows, and recent republican leg
islation has clearly proved, that the
power of money chiefly
depends upon maintaining a uniform
relation or ratio between the quantity
of the medium of exchange and the
quantity of wealth to be exchanged,
and that the desirability of each form
of money, and the maintenance of
parity between the several forms,
mainly depends upon comforting, or
withholding, the full legal tender
function always accompanying real
money land, as all the desirability
and commercial value attaching to the
several forms of money and currency
aside from the commodity value at
taching to the material and conferred
upon 1t solely by the demand for it
for other uses than money-entirely
depends upon comforting upon it or
Withholding from it that full legal
tender function, and upon maintain
ing the ratio above named. There
fore we demand that all money,
whether gold, silver or paper, be is
sued by the national government as
full legal tender: that the volume