The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1904-06-23

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5.-Collect debts and enforce con-
tracts by law. Private security COM
panies can attend to private business.
6.-Be silent when crimes are COM
mitted in the name of law.
NEEDLE with rights. A just ex-
ample, well advertised, wins greater
victories than violations of right can
ever win.
His leafet follows:
ANTI-MEDDLERSy MOVEMENT.
A meddler is person who inter-
feres where he has no business. TrOu-
BILE and monopoly usually result even
ternal revenue. or other tax laws, all
patent. copyright and money laws,
and all other laws which restrict
equal liberty, are me0dlesome when
those who disobey them are punished
by officials who owe their ability TO
punish through the enactment Of such
laws Land laws conveying any other
title to land than that OF reasonable
use are meddlesome. The sO-called
single tax may he the better way, or
the least meddlesome, to obtain gov
eminent revenue, but even this can be
used to Cypress an ignorant, indiffer-
ent or unOrganized people. That we
must surrender some Of our individual
rights in order to enjoy greater rights
for the COLLECTIVELY is superstition
made use of by tyrants and authors
tarians to fasten monopoly rule upon
a helpless people. Let equal liberty
show and demonstrate what is just
and best for all concerned. Peace and
fair play cannot obtain where med
ding Is found among individuals or
among nations. and arbitrary force
can only postpone a catastrophe. The
true remedy for unnatural conditions
Is to stop meddling both in and out
of all organized bodies, for only in
this way can society be improved and
the masses enabled to possess some
measure Of enjoyment. All newspapers
are invited to conduct an anti-med-
dlers' column, in order that light may
be thrown on meddling of all sorts,
so that effective protests may be
waged against injustice, and personal
rights made secure. People who do
not know their rights are in no cOndi-
ton to demand them, and are mere
tools in the hands of a governing
class. Spend little OF your money
and let your light shine. Mail this
leaflet to all your correspondents, and
particularly to newspapers. Antag-
Onize with all your might any meddle-
some law which strikes you down, but
be sure you do not fall into the error
of advising more meddling Core
spondence, assistance and encourage
ment invited by Louis LIE Saulnier,
Anti-Meddler Organizer, Red Bud,
Randolph county, ILL.,, Liberty Up. 0.
box 1912, New York city,, and Free
Society, 407 Park ave-, Chicago, Ill.
Sign and give address.
Mr.. lie Saulnier, like many others,
talks all around the question asked,
but does not answer it. The question
that The Independent has asked is
this: Given the abolition, of all rev.
enue tariffs and direct taxes levied
upon articles of wealth; and given the
enactment of statute (Waiving its
constitutionality for the nonce) re-
curing all economic rent to be- paid
to the government-ln what form
would this economic rent be delivered
to the government?
For example, Mr.. lie Saulnier's card
tells us that he Is ashamed to scare
or compel people to pay any tax what
ever, for Henry George plan is am
pie for government needs; govern
ment and society produce ground val
ues, let them collect them" One can
fancy an agent OF the government"
trundling wheelbarrow load OF
ground values" toward the court
house, or. perhaps, carrying them
along In an old gunny sack, after the
fashion OF rag-pickersl
Perhaps, however, his 4th PROPOSE
ton Is supposed TO cover The lnde-
pendents question, for Mr.. lie Saul
nier's sense OF justice makes him
ASHAMED to deny freedom in Issuing
money" Competition. he AYERS.
works as we'll there as in what mon
ey represents Mr.. lie Saulnier here
escs the term money to mean the
physical object. coin or paper note.
upon which is stamped or printed the
money" term According to hts idea.
then. II would follow that each oOcu-
pant OF land would issue private