The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-12-15
THE RIGHTS OF CAPITAL.

producing great instructive
article like these and | have the
right to the proceeds of their
publication. But the public has
also possessory right in this
capital and that gives it the right
to say l shall not use this power to
produce the obscene articles that
would have an immoral tendency or
those that would breed anarchy or
increase crime. even if it would
result in a hundred fold greater
financial benefit to me; as it I'M
doubtedly would,-for men are fain
to pay tor what they ought not to
have and do the things they ought
not to do. Many man has
shuffied cards for five hours in a
game of poker and paid big price
for the privilege, yet if he had been
compelled to turn the leaves of a
bible for similar time and get
paid for it,-which would have
required less mental and physical
exertion-he would have resisted
to the point of desperation.
Another truth.
My farm is a part of my capital.
| have the right to its use and
control. l can let it lie idle, SOW
it to barley or wheat, plant it to
corn or potatoes, breed swine,
cattle, sheep or horses thereon
according to my own sweet will.
The public, however, is joint pos
SCISSOR with ME, and it has the ri ght
to say, and does say through the
voice of the law, that l must not
SOW it to noxious weeds whose
seeds carried by the winds would
reduce the value of my neighbours
farm, nor use it as breeding place
of wolves that might devour my
neighbours offspring, or his stock.
The individual has the right to
the ownership, control and use of
his capital, the public has the right
to regulate that use and control so
that it shall not be injured thereby.
The correctness of this PROPOSE.
ton cannot be questioned. 1t is
founded in justice and equity and
has been settled by an unbroken
line of judicial decisions extending
back through hundreds of years
both in this country and England,
and this principle must be invoked
to settle disputes between possessors
of creative and non-creative capital,
or in the language of the day which
very much dislike, "disputes be-
tween Labor and Capital"
The possessor of creative capital
has the right to combine with his
fellow who possesses capital of
similar kind and such a combina-
ton is generally known as Union.
He is chump if he doesn't. In
contests between the workingman,
the capitalist possessing creative
capital and the one possessing non
creative capital,-which have arisen
from time to time since the days
when the children of Israel struck
against the order requiring them to
''make bricks without straw" and
Will continue to arise until the end
of days, Notwithstanding the
theories of idealists and dreamers,-
God pity the workingman, the
capitalist of the first class who tries
to battle for his rights as an in
dividual. His finish is sure to .be
sudden and complete. The pos
SCISSORS of creative capital not only
have the legal and moral right to
combine but such combination is
essential to the preservation of
their manhood, their liberty, and
their livelihood. Were it not for
combination those in possession of
creative capital would soon find it
of little value. The worker who
tries to play lone hand takes no
tricks, and in the never ending con-
test between these two classes of
capital, combination is always
trumps, and they who hold the best
trumps win.
When combination of creative
capitalists decides to cease using it's
capital it is 'sstrike." As the
public has the right to regulate the
control and use of the creative
capital of an individual it has the
right to regulate combination.
A Union has the right to say
that when a strike is oraarod. !.