Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1906-10-01
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pRlVATE PROPERTY THE
 FOUNDATION. SOCIETY.

The issues of politics ill this country are beiHg steadily narrowed down eo o;cstions turning on the oWllefShip and control of property.
 Ever since there has been any rec ord of human society We find a 2eliei- .I recognition of both personal ana nronerty rights. It was for the pro tection of these rights that soc'al or f1er was organized When might made right and the strong hand took what and when it would from the weaker, the necessity for some protee- ton was made so plain that the people of even the widest and rudest tribes recognized it and they banded togeth- CT to save their women and children and such property as they possessed from being carried away by roebefs' The recognition of the right of man to his wife, his minor children and his property is the basis of all civil and criminal law, and upon that right all social order in every race and nation. from the most savage to the most enlightened. is founded. There Is no race of people upon the globe i'll which the right of property is not rec oenized and defended.
 But. according to the New Orleans Picavune. we have come to an age of social development when a great feeling of enmity is growing nN against private property. This notion has not reached it's fullest stage o' evolution. The peculiar phase which # has taken on is that there is general, if not universal hostility to all very large aggregations of wealth.
 This hostility to the owners ol wealth is remarkably mixed up fof instance, there is a widespread oppos' ton to great corporations and com binations of capital for the poduc ton and transportation of articles ol nse. This feeling has been carried t' The extent of securing national ieSlS 1ation for the control of railroads ah' +bere is oven a loud demand that the National government shall not ohiA control. but secure ownership of suei moans of transportat ion and prodnc tion.
 Here is demonstrated the faet Una hostility to private property Has feae" ed such a point that the people wh were able to force congress 10 tah control of the railroads and trust ma % one step further and force soverl ment ownership. It is only matte of votes.
 Rnt so far the hostility to the owl CTS of wealth extends only to the po sessors of great fortunes Say that th1 h.t. ,s limited 10 the multimillionaire and not to those whose wealth Il c,ndes 2 few hundred thousands up single million.
 eSo far. so good" say the peopl but when the property of the Sre' trusts and capitalists shall be tran ,erred to the government, Will Il movement stop there@ Will the m lions of wage workers be content +oil for daily bread when there W still be wealthy class to excite Je' ousv and dissatisfaction? Thus may turn out that another assar will be made on private propert Where will that stop? But no matt what limit may be set to man ? yate possessions, all the proper above that amount having been tra' ferred to the government. somebo will discover that there is still lar class that has not been benefited the change. The shiftless classes, | spendthrifts, the idlersand loafers W find that they have received nothh