New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1906-07-04
Independence Day.

grown away IRON IL.
A new power has arisen beside which
| the reign of King George was merciful
and liberal, it is the reign of the trusts,
a matter unforeseen by the trainers of
the declaration of independence.
i There is an evil, the fruitful mother
of a thousand heart-breaking ills, out
of which crime is fastening upon
crime. which is steadily growing,
gradually hedging itself about with
the cunningness of a living agent-it is
the monopoly.
The creator of the world has fur
nished in it's original state an album
dant supply of blessings and comfort
for every individual member of the
human race. The earth he has made
a universal patrimony, to be used and
occupied by it's inhabitants.
The light, the air, the ocean, belong
to the race; they are the common heri-
tage of mankind-free to US ALTO be
used without money and without price.
Why is not land free?
What great power ever gave to man
the authority to hold the original ele-
ments as barter in large or small
quantities?
All men have a universal right to
the sea, it's boundless resources and
all the blessings it contains or confers.
No boundaries confne this right to
any cline, color, condition or creed
it is free-the heritage of the whole
race to man as man, without regard to
birth, intellect or wealth. No one can
lease out its surface; no one can levy
a tax upon its products.
Originally this was true with relation
to land. The deity gave Adam domini-
on over the fowls of the air, the beasts
of the field and the fishes of the sea:
these he could dispose of at his plea
sure-but no such dominion was given
him over the earth; NO right given to
him Or to his posterity to dispose of
single inch of it to others. But in the
long process of years the land has
come to be property and there is little
chance Of ever having it otherwise.
But there must come time when
there will be limit to the amount Of
property one man shall own, that the
monopoly of these interests shall mot
work the INJURY it has produced i'm the
older countries.
The first great right of every msn-
the most essential, the most vitality
important of all with which man is
endowed, is the right to as much of the
food and other necessaries of life as
| will make existence not only endur able
but pleasure and a blessing. That
this may in measure be true we have
the homestead, but of what avail is
that in the shameful abuse of it's rights?
The crushing out of its blessings by
the greed of monopoly. If man has
a right to live he has a right to the
blessings of life, home in which to
live and a share in the benefits, that
surround him, and the power that robs
him of these just as surely comnits
murder as though it had struck dag
ger into the heart of it's victim.
The freedom for which our fathers
struggled persisted when monopoly
was born, and there is bound to come
a time and that not very far distant
when the yoke of this taskmaster vii
be more grevious than the lash Of the
slave driver unless the voters of thi:
country are aroused to the necessit.
of electing only such men to the Office
where legislation is created, as ar
above reproach and have strength o
manhood and the interests of the PEG
pie so much at heart that they can b
depended upon to refuse brides an
= are above being swayed by the iniu
s ence of riches.
# AS we celebrate the anniversary Q
a the declaration of an independents
% that separated our fathers from tn
$ CALLING yoke of a foreign monopoly,
IL is time to think, are our condition
d greatly different?
is Are we free?
f. Can any one of you produce sing
at article and place it upon the mark
" without paying tribute to some trus
1e Can you take from your farms
ly single item and fix the price OF yol
labor in the production of that article
There is nothing from the swaddlir
clothes in which you were wrappe
n when your eyes first looked upon Il
ey light of this world to the coffin
s. which you finally rest. that is not co
% trolled by a trust.
IL 1t is wrong. 1t is contrary to t
IN great principle that actuated t
al fathers OF this country in their heave
TX born desire for freedom.
10 We have passed from the Cover
at ment of the people to a self-satisf
m SuhSarviencv tn a. few m aSterS who q