, 1906-05-11

many benefits, such as the introduction
of the Bahia orange INTO southern all
fornia, the determination OF insect
pests, the Improvement of methods IN
farming, and the chain of agricultural
colleges from east to west dealing with
problems in agriculture, horticulture
stock raising and in all kindred work.
We now own a railroad in Panama, and
it has p~ertinently been asked, why a
not the government W a railroad In
Missouri as well as in Panama, n
many Missourians would like 10 De
shown" why not. We are digging a
great ~inter-oceanlc canal across the
isthmus, an enterprise abandoned by
private capital. | was once asked how
the socialists would build the Panam
canal, and answered: Precisely the
same as it is being constructed now,
by the people, whereat there was
great laughter. So, with the improve
ments in our harbors and rivers, the
building of levees and %jetties on the
Mississippi and its delta. Our high
ways have evolved from the toll road
with it's charge, our public schools
from the private institutions of learn
ing, and in addition, we have public
parks, public baths, fire departments,
water service, and, in short, our best
and most useful things are those own
ed in common by the public. Former
| ly, the function of government was rep
resented by a policeman's CLUB, ana
the warning behave yourselves or
keep off the grass" sounded on every
side. With enlargement of the head
and heart in the grand evolution OF the
human race, have come the care of the
deserving poor, of the insane, the blind,
tine mutes, the schools, the universities,
the army and the navy, the highways
and the grandest fruitage of our citi-
zenship is plucked where the govern
ment expenditures have been the most
lavish. Socialism does not mirror 1t
self in these things, which are no more
to be compared with it, grand as they
are, than the withered and dried herbs
and roots in the shop of an a~pothecary
to be compared with the living plants
crowned with flowers. Socialism sees
in these things the a of coming
events, in the enlargement of our no.
IlLbhy III Tic obOOA IN VI NA
more of the things collectively used,
in the transformation of the ownership
of the trusts from the few TO the pub
lie, in the substitution Of public CAPT
tai for private capital, and in the re
sulting enormous growth of wealth, and
the great incentive to do good when it
will be recognized that 1.-The love OF
t money (gain) is the root of all evil"
and when the three great cancers,
rent, interest and profit, shall be Danish
) ed With the gallows, the whipping post,
: tie human slavery auction block and
the chattel slavery black list and all
f the junk of modern civilization.
t We wish the adoption of our whole
| program: "a Collective ownership of
5 the means of producing the means OF
+ life. (2) Democratic management
5 thereof by the workers employed in
5 every branch of the service, and (3),
2 the equal opportunity of all, fitted by
aptitude and training, to participate in
: the work and in the fruits thereof.
: Our opponents are like the unlucky
V Dutchman mot Germany who bet a
Yankee hat the latter could not swal-
: low him. The Yankee thrust the
IDutchman's finger in his mouth and bit
e it. whefeat the Dutchman howled in
t agony and said that was not swallow
ing him, to which the Yankee said:
t I'VE didn't think l calculated to swal-
D low We all at once, did YEP"
S We shall suffer less pain and agony
even in the transition period, if the
socialists swallow us at once, instead
: of enduring the painful details of gov
l. eminent ownership, which is being bit
. terly contested step by step. In the
great economy of the laws of Moses,
the land and all things reverted to the
| Lord every fifty years, while debts
. were outlawed every seven years. Thus
each generation practically had a
e chance in the struggle for existence.
We have learned much since then, and
f scientifically managed production and
: distribution will afford not only a living
but a life for all in each generation
e and in every revolving year.
H. v. s. GROBSBECK.
ITO be continued.)
Note-I shall take great pleasure in
answering The Republican editorial OF
> recent date in my e 1t may break
s the thread of my argument but it is
{ too good a pudding for me to ig
n more. ii. u.