Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1906-04-19
AS TO SOCIALISM.
An Audrain Mans 0pinion--"Pay
Your Money and Take Your
Choice" "

| udCk Ill lne ud WI OF creation, III
the tribal ages, back of written
history. The great seers of sci
ence-ao not await every jot and
title of evidence in such a case as
this. They discern the drift Of a
fact here, disclosure there, and
with both wisdom and boldness as.
sumo that what they see is but a
promise of what shall be revealed.
So man is believed to have started
in the tribal ages-so his rights
began at that time. We will sup
pose, reader, that you lived back
in the tribal ages and that you
would plant garden aud work it
until it would do for food on your
table, and then four or five men
should walk up to you and say,
This is our garden" Wouldn't
you know that was not sol Here
is where mans rights began, and
the products of his labor estab.
fishes his rights. Then farther on
down thru time when writing be-
gan-by divine order it was writ
ten, In the sweat of thy face
shalt thou eat bread. ."-Genesis 3:
10. Not by The other person's-
no rake off nor profit for the other
party so he can sit in the shade
and keep cool.
The above means mental and
manual labor. The socialists be-
lieve that man was created and
placed in existence a cooperative
being and not a comparative be-
ing, that competition is all right
for the strong, but death to the
weak, that man is entitled to the
natural sustenance of life, which
is land, air and water, which he
hasn't got, which was intended for
all the people and not a part. 1t
is claimed that 80 percent of the
people throughout the world don't
own either land or water, and the
air which some of them breathe is
hardly worth owning. Some of
the people believe the socialists
want the rich to diyide-up with
them. They do not. That is what
makes millionaires.
The socialists claim that no man
can live long enough to make a
million dollars from the proceeds
of his own labor, and to become a
millionaire he makes labor divide
up, and that is just what socialists
want to stop, aud then there would
be none very rich and none very
poor. That every one who works
should have full value of his own
labor can he had by doing away
with interest," bearing money and
by issuing labor-cheeks, nou.iu-
terest bearing, Instead. Interest
bearing money is usury aud helps
to enslave the human family.
Take thou no usury of him or
increase, that thy brother may live
with thee, LEY. 25;26. The la.
boring man builds the palaces for
the rich and lives away from them
in novels.
They claim that if all the people
owned all the land aud all the
transportation and wealth prOduc.
ing facilities in the United States,
then every person who worked
day would produce $40 of wealth.
Under such conditions man would
be in a condition to live the golden
rule" Therefore an things what
soever We would TINT men should
do unto you. do We even so unto
them, for this is the law. Mat
thew 7:12 That is, if you could
get all you earned you would not
want his, nor he yours, so Christ
must have advocated socialism.
The socialists claim that no
man should have been granted an
individual title to land, that the
feustom began far back in time by