Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1906-02-07

eE9 WES;gsMy his reason had lifted him to the
lCuhXk1DNXN plane OF action; beyond this moth.
lHzu4YN>I1M ing is known--a is conjecture.
W. EdNa In the morning q discovered exis,
tance but babe at the breast OF the macro,
cosmc world. His mind desert over which
swept the storm of fear and his home was in the
mountain tsstness IN deep caverns. 1t was
the natural law >Oi "sef.deiense'' that made
him think. 1t was self defense that forced
him to cover his nakedness against the storm. 1t
self defense that put the weapon in his hand to
fight the wild beast. 1t self defense that forced
the family into tribes. II was in the sky OF self
defense that the lamp OF reason shone to guide him
his path way from the caverns out on the plains
Of human activities.
Self defense was the first law to dawn In the mind
OF man. Man is a child of nature, and from the
labraory will he ever draw the inspirations OF fe
And here will the Goddess OF justice ever stand;
holding the scales of equal rights The historian
commenced the history Of man, beginning with the
naked savage; the family, the tribe and the nation
Beginning with the tribe, the history opens it's first
chapter on "waE'' and keeps it open, running down
all the fight Of years until the present time, and
the daily press continues the information on the
Russian troubles
The world has always been battle field, and
win continue to be as long as governments seek to
deny man the free exercise Of his God d.given
rights. The duty and obligation Of governments
are like private obligations must come pay.
day, and when the people are compelled to appeal
to the court Of self defense, great is the reckoning
When will America have to settle with her subjectsi
WE'LL just as soon as the producers get sense to see
that they have no rights that corporation and mon
Opoes are bound by law to respect. Have the pro
ducers lost their right Of selfdeienseG Well see
monopoly stands at the railroad depot and tells him
what he must pay to get his goods to the market,
and see monopoly stands at the market and tells
him the price he must take for his goods on the
MARKET and if the producer has any rights it is not
in sight, unless it is to take his medicine or do
worse.
Has the day labOrer any self-deiensel Well, ri
guess he strike, provided he don't violate the
Injunction and il he does then whali Well, take
out the militia and shoot the stufing out Of the
strike do it any where, now how is that Well, yon
see Congress- made law confering authority on the
president to have jurisdiction over the militia 81 all
the states and may send militia out OF one state
into another. You see Illinois had two governors
that sided with two strikers and these money men
that run your government don't propose to have
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rights now, right where he can't get them for they
are not where they can be seen or heard heard
fellow ask 'sWho struck Billy Pattersonfv I'LL
seemed to me Billy ought to have known, but Billy
was knocked blind, but Billy ever gets his eyes
open be viii recognize the club in she hand 81 The
MoncpoIistic sscab.n
History has demonstrated that the nearer gov. (
ernment stands 30 The common people that Day her
taxes and fight her battles the frmer its foundation
But what does predatory wealth care about the
common people. Tits both natural and just, that
those that produce the wealth 81 the country, should
have protection by law 20 exercise tho right to free
Nv s1thange the product Ol their labor and skill
without the ihterierepce Of the gOvernmenti 81
Washington. But aays the prOtectionist, (mOncpO.
Iyl where would The Chicago board ot trade ana the
capitalist cOmean On that kind Ci hnaineaa, Why IL
would kill the cotton king ana the financial captains
Olindnstryl With :. fst under the nose q Uncle
Sam pnd bag Oi money II the other hand they say
You dare pass such free trade IAw and We wink
knock ySb intos inter darkness Mil Republican,.