Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-11-10

to own and dispose of the fruits of brain
and Of mind must be regarded as sacred
and inviolable. It is the cornerstone of
the social structure; destroy it, weaken IL,
you arrest ambition and effort; you give
room TO carelessness of the morrow, to
Incidence and idlenessi you establish bar
baTism. BaTbarism is that state Of society
where men, having nothing which is the
exclusive possession of any, prey upon the
strength and the labor of others. Stability
Of possession and the stimulus TO ambition
and effort resulting from 1t are the vital
requisites Of progress and civilization.
That in the holding of private property
there be inequality, is a fact that is newt
able. Men are not and never will be equal
In the power that builds up property in the
sacrifice Of self and the economy that pre-
serve and increase It; hence they never will
be equal in the amount of property that
they do or can possess. The preaching OF
utopias in remedy of this inequality, the
proposal Of schemes that ignore the nature
Of men and the vital conditions of human
society are an insult no less than an injury
to the individual whom they fam would be-
guile by their will-of-the-wisp gamor and
deception.
chief panacea put before US is common
ownership, through city, state or nation, of
the transportation hither and thither of the
results of this productivity. Let all be on
their guard Common ownership in one
direction leads readily to common owner
ship in another--all the more so when the
purpose really held in mind by the many
is to grasp wealth without much personal
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cies by despoiling others. And is there not
serious danger therein of weakening indi.
vidual ambition. which has been. in Amer
lea particularly, the great stimulus to the
wondrous material development with which
the country has been bleSt?
That large accumulations of wealth bt
not permitted to ply their forces 70 VIC
late the laws Of justice, TO Cypress and ruiz
the weak, to absorb into their own beiliE
tho liberty and the life, is an undeniablG
proposition on which no controversy is
permissible But to strive to shatter and
ruin them is to aim at a national medtoc'
rty, through which America will at once
descend in the scale OF nations and the
masses Of her people will be reduced tC
idleness and penury.
General Mcpherson EuIOgized.
Hon. Smith Mcpherson, judge of the
federal district court, responded to the
toast, General McPherson1 saying IN
part:
Educated at West Point, he led the hum
drum life of a lieutenant and captain during
that eventful period before the war. F.ske
the historian, mas beautifully and forcefuliS
portrayed the period between The end OF
tho revolutionary war and the adoption Of
the constitution. He calls it the critica
period Of American history.
But critical as that period was, IL wal
not more so than the period of 1870 to 1S1
because then it was that foundations were
sought to be laid TO destroy this union.
Mcpherson, but ten years f. ON school
then, like most of the others, was un
known and untried. Just where and wher
he earned his spurs is hard to state. Blu
gradually he went from the rank Of lieu
] tenant to that OF a major general, and from
the command OF a company to the command
OF the Army of the Tennessee. For "A tim,
he was on Grants stan.
After reviewing the campaigns up to tn,
time Grant went to Washington to take su
preme command, Judge Mcpherson said:
Then Grant went 10 Washington to tax,
: command Of al Of the armies OF the United
States, and the letter that he wrote wher
about leaving to sherman and McPhersdi
shows confidence and love SURPRISING TIL
/ love of Jonathan and David. Then McPher
/ son took command Of the Army of the Ten
nessee' and the Atlanta campaign was on