The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1907-12-19

your houses, horses, cattle, automo-
biles, furniture; in short, it does not
want anything Of personal nature
that has been produced That is
yeurs and yours forever SO far as the
government is concerned, but what 1t
does want is railroads. hear most
of you say that is all right Then it
wants the coal mines. Again you say,
very we'll. Next it wants the oil
wells. Most of you say so far SO
good. Then 1t wants the telegraph
lines, telephones, and street cars.
Here is where some of you say, we
unload. Well what is left of u.s. say;
it wants to control all of the factories.
Here is where see the backs of a
lot of our comrades. We go on; it
wants all of the land and all that ma
tune has put on or in the same 20
Lord that is the shadow that fright
ems nearly all of the rest) Even the
bravest of us even feel like turning
on that monster called the govern
ment that seeks to control the earth
but as we hesitate, we say what is
the government? The leader shouts,
which echoes and re-echoes back from
the portals of heaven, the people are
the government. What the people
want all these things? Who are the
people? Yea, it should be every person
born under the canopy of heaven but
most of. them have sold their birth
right and today, the millionaire is the
government. What do we hope to
do then? Simply to pay the million
aire for the morsel of pottage they
have given us for our birth right and
returned the government to the peo-
people and in turn, the people to
equal privileges through the benefits
of life making it impossible for any
one to control the market or in any
way interfere with the rights and pri-
vileges of another For instance, Mr..
Rockefeller would say, will not al.
low one gallon of oil that l control be
sold, neither will l allow anymore to
be produced. What would be the con.
sequences We would simply go
without. On the other hand, suppose
We, the government, controlled the
oil wells. Then Mr.. Rockefeller
would say, "You can have no more
oil that l control" We would Simply
say, keep your oil and we can soon
produce new supply and Mr. Rookie
Teller would then have oil to will to
his children, grand children and great
grand children but the people would
not suffer in consequence. The next
question arises, how would the gov
eminent operate all of these things
after they had control BY the same
men that are now employed, only they
would be working for the government
and in tho factory, for instance, the
article would be put on the market
by the government to be given in ex-
change for time checks direct to the
consumer for just the cost of produc-
tiOl. Instead of the consumer paying
tWentv per cent profit on raw mater
ial plus twenty per cent profit to the
manufacturer plus twenty per cent to
the jobber plus twenty per cent to The
retailer plus large cost of factory
travelling men and advertising plus a
large cost of jobbers travelling men
and advertising plus a large cost of
retail advertising still all those men
with their army Of clerks AMI steno-
sraphers, rents and costs of their
business, must all be paid by the con-
sumner. No wonder farmer produc-
ing every year enough to keep him
for ten, can hardly make living.
Further, every man SHOULD receive
the same wages whether he is the
section man or the president. The
only difference to be paid should be
honor. 1t takes just as much to sus-
tain the body of section man or the
body of his family as that of the
president and as honor is the only
thing that a man can take with him
from this world, that should be paid
him according to the efforts he has
put forth in this life to raise the ply
steal, moral, mental or spiritual stand
ing of the human race.
The section man might be an ignor.
ant man and not capable Of filing
any place other than that of COM
mon labor but his family and children
should not suffer because of that
Even the ho1rTed doctor might be a
learned man hat his children should
not have an advantage as to material
things because Of That other than
that knowledge would tend to bene-
fit the whole people. Again you say,