Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1907-06-13

an editor, will get AROUND TINS w'tho".
taking sides with Rev. Nautilus srdS
Annie Besant. We all wish 10 do right, v
but a. we are taught In all our schools,
Ahst certain things are right; unless we
be forced, We hardly will be persuaded
that we should unlcarn much that we
have learned. Ihave before me a sermon
by q priest Of my church defending tile
rights Of the rich; Of course he quotes
from Matt. $40. .'Is It not lawful for ifie
to do what ! willi" The priest is a very
good man, and an L. l.. d., but to inc,
a workingman, his utterances are mis-
representations. I am made TO say that
property Is robbery" that 'as the
laborers creates ell wealth they sbosd
receive all they create" know a good
priest once who stood by the stakeholder
during the civil war. He told my father
that he wished the Union army no harm,
but he wished it was all in heaven. The
trouble lies In the conception a man has
Of property. The priest. the preacher.
and the editor believed that was lawful
for . man to do what he willed with his
own (%siave]; they believe today that lit
Is lawful for me to do what I will With
my land" be It . mine OF a city site.
Of course I will admit that Il is lawful,
and no will obey the law more
faithfully than the writer; but will pro-
test against it, and strive to change it.
The bible teaches that God gave the
earth to the children of nien." and the
social instinct drives men to conimuni.
ties; here they are protected, and find Il
much easier to follow the line Of least
resistance; the subdivision Of labor null
tiplies its efficiency: without labor.saviny
machinery, large cities annot exist and
the population 10 mostly rural. Steam
and electricity doing o the work OF
millions Of men, mincS are worked, ami
numerous factories work to supply the
multiplied wants Of men, and Cities have
increased a hundred fold in population.
Now as God makes a man social. he
provides a fund for the expense Of govern
upent. This fund 10 the site value Of
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worth several millions to the acre, while
the values decrease with the distance.
A. population increases, or decreases, so
do the site values increase. or decrease;
the work il automatic. The question
now to preacher, priest, OF editor is this,
"Who makes this value1' You must
answer it way or another. Some
may zee the goodness and wisdom Of tie
Almighty Father in providing an abund-
ant fund for the maintenance of a society
that exists by His will. You have to pay
for government; I pay six dollars O, a
FIVE hundred dollar farm; I do not object
to the tax, but for Christ's sake 10 NOT
put the tax on my labor; tax NE six
dollars on the bare land, my title is all
right. The remedy for the crime OF
society against natural law is so simple,
that a man must be a child not to see it,
There are but two kinds OF values. Site
values, such az r. X. rights OF way,
electric, telephone, gas franchises, site
values of mines Of copper, coal, iron, &c,
water rights, values Of sites in large
7 cities and villages. THE other kind Of
value is labor value, capital Of all kinds
Flows, houses, fences. barns, cars
. elevators, factories Of all kinds. these arc
individualistic; the first are sOcialistic
, they are mine and yours, while tht
! others are ours. God gave the earth tt
] the children OF men,
Won KIEGMAN.