The Green Forest tribune., 1907-06-21

justice.
 "The naturalization of the trust is proposed by socialism. There are two kinds of property, publicly used property and priv ately csed property. Publicly used property-schools, roads, railroads, mines, anumonopolies Of all sorts should be publicly owned. Private ownership of homes is impossible for the mas- ses as long as the trusts that con- trol the employment of the peo- pie, and the material5 of which houses are made, are owned by the plutocrats.
 "Socialism demands that the people be allowed to own all of the private property that their labor entities them to. It means that usefulness shall be required. Private ownership will then four ish in the essential private nec- essities. Socialism would have the nation own all national util- ities; Arkansas her own state utilities; the towns would own the waterworks, light plants and municipal utilities, and the in. dividual own his home,' and all kinds of business rroperty not in it's nature monopolistic. One- half the people are propertyless today. Under socialism all would be at least we'll to do.
 "The Socialists have no de- signs upon the small farm, the small business, the barber shop, the prescription counter, the tail or shop, the country printing of- flee, the soda water stand, etc. These are not monopolies, they do not oppress; on the other hand their owners are among the most oppressed of our citizenship. Socialism starts with the owner- ship of the biggest single mon- opoly, the railroads. Then the mines, the steel trust, the lumber trust, the paper trust, and so on down, establishing national ownership of national trusts, municipal ownership of mum icipal trusts. By reducing the hours of labor in these big in- dustries, the overcrowded con- ditions in every other trade are at once relieved and therefore, everybody is benefited, whether a public employee or not.
 The farmer and consumer of farm products would be closer together under socialism, for the human toll gate-the capitalist would no longer stand between the hungry people and the pro- ducers of food. This means that both the city people and the far mers would be really richer. The farmer would get his imple- ments from Uncle Sam who would be the owner of the Matt ional Harvest Trust, and the local merchant would be a partner with the government, in- stead of being 'out in the cold as he is today.
 "Read the names of the truly great and you read the names of Socialists. Can you argue that Jesus preached competition? Did he say, "Compete ye with one another, for such is the Kingdom" He did not. His exhortation was for us to love each other. But to love each other means, requires and is tue condition of socialism. Hall Caine, Howells, Jack London, Thomas Wentworth, John Rusk- in, Higginson, William Morris, Julian Hawthorne, Bellamy, Up ton Sinclair, Edwin Markham, Francis E. Willard, all of them are true followers of the Carpen- ter, and every one of them so- cialist, an avowed, a militant, and uncomprising enemy of monopoly in the means of producing the means of life. I might include Thomas Jefferson as one who taught fundamental socialism doctrine, for he believed in self government in public affairs, by majority rule.
 Socialism is the political ex- pression of the golden rule. Every one of it's proposals is in