Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1907-01-31
Justice w.. Charity.
Slower, Mo-, Jan 20, 1907.

StOSeT, MO-, JAN. ~, i1Os.
A crank is used &c give circular motion,
we use It on the axles Of grindstones.
coffee mills, &c So a man who revolu-
tonnes methods of labor, or thought, is
called a crank. -Four hundred years ago
a Frenchman was confined in a prison as
insane, because he insisted that he could
move ships and wagons with tie vapof
that rises from boiling water. lie died
iu the prison. Copernicus was also a
crank, but he was smart enough not to
proclaim that the earth turned on its
axis. Calico learned this from him, and
was punished for teaching the truth. So
was Repler. We have had many cranks
in the last century, and we SIN uld I've
very careful how we condemn a person
who advocates the teachings Of a SO
called crank. One boy at writing school
wishes that a NAN would make for him a
pen that can turn out a thousand bibles
a day, and his fairy godmother gives him
the printing press. Another boy freez-
ing with cold while lighting the lamps OF
a great city, wishes tina, ON man would
make lamps to burn without oil or wick,
and his fairy godmother lights the city
with gas. A boy, m'red with a load Of
wheat on an OK cart, wishes for a car thst
can carry a tisousaud bushels over the
road in any weather, and tne locomotive
relieves him of his job. An errand boy,
who wants to go fishing, wishes a nan
might send a message around the world
in a minute, and it is done. The slave,
longing for freedom, or for possu:ns,
tasked to seeding n h ndrcd pounds OF
cotton per day, wishes for fingers that
could seed one thousand pounds, and the
gin sets him free.
What will radium do, What will be
the effect Of cheap liquid aire We have
broken and harnessed the forces that
keep the globe in motion. Cranks have
started every new revolution Of thought
applied to matter. What Is the result on
the masses who now produce wealth a
thousand fold more than formerly A
man visits a tenement III Paris. he finds
fifteen persons OF various ages and ex III
one room, crusts Of bread are strung o"
strings, which cross the room, to keep
them from the rats; and the preachers
say, the poor yc have always with you.
A man visits the Mott staeet tenement in
New York. He follows two women, who
drag grra, bundles of clothes up five
flights of stairs, SO dark they cannot see
before them, in one corner of a lOxiO
at the top is a maj in bed racked
with IA consumptive's cough; with a
chi'd's strength left lie is pulling out
b,s,rnp threads from the unfinished gar
meu,s VI ed on the bed HIS wife and
sister sew beside him, finishing coat and
tro sers at five cents a piece; the remain.
ing room has a larger bed. with a CHILD
tossed in fever. This bed, too, Is covered
with unfinished garments, upon which
the grandmother is sewing. Tie com
binrd work of the whole family 'nprtt'
to about sixty cents per da>. ~
thousands of cases like thi' sci. a.
tested, that 10 one dare den. tlem. !
is not enough to say, | am sorry for tiirss
people; it is not enough to prove nov
much sorrow when the hat goes around
it will not do &c use the screen Jcsu, pav'
to Judas Iscariot. 1.-The poor ye have al
WAYS with you" II viii not do TO atfcc
to believe with Rev Nautilus that multi
pltcation Of men naturally leads TO
positive or prudential check. Cain lice
when he said lie was MT his brother
keeper. As did the Samaritan, you AT,
bound frs, t o assist your wounacd neigh
Dor; but remember that justice wli be
fore charity. and the a5sasaiu is SIN n
large.
Aud now comes upon the world a MAI
who says. that by the simple ~tayatiom o
land values, exclusive OF improvements
he can distribute cd ally the wealth nov
produced. VIII you read his work
Progress and Poverty" OF will y"n cal
HIN n. fool or anarchist This ;:iaii'
name is Henry George, his spin, liyc, ii
every quarter of The globe.
WOREISGMAS.
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