Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1908-01-23
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handspring Farm,
January 18th, l9O8.-We are going
through the financial crisis that visits us
every ten or fifteen years, it comes to
Kingdoms and Republics, whether the
tariff be high or low, whether the cur.
rency be elastic or contracted; with over
production a thousand men would not
be receiving bread every day in New
York and 5000 unemployed and INDECENT
would not be walking the streets of
Chicago. This is really a dangerous on.
dition, for many hungry men are like so
many worms eating away at a social
fabric in which they seem to have no
part. Why is it?
1t is evident that the fault is not in
production, for with improved machinery
and cooperation through subdivision of
labor more wealth is now produced
than at any time previous in the history
of the world; the faulty methods of dis
tri5ution of this wealth are then at the
bottom OF all this trouble. Neither you or
lare responsible for the law Of distribution
now existing, it grew upon us gradually
from that which governed our ancestors;
it is dispensed to US by society, and
though conditions affecting production,
and distribution may have altered ever So
much, yet the law remains the same.
In the church we are taught individual
righteousness; let the devil take the hind
most; to a noble mind this is a hard
lesson, and not a few teachers today are
trying to save the hindmost, for fear they
themselves will not enter heaven, oil
rather because these are their brothers,
these are the Christ, naked and hungry,
and they would help carry the cross.
This new school teaches and believes
that the so .ial law Of distribution is the
cause of most OF the crime aud destitu-
ton that fills the world today. 1t is the
cause OF the financial and industrial
crisis, it stiles competition, it effaces the
image of God in every w~orkingnan's
heart, leaving it open to suggestions OF
crime for bread or for loved ones.
You don't believe this? You think
that suffering and want are the effects o.
ones acts? A man should not buy
ii he cannot pay, he should not marry i
he II support a family. Like Rookie
Teller, you may have been taught t.
think this, because you went to school
and never suffered want, is that a gooC
adverse conditions should be as mora
and industrious as you are. If you hav'
any doubt about these things it is a Grim
for you to refuse to verify the doubt.
A man near me sells ten turkeys fol
twelve dollars, with six dollars he buy
an acre os land, and with the rest he buy
a variety OF goods; the 20 cents he pay
the merchant for coffee, goes to buy NOR
coffee, and a part of it may reach tn
half naked Indian on some plantation !
Brazil; the ship builder, the miner, tn
sailor, the thousands employed in the ca
operation of labor get a small share @
the six dollars spent on labor products
and money used in this way is
certificate of social service that is in con
tinual and incr easing demand. The la,
governing this demand is automatic.
the low price Of the turkey shows tina
thew are not wanted, less turkeys will b
raised, il SO the services is regulated b
supply and demand. The six dollar
paid for land was paid for the opportuni
ty to labor, II there were less rock
and sturnps upon it, the value of III
opportunity would have been greater
had it been located a half mile from Yer
saillcs in place of eleven miles, the valu
would have still increased; it might HAY
been worth $1,000 in Versailles, and
know that an acre OF land in the con
mercial center of New York would /
worth fourteen million dollars. Di
God, our Father, promise this immens
q value as fund, the interest of which I
go in expense Of a society that lives froi
= His will. speak of course of bare Liant
y "hooN No'AN sNSiy '"N must nihi
I accrues indirectly from the industry {
i society. 1t is what is called the uuean
ed increment, because no one individui
e made this value. Rich people don't bu
land in Morgan county, It is why We al
all Republicans, we wan no niggers, {
tenants to work for us, the sweat of OF
face makes a living but for the one VII
h sweats; farmers do not own valuab
land, six square miles of greater Ne
York would buy the whole state Of Mi
sour, coal lands, copper lands, franchi'
u of all kinds, these are all owned, Il
quantity is limited, it is not like the tn
key, and when from prosperity col
c ditions the owner asks more than Il
,. traffic will bear, YOU have no ALTERNATIVE
but 10 shut down, then it is crisis,
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