World's cresset. [volume] (JAH-ville [Colony], Fowler, Mo.) 1891-19??, 1910-07-21

and inhabit them: And they shall
plant vineyards and eat the fruit
Of them. They shall not build
and another inhabit; they shall
not plant and another eat. They
shall not labor in vain nor bring !
rthfor trouble Thus spakethe |
great Hebrew prophet under the
inspiration Of Divinity. And this
vision or an idealistic condition
Of society was the highestconcep.
ton of this great poet and beauti.
full dreamer. BUTT Is said that
The dreams that Nations dream
come true" and Isaiah was drea-
ming for the world, And Social
ism is Revolutionary force which
will unfold this vision in every
land and cline in all the world.
Those Of you who are familiar
with history viii recall the fact
that the LAND QUESTION
has been, since the days Of the
first Pharaoh, when Joseph acted
as his tinancier and trust promo.
ter, the great question of the
world. You will recall how the
Egyptians went to Joseph and
gave all their money and gold for
something upon which TO live the
first year of the famine; and
tnen on the second year they
brought Joseph all their cattle
and horses and asses and llocks
to exchange for bread upon
which to subsist: and still the
famine existed and they again
went to joseph and said; I'VE
will not hide 1t from my lord
how our money u spent; my
lord also hath our herds of cattle;
there is naught left in the sight
OF my lord. hut our bodies,
and our lands, buy us and
our land for bread. and
| we and our land will he servants
vt Pharaoh.
And Joseph bought all the land
of Egypt for Pharaoh; for the E
egyptians sold every man his field
, because the famine prevailed
over them; so the land became
!, Pharaohs. And the Egyptiar
, country being q purely agricultur
al country. after Pharaoh became
the owner Of aIl the land, til.
Israelitcs became slaves indeed
sI-Just AS the great body Of thu
people in our land are hecom
ing slaves tn day-and it is said
And this made their lives bittel
:, with hard bondage in mortal
. and in brick, and in all manner
OF service in the field: all thei,
= service where by they made
their service was with rigor.
land it will be recalled that ate
these people had. gone out 81
y Egypt, and escaped from, th'
y slavery OF Pharaoh, and becom,
= IAN independent people in tn
. . , rorld, the evils Of capitalism
as existing in the privat,
:, OWNERSHIP Of land and prupert.
followed them: and soon agaii
. conditions as bad as existe,
:, in their captivity lowered owe
. thsm; and, having no knowledg
of the philosophy Of Socialism
~ they knew OF no way to proven
=, 1.-THE development Of this terribl
:. condition when the few wopl,
own all property, and the many
. would be in slavery. Henc'
= the best thing they could thin
is Of, was to have year Of jub
=, lee" every fifty years, at whicl
time oil property should be n
h. stored, or re.distributed to III
H. people. But we are not so civilize
:. as this semi-barbaric people, an
- we never have a year Of jubile
I'm feares the land. to hssteniu
as ills a prey.
al When wealth accumulates, %
:. men decay"
nd And this great paet Of rccei
times spoke this truth fro
the depths Of his sonl; he "a
the little cloud Of capitalist