The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1910-02-10
PAGE NINE
Land MONOPOLY: UsMry

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Dear Sr:-In your writings you make some
assertions that I do not think you have proved
beyond reasonable doubt, and do not believe that
they be proved, and | will allow myself to
call your attention to it, because think / can
help you and your great and good cause more by
calling your attention to mistakes than by saying
amen to all, and only applaud. firmly believe
the Good Book when it says: Truth shall save
you This contains my fundamental principle.
I have been strong Peoples Party
since the party formed, but only because I
believed their doctrines to be true, and for that
reason and that alone will belong to the party
in the future.
You say for instance, that we have no land
monopoly in this country, and that it is impossi-
BILE to get one The fact is that we have got many
of them, in this State of Washington, and
of them have land adjoining my own land;
it is taken fraudulently and common mortals
have been trying to take it legally, but have been
chased off, l will of the syndicates
practcing land monopoly on this coast: Puget
Mill Co., Blackley Mill Co., Hadlock Mill Co.,
Weierhauser Syndicate Rockefeller Syndicate,
Union Pacific Railroad, etc. The Government is
trying to take back large tracts from Union
Pacific, and that fact also proves that they have it.
You also defend interest on money for several
reasons, but also because it has helped your ma
terial interest to hire money and pay interest. 1t
does not appear to to be the best logic to
sert that a thing must be good for other indi-
viduals, and for society at large, and morally
justified, because it promotes the material well
fare of some individuals. By that reasoning, all
the obnoxious trust methods might be defended.
The Bible ought to be the chief authority in set
Ting the interest question. In the Bible think
that you will see plainly two things among others
relative to this, namely, first, that the Bible
where distinguishes between interest and usury;
second, that God did not allow the Jews to take
usury from any one except from such people that
God permitted the Jews to ruin also by other
means They not allowed to take usury
from their brothers, and in the New Testament
should all be brothers, according to the Bible.
The book "Usury' advertised in your paper is
good to read on this subject, and if you can and
will read some German books on the same subject
I will gladly tell you where to get them
You sometimes call money standard of value"
Now, I do not think that anything in this world
justly be called standard of value. 1t is
correct to say that a dollar measures the
value of thing bought, than to say that the
thing bought measures the value of the dollar
Values must be estimated by mental opera
ton inside of man. and this estimation then
be expressed in dollars and cents.
In general, my wife and myself estimate your
writings and opinions very highly, and if we had
money would send your papers to libraries and
individuals a large scale. l like very much
to see the great light from your head and still
more do like to see the light from your heart
in the shape of honesty and sincerity, and the
spect with which you speak about the Bible The
greatest fault about individual and social life is
that do not live according to the true and
good Bible. May God help you and all in good
and noble work. Most respectfully,
c. JOERGENSON.
Stanwood Washington, Route l.
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