The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1911-03-30

0ooh h1Au. lie pIIuldl ldCCOrS OF all
Aristocracy or Monarchy attempted
to be injected into a Democracy, will
destroy the structure
[ refer your readers, to your die
tionary for the primal factors of
each form Of government. In build
ing a democracy the sovereign power
is in the body of the whole people.
You cannot use any of the factors
OF either Of the other two, if you do,
your Dem Ocracy is not a Democracy.
1t must be true then, that every cit
iZen in Democracy, should be in
terested and know how it is built,
especially On the most vital factors
The sovereign power being lodged in
the people, all the rights and priv
ileges must be owned by, and belong
to the people. 1t is for the people to
know, and to have that which is
best for the whole people. If there
be any one factor that takes away
the rights of the people, there is
something wrong, radically wrong,
with the method of application of
that factor. The wrong application
of this one factor, will create other
minor wrongs. To cover or hide the
Importance of this one principal fac
tor, in It's wrong application, men are
led to exagerate the Importance of
the minor wrongs, which would not
and could not exist, except from the
wrong application of the primal
factor. 1t seems to me then, it is
waste of time and energy, devoting
so much time to the remedy Of the
minor wrongs and saying but little
or nothing of the one primal factor.
What the people are ready to learn
and know is the cause of all these
troubles. 1t is their duty to know.
There is one thing that cannot be
left out Of consideration in a civil
LIED government, especially in a
Democracy, and that is money
What is money? 1t is creation of
law. 1t is not a commodity. 1t is
not wealth, for law cannot create
wealth or commodities. Money,
then, is an absolute necessity to
civilization, and something the peO-
pie cannot get along without. The
next thing is, then, who creates and
owns it, in a Democracy? The peO-
pie being the sovereign power, it
must be created by the sovereignty Of
the people, and being the creators,
Dust be the owners Of it, collectively
when first created, and before it
passes into circulation, into private
hands, or ownership. Again, the
people, in their sovereign capacity
have the absolute power to create
legal tender money, having the pow
er to cancel any debt within their
jurisdiction, it seems to be idiolic or
knavash for the people to create a
debt (bond) and saddle it upon a
part of the people and compel them
to pay taxes, to pay interest on this
debt (bond). Here is the first mis-
application of the primal factor,
money. You can see at once that the
creation of the debt, creates the mon
archal system or factor of taxation,
in order to pay interest on the debt.
There are several forms Or methods
of taxation, all originating from
this one departure from the scien-
tific principles of pure Democracy,
or as the insurgents say, Popular
Government" A departure from the
principle and power of creating mon
ey. By creating an interest bearing
debt, takes away large part (abOut
3-5 now of the wealth produced by
labor, and gives it to the holders
of the debt. This is robbery, as Mr..
Justice Miller said, "Is none the less
robbery because it is done under the
form of lew and is called taxation"
Taxation, then, in a Democracy, is
robbery The tariff is nothing more