The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1911-03-13

States. Not to the State, for no State
was in existence. Therefore, by natur-
al right it belongs to himself Is he L
robbing a Republic that does not exist
when Incorporates and assumes alb
solute control over animals he has
killed or the fruit he sowed and
reaped?
These are questions Socialists are
called on toanswer when they say
private property is robbery. Men null
tiply, civil communities, cities and
States are formed. They make laws.
What are the nature and extent of
these laws? Do these laws extinguish
the natural rights man previously had? |
If so, when and how?
Is the Home Absorbed by the State?
Certainly not. The civil laws con-
troll one only in those things where
the good of the community is con-
cerned There they begin and end,
and the natural rights and duties of
the individual remain as strong, and
the home as absolute and as sacred
commonwealth, as when Jacob sat I'M
der his own fig-tree, and Lot and Abra-
ham parcelled out the plains by the
Jordan. There is no condition of great
err self-effacement than in the life of
soldier, yet even stern military halts
at the sacred boundary marked out by
Natures hand. 1t respects the private
right of the soldier to his purse and
the control of his home. What mad
ness on the part of anyone to impose
on private civilians a strain that even
, military discipline will not bear! II
private property is robbery, it was SO
, when God gave the Ten Command
, ments on Sinai. Yet He says: THOU
p shalt not covet thy neighbour wife
4 nor his house, nor his field, no.
O his his OK, nor his ass, nor anything
n that is his" (Deut. Ply. Here thu
" Divine law not only recognizes thu
rights of private ownership, but hedg
es it around as a sacred thing. Whel
Christ came, wherever His eyes turn
i ed they rested on private property
u the treasured home, the walled garder
v etc. Does He denounce them as "ol
III berry? He tells the young man TO SCI
" his possessions. How could he So
le them except he and not the state
III owned them? The first step toward
II abolishing private ownership shout
70 be the striking of the seventh con
Is mandment from the Decalogue-"Tho
"a shalt not steal
u Inevitable Result.
- If such teaching were carried int
- practice see the consequences to fo
IL low. If you search down amongst tn
II fibres of the human heart you wi
~ find the handspring of most of OF
~ actions is labelled self" A man tot
for fame. Whose fame? His own.
70 man wears out his life in building
home and fortune for wife and chill
~ Why? Because they are his bone an
blood, and bear his name-his oth'
a. self.
Now. before making the first ste
- into the Socialistic Republic. you al
called upon to place the forceps dee
- into the inmost chamber of the heal
=, and tear out its strongest fibre-se
., Here you destroy the most powerf
:, force that ever nerved men to dec
IN. of daring.
NO Will the author slave in a Carr
Ne under the midnight lamp. if he is
sured when his work comes out, it
~ not his own, but the result of h
he social environments the produc
-, of the state Will the patriot tran
70. through the winter SHOWS, and be
mo the rough privations of war for
soc state that watches his heroic achleN
rb ments, not with pencil of light
on inscribe his name on a scroll
fame, but with a sponge to blot it o
ars and tell him he is but a cog in t
nv wheels of the great machine, I
nv state and mere cogs must be conte
cir. in their legitimate obscurity? W
the business man toll and rack
!. brains if you destroy the hope of
suburban villa where the autumn
sti- life may pass in ease and comic
with a family established in at
ence? will the farmer face the d
TEL ness and sleet of the winters me
ing. or toll in all weathers if he II
not claim the yield of autumn? '