The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-06-10

ed. They need shelters. About these l needs manufactures arise. and com merce.
 All that man hath will he give for his life. The right to live is the most essential of all rights There have been those ruled by despots, whose heads were not safe, whose homes might be invaded. whose prop erty might be taken at the mere will of the ruler
 The economics which give men property rights in their own persons
 realities and chattels rest upon law. A change of law might cause them to disappear.
 Chattel slavery was a fundamental
 dividuals to life, liberty and the pur-
 suit of happiness, and to the fruits
 of their own toll
 Did the balance sheet of the negro
 remain stubborn when the law freed
 him? Did his wages remain nothing :? Of course they didn't It isn't true
 that if we had all the political rem edies in the world the balance sheet ! would. remain as stubborn as now. The negro's balance sheet has been all changed by law, and by the same law the economic position of the white man in the South has been greatly changed.
 Today men may adulterate food That is a economic wrong. Tomor~
 row a statute forbids adulterations and the executives of the law stop it. That is political remedy. Today trolley line is in private
 hands. Tomorrow it is condemned
 and becomes municipal property. Fares are reduced to three cents That is. an economic change brought about by political remedy. | FROM A FEW SOMETHING IS TAKEN THAT MANY MAY HAVE
 MORE.
 Men ought not to get more wages than they earn, but sometimes they do. Some have a monopoly in wool. or corn. or wheat, or meat, or coal By tariff protectiou they increase
 their prices They rob the consumer.
 Law enables them to do it. change in the law would stop them doing t. IF COAL WE'RE MINED BY THE FEDERAL AUTHORITIES AND sonD Ar COST IT WOULD BE BY AUTHORITY OF LAW. A POLITE CAL REMEDY WOULD GIVE sUR-
 CEASE TO AN ECONOMIC WRONG. The. law would stop men from get ting what they did not eafn. Illustration might be- multiplied in definitely. But no illustration will clearly show the pitifully ignorant and hypocritical quality of mind which is behind The Times editorial. It is as if somebody had come into possession of a pen who neither
 knows that men have created through centuries political remedies for econo-
 mic wrongs. nor cares to know. An adequate penalty to such a one would be to transport him on some
 time machine to the distant past
 when, as the subject of some ancient
 despot he might make bricks without straw, find his family the property of others, his home hovel, his lot starvation, his life a masters 
 He should live age by agesand learn
 his history by experience; be racked,
 burned at the stake, drawn and
 quartered. boiled in oil, and housed in the 1ron maiden"
 Returned to the twentieth century
 it is barely possible he might then perceive some connection between economic ills and political remedies. Itt would be too much to expect
 him however, to know that wages
 can be raised and prices reduced at
 the same time. { This happens now. The railroads have just raised
 wages. The interstate commerce
 commission has just cut railroad rates.
 How was it done? It came out of profits. .f The people of the United States
 know full we'll that economic wrongs may be shattered by political rem- edies. They are now considering
 many a good law with which to
 wreck old wrong, and the repeal of
 many a bad law in which hoary evil plants for reaching roots to draw a dangerous snutriment.
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