The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1912-09-10
A GREAT PROBLEM SOLVED.

savants and sages far in the twilight Of his
tory We have any written or spoken language.
Some TX the book of Job as ante dating Gen.
ess sixteen hundred years. they believe that the
troubles and Affections brought upon him. although
servant of the Lord the discomfort that pre-
vailed among the people his great riches as
compared with the poverty the masses at tn At time
Having been stripped of his possessions his estates and
riches having been dissolved-ke the Standard Oil trust
of later times quickly reganing possession of them
why, and to what end is of the mysteries that
the finite mind has not been able to fathom
| Why these inequalities permitted and how are
we to equalize them and prevent them have engaged
the best thought of the minds almost since the very
beginning OF creation, yet this enlightened period of
the world these inequalities still triumphant
The wise and good men OF Egypt China, the old
est OF the enlightened nations grapped this prob
lem long before the Christian era
COMPRISING mis- creed into single sentence-"Do
not unto others what you would not have them do to
you-Confucius believed that he had solved prob
lem that would Danish poverty and bring abundance of
| happiness to all the inhabitants of the earth
Communisic communities one after another were es-
tabished by Jews and Gentiles main object being
to wipe out the line of separating the rich
from the poor; but or loss ftful existence
all ended in confusion, tumult and dissensions
Phaleas of Calcedon expected gradually to remove the
dispares of poverty by enacting law that the rich
should give, but not receive dover in marriage
Plaos ideal republic consist Of three classes
The educated who were to be the lawmakers ard ru-
ers; the common people, including agrcuturists and
other laborers; the soldiers The state was to as
sign to every his sphere of activity; the
soil was to be the property Of ALL so on through
the ages wise have racked their brains in efforts
to formulate plans that efectuay destroy the in
CAPABILITIES of riches and poverty and all of the
evils of which it is the mother
But all efforts up to the presents moment have proved
fruitless,
The first edition of Sir Thomas Moore Utopia" APP
peared in 1916. 1t imaginary commonwealth
composed OF happy contented people under com
plete paterna government.
! Campanella the author OF similar treatise His
commonwealth composed of a vast hierarchy Of Of
fcals directing the duties the people Four hours
were devoted to labor the performing the light
er tasks the rest of the day the study
Of philosophy and the sciences
In our day We had the portrayal of similar com
monwealth in Beamy's Looking Backwards" The
works of st. Simon Charles Fourier and Robert Owen
were so pleasing and theoretically so probable that
they had their followers Europe and in this country
but after another these socalstic communities a
ter brief hopeful promise were rent dissengions and
wthered akay
The most rational movement for the abolition of pow.
erty that has been started in recent years was the
| single tax propaganda by Mr. Henry George
His Progress and Poverty" arrested the attention of
the highest nteects was translated into many Ian
guages, but the "An-Poverty Society,"" which he es-
abshed having for its purpose was stated in it's
/ illustrious author
The popuiss conscientiousy believed that they had
evolved theory that would be contamination and
realize by the dream of the dream of the ages but in
a few it withered went the way of all flesh
and grass.
When Christ was born in Bethlehem of Judea grew to
manhood and made wonderful three years itinerary
throughout Palestine disciples and apostles eervent
" believed that his would equaze riches do
away with and the fear of want and bring to the
world peace contenment and tranquility
But the year of grace 1912 finds riches aourshng on
the one hand and poverty struggling on the other the
same in the days of Nebuchadnezzar, Croesus Nero
Confucius Socrates and Plato
But the wreckage the failures of past efforts are
to be gathered up and qucky-almos in the twnkling
Of an eye-are to be bundled up and poverty is TO be
routed from her srongholds and made to take wings
and fly away.
How is it to be done? Why, easily All that one has
toio to bring about the realization great problem
is to vote for Eugene Debs for president
This is absolutely true, for he tells us SC himself
Here is what he says We quote from the last issue
of the Appeal to Reason
In a single boodless battle you can put an end to
poverty; you alone possess the key which viii unlock
the letters that bind you life OF unrequitted toll
Either You must vote for capitalism with its ever
increasing poverty and prostitution for the workers
with its army, it's militia its police ana tis courts with