The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1912-05-03
"NlHIL Elk NIHlLo FIT"
"out of Nothing, Nothing is Madev
To the Editor OcaIa Banner:

brllllam W ennlngS Jan, WON IOt
son or T. Wooker Washington, I've
forgotten which, though | am quite
certain the last four gigantic genius
es are hardly guilty Of such heresy
Eau contrair," they are here to tell
Us ignoramuses that something can
be made out Of nothing, and what's
worse, they prove it in their own per
sons and cases.
so, there you. are, as Dooley says
History, science, Logic, reason, every
thing goes TO the dogs before such
monumental intellectual prodigies,
an average mortal stands no show,
none at all!
% wad some power the giftie sic us,
70. see oursels as ithers see us"
If cid Bobby Burns didn't spell this
right, All Editor, won't you please fix
it SO il viii stand oar critics.
Those, anu such optimists who
never despair. but prefer to do moth
ing whilf Others are dong the work
Of making this world a fit place to
live in for the enormous mass of man
kind, are hardly worth while II is
a sorry waste OF valuable time,
which should be used TO put hope
and life into some little old woe-be-
gone pessimist, who sees no way out
of the tangle of woods, and therefore
is acting on the advice of other an
tiquated philosophers and singing
their tune: LET us eat and drink and
be merry; for tomorrow we may die!"
Or with Madame de la Pompadour,
"Apprez nous la deluge!"
Every mule receives enough of hay
oats and corn to keep him in good
working condition, that he may con-
tinue to make a profit for his master
The mule seems to be satisfied with
this arrangement.
Grits and bacon are usually award
ed for the same purpose to his biped
prototype; if he could exist upon hay
and oats, that is what his employer
and benevolent assimilator of all sur
plus products would permit him TO
retain out of his product.
If mil Desperandum' and other
critics are contented with this de-
lightful arrangement, there are grow
ing millions of men, women, yes, even
children, who are protesting and
striking against state of affairs so
manifestly unreasonable, unjust and
absurd
All wages, all salaries, all fees, all
rents, interest, profits and taxes are
paid out of the product o. the labor
of those who do the most essential
productive work
In it's last analysis, 80 per cent. of
all food and clothing is produced by
the farmer, the stockman, the gar
dener, the fruit grower and horticul-
turist. allowing about 10 per cent. to
come from the sea and elsewhere.
1t is because the tiller of the soil
is obliged to carry on his back the
entire outfit of the population, wheth-
er wholly, or partially, or unproduct-
lively, or uselessly, or even pernicious-
y employed he has TO feed them all.
And because he hardly knows enough
to come in when it rains, he is allow
ed the shortest pay for the longest
day and the most toilsome work by
his Wall Street masters, their funk
les and retainers, who get him aeon
in and a-goin'" year in and year out.
Just word in conclusion to my va
rious critics. The Bourgeois republic
is still, and has ever been, a plain
monarchy, and will remain such I'M
til the socialists convert it into a
democracy, with a big D. We have
no kings, dukes counts and other
chambermaids to royalty, but we
have got the same outfit, under differ
ent names, that SAIL There is moth
ing in name, but everything in the
essence of it. Here is a partial proof
of this assertion to all those facetious
critics, taken from Who Owns the
Earth?" by Henry Hyde, in Technical
World Magazine for January, 1909:
He who owns the land owns the
people, who cannot live without land
Henry Miller, a single land owner
owns and controls sufficient tillable
area to make two-thirds Of taa
erald Isle.
Col. D. c. Murphy, when he died
held title to more than 1900, 900 acres
Senator Tarwell, his brother and
one or two others owned 5000. 900
acres in Texas
Mrs. virginia Ann King of Green
vile, Texas, had to drive nearly sol
miles from her front gate to her front