Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1912-02-29
MODERN

shall not be sold forever-it is mine
that the Jewish law was founded In
wisdom and that like as Judge Ar
rington. OF Vermont. when u runaway
slave was brought before him. refused
to return him to slavery until the
claimant could show a bill of sale from
Almighty God. so no earthly power
can absolutely sell the and without
having a bill OF sale from Almighty
God'-that the logical result Of abso-
lutte ownership is that those who own
no land can only live on the earth by
the sufferance of those who do own it
and that all this is evidenced by the
wholesale cruel evictions in Ireland
provide deer forests n hunting
grounds to squalid wretchedness OF The
millions of agricultural laborers in
England and that even in the United
States when a very wealthy man
bought a large estate found a few
farms owned by certain Naboites who
would not sell their homes whereupon
he bought all about them-had In
terests to get roads vacated and the
postoftice moved upon his own prop
trespassers Misunderstanding the poor
men r~emedyless except by litigation
with q ut i-millionaire.
will the Mcnamara outrages have
a depressing effect on the socialists"
was next asked.
"Probably-as they will nave a re-
straining effect upon all efforts to bet
ter the condition of the people at large.
But this will be only temporary. Sure
ly but IA very small part of the so-called
labor party would endorse such wick
edness, and certainly the advanced SCI
entific socialists seem to be as far re-
moved as heaven above earth from all
such horrible work. For instance. I
am now living in the u Of an Eng
Il Itch M nj
vanced socialist. He wishes to sell his
house. Some time ago a party stimu-
lated by the crowd attending the Pas
sion plays here wished to buy 1t for q
house of entertainment. But said my
friend, you must remember that the
Passion play is only nee in 10 years.
! What will you do the other nine?' This
dissuaded the would b purchaser.
Again. see in a recent American
paper (The Sioux City Tribune) the
election of a socialist, Rev. Geo. A.
Lunn. as mayor of Schenectady, N. Y.
with the statement that Lunn was not
seeking office, but the good of his fell
low men, and when the voters saw this,
they elected him. etc.
"Such men must not in any way be
l%confounded with the nondescript ele-
ment engaged in the late vicious doings
in the United States.
England is being flooded with edu-
cational literature which is hard to
answer, JUST DIS INcdl DoW SOWeu NIdlIlo
| knee deep with temperance literature.
I'm Germany the conservatives fully
expect socialists to ere long control the
reichstag. and the present tempest in
a teapot about war between Great Brit
| ain and Germany is all manufactured
made in Germany by the conservatives
in their endeavors to convince the peo-
pie that socialist success GOULD weaken
the government and that they need q
strong government with more army and
navy to resist the probable attack to be
made on them by England. The rulers
OF Great Britain and Germany are in
perfect harmony and neither has any
more idea of interfering with the legiti-
mate aspirations of the other than OF
obstructing the operations of the people
% Mars in digging their canals.
1.-The system outlined by the leaders
of scientific socialism, as 1 understand,
provides. among other things:
Il. The naturalization of all land.
"2. The separate valuation OF the
land and the improvements.
80. The ownership of the improves
ments to be vested in those making
them.
"a. The title to all land assessed by
the state with fair compensation to
present owners.
SO. All land to pay a quit rent to the
nation based upon it's appraised valua-
ton.
"They claim that the income derived
from the land would soon be sufficient
to make all improvements for public
abrogate all taxes, and they work out
the details with a minuteness and ac-
ctlracy which are difficult to refute."