The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1913-07-26

a possessions
preston of the sowgong precious OF selfhood
Where there is individual ownership there be
efficiency There is much philosophy in the common
saying that if will have work done we'll
do it oursef When another's machine, work
ing with anothers materials and his product
another for disposal he is going take much
process thing remote
from the springs of life the transaction has little sgnf
to the worker. And there is scod and
complain because don't take much interest in
they would in their they simply
acting with deepest instincts;
SC long is what he is, that's the way it will
have to be.
The destruction of individual ownership the
death Of art There is peculiar notion abroad that art
the specially OF a few select individuals call
produce canvasses
leisure hours this is wide of the mark Art is the
result when takes JOY in his work and there be
in a when the people go about their toll
like friend Hobbledehoy 1t this lifeess and me-
chanical way o doing things world that
led William Morris rebel and turn Mediaevast; life
living" asserted, where take
joy their abors" a take much
joy in his tasks when those tasks and the machinery
materials with which he works all another's?
clerk in a will for his hat at the stroke of
fivethirty while the proprietor will night and
Sundays and like it. Why? For the simple
that the proprietor owns it.
individual ownership destroyed will be
Sudden decline in responsibility Men who have moth
ing lose have little of the sacredness of
No material quickly fans into the flames of re-
bellon and riot horde of propertyless AS
well without security which
only with the ownership OF property, without
from which they may be evcted, without any
assurance of regular employment without tools with
which they employ themselves they pathetically
their physical efficiency their health and
strength and the activity of machinery owned by
others, worked left idle the consider it
wise profitable Nothing ballasts to
give him a holding in ownership. Then he becomes
factor for stability and order.
Worst of all, when individual ownership destroyed
people becomes a pack of What the
flag mean to when it nothing that is
his? Trying to hold nation of hired men and tenants
together is like trying hold barrel without hoops
and gallons of patriotic talk" into them
without results, it will all spill
the ground. Give possessions in the land and he
will fight for that land with his last BREATH but let him
be mercenary in it, mere hreling and he will melt
like summer cloud One the patriots were
able to win the Revolution that England an
army of hired soldiers against them. THE hireing
feeth, BECAUSE he is hireling!"
Any system of society running proposed which
does not cannot make provisions for universal ndvid
ual ownership carries within itself its undong
France before the Revolution illustration of this
Ireland today reveals the tragedy that
few own and the not England is finding some
difficulty in getting her affairs adjusted
and her mechanics have become
Yho can't take root anywhere because the privileged
the chief force that has led from to
civilization, and will snap fingeS
for any land where it becomes impossible for him to
strike in material possessions an
There are grounds for believing that we are fast ap
preaching the practical extinction individual ownership
in this country Already manufacturing has become
system of serfdom: factory operative
and does cents worth in the Ia
chinery which he Little wonder much
mountains ShOddy,
Commerce is concentrating with equal rapidy. The
who owned little store yesterday is floor-walker
clerk today.
many years combination will have swallowed
the majority of small business And
Money Power reached investment
in industry it will turn the land, consolidate the farms
install expensive machinery and
ory Of free farmers into great economist
ty already done with your pop
uation. Its existence for the solely
existence for these ninetenths" word will be
true of America in ten years!
Surely the time has arrived to look into the
whole matter without prejudice malice, the
facts they and blink none
can't and silly superstition that whether America
will all right. If learn appears we
will learn, that the institution of individual ownership
steadily being done away with go work and
restore it, in form adapted conditions
shall have shoot Niagara ever do per
form that interesting SHALL Walter Rauschen-
busch said, get there ahead of schedule time"