The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1913-03-10

Copyright 1919 by Herbert Qulck.) =.
In these writings concerning the fate of those on
board the good snip Earth first sought the OASIS
OF life and found 1t in the soil and the water under
certain conditions OF climate
We then weighed the elements of food and found
the old planet provided with all that the passengers
likely need IL the terrestrial stock OF the 5ooas
OF life are properly conserved and used We looAeu
into the question OF the and the abuse or the treas
OF ships hold and decided that the seiteV-
dent truth that they belong to us in common must
be recognized and made effective 10 every man
through institutions If the gross evils from when
We have always suffered re\to be remeded Ihese
institutions come through the activities OF one
form OF government only and that Is democracy De
ii Is only in democracy that the ruling class as
whole is selfshly interested in the reign OF the
principle OF equality OF rights and opportunities.
In other words,~the= welfare Of all men mast be
attained II at all. by the rule OF all men.
Universal welfare means, first OF all, the extirpa
ton of poverty Many things must be added 10 that
but that first in any rational scheme or social
redemption Souls are no doubt. more import
bodies but the bodies which are not fed all over
the world those in which the souls are darkened
and the spirits dead. Millenniums, Ike armies
march upon their stomachs.
have looked upon monopoly as the cause or power
ty. to me that the poverty with when most
OF us are familiar is clearly due 10 monopoly and 10
that alone The monopoly of lands turns into private
hands all those stupendous rivers OF wealth whieh
would be distributed TO all men II we as people re-
ceved each year from those who exclude us the vaue
of the privilege in such monopoly. This seems TO me
to account for all the poverty we have In other
words 1t perfectly clear to me that We shoud
carry all other parasites though Of course ought
not TO do So rid of the exactions OF those
who own our city lots water fronts and terminals
our forest lands mineral lands our power sites,
our factory sites and our agricultural lands
Moreover IL all the other parasites were extermin-
ated the land monopoly would at once swallow up
the benefits of the radiance. and we should be no
better of than now save for the simplicity OF the
situation.
But In additionto the basic monopoly OF the decks
OF the good ship Earth, there are thousand other
monopoes There Is the great semi-land monopoly or
the railways There tarih-bred monopoltes. There
are the little bite monopolies OF the patent ONCE
There are money trusts and shipping trusts. There
are huge aggregations Of tools just like those OF the
steel trust Some say that the Ownership OF tools
would alone ensave the workera This may be So
but common ershp of tools would do the workers
no good at all long land Is monopolfzed Until
that underlying monopoly s abolished and Just
system of land put into effect the success OF
those who seek better things for the masses VIII serve
no good purpose to strip the DISCUSSES from the
great robber 'who takes all that left no matter
how much II may be. Just land system may open
the way for the cooperative commonwealth erected
upon our present land system far AZ IT succeeded
but It would only enrich landlords.
The workers Of Client have established the CO.
operative commonwealth In almost everything save
land and have made their landlords richer than ever
Cooperation Is an improvement In production. By
It the middlemen are eliminated. duplication OF