New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1914-01-14
WARS FOLLY AND FuTILITY
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BY A. W. WRIGHT


Purposes of aggression moved administrative agencies to
employ taxation to the end that certain lines of industry be
made exoitve by giving those engaged in them for
tribute their feowen This power cloaked and
cealed under the euphemn Of Protection Everywhere and
always taxation is ndissouab with aggression
Stripped of verbage fact the basis taxation
is king prerogatye sheer arbitrary powerhe Iperi.
Since Protection became the avowed policy Of the United
States the accumulation Of gigantic fortunes individual hands
has proceeded with amazing rapidly Industrial maladust
men wide disparity of individual fortune. with concomtant
splendors Of wealth IN individual hands, presented
ways which excite the and cupy of the hougtess
and provoke inquiry and alarm intelligent and
thoughtful.
All members Of society are equally capable noting
and reasoning from them their effects and those
intelligent frequently moved by feeling instead judgment
Millions who toll do not at ALL they have tme they
only feel In the Press and Magazines much being written
and from the pulpit and much is being said about Gun
sc1upuoas nancers and the managing heads of trad
ing and manufacturing combinations by of criticism and
denuncation Almost without exception what being writ
ten and said carries the implication that the evil practices of
those criticized and denounced to inherent qualities
deprav human nature The fact that the activities Of
who engaged in png swolen fortunes directly
excited generally actually authorized by the State ignored
desgney concealed AS result there belief the
Masses which is daily becoming and general and
deeply confirmed that the wealth Of the rich, in unjust
has been taken by it's themselves from the hard
earned and rghfu belongings Of those who work and remain
The think they have been robbed directly and design
if not with enmty and hatred.
Will people who intelligent assert that for
suspicion exists; that there is nothing to justify the feelings
of those whose lot to compelled place among
wagewoers who to always remain properless? How is
it that in the presence of nexhaustbe the
Of abundance for ALL many work hard and remain all
their lives propertyless and destitute?
It is not for lack Of sesupportng capacity in fair fields
it is not because of improvidence criminal instincts and
tendencies because of ndisposition to work ideess
that many unable to honest livelihood Everybody
base n1
the alleged criminals be found who do notwis FOR
that which would be fa right" for ALL Few to be
anywhere who animated by desire to act in
city brothers keeper Is rule him that he will do JUS
ce; to safeguard him that he will receive justice In the
universal goodness of Intention earneness OF de-
sire and purpose do justice how the
wckedy nhuma terribly unjust and inequabe relations and
conditions of the existing accounted for? Is it that
all men are liars and all expressions Of desire for
equitable conditions and OF obtanment is sheer pre-
tense? Surely not that.
nal influence affects member Of society that they If
out out rac 10 In n m
Over and again of accident where
abrogated ned it has been shown that all thus affected
irrespective Of nationality educational training
become at once both amas and Under $Gch do
spirit brohey love prevails and all cooperative
to ask what how much they to be paid Everywhere
and always only in and under influences which de-
scend upon them from political government that mankind
cutting advantage over another It is only under
dtons of so-caled claw order that the disorder of
social practices maintain With the kngthng dethroned
and it's arbitrary authority swept is nvariabe that
the order Of amy and fa1-dealing prevails
That which is true is made true and accepted being true
because Of testimony presented in uniformity from
certain antecedent conditions certain invariably proceed
quent and by the intelligent recognized accepted
and effect There other way. The sole open
that uniformly presented by the testimonies of experience no
truth has been discovered by other through