New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-09-30
WHAT MEN FIGHT FOR
Not for lodging Houses Burial Poes Fed-he British
a Case in Point

luton decreed viz. that all expenses OF the
government be betrayed out of a common
treasury to be supplied by the states in
PROMOTION to the value Of land in such state =
was superseded by the dishonest indirect
taxes of tariff and excise that afford incl
dental favoritism Numerically opposed to
the spirit of 10 The Tories of the Revolu-
ton, prematurely forgiven, dstrusted the
common people and sowed their tares and
cookies among the wheat of the Constitution.
They patented or copyrighted the name Demo-
cratic party, but it was putting on the livery
of Heaven to safely do their blacklist deeds
OF cunning and conquests Of the peoples
pi operty by due process of law.
II the Congress at its coming session can
be persuaded to be constitutional to the
extent or extreme of establishing justice, 1t
will return to the strait and narrow paths
found by the men Of rs, revoke the tribute
taking tithes TO the earth and take for the
support of the government the annual values
Of tho opportunities of the country collected
by the states. Vast acres decided TO railroad
corporations can justly be reclaimed because
Of non-cultivation: for who shall say that
the title to the land IS on any other footing
than the franchise, which not to use for the
general good is to forfeit? Royal claims to
vicegerency TO the Creator only obtain de-
rision from the American people Of to-day
The time has arrived when the habitual
privileges of property must make great con-
cessions to the inalienable rights OF men.
The conservatives who control the Congress
and the state legislatures must be reused to
an appreciation of the danger of delaying
these concessions. An unprecedented hunger
and thirst for justice lave come TO the masses
of Americans. This can only be satisfied by
an equitable distribution of the vast wastes
Of wealth that surround and amaze them.
The growing knowledge that the few have
become ultra rich and the many condemned
70 poverty by the perverted powers of their
own government is filling the people with
anger and anarchy. No strength of govern
ment, no preparedness that can be imagined,
can save these traitors and the benefciaries
Of the treason from the wrath of an out
ragged public when at last aroused.
Just as God wills that the royalty of
Europe, who have abrogated His authority,
forestalled His bounties and enslaved His
people, shall now perish, so God may soon
decree that the auto-apponted stewards of
His lands in this country, the nearly invisible
government, must be withdrawn from be-
tween the people and the natural oppor-
tunites.
In the language Of the martyred Lincoln,
"Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray,
that this mighty scourge of war may speedily
pass away. Yet if God wills that it continue
till all the wealth piled by the bondmans
two hundred and fifty years of unrequited
toll shall be sunk, and until every drop of
blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by
another drawn with the sword so still il
must be said that the judgments of the Lord
are true and righteous altogether"
CORNELIUS DONOVAN, President,
Tenants Union of New York, Inc
New York Sept. Is, 1915.