The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1915-04-30

! Duy direct lTOIh tut pTouuCeT anu
sell direct to the consumer. No pri-
vate concern could sell at a very big
profit if Uncle Sam should sell at
cost.
Now would be good time for
Uncle Sam to build railroad not out
in icy-Alaska, but here in the Sunny
South. He could get enough labor
from the ranks of the unemployed.
The gentleman of Simmons bawls
out like an angry calf about the So
cialists confiscating the property of
the capitalist class. Well, Brother,
wasn't Mr.. Lincoln right when he said
that, labor creates all wealth.
If so the capitalist class has confis-
Gated it's fortunes from the working
class. Brother how could we confis-
, cate the means of life for the peo-
pie, when in reality they belong to
the working class of people? If the
thief steals your horse an officer of
the law will run him down, take the
horse and bring it back to you. That
would be restitution. In some cases
we might have to resort to restitu-
, ton for the good of all. This would
be another way to acquire the means
or life, but in order to avoid serious
disputes between capital and labor
most of us are in favor of taking
them over carefully by purchase
and government competition.
You say we cannot do these things
but we say that if the Government
can sell stamps at cost then it can
sell groceries at cost, if it can build
and own post office it can build
and operate a cooperative store. If
the people through their Govern
ment can own dirt roads, they can
own railroads, if they can own court
houses they can own packing houses.
If the Government can buy ST.
100000 battleship it can buy $5,-
100000 tobacco factory and buy the
farmers tobacco at an equitable price
then sell it to the consumer at the
formers price plus the cost of man
ufacture and distribution.
If the Government can give a man
the sword and send him on the mis-
sion of destruction, why can't it give
him a hoe and send him on the mis-
sion of production?
You say we would give the farm
hand $500 a day, certainly If there
is a man on earth who deserves that
it is the man who works the land.
Brother farmer the land question
liz a great one at the present moment
The spectators have gobbled up the
other utilities and now they are turn
ing their ill-gOtten dollars to the zeal
farmer for his land They will mo-
nopolize the land in the same way
that they did other public utilities.
The big farm will absorb the little
one.
The ouly remedy is cooperative
We would greatly enlarge
our experimental farms, use the most
scientific machinery and the very
best fertilizers to enrich the land.
Here is where the farm hand would |
get about $500 a day. This would
be the only way to break landlord
ism. No, Mr.. farmer we don't care
II you own the land you use but we
don't think that you should own the
land purposely to exploit some other
man.
You say this is a land of the free
and the home of the brave. Yes il
is a land of free soup, but let us
see il il is the home of the brave.
According TO Wolff. p xcvii of the
twelfth u. S. Census, 1900. There
were, 4,739,941 free homes, also,
229 mortaged, S,246,747 rented.
Two thirds of Americas families
living in houses that are not their