New Britain herald., 1916-03-15
WALSH ENDORSES
 WORkMAN'S BILL
You'd Prevent Speculation and Monopoly Of Natural Resources
Especial to the Hera1d.)

5 Washington, D. C., March. 15.TEn-
 HorsIng the. principles of. the ]Crosser Hs1I, now pending in Congress, for Fostering, promoting and developing g @ae welfare of the wage earners of Ere United States, by creating new Opportunities for permanent and Profitable employment, Frank P. Walsh, chairman of the committee on Hndustrial relations, has issued the 1pIlowing statement:
 s'The bill invokes and applies to aae lands of the public domain the #bsoIutely right doctrine that the title
 b land shall depend on it's productive zse.
 a 'sThe Crosser bill is not only right
 h itself It points the way that leg @lation should go to prevent specula-
 on and private monopoly in natural Asources. It recognizes as far as it Noes the inalienable right of the com #lunity to take for the welfare Of ali #ae values that the community cre- sEess and it recognizes the equally dl- @ne right of the producer and toiler b get and keep that wealth which ms awn labor has produced.
 Recommendations Unanswerable.. ssThe most searching and wide bread Investigations of the United #tates commission on industrial rela- aons into the frightful and prevent 8ble evils of unemployment and ten Hnt farming and the bad distribution Hf wealth make the following recom- }, z,endations of the main or Manly re- Bort of the commission unanswerable so all fairLminded men: stts ss1. The revision of the taxation #vstem so as to exempt from taxation zll Improvements and tax unused slnd at it's full rental value. "'2. Vigorous and unrefenting A Arosecutio11 to- regain all land, water Bower and mineral ! rights secured From the government by fraud. "'3. A general revision of our land laws. so as to apply to all future land #rants the doctrine of Superior use,' Els in the case of water rights in Cal .fornia, and provision for forfeiture zn case of actual non-use.' seWe would go far toward the so- as1tion of our industrial problems if Shere were printed in letters of gold Sndr hung in the halls of Congress End in every legislative hall of our American republic these words of Jo- 8eph Fels: .,.~..-
 Idle Rich Violate Law. T believe that all are violating she divine law who live in idleness
 gn wealth produced by others, since #hey eat bread in the sweat of theiI Brothers brows.
 A t'1 believe that involuntary pow
 T I @latural and are due to the denial b1
 #ome of the rights of others to ust Freely the gifts of God to all. Since labor products are needed ao sustain life and since labor mus Foe applied to land in order to pro SIuce. I believe that every chiIt ssomes into life with divine permis ssion to use land without the consen Hbf any other child of God sgThe enormous incomes and inher Atances that imperil our republic ant ahe enormous power over others tha Npo with these fortunes are based o. 8he unnatural possession by a com aparative few of our mines and ou of commerce and of mos sof our city land and of much of GU Arichest farming lands.
 s'The iniquitous mother of poVert Hzs privilege. To abolish poverty, pri svilege must be killed. Power in tn hands of the producers and toiler Through organization and collect1v Is one necessary weapo s swith which to kill privilege. Powe 5 fin the hands of the people, throug Having such burdens on privilege tha privilege shall be abolished and b taken off of the back of labor, tho other necessary weapon for dt gtroying it.