The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-02-24

bedded in health, courage and good | nature, much to be commended.
 But there were abler men than Santerre and in truth the French Revolution was so prolific in wise and carefully considered programs of reform that they possibly formed | the germ of every reform since those days.
 The Henry George single tax, communistic socialism and a good many other theories of life and liv- ing were born in those bloody and troublous times.
 It is the custom in considering great revolutions to confine one self to the dramatic events of those times which indeed tried mems souls above the ordinary. The gull lotine, the prisons, the conventions personal actors like Mirabeau, Camille Desmoulins, Robespierre,
 Danton. Marat, Charlotte Corday,
 Lafayette, and so on have been seized upon by the historians as tEt
 men around which to weave the fearful human tragedy. But in point of fact it was the question ot
 how human beings live, above al how shall they who produce the wealth contrive to feed themselves,
 ;,I, ln
 story is written by the fates.
 For that reason no proposal vas
 or is too fantastic for consideration,
 and it is significant enough that the nationalization of the land,
 the mines and the socializati0n of industry were at different or iGen-
 tical times proposed by the more
 thinking of the revolutionists. Jacque RouX advocated cooperative stores. Establish, he said, "in all the cities and large market towns
 public stores where the price o1
 goods will be established by public auction". Writers sneered at indus trial slavery and political freedom
 "of what use will a wise constitu- ton be to a nation reduced by hun i ger to the state of skeletons.
 Turgot Sieyes and CondOrcet as
 serted that the equality of political
 rights meant nothing without the real equality in fact, and the latter 1 held that inequality in property, in 1 equality of state and inequality in education are the main causes or all evils. Adequate salaries (minl- mum or living wages) was demand | in the Cahier des Pauvres (l7S9). | Dolivier. cure of Mauchamp, in
 his "Essai Sur La Justice Primi-
 tive" expressed what he called two immutable principles. Those Ia miliar with later day socialists and reformers will identify them quickly enough: first the land belongs to all the people in general and to no one in particular, and second that each
 has the exclusive right to the pro duce of his labor. Lyons workers proposed the socialization of in dustry. They demanded that wages should be regulated by the commune and that they be such as to guar antee subsistence. Endless contribu- {, tions disposed of all the question of bi-metalism fiat money and the like that agitated the world seventy or
 eighty or ninety years later The assignats and their corruption counterfeiting by emigres and royal
 ists under Pitt in England, and fol which Sheridan bitterly attacked Pitt, caused such tremendous finan-
 cial disturbances that the number
 of pamphlets on currency is legion
 The electors of the Seine-etOise be
 fore the Convention November l732
 declared freedom in trading III
 grain is incompatible with the ex.
 istence of the republic for such is
 carried on by minority with
 view to it's own enrichment so the entire provisioning of the natior must be carried on by the republic , Commerce was held to be a socia function and should be socialized. The main facts which we hav' l shown is sufficient to demonstrate the important truth that the reall. vital factor of the revolu } tion was the economic facto and it was around these question of food and the high costs of livini !. that the intensely terrible dram was written by the hand of Fate } Indeed it is we'll to remember that : for the lengths to which hunger vii : drive even a craven nature no ma