Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1917-03-12

A citizenship in an industrial COM
monwealth would carry with 1t the
same industrial rights that citizen
ship in a political commonwealth car
ries political rights, namely the same
right to demand an opportunity to
work in the industries as he or she
now has to demand an opportunity to
vote. Or putting it differently: AS
the provision in the constitution pro-
viding for constitutional officer
known as state superintendent Of
public instruction or state superin-
tendent of schools, so educationalized
the state that a given number of chill
dren can go before the circuit judge
of the county-if there be no pro-
vision in their community for pub
lie school-and demand decree from
said judge or court compelling the
people of said community to elect a
board of school directors or trustees
and make 1t the duty of said board to
acquire land, hold 1t in trust, build
school house, properly furnish 1t
and employ a school teacher that
they, the said children, may go to
school and get all they study for.
So, also, would a provision in the
state constitution providing for de-
partment OF industry in state govern
ment industrialize the state 30 that
given number of men or women in
a township-wheroin there was no
provision assuring their employment
-Scould go before the circuit judge
or court of their county and demand
decree from said court compelling
the people of said township to elect
a board of industrial trustees and
make 1t their official duty to acquire
industrial property-land, stock and
machinery-hold 1t in trust, and so
manage it that the people Of said
township so desiring may find en-
ployment thereon and get all they
produce minus what 1t costs society
or township to furnish or supply said
employment.
Putting it in still another form, So
ciety would apply or use the same
method in the Industrial or labor
would that she now uses in the
: school or educational world, namely
collective ownership, democratic
management and cooperative effort
= in production and distribution OF
produce and things requiring collect
i've labor therein to produce and dis
: tribute.
The industrial independence thus
provided for would be for everyone
: and would benefit each one to the
r extent to which he or she availed
= themselves of the privilege thus af-
forded. Said independence would be
for all citizens, to them, their chill
= dren and children's children forever,
or as long as the state with said con-
; stitution endured.
As industrialism would displace
politics there would be no politics.
II has often been charged and never
denied that politics is the cause OF
nearly If not quite all the ills that
afflict society. Politics being re-
moved from the social body, recov-
cry would soon follow. The ills that
afflict society, enforce idleness, pow
erty, vice, oppression and exploita-
Ition, which is LOCALIZED immortality,
would disappear. We have shown
that industrialism is opposed to mill
fancy, hence 1t is not expecting too
much to expect that war-which is
nothing but politics governmental
slaughter would cease.
The objections raised against pub
lie ownership of public utilities do
not apply when the public body or or
ganization known as government is
an industrial body instead Of a po-