Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1918-09-07

Continuation OF the FaDle OF Inc
Little Chickens and The Big Rooster.
Part z.
Then the other chickens objected
and said:
at is true that you claim to have
bought our yard with your abstinence,
but from what has the hen abstained
that she gets the product of our labor
for nothing?"
"Now, see here" said the rooster.
"This whole land belongs to me, and
l am going to do with my property
as wish 1t is entirely a matter OF
private business, with which you have
nothing to do"
"But, excuse us, it seems as if we
had something to do with it, when yo,
get half of all the worms that we dig.
We are compelled to work one-half
of each day for you and have only
the other half to work for ourselves
"Well, if you do not like the way
the business interests of this yard are
conducted, you can get out Of it and
off the EARTH"
So the other chickens had to SUBJ
NIT, and the capital of the country
grew larger and larger, until it
"SwelIed to Heaven" Then the chic
kens said:
"You cannot eat all those worms if
you live hundred years. What is
the use Of piling them up?"
ooh, but" said he, II am going to
have large retinue to help me con-
sumo the surplus"
So he told one of them to spread
out his wings in front of him so as to
shade him from the hot sunshine, and
another to fan him with his wings,
as he was now too fat and lazy to do
it for himself. Then he had nice
little hen for manicure to trim his
claws, and massage chicken to- rub
him down in the effort to keep down
the fat. And he told all of his retin-
ue that they need not scratch for a
living so long as they did what he told
them to do. But is was not long be-
fore the rooster and his wife and
their one little chick were complain
ing of the incompetency of domestic
help.
Then the rooster was coaxed by
his wife to have a new palace coop
with golden roosts. They found that
the golden roosts were not nearly as
comfortable as the wooden ones, but
they were more swagger.
But all this time the chickens had
heen raising broods of their own, and
the yard now began to be well filled,
SO that it became harder and harder
to find enough worms for all, especial
ly when they had to give one-half to
the old rooster. So the rooster said !:
~ see that will have to raise your
rent, and after this you will have to
pay me three-quarters of all the
worms you find, instead Of one-half."
Then the chickens made an cutlery
and said:
when you first made your bargain
with us there were only one-tenth as
many chickens in the yard as there
!. are now, and so you arr gHttia
Stimes as-many worms
ID 1eapyE0 IS Va n tHe
NAL sbf all The worms that
"Why, of course" said thu rooster,
"that is the Unearned Increment
and the Natural Increase in the land
"But does the Unearned Increment
belong to you or to us?"
"Why, you stupids, how could it
belong to you when l own the land -
"But we produced it by increasing
the population"
"There you are again. Do you
want to get out the hand book upon
political. economy will tell you
"Well, anyhow, we cannot afford
to pay any more Rent, because it is
much harder to make living now
than when there were fewer chick
ems"
"That is just the reason why
you MUST pay more rent. Any
political Economy will tell you
that the harder it is to make liv-
ing, the more the land is worth
You must be fools not to know that
Density of Population Makes High
Rents. And now, want to tell you
that if you do not stop grumbling
will import lot of other chickens
from the outside. We will have
Foreign immigration to keep down
the price of labor and keep up the
price of Rents. In short, we will
Open the Doors of Our Beneficent
Land to the Poor and Oppressed OF
all naClonS ana Cney nave come TO
live in the land of the free and the
home of the brave, to find with US a
refuge from the tyranny and injustice
Of the iron heel of depotism."
But the chickens were now in d
very bad way, and many of them &C
tually starved to death. So the roos-
ter said:
"You must not do that. It would
be the heighth of ingratitude if you
should all starve to death, for if you
should all die what would become of
me? Why, I might actually be COM
PEELED to scratch for own living, and
my Vast Domain, without its
Teeming Millions, would not be
worth an imitation worm made of
rubber and sold for bait to the city
fishermen"
"Well then, we do not see," said
they, "if the Teeming Millions
give all the value to the Vast Do
main, why the Vast Domain does
not belong to the Teeming Millions"
"Well, / certainly do despair of