Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-06-15

Here is example of the blindness of editor
who are STEPPED in the idea of property rights
against human rights that their blase sarcasr
angers instead Of convnces those who entertain wha
most of us regard erroneous views economi
principles We take it from the Santa Fe Ney
Mexican:
I'VE note another socialstic outburst in
an Albuquerque paper, wherein the writer
states that the paramount, vital, pressing ur-
gent, desperate need OF the hour is to divide
up all the property and pass it around
"All wrong and preposterous, not to say
outrageous; he thinks, for anybody to
foot of ground.
"And like all the other nuts. he would be
the first fellow to raise the oudcst howl when
the Grand Divvy was declared and the Dvvy
Committee around to take his ground
and his coin away from him and call the
neighbors in and eat up his garden truck and
apples.
Like the rest OF them, he threatens red
revolution will come to pass unless the won't
workers given their share of the products
OF the industrious without much more delay;
nobody IL to be allowed TO make living with
his brains and nobody is to be any more eff
cient, successful prosperous than anybody
else.
Anybody who starts at the bottom and
makes fortune by his toll and ability is
robber. a bandit. and a greedy capitalist;
make him divide up with the dead -beats--
there will be revolution-that same revolu-
ton which the socialists of our boyhood warn
ed lay just around the
IF anybody has any more than / have.
take it away from him. is the big idea.
What this country needs badly right, now
is permanent relief from having to listen to
+ read such stuff
And chance for the down trodden white
collar who work sixteen hours a day for
$3.50 and have unions. The sob stuff for
the pitiabe toier with a capital IT who
works six hours, six days week, for sl2.35
day doesn't hit the mark any more"
1t has reference to a socialstic article contrib
uted to our columns by Mr.. NJ. P. Stamm a few day.
ago Mr.. Stamm is a man of considerable persona
means and entire business responsibility.
In all fairness, Mr. Stamm did not advocate tax
ing the property of others and dividing it up. H.
is believer in the ownership of the soil by the
state. He would create system to abolish private
ownership Of land, by what he calls as natural {
process the adjustment Of the stage coach by
the coming of the railroad. .-
We believe Mr.. Stamm to be totally in error a,
TO the desirablility and workability of any such
scheme, We are wholly unconyinced., sa3s
+ Nevertheless, thousands of people do believe Il
and argument, alone, can avail to change Their
views prevent others from being infected by it
Repression only increases the pressure in the boiler
and adds to the danger of an explosion. Let then
get 1t out of their system and into print. Combat it
That is the real American way. If 1t can survive
it deserves survive. If it is the folly
we believe it to be, it will wilt under the white heat
Of sane argumentatlve rejoiner.
What stupidity then to say What this country
needs badly right is a permanent relief from
having to listen to or read such stuff"
What this country needs right now is the resto.