New Iberia enterprise and independent observer. (New Iberia, La.) 1902-1944, 1920-01-10

and greater debt, while the N
creased value of the land carrie
the owner to palatial grandeur
but forces the toiler into the de
graduation of hopeless and inescap
able poverty.
edo we want the religion O
God the Father and man the
brother? No, says the legislator
Don't seek the kingdom of Coo
and His righteousness. Give one
part of the people the power t
charge the other for the occupa.
ton of the earth, so that they can
practically ehslave their fellows
Let us ignore the fatherhood Of
God and establish the worship OF
Mammon.
$50 long as the farmer sticks
to his farm, he feeds the bees and
poisons the bugs; but, if he goes
to parliament. he feverses that
process-he feeds the bugs and
poisons the bees. On the farm
he gives the greatest reward to the
man who does his best; but III
parliament he drops his wisdom
and Furnishes with the highest
taxes the man who does his best,
and helps the man who keeps the
land a desert to win a fortune.
Zone man uses land to raise
the best of crops: then we give
him the highest Of taxation :;
another man raises nothing but
weeds and we give him low taxa
ton. The better a man does for
the country, the worse the country
does for him. -
Against the man who would
bring into the country we put up
big tariff. Begone, we say !;
your goods are too cheap and
abundant. But if man comes
with a big purseful of money to
buy a large block of land for ex-
tortion. then we give him the full
lest welcome. We spurn the en-
richer who offers us benefit for
benefit. but we welcome the man
who comes to get something for
nothing.
Between the years 1904 and
1914 the value of the land in this
city (Toronto). according to the
report of the Assessor, increased
$200,000,000. That enabled the
spectators to demand from IT,
dustrv that immense amount Of
wealth. Are we going to dispose
Of the next $200,000.000 Just as
recklesslv and unjustly?
Striking and fighting the
bosses will do nothing to rectify
that wrong, When we strike we.
should strike against the mon
strous laws which enable one part
of the people to take more and
more from industry. thus keen
ing labor poor, simply because the
crowd has become bigger.
"Light fits the eve. air fits the
lungs. In the same wav the only
proner place for the value of the
land, the value that grows with
the crowd. the value that stays
and increases generation after
generation. is in the public treas
ury. just as sure as you allow
the individual to take the value
that he does not earn, Just so sura-
" do Won allow that man 30
despoil his neiehhor
"Labor is doing IFS level best
to make goods abundant. When
he pravs: "Give us this dav our
daily bread" he means. where I
put one bushel of seed, give me a
crop, twenty thirty or fifty bush
els.
"When society becomes more
scarce and dearer. When the
.speculator nrays the same prayer
then he wants the land to become
more scarce so that he can get his
neiohhor's cron into his own barn.
when the Presbyterian Synod
and the Methodist Conference
both declared that speculation in
land was the effort to get wealth
without producing wealth. and
was therefore essentially dishonest.
were thew not uttering most
important truth9 To Get wealth
without nrndI1c i11n ,raalth ic close