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JARRING LOOHK.
The interesting expedition pro
posed by Miss Ruth Law to aviate
over the historic plains of Kansas
and Oklahoma in order to secure
support for the peculiarly named
Liberty Ronds, dropping literature
from aerial heights in the course
of her journey is suggestive. Also
is suggestive the great flight of a
squadron of battle planes over the
equally historic Manhattan, distri
buting among the metropolitans
the literature of the loan.
It is a great loan has been au^
tliorized by Congress. Ten billion
dollars is a sum which the average
mind cannot at ail realize. It is
such a tremendous amount ot
money that there is* certainly no
way whereby in actual certificates
or bullion it could be represented.
And only by a system of credits,
whereby the actual wealth in com
modities is secured, could it be
raised at all for any practical pur
pose.
It is quite natural that there
should be some difficulty in raising
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such a large amount, and the furth
er the effort to raise it extends from
the money centers, the harder the
work will be.
Naturally the government sees an
urgent need for raising this money
for it is well known that you can
no more, under capitalism, fight a
war without money than you can
fight it without men.
The men are easily obtained. The
President recommends conscription.
Congress with much patriotic orat
ing seconds the recommendation,
legislation devising ways and
means for the dralt after continued
patriotic orations, is finally passed
and the thing is done.
The government asserts its right
to take the person of the citizen
and compel that person to fight its
battles. It is accepted as unequivo
cally right and proper and those
who oppose it are regarded as sedi
tious and treasonable persons.
But, and this is the suggestive
matter, why is not the same course
pursued with reference to getting
the money that is declared to be as
essential to success, as the lighting
men themselves? Why is there no
conscription of the tremendous for
tunes which have really something
to fight for and to protect? John
D. Rockefeller is a billionaire from
his oil holdings alone. The war has
been a tremendous boost of by-pro
ducts there has been a constant ami
ceaseless demand. The firm of Mor
gans has become wealthy beyond
anything in history through its po
sition as purchasing agent and dis
bursing firm for the British govern
ment. Its earnings also went away
in the billion scale.
They have everything to gain by
the war and nothing to lose. The
various munition factories and steel
works have been paying dividends
beyond the dreams of avarice these
days and they alone could comfort
ably foot the loan without turning
a hair.
Moreover it is to pay them that
lhe money is raised and to dis
charge the government liabilities to
shippers and contractors by reason
of the military and naval prepara
tions.
If the person of the individual ci
tizen is liable to seizure under con
scription and involuntary service Is
demanded as part of the duties* ot
citizenship, it would appear almost
self evident that the monied classes
should he made to foot the bills.
Instead of that they lend at so
much per cent and the dear people
are called upon to pay.
The wealth of the United States
Is roughly speaking over one hund
red and eighty-six bilion. Probably
it is now two hundred billion. Of
that amount four-fifths of the peo
ple o.vn less than one tenth, while
me per cent of the people own more
ban the remaining ninety-nine.
“One half” says Professor Gil
christ in a recent article on the
Distribution of Property and In
come. "practically crossed out as
far as national prosperity goes,
since it is the property of but one
per cent of the population. The
average income of fifty average Am
erican citizens, sustained through
the Christian era is roughly equival
ent to tlie yearly income of Rocke
feller”.
In paying tlie expenses of the
war there is no effort apparently
going to be made to consider the
disparity in incomes and in wealth
distribution of the country. It
there was, the one per cent that
own half the wealth would be com
pelled to undertake the full costs ot
all operations, for it is quite evident
that when the average per capita
wealth of the country is only $2200
and some of the people therein are
actually billionaires, the vast ma
jority must have nothing at ail.
The entire policy seems directed
towards some ideal condition that
never has existed. Or such that ex
ists only in the minds of those who
promote it.
Today ten billions could be raised
very easily indeed by a trinity ol
great captains of finance or industry
in New York city without turning
a hair; but those billions are to be
sacred. They are to provide, the
wealth for the government with in
terest.
The whole financial policy is to
be directed to that end and while
the person, and by the person one
means the life, of the individual,
may be called freely to sacrifice it
self. the dollars must be sacred and
fully secured with proper allowances
for interest and so forth.
It is extraordinary to look at it
in a superficial light that wealth
and property should be placed
above the person, but profoundy
that is the very keynate of the ca
nitalist system.
II' a proposition were introduced
in Congress tomorrow looking to
wards conscription ol income and
the conscription of actual wealth in
the interest of the national weal,
there would he an outcry which
would be much more determined
and emphatic than the slight oppo
sition tnat was manifested to the
draft.
There is, to he sure, no valid rea
son why wealth is more sacred than
the person, and the person of the
wealthy citizen is, goodness knows,
sacred enough. But there is historic
precedent for the respect of wealth
and there is furthermore the fact
that the possession of wealth gives
one the power to resist any en
croachments upon the special privi
leges which it conveys.
The need of money to carry on
war is Indeed manifest. The tre
mendous wealth of America is a
tireless theme with the great papers
It is here and it is available just
as easily as is the military material
in human beings who will do the
fighting.
But it is quite another matter to
take possession of it. Imagine what
would he the difficulties which are
encountered, when a Congiess ord
ers the men of millions to register
their holdings so that they could be
drafted for public service! It would
certainly ease tile labors of the ad
ministration and make easier the
path of the government if it were
done.
Thh Senators would not have to
he worrying over ta.-itg sugar and
tobacco and tea and coffee and
meats. The struggling newspapers
would not have to pay their two
per cent and when a man pays a bill
lie would not have to worry about
his stamp tax.
But there will be no such simple
method devised of financing the war
is conscription of wealth. Instead
the men of wealth who loan money
will get their gilt edged bonds bear
ing interest for their generosity
and the people will see that it is
paid in full.
Just now theie is a fine attempt
being mad« through the news agen
cies to exalt the patriotism of the
men of millions who subscribe. A
whole page is devoted to the sub
scription of thirteen millions by a
John D. to the liberty loan—an
other column praises the nobility of
Henry Ford for donating his five
million dollars to the bond issue—
bonds which are secured by cast
iron agreements and which are as
secure as investments can be as to
principal and interest.
One would imagine by these ela
borate articles that the men had
subscribed that money to the gov
ernment to have and to hold, when
they simply bought government
paper which is well worth the
money any day of the week, and
they duly received full value in
exchange.
The United States Supreme Court
in the year 1847 has laid dwn the
principle whereby the governing
body of the land can conscript pro
perty of any kind in language so
explicit and simple that it might
have occurred to the law makers
when considering the question ot
financing the war.
•‘In every political sovereign
community there inheres necessarily
the right and the duty of guarding
its own existence, and of protecting
and promoting the interests and
welfare of the community at larne.
This power and this duty are to be
exerted, not orffv in the highest
acts of sovereignty and in the exter
nal relations of government; they
reach and comprehend likewise the
interior policy and relations of social
life, which should be regulated
with reference to the whole of so
ciety. This power, denominated the
eminent domain of the state, is as
its name imports, paramount to all
private rights vested under the gov
ernment and th'&se last are by ne
cessary implication,, held in subor
dination to this power and must
yield in every instance to its proper
exercise.Under every estab
lished government the tenure ot
property in held mediately and im
mediately, from the sovereign pow
er organized in such mode or exer
cised in such way, as the commun
ity and the state may have thought
proper to ordain. It can rest on no
other foundation, can have no otln r
guarantee.”
That ought be be plain enough.
Well today they tell us that the
country is facing the greatest crisis
In its history. They declare that to
raise money all and every energy
must be directed to that end. Hence
we have aeroplane flights, liberty
loan literature, bond campaigns and
what not.
What’s the matter with seizing
under national necessity by the
right of eminent domain everythin'.,
the state wants? What is more sac
red than the life of its citizens? The
life of the citizen has been seized
to be used in furthering the ends
of the government, v.liy not the
wealth?
It is within the power of govern
ment so to ordain. I he Workers
who have no wealth will not kick
nor will ninety nine per cent.
Why then pretend that patriotism
can do less than to compel these
financial kings and these industrial
over-loads to register their sub
stance that it may be commandeer
ed so that the country can properly
meet the crisis?
They have ample fund- to meet
the war, why should not the State
exert the State’s righ’ to seize it.
and why should time be wasted in
devising a fiscal system which is
merely directed towards giving
more to those who have more than
they can use, try they never so
hard.
This is the logical queston of the
hour. They have amassed huge for
tunes from the labor of muscle and
brains of the country. They have
amassed* enormous wealth through ;
the privileges of property which
have permitted them to the exclu
sion of the rest—why then not
compel them to jar loose as the
mother jars loose her son that was
to her heart as the apple of her eye.
Is gold to be more valuable and
more sacred always than human
life?
HERB MIDNIGHT.
The Victoria last night at eight
o'clock reported that it would drop !
anchor in the roadstead tonight at |
twelve midnight, weather permitt- I
ing. That was the last advice re
ceived last inght.
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One 12 H. P. Roller.
One 10 H. P. Boiler.
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