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NOme, Alaska, January 21, 11)10.
HKXRY GKORGE ON POVERTY.
The analogy between poverty and j
crime is now so well established
as to have become almost axiomat
is. The causes of poverty are also
the causes of crime.
Henry George, tho eminent econo
mist and originator of the Single
Tax theory, delivered a lecture in
1885 entitled “Poverty a Crime’’.
This lecture has recently been re
read in Congress and, tho we can
not reprit it in full, we take of its
pregnant paragraphs.
“There is a cause for poverty,
and if you trace it down you will
find its root in a primary injustice.
The one sufficient cause that is com
mon to all nations is, the appro
priation as the property of some, of
some, of that natural clement on
which and from which all must
live.
“We talk about overproduction.
How can there be such a thing aa j
overproduction while people want?
All these things that are said to bo
overproduced are desired by many
people. Why do they not get
them? They do not get them be
cause they have not the means to
buy them, not that they do not j
want them. Why have they not the
means to buy them? They earn to
little. When groat masses of men
havo to work for an average of
41.90 a day it is no wonder that,
great quantities of goods cannot be:
sold.
“Now, why it is that men have
to werk for such low wages? Be
cause if they were to demand high
er wages there are plenty of unem
ployed men ready to step into their
places. It is this mass of unem- ,
ployed men who compel that fierce
competition that drives wages down
to the point of bare subsistence.
Why is it that there are men who
cannot think what a strange thing
it is that men cannot find employ
ment?
“If men cannot find an employer,
why can they net employ them
selves? Simply because they are
shut out ' from the element on
which human labor can alone be
exerted; men are compelled to com
pete with each other for the wages
of an employer, became they have
been robbed of the natural oppor
) unity of employing them •elves, be-j
cause they cannot find a piece of j
God's world on which to work with
out paying some other human crea
ture for the privilege.
“Nature gives to labor, and to
labor alone; there must be human
work before any article of wealth
can be produced, and, in a natural
state of things the limn who toiled
honestly and well would be tho
rich mar., and h; who did rot work
would be poor. We havo so re
versed the order of nature that we
.ire accustomed to think of a work
ingman ;.s a poor niai .
“And it’ you trace it out I be
lli vc you will see that the primary
cause of this is that we compel
those who work to pay others for
permission to do so.
“Take away from man ill that
belong to the land, and what have
you but a disembodied spirit?
Therefore, lie who holds the land
on which and from which another
must live is thai man’s master, and
t he man is his slave.
“Talk about abolishing slavery—
wo have not abolished slavery—we
have only abolished one rude form
of it, chattel slavery. There is a
deeper an.-t more insidious form, a
-snore cursed form yet before us to
abolish in thin industrial slavery
• hrt makes a man a virtual slave,
svl .llo taunting him and mock pig
him with the name of freedom.”
The Single Tax. which Henry
George advocated as a remedy for
tho evil, may not he a remedy at
all. 11 is diagnosis may be incor
rect. The conclusions he draws
from a study of the symptoms may
he faulty. The fact however, that
the symptoms which he points out
indicate the presence of disease
cannot be disputed.
Poverty is a diseased condition
of the, body politic; crime, one of
the symptoms. It would perhaps
be presumtuous of me to suggest
what the remedy should be—a
good physician may not know the
best cure for cancer or epilepsy but
he can say with certainty that prus
sic acid is not the remedy, because
he knows that prussic acid kills—
may I not say, then, that the re
medy for our social ills cannot be
indifference.
MURDER OF THE INNOCENT.
The preachers are still -hauling
Herod over the coals for his murd
er of the innocent, altho this hap
pened over nineteen centuries ago
The patriots are handing Germany
stiff wallops on account of the
murder of children in Belgium
Both are merited, but it is peculipi
how little is heard of the murdei
of children in the United States. A
few years ago the Federated Child
ron’s Bureau discovered that babies
whose fathers earned less than tei
dollars a week died at the rate oi
256 per thousand, while the child
ron -of parents earning twenty-fiv<
dollars a week or more died at th<
rate of 84 per thousand.
The murder of the innocent is <
fit topic of .discussion except wliei
the murderer is modern America!
capitalism,’ yet two out cf ever;
three children of the poor who di<
arc the victims of capitalism.
TRUTH IVNULNERABLE.
"For we can do nothing agains
the truth, but for the truth.’
When Saul of Tarsus joined him
self to the followers of the desplsct
Nazarene, he brought down on hi:
head the wrath of the powers tha
bo, and his life from that day 01
was filled with trials, persecution:
and afflictions. Being the ables
defender of the Christian faith. In
was the special object of hatred b;
these whose crafts were endanger
ed, and all their artillery was level
cd on him. Ho labored more abunt
antly than any of his brethren, wa:
beaten more frequently, and landec
in prison more oft. The Jews gavi
him five lashings of thirty-nim
stripes each; once lie wa3 stoned
and three times shipwrecked. Ill
was also in perils by robbers, b;
his' own countrymen, by heathai
and by false brethren.
A pretty rough road, wasn't it
Fully as rough as a Socialist agi
tator has to travel today. But dii
these oppositions stop the progres
of Christianity? No. They wer
the very means of spreading th
teachings of the apostles. Afte
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the crucifixion of Jesus, His dis
ciples hung around Jerusalem until
driven abroad by persecution, and
then they went everywhere preach
ing the word. When the Jews ar
rested Paul, put him in chains, car
ried him from one court to gn
l other seeking to condemn him, they,
j but advertised his mectingss and
J furnished him free transportation
to them. Every thing they did
worked for the furtherance of the
gospel. Truly Paul was correct
when he said, “We can do nothing
against the truth, but for the
truth.” If we crush the truth to
the earth it will rise again, and be
the stronger through the fall.
TOLERANCE AND TRUTH.
Sometimes, when I hear people
mouth the word “toleration,”
I am’ moved by a fury, and a kind
of pity too.
Because I know they have run too
long with Compromise.
That girl of easy virtue,
Who yields to all with a slack
smile, ,
And weakens her paramours by
their quick and musty victories.
Mow different they who seek Truth,
She whose radiant virtue is a bea
con in strange- places.
No man can wholly posses her;
But they become strong who follow
her searching footsteps;
I Strengthened by that slow and rig
• orous pursuit—
And the hope of her shining sur
render.
KEEP COOL.
Do you know that you may be
more capable than the man who
holds the high position over you?
The reason ho has the place and
keeps it is that he makes practical
use of every bit of knowledge he
possesses, while you are so discom
fuddled once in a while that you
lose your head and do not know
your own name.
Putting it pretty strong, but it
is poise you lack.
You have the knowledge and the
technical ability to make good.
But you let little things upset
you.
You do not set a goal and ‘go to
1 it."
Do not be afraid that you will do
too much by relieving that man
. ahead.
i Two oysters wore in a big pot full
of milk, getting ready for stew.
■ Said one oyster to the other:
“Where arc we?”
“At a church supper,” was the re
ply.
Whereupon the little oyster said:
“What on earth do they want of
both of U3?”
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