Salt Lake Telegram | 1914-01-31 | Page 15 | Disappearing Right of Private Property

DISAPPEARING RIGHT OF PRIVATE PROPERTY p lI wi ver r It may be he vaguely and arid t ten tenderly ten ten- n.- n. rl d derly defIned there thre ha has b been en going on tim UK us In rc recent nt Y yearn JM anI and is now pro pro- rc with giant strides a H rapine of private prop property rt for Or public homieSt benefit and Imd an HII organization of f political action based 1 upon the tho Idea hIt that tho the state should furnish fur fur- mush nish Individuals with t convenience ncr cooluris com cool uris and lu IU luxuries urlee which In all countries cO and anti In iii It nil mill 11 past thUM It has been beon supposed that Individuals should pr procure for or th them them- m. m b t v It U l Is H a mo movement that t Js us cha characterize charac pc c- c d not simply by lu a. a fO J m and amid an au c extraordinary tr legron of ot but by hy obvious motives motives mo mo- tives f of or plunder r and by attempt which have Ill now non and un- un to make mako the poorer clashes of ot the tho community ore fa ored fa l both In taxation and andIn In iii the tho application of t general law Itself ruin Tho parlous state statu into which municipal municipal municipal mu mu- credit t has fallen all nil over the tho United States Is duo to the tremendous 0 tur 8 mt of or municipalities Corthe for Cor or ortho tho the pleasure and comfort of their Inhabitants that that Is he to JoIl say Kiy to an cag eager r and reckless authorization of r those these expendi expenditures tures by 3 y the tho mass of ot people In n these cHI cubs H who Q arc aro r actuated too by the notion that the burden of or tho the emA will CallIn fall Call fallIn In iii only a t small de degree r c upon themselves personally and this th theory ory Is In p part f fallacious U tt Is not wholly holl t tO so o. o the tho loss has fall fallen n In iii tact fact chiefly upon owners of or real rN estate wh who have havo beon been unable un 1111 able ble bie to recoup themselves s b by higher rent rent- rentA A fair Instance of or the tho process IB is that afforded Io by the thc experience of or tho the city of ot Now Not York which Is now putting out hundreds of millions of ot dolla dollars rl In 11 Um the In which construction of now subways will bo he transported long Jong distances ut mit nominal charge charse None of or these sub sub- ways could be built or op at private private vate ate even if a n. fJ franchise w were rC to tobe DC be freely granted by tho the city citi a much greater char charge o for lor personal n use a of the convenience could b be obtained than that t which is 18 now 1 V. V K Kellogg in the January number of at th this North orth American RevieW