Show THE OWN PROPERTY Dl DID D PlOT NOT ALWAYS EXIST What right have you to hold property Merely the consent ol of society The right of holding property I Is Isso isso so fundamental In our modern civilization that we seldom think ol olIt of It as resting on the will or 01 consent of society er we hardly ever eve realize that the right is open to question The concept of private ownership has not always existed among menThe men The savage at first owned nothing Among primitive men an animal which one of them killed belonged to the whole tribe But from the possession of clothing and anel articles of personal adornment the Idea gra gradually grew with more and more moie things being divided among various owners Now under our present civilization almost everything everything everything every every- thing is owned and almost eer everyone one owns something Yet even today there are many limitations Imposed b by society upon the of Individual Individual Indi Indi- vidual ownership The Th Institution has come to be recognized because the tho system works Before Before- anyone can appeal to society for its overthrow he must show that social conditions have so changed that it Jt is no longer beneficent beneficent beneficent benefi benefi- cent or that some other Institution would better serve the end Yet there always is the possibility that at some future flate nate private property property property prop prop- erty will be abolished Copyright 1926 1026 Associated Editors Inc 1 |