| Show 0 MiciuiUT In another column appears an article signed with the Initials J W Wand W-and bearing the caption Liberty or Ostracism H expresses In rather oil f o forcible language lews regarding the ownership of land and the distribution of wealth which are rapidly gaining ground nowardajs but would have been condemned as micIalboll a It fw YOa MO Ideas BhnllRr to r Idn tlcal with those of the writer are being be-ing advocated by a great many publications I tit publi-cations and public speakers although to put them In practice would Involve the most radical resolutions Imaginable Imagina-ble In existing conditions that relate to the control and ownership of properts all The News accepts the proposition J that Infinite Injustice is 1 being inflicted U o upon tho human rnce hy the uIIIqual distribution of wealth and of the opportunities op-portunities to acquire possess 1 and enjoy en-Joy It What the human family hati suffered and la I still suffering from thin couo cannot be comprehended much leas exaggerated by nny writer or reasoner In the world The descrlp the powers of the most Imaginative and eloquent oC mn mould be Inadequate Inade-quate to fully and Justly portray the A evils that flow from It It I In thla extent the premises of the of most radical no socialists are granted Hut what follows The soclallstnot necessarily the rampant nor radical but tho thoughtful and conservative exponent of the school replies In substance sub-stance Iffect a new distribution of walth and the creation of n now aye tm tor acquiring owning and enjoy Ing I It I by means of legislation The I < mdy is I Impossible for two reasons FIt no set of legislators could by pon2bollity any possibility or by any proceiu known to human law or contrivance be assembled i whose combined wisdom would be In the smallest degree adequate ade-quate for the difficulties perplexities intricacies and complications that ga to make up the problem sought to be solved When n nv Planet Is I latinclied In space Us position Its speed and Its orbit moo t bear an exact relation to its bulk Its weight and its distance from even other planetary body in the whole TT universe Could any set of mortal FX f I mathematicians be collected together whose combined wisdom would be sufll clent to adjust all these clement of an Tall If 1 r 1 tic to levement In astronomy No DB well Bay that a body of men could be combined assembled whoso combined knowledge and power would enable them to create and launch the planet The intelligence that places and controls jt l fj con-trols the fit a nets corresponds with I the it a power that created them both are Infinite In-finite The flame Intelligence and power that effected and still maintains the or ganlzatlon of the stellar universe must ho exercised In placing and con trollng human beings and In adjusting the relation of each separate member of the human family to all the others alor al and to his own deserts capacity and or requirements and until this Intelligence and thin Power are so exerclaptl find until mankind yield to them wrong Injustice 4 justice and misery I must prevail Second even were It possible to collect col-lect n body of lawmakers wise enough t to frame legislation that would oho the problem of the distribution of wealth the great mass of mankind 14 r would utterly refuse to yield obedience to to their laws If the laws were unjust I they would not It alloyed accomplish Ij the object sought and If they were I just they would be denounced almost If not quite universally among mankind man-kind Its being the opposite because therug mun title such a crude and Imperfect I conception ot what justice is I that when It to Present ed to him In the tot in ot a perfect Jaw he Is I almost certain cer-tain to rebel The reforms which socialistic phllnsn phr dream of 10 evise become real must begin with the Individual I Ile mu ist be Made willing is cont IL 1 f ct truth and Justice This means that lie 1 mut be born again IRS selfloolinesis must be swallowed up In a love for his fellow beings which Is only another way of cloying that he must become converted to tho Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ lie must Obey the laws of heaven In relation tu the time own crehlp and distribution of Property for from no other source than heaven can com law 11 home wlloll and justice are adequate for the relief of the burials race from the evils that arc associated 1 with wealth the control atilt the leek j I of It |
