| Show LIBERTY Oil OSTRACISM To the Editor What Is I the liberty which Is the con tlnual boast of the American citizen nnd which the Briton professes to have the monopoly of and to love so dear 17 Is It liberty at all or Is I It simply ostraclemnothlnglsmT la It liberty when Individuals < have no claim on each other or on the state nor the slate 1 or others on them It Is liberty to be left entirely with ones own resources uncarcd for and uncaring Is It liberty lib-erty to own no part or parcel of the country by a night of Imagination you call lour own la liberty so destructive des-tructive of rights that the only rights the bulk of the people have left Is I the right to become paupers In no sense la I this liberty It Is the deprivation of all liberty national liberty IB I to have secured good food comfortable homes decent clothing reasonable leisure loving hearts around In a few words to bo environed by the necessities and comforts of Jlfe The liberty that has been Bought by the radicals of England and the revo lutionists of continental Europe has hitherto been of that negative charac ter A fight to destroy privilege end Ing In a tob a I deprivation of all right that about b ho enjoyed by citizens ot free staten Obviously the first and par amount duty of a state after eelng to the security of life and property I to see to tile jut distribution of property vothat every member of the body politic should have at any rate the neeBltI of life alwaYs obtainable When will our statesmen ralllo that It in I their duty not only to bo able to produce tabulated statements of the wealth of the country but to see that each has food raiment and 0 fair op Iortulty of enjoying their sojourn within the national boundaries The first step III this direction Is I to restrict the almightine9 I of mone by I tI should the land be purchasable UVII t a mlllloalro and ho enabled by law 10 charge Ills fellow citizen rent for the privilege of living on the Poll of film own country If a man should not requite re-quite land for the use of himself 01 family why should he be allowed to hold against Ills neighbor Should It be so because the ono haM a quantity of current coin and 00 he alloed to buy and hold more than he cnn use of the limited nrell of the nation or hould the anti he carefully home teoded from first to lalby tho nri holder anti forever afterwards This would be ho nl tp In rallonal freedom free-dom AgaIn for the community to allown person m ho has amassed a large amount of wealth to commit the IHlhumoul robbery of his kith and kin having II natural tllm on him by leaving at his death the m hale of till man or II large partial 10 one Individual or an Institution Institu-tion Aa we said before distribution of wealth Is I n necessity tit the welfare of the people D1 thc stabilitk ot the state ttyO more au than the creation thereof The contrast In tho condition ot the rngllBh 111 American anti the Hu I is Stan agriculturist In this respect la apparent 10 even the ordinary traveler Inrough those oounlle The nrlllh agricultural laborer never and thc American Seldom own In his coma or any other right a foot of his native land He may hold a plot b > paying rent to some restated Individual Indi-vidual who holds the title deeds to his little home Tho Russian countryman so ftd by our notivisplipers and m i Sympathized with In our political meet Ings on the contrar own In hlB on right Ills share Income the vlllag state Coo tent 0110 woe come adritness come health he Is sure of food unit shelter because ho Is I born owner or Interested in the produce of the land on which his forefathers dwelt for ten orations before him Just try to realize tho Hue liberty the Indclendeuve of main and taml1l under such conditions anti the liberty liber-ty of the American citizens who flocked to the olllc of the iluglier In thli fly tho I other dav rrmlilnr I one nn that In their I nnxictj to t and fear oC mlaln the eleemosynary coals and floor for lad oC which these free Amer lean 11ln wer nearly ot doths door Let us In that unrnV of our wn mon humanity Inslct at the polling booths that men whmi we appoint to make our laws and to eeirrv them Into execution thould take thine conditions Into serious and profound consider ttlon The eltliens of every free nation should live on this free earth free from the haunting of the Overt of povert veil to destitution which li I eveilast Ingly alu ut us from the cradle to tho arnica True liberty is I that which Is I d ° Jr1 l h > sensible men MMity to hn tho means of living within tin rea h ro all and to dispel I forever the tar of lie I po1 bill t of Starvation which ran only tend IM make cringing care of tile brailclot oC mnnkllll J 0Y W |
