| Show HOW TO BUILD CANALS independence mo march 11 1898 an article entitled utah canal schemes in your issue of the ath teng tella a woeful story of the way eastern capital is proposing to bring additional thoV thousands sands of your people into bondage these capitalists are going to furnish the money to induce your hardy citizens to go 90 ta to work to help themselves to natures resources nor are the capitalists to blame they simply take advantage of an abnormal condition existing in the minds ox of the people the land is there the water is there and there are thousands of landless laborers there who want the land and the water but before they will go to work to help themselves to this land and water they must call on men with gold and silver to come and help them help them to do what can grold gold strike a single stroke with a pick or shovel the answer to is apparent it cannot then why ask its assistance labor will build the canal without a dollar in money and has done so tn t utah for many years bowlet now let us figr ure a little on this canal scheme on 00 the basis of the article mentioned first the land is to cost coat 1 per acte on olt time payments without int interest ereal TW that Is very reasonable indeed but here comes the canal company and wants 15 per acre for the water payable to in twenty years and while the rate rap vt interest to is not given it to Is safe fafe to nr ure that these capitalists we are n this canal scheme for their health heaitly BA the interest will be perhaps 8 9 per peo acot vh which makes a yearly tax of per 1 acre then add the for annual F repairs and you have a tax of WS ver acre to pay 27 acres to a man would mean a yearly tax of two this amount for twenty years would st ulean mean 1408 to which add the 1 cost of land and 15 16 original cost of water when the twenty years have expired tho the men who built the canal with their labor will have returned to the capitalists three dollars tor for every one received 4 the capitalists still own the canal and will charge you a perpetual royalty for every drop of water you receive supposing the pioneers of utah ha had waited to go to work and develop the resources in the valleys of th the e ile mountains on the capitalistic plan how many of them would own their i aw own homes today they demonstrated that labor and the product of labor would not only build homes factories and everything essential to the welfare of a community money was entirely unknown in the transaction hence the great prosperity of the colonies there is no one who can question for a moment that to pay an an P awal tax of from 2 to 3 on every g i 84 acre of land remote from the markets of the world will keep the people in S velpe bondage to the money py p y power ys an a com communication muni cation entitled home wanted in the same issue J 7 ac tf the news the able writer very feebly illustrates the de degeneracy of y arf people who are unwilling to strike alick tuck for liberty but will work ever so bard to get themselves into bondage Sty 1 04 and in a few years yield IF all their accumulations to satisfy gaswae e m mortgage indebtedness lie be says wheat fleat will build mills if the spirit 1 f of 4 operative cooperative co action is not asleep athe bait the distrustful selfishness of the r w people wants only interest bearing ammey oy at the same time they complain of at their bondage why this suicidal r anarchy to secure all the wealth labor can produce to the laborers themselves is abe hight of patriotic statesmanship while the present degree of statesman mp seems to be to secure all the wealth labor can produce to support 1 idle I owners of legal tender money and to in their dire extremity the people rush headlong into commercial bondage there mere Is s only one practical remedy OM that it to leave the money to the capitalist severely alone as if it were ra pestilence alence and issue a medium of e ex x re based on labor now ae let t us the canal with the peoples labor and capitalize it by issuing ex ge n checks worded something like receivable by the peoples company in exchange for water ur irrigating purposes make these jt the only thing that will purchase water and see hew fast they would leotto to a premium above gold or silver taen when all the outstanding checks ahlf redeemed in this way the canal is 1 MM tor for instead odthe of the capitalists own crit it the people own every toot foot of it aad besides are now getting their water absolutely fre of any charge now compare the cost of your acres ik aff you find where you ever paid out a cent more than the original 11 1 per a acre besides this enormous saving of VW SM per acre you have a perpetual free water right while this canal is build tag those checks based as they are on created substantial wealth will cincu ahme in all branches of trade as a safe bad preferred medium of exchange business brisk and prosperity 66 A longer a delusion f system called the labor ex bage to Is being adopted all over amer lea among the working people and is g a success far beyond the fondy lions and there to is no place AM world where at could be put into 1 with as much assurance of success as among the people of utah for they are far more harmonious than any class of people in the world all it needs is to understand it and the people will flock to it I 1 enclose a sample of the check used by the labor exchange which it would be well to reproduce in the news so those interested can get an idea of how the plan is working in other places it teaches a grand lesson in political economy and though distasteful to capitalists is a boon to the producers of wealth all thinker sas well as by divine inspiration the direction of that equality so much taught and desired by all modern over the world and is a grand step in I 1 I 1 respectfully E PETERSON |
