| Show JOHN BURNS Your correspondent is very well acquainted with John Burns and believes that your readers would like to know something more about him Burns stands upon a plat plat- platform platform platform form far in ill advance of H Henry nry George It is but brief and I here give It in full Labor is the source of all we wealth t therefore all aU wealth belongs to la labor bor The establishment of a free con con- condition condition of society based on the principle prin prin- principle principle ciple of political equality and equal social rights for all and the com com- complete complete complete emancipation of labor 1 All officers or administrators to tobe tobe tobe be elected by equal direct adult suf suf- suffrage suffrage suffrage frage and to be paid by the community com com- community community 2 Legislation by the people in such wise that ne no project of law lawshall lawshall shall become legally binding till BC- BC accepted ac accepted by the majority of the people 3 The ab abolition of a standing army and the establishment of a national citizen force the people to decide on peace or war 4 All education higher no less than el elementary to be free com com- compulsory compulsory compulsory secular and industrial for all alike 5 The administration of justice to be fre free and gratuitous for all members of society 6 The land with all the mines rail railways ways and other means of transIt to be declared and treated as common com com- common common mon property 7 Ireland Ireland and all other parts of the Empire to have legislative independence inde inde- independence independence 8 Th The production tion of wealth to be regulated by society in the common interest of all aJl its members i 9 The meats mears of production dis- dis dis distribution and exchange to be de- de declared declared de declared and treated as collective or common property Burns is about thirty thirty-fi thirty five ve or forty years of age and a splendid specimen specimen men of an Englishman He is a good speaker and has a magnificent voice By trade he is a working engineer Up to th the tho time of the strike the respectable mechanics held aloof from this revolutionary platform while which while it has some good planks planks-is Is very Utopian Your cor- cor correspondent correspondent cor correspondent respondent respondent had an animated animate discus discus- discussion discussion discussion sion with Burns over the supper table and found him most gentle gentle- gentlemanly gentlemanly gentlemanly manly and courteous although dif dif- differing differing differing fering so 80 widely on most points If he lives he will be a thorn in inthe inthe inthe the side of the aristocracy and royalty He ought to come to Ogden and treat the real estate men to a lec- lec lecture lecture lec lecture ture on the sixth plank in his plat plat- platform platform platform form OGDEN Sept 1889 |
