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Show TIIE NEWS FROM FILLMORE PgIEc Affairs and Local Happenings si the County Seat K6ne of our county prisoners who was In the cimtody of Deputy Sheriff Peter Huntsman, escaped from Jail last Friday night. Wllden was his name, we think, fvln Man refused to escape with him. At the present writ-lug, writ-lug, be has not been recaptured. This makes three escapes within a few. months. Mr. Smith, state organizer of the Socialist So-cialist party in I'tah. delivered to addresses in Fillmore last week. He spoke clearly and forcibly, an J succeeded suc-ceeded better than any other Socialist speaker Hint we have h id, In defining the Socialist position. He didn't evade the lii In ttho least, but clearly and emphatically stated that the Socialists were against Interest, rent, and prof-Its. prof-Its. Of course, we are all opposed to profits, which word Is defined by economists eco-nomists to mean gilns above legitimate legiti-mate Interest an rent. Opposition to rents and interest, then, Is the particular par-ticular thing that distinguishes the f.'o-rlallst f.'o-rlallst party from all other parties. In other words, they are opposed to the private ownership of capital and of land used productively. They propose pro-pose that the government should otti aud operate such Innd and all capital. At present, and under Socialism, there are three factors In production: labor, I. Hid or natural agents, and capital. Tbe reward of labor Is wages; of capital. capi-tal. Interest; and of hnd, rent. They propose that the government shall take over land and capital and In operating op-erating the Industries of the nation, retain only enough of the product to keep the capital In repairs and to improve im-prove it, and to keep the land fertile. All of the rest of the product will go to labor. This program would greatly Utcreasji wagau; tp woat llkelf to..;- J " crease wages to three tlmeswVaf they no are. Hut It must be remembered remem-bered that It would do something else. It would result In compelling every man to work for wages. A part of these wages might be saved, but it would be Impossible for tbe one who savea to INVKST his savings. He might save enough to keep him In his old age, but It would be ImiMisslble for him to attain to that state of Independence Inde-pendence so longed for under and present system, under m hlch his proi-erty proi-erty judiciously Invested would keep him and his. It would deprive man of that Independent feeling which accompanies ac-companies ownership of productive property; it would make imponlble. tbe expression and development of man's Initiative through Industrial activity. The issue Is clearly drawn. I'nder Socialism the property class would greatly benefit In receiving Increased In-creased 'sages and in reaching a higher high-er standard of living, thai is, of course, assuming that the Socialist program would prove practicable. Against this, mankind must weigh the loss of actual and prospective Industrial Inde-liendence, Inde-liendence, the loss of Industrial Initiative, Initia-tive, the Ignominy of being compelled to work for wages under direction without means or hope of wealth beyond be-yond mere hoarding. Take your choice, because, before many years, unless public discontent is quieted, you wT.l be compelled to take siJes for or against Socialism. Since the discovery dis-covery of America the world has been shaken by to great revolutions the firs', religious; the second, politics I evolutions that have been worldwide world-wide and that in large measure are still In progress as witnessed In the recent changes in China. The significant signifi-cant thing about these revolutions is that they might, have been avoided, had the conservatives granted certain reforms that the radicals demandel. It takes no prophetic Insight, now, to predict that, unless society is industrially indus-trially reformed, it will be overturned and reconstructed by revolution; and mark It, the sequel will be Socialism. The circus that came and went last week was pronounced pretty good. Outside of politics, deer bunting Is the trcplc of chief Interest. Several men ! teams are leaving foi R'chfleld to work on the big canal. A firge mountain lion has repeatedly repeated-ly been seen prowling a few miles 'mm town, but as yet. It has not been killed. ike to ptsn acd build, and It seems as f the various problems that this new srtuer Is called upon to settle should merest the boys. |