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Show I Marxian Club Socialists j V . . T .. j Any question concerning Social- Editorial Committer: j .. Ism answered. Addret all com- KATE S. MILLIARD. j- monlcatlons to K. S. HilliarJ, E A BATTELL. 'fm 36 Herrlck Avenue. ROY' E. SOUTH WICK. '.' An Imaginary Difference. When the working poor ore paid In return for Ihclr labor only as much na will buy them the necessaries of life, their condition la Identical with that of the elavc, who rece Ivea thoso necessaries neces-saries at first hand; Uio former ra call "free merT'and the lalter "slaves." but the difference Is Imaginary only. John Adaum. The Earth a Private Property. Tho great ones of thj world have taken this earth of ours to them-telves; them-telves; they Uvo In the midst of splendor splen-dor and superfluity. The smallest nook of the land Is already a possession; posses-sion; none may toxch It or meddle with it, John "Wolfgang Goethe. Labor and Abstinence. Since, the human race has no mean of enjoyable existence If existence at all. but what it derives from its own labor and abstinence, there would bo no ground of complaint against society socie-ty If everyono was willing to undergo a fair share of this labor and abstinence abstin-ence could attain a fair share of tho frulta. But Is this the fact? Is It not the reverse of tho fact? The reward, Instead of being proportioned to tho lalor and abstinence of tho Individual, Individ-ual, Is almost In an adverse ratio to it; those who receive the least, labor a.id abstain the most. John Stuart Mill. China Getting There. China has had famines before. Poo-pie Poo-pie have starved there before. But nsver, that history records, havo people peo-ple bunkered and a famine raged In Its provinces under the circumstances now holding sway over them, which havo finally li-d to the vast native nprlslars llbeiounly designated "riots" in Ihe foreign dispatches. In the communal form of government, govern-ment, which China, In common with all other nations, passed through, I hunger no doubt periodically stalked the land and carried off Its thousands. Hut then it was that Ihe crops had failed. Nature's "bounty" so freely prated about by tho misunderstand-In?, misunderstand-In?, had resolved Itself Into what It really Is, nature's obedience of natural nat-ural laws. The rains had deluged tho ground, or the sun had parched It, or the blight had fallen upon It grain was not to be had. Then all Differed alike. Tho common store was farceled out In common as long as It asled, and each had his equal share. When It was gone for one, It was gone for all. There was no such thing as some niemlrs of the tribe feasting while others pined and fainted. faint-ed. Much less wan there any such thing as some members reveling on the the proceeds of their- brothers' suffering. Property Venue Life. Tn the year of Christianity 1 PI 0, how different! Capitalism with Its golden wand has "changed aJI that." Now there rages a famine In Unpen province. Rico, the staple food of tho people, Is low. Distress Is rampant. In Hunan province, right "next door." rice Is plentiful. Tho starving poor of Hupeh are sent tn Hunan for relief. re-lief. There the governor of Hunan postponert the onenlns of the relief stations from March 11, the advertised advertis-ed date, to May 9 Nearly two months and docs so upon the persuasion of tho merchants who are manipulating . tho rleo market. Under communism lifo was first, property second. Under capitalism property Is flr6t, llfo socond. Well might Morgan say of property that "the human mind stands bewildered In the presence of Its own creation." Only by wrestling with that bewilderment bewilder-ment can tho human mind acquire the ttrength and krvowledgo necessary to reassert Its supremacy over Its creature. cre-ature. China, which Is now undergoing, under-going, with famine accompaniment, the performances of a Patten in this country, Is getting there. Weekly People. |
