Basis Of Civil Society

wnac constitutes tne basis or civil society or civilization? We contend that it is the right of ownership of the product of oue's labor, emanating froin the fact that mau has the pre-emeneut right to bimselt'. Now all the produots of his labor belong pre-eminently to himself. No uiau has a right to take any part of the produot of another's labor without dne compensation, if he does he commits a robbery, aDd the firat dnty of sooiety is to protect the individual in the possesaion of the prodnots of his labor. This is the object of all just laws. Now, as labor is the creator of all wealth it should naturally follow that those wLo labor most sboulc possess the most wealth ; but upon examining eooiety we find almost invariably the very opposite the case. By wbat process is tbis accomplished? Tbere must be something radically wrong iü onr present society. Let us examine briefly the piimary cause whioh produces this inequality and injustice. As the land is the ouly souroe of all our wealth and labor, the factor which produces all our wealth, it naturally follows that if the source of oor wealth is rednced to private ownership aud consequently eubject to nionopolization, to tbe owners naturally will accrue all the beneflls, as thé producer, labor, has actoess to tbe souroe ol wealth, land, only by permiasion of the owner, the landlord. and as the masses are continually oompeting with eacb otber for an opportunity to labor, this gives the landlord the power to despoi' the laborer of all except a bare living. This is the condition tbat exists in society today - a glaring irjjustice. Tbe reruedy - restore tbe land to th people. Tbe single tas will do it. Aon Arbor, Feb. 1, 1897.