Government is an artificial giant, and the power which moves it is money.—President Garfield.

The laborers of America are most all of individualistic inclination, yet every new party platform is made up largely of State Socialist or government ownership planks. European laborers are about 99.99 per cent of the Socialistic or Communistic order, and the labor movement there is of course nothing but State Socialism or some form of Communistic politics. Not more government, but less, is what labor needs.

It ifis possible, yes, probable, that conflicts might take place between associations and races in freedom, the same as now, under government—(the race wars in Chicago, in Tulsa, and in other places; the Herin affair, and the Legion and Klan outrages.) These affairs are nearly always settled by private peacemakers before the militia gets in. In government these local affairs sometimes cause wars—the World War, for instance, so originated. In liberty, the means and organization is not there to make a general war possible because of a local disturbance, hence it is necessarily quickly settled.

The great John Bright truly said, Force is no remedy! A government may be overthrown by force, but not abolished. Another government would succeed it, which would be no better in the end. No matter how grand a theory might prove in practice, men wlil not flop from a bad fact to that or any other theory. It matters not what suits one, or what he wants, if liberty is ever to supersede authority, it will be by degrees—by special, decisive innovations in the right direction. Instead of wasting ten thousand years in vain effort to repeal a thousand nonsensical laws which can be evaded easily, the effort should be centered on the basic laws affecting economic justice—land and money laws. Mutual or free banking, in abolishing interest on money, would virtually repeal all those laws aimed against evils generated by the usurious monetary system. Then other basic economic wrongs could be more easily eliminated. Other subjects, or liberations, should by no means be neglected, nor ignored, but in the money question lies the most important point of action.