ON LAND AND CAPITAL
Maoriland Worker, Rōrahi 10, Putanga 680, 29 Poutūterangi 1919, Page 1
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ON LAND AND CAPITAL
■Limn.M_i.nm v -an*" ■'■■ " Xty HRNEST JONES, -______- mtkHD MONOPG-LT. ''You may do as you please: gtf the charter, establish co-operation—" what you will; but leave the aristoo-< raoy their land, their monopoly, and their privileges and you have dowj nothing. . . , The factory glooai is but tho shadow sof the black demon* Arlstocracy ; above the State. As the land is the fountain of ell material blessings, so a landed -'nrt*;™™*™-f"-*r •*■"»'■ PWiitwuij inn ... ■ MMT~ social' curisfes.*'-- The Hereditary Land Caste, *#. * • CAPITAL AND ITS SOURCE. Two things are necessary for tha production of wealth: Labor and Cap!-* tat It is, therefore, argued that capital has paramount claims—onoet without capital, labor would be usaw less, Perhaps so; but let us examta* , what capital is, whence St arises, and, to whom it belongs? The earth itself is the fundamental capital—the. capital of the human race, whioh, in. return for labor, yields them, as interest, the means of life. Labor Uk capital; every working man, the poo** est in existence, ia a capitalist—-th* capitalist of labor power, and claim- Ing as a right a share in the general capital of mankind—the soil, the ate; the waters, and tie tMngs tfeaft Hi i them are. j Now, what is the kind of capital tfcaG I clatroa and exercises despotio pr« eminence at the present day? Me&*_*< J Whenoe did that money arise? ! From the conjunction of labor -witS the fundamental capital ali-e_4y tw luded to. i Was that money raised by the cxe> i yons of one man? Never I Cue v-&% ; by daring- _peculatio_. and by tho ruin iof others, may have absorbed to hivoself the wealth produced by the labor 10. many, but one man's work neve. raised a large amount of money. { Take even the strongest case of to* dividual creation of capital (so tq speak), tbe invention of machinery, or some other great discovery o& c deuce. The Invention of a new m*» chine, if that machine were made en< work.- only by Its originator, woulfl produce but little; It is the labo? power of ethers employed in multiply* j ing the machine and in working 4
