People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 May 1897 — Darts from the Quiver [ARTICLE]

Darts from the Quiver

Law is an ingenious device to evade justice. Learn to regard the truth rather than its scource. —§- Interest is a tax laid on labor to pay men for being rich. — § — Financiering is the art of getting value without giving anything for it. — §— A reformation founded on justice can require no sacrifice from the true reformer. — § — If you wish to succeed in life, watch your poor neighbors and do exactly opposite to them. When a man wants to do anything he is ashamed of he says, “All I want is my rights according to the law.” — § — Some people think the producing classes have no business to talk finance, as it is a kind of a CCLBh BUSINESS. The aim of Archery is to encourage productive industry by finding a market for the product of the labor of its members. ' We have been asked repeatedly if Archery is a branch of the De Bernardi system of Labor Ex change. Reverse that question and, yes. Throughout ail nature’s wide domain the same unvarying law prevails. Equals for equalsv hence a departure from this principle is a, violation of nature’s law.

The key to life ' liberty and happiness lies in the measures we adopt to regulate reciprocal relations between man and man. If just measures are adopted justice will result, and where justice is no wrong can come. To the men and women who produce all we consume and consume all we produce, it must seem strange to hear as'a reason for bard times, that we have 1 consumed too much and hence are poor, and that we produced too much and hence are out of work.

Too many clothes! too much food! too many houses! too many implements! Everybody must stop work. Too much extravagance! too much spent for fine clothes! too many luxuries consumed! This is why we have nothing, and the fellow we work for has too much.

The Order of Archery is a plain business proposition, and cannot be employed by designing politicians to further their own selfish ends. Those who claim to have the power tc sell the vote of Archers to the highest bidder are promising more than they can fulfill. —.§ — Archery wages no war against anything or anybody that does right, but a condition that in its nature produces wrong m ust be changed. Merchants are neither less,' nor more important to a civilized society than the baker, tailor, shoemaker, carpenter, or blacksmith, each are working for the other, and all depend on " ' Ml