CO-OPERATION. 



Liberty may be called the physiology of love; one the stem, 

 the other the blossom; one the stream, the other the ocean; one 

 light, the other heat; one the head, the other the heart; one har- 

 mony, the other fusion. Liberty is each for all, love is all for 

 each. One is the perfect law and the other is its fulfillment. 



We might further trace the relation of liberty to life, to hap- 

 piness, to progress: show how it is the soul of inspiration, to 

 be preferred before life itself; but it is enough if we have in- 

 spired confidence in her as a safe guide to follow, for wher- 

 ever in the broad earth life and joy are found there is liberty. 



Let us then learn this lesson, that liberty is a definite, cohe- 

 rent, scientific principle: that it is regulated by its own recip- 

 rocal action of equal freedom: that it is the basis of harmony 

 and the mother of order. If she be encountered by knowledge 

 and the consensus of the competent, let knowledge perish, rath- 

 er than that liberty should fail. Though her teachings be mis- 

 leading, even indirectly destructive, yet, let 'law and order' per- 

 ish, rather than that liberty should not prevail. Yea, though 

 the sky be black with vice, and corruption stalk abroad, still, 

 keep burning the lamp of liberty, and darkness will give place 

 to light, and the whole heavens be filled with the sunshine 

 of peace and prosperity. 



EQUITY. 



EQUITY is the application of the principle of liberty to 

 commerce. Without coercion, injustice is impossible. Given 

 perfect liberty, and injustice rights itself. Save as a human 

 equation, there is no such thing as a principle of justice. Po- 

 litical economy, threfore, is a misnomer, and since, in nature, 

 the sup])ly is equal to the demand, cJuirity is the handmaid 

 and nurse of injustice. Without equal liberty, property is 

 robbery and price an extortion. 



GROUNDS OF OWNERSHIP. 



Is age or legality a final title to property V Upon what does 

 legality rest except somebody's opinion? And as to age, the 

 older a thing becomes, it goes to decay, if one should go 



