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Me Peope Rule Why Don't
They Get What They Want ?
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ACLAIIHVIV mnrai-Kmrn icNtivni. Numoer iuijikmi enroll tculttr.
rxriLsiui I AtlilreBB COL. V. I. I'ONVILLC, Mexico,
J. M. Maynard, Apex, N. 0. A
few capitalists control everything
and self comes first and my own ex
perience for the last few days will
prove It, At Morrisville, N. C, a
wealthy merchant and cotton man
ufacturer who all, my life credits
me lor thirty days, hut as a matter
of my afflictions and sickness my sup
ply of money for the year wais ex
hausted, and told him it would he
ninety days hefor I could pay him.
As such he required my note on land
and after getting my note here is dif
ference in prices: Meat 17 to 19
cents; sugar (5 pounds) 30 to 38
cents. So you see just why n few
capitalists want to hire a few officers
to run the government for them.
S. B. Lohr, York, Pa. In answer
to the senator's question would say
that the .people will never rule so
long as the voters of the United
States send men to our national cap
ital like Taft, Aldrich and Cannon.
So long as the head of our govern
ment is made up of such men so long
-will the money power rule and the
trusts will get just what they want
and the common people will pay the
penalty for the favored ones. For
example, would refer you to the
present tariff .schedule that should
convince any intelligent man how to
vote and for whom to vote. Why not
elect men into office like the peerless
William Jennings Bryan and then
the people will rule and not until
then.
Mo.
Henry Travers', Ben wood, W. Va.
I'tmnk laws like the" 'state of Ore
gon initiative and referendum, and
recall would he a means of making
the welfare of the people the su
preme law. Not until the people se
cure such laws will they get whit
they wantr
Lincoln, pages 309-310. (This warn
ing is omitted from later histories):
"Monarchy itself is sometimes hint
ed at as a possible refuge from the
power of the people. In my present
position I could scarcely be justified
were I to omit raising a warning
voice against the approach of return
ing despotism. There is one point
to which I call your attontinn Tt ia
the effort to place capital on an equal
luuung wun, ii not alone labor, in
the structure of government. Lot
them beware of surrendering a polit
ical power which they already have,
and which, if surrendered, will sure
ly be used to close the door of ad
vancement against such as they, and
io nx new disabilities and burdens
upon them till all of liberty shall
be lost.'J Four years later in a let
ter to a friend in Illinois aro these
words from the great hearted Lin
coln: "Yes, we may all congratu
late ourselves that this cruel war is
nearing to a close. It has cost a
vast amount of treasure and blood.
The best blood of the flower of
American youth has been frnaiv !
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ouerea upon our country's altar that
tne nation might live. It has been
indeed a trying hour for the repub
lic; I see in the near future, a' crisis
approaching that unnerves me and
causes me to tremble for the Bafety
of my qountry. As a result of the
war corporations have been en
throned, and an era of corruption in
high places will follow, and the
money power of the country will en
deavor to prolong its reign by work
ing upon the prejudices of the peo
ple until all wealth is aggregated in
'a few hands, and the republic is de
stroyed. I feel at this moment more
anxiety for the safety of my country
than ever before, even in the midst
of the war." Do conditions predicate
a fulfillment of that prophecy?
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Wm. Morrow, Bladen, Neb. Be
cause they don't ask for themselves
nor stand by the man who asks for
them. "Ask and ye shall receive;
seek and you shall find, knock and
it shall be opened unto you," is a
law of the universe. . Even the Al
mighty is represented as yielding to
the Hebrews. But we ask and re
ceive not because we ask amiss. Who
now is-asking -for justice and mercy?
Who is asking for old age pensions
for the needy, for guaranteed bank
deposits, public land for the landless
only, state titles for real estate
double track on the main lines of all
railroads? Why, equality under the
law would soon work wonders with
our condition. A general who is
rich gets $5,000 per year, but a' pri
vate who is poor gets $8 per month.
Thousands of southern women and
children are hoeing cotton for thdir
grub. -Now I don't know when these
conditions will be changed, but the
people must ask persistently and
unitedly, 'and there is no power on
earth can resist them, and heaven
is on their side, whrn they ask for
justice and not license.
' M'. B." Stamm, Baxter, Kan. To
Senatbr Owen's question a large ma
jority making reply affirm that the
people do not ruje. Naturally these
questions present themselves! Did
they ever rule? If so when did they
cease to rule, and who are the
usurpers? Much light is thrown on
these questions from the beacon,
held aloft by the sainted Lincoln a
half century ago. These words of
warning occur in his message to con
gress in 1861. See Barret's Life of
R. B. Brower, Coldwater, Mich.
Having read all the answers to Sen
ator Owen's question, I would say
there is truth In all the answers. My
own answer is, the people do not get
what they want their rights be
cause of their weakness. The reason,
having ourselves in or under the
yoke of the money interests, inno
cently at first (and, many are stiJl
so doing) by borrowing money,
thinking it necessary" so to do. Now
had we all heeded the scriptural in
junction, "Owe ye no one," our yoke
would have been an easy one. Would
ask right here, had we obeyed that
injunction, where would the money
interests have been today? Now if
we, the people, will wake up, open,
their ears, harking back along thef
line in a business way, selecting the
credit and debtor, placing on. its own
side of ledger, observing that Holy
Writ that the credit side is not out
done by the debtor. It looks to me
that Qur servants, whom we send to
niakelaws for us at our vineyard.
may he compared to the parable in
Holy Writ where the owner of the
vineyard left his vineyard to a
huBhandman for a share of the vin
tage, the huBhandman, taking advan
tage of the proprietor and appropri
ating his shaTe to his own use. An
other trouble with us (the people)
we are too much divided. Why not
join hands and all pull for our rights,
is all the same to many. IT seems to
be placing the debit side on the
credit side, thus defeating our own
best interests. Now why should not
we (the people) join hands, creating
such a sentiment as to cause our so
called servants' return to their em
ployers (the people) their just due.
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