Nebraska Newspapers

    THE WEALTH MAKERS.
September 27, 1894
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WEALTH MAKERS.
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THE A1X1ANCK-INDEPENDKNT.
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PUBLISHED EVERT THURSDAY
BY
The Wealth Makers Publishing Company,
tito M Strset, Lincoln, Neb.
mmi HewASD onwoa Editor
J 8. Htatt Business Manager,
S. L P. A
II any man most (all for me to rlM,
, then seek I not to climb. Another'! pain
1 ohooae not for my good. A golden chain,
a obe of honor, Is too good a prize
to tempt my hasty hand to do a wrong
Onto a fellow man. This life hath woe
Sufficient, wrought by man's satanlc foe;
and who that hath a heart would dare prolong
Or add a sorrow to a stricken soul
That seeks a healing balm to make It whole t
sly boeom owns the brotherhood of man. "
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STATE OFFICERS-
For Governor Silas A. Hqloomb
Lleutenant-Qovernor J amis N. GArrn
Secretary of State Hilabt W. MoPadobh
State Auditor Johh W. Wilso
Bute Treasurer. Jons H Powbbs
Attomey-Ueneral Dambl B. Oabbt
Com. Public Lands & Bldgs...SiDSsY J. Kbnt
upt. of Public Instruction wm. A. Jobbs
FOB CONGRESSMEN.
First District. A H. Wbib
Second Dlstrin D. Clbm Dbavbr
Third District v....Johw M. Dbvibb
Fourth District ...W. L. Stab
Fifth District Wm. A. McKbiohab
Sixth District.. .Oma b M. Kbm
LANCASTER COUNTY.
County Attorney.. .....Fbbdbbick Shbpbbrd
County Judge...... O. W.Bbbgb
County Commissioner G. s. Paswatbr
Bute Senator R. T. Chambbbs,
Thomas G. mivms
Representative AC. Hbrrick,
0 S. Johbs, Fbahk D. Eagib, Johr
Hartlim, O. M. Dchm
Thb true order must come. What
ought to be shall be. What ought not
to be must pass away. t
The Populists made a very good gain
In Maine. But we cannot expect either
of the nine northeastern states to be
anything but capitalistic for some time
to come.
Prof. Ely has done the cause of
truth great service, but we fear he has
not in him the sacrificing spirit of a re
former. His answer to Wells' charges
included a denial of some things which
it would have been noble to confess.
The New York Populists are getting
recruits not singly but in great com
panies and battalions. The delegates
of thirty-five labor organizations meet
ing In New York have decided to go
into politics and co operate with the
Populists. 0 A
The Vermont and Maine elections,
showing a heavy swinging back across
tbe Republican line, show that the
people are party loose, but blind, unin
formed, Ignorant of the party and path
way of deliverance. Spread the light.
Preach every where the gospel of Pop
ulism. The election In Maine makes the Re
publican pre8softhe country jubilant.
But wait till you hear from the west.
The Democratic party is down east and
west, but tbe Republican party funeral
is the next in order. The Populist
party comes next to power, because it
alone is the party of the people, the
common people.
Say, neighbor, do you believe the
world has got to move politically in
order to be saved? Well what Is the
Republican or Democratic party doing
to move it? Are they not simply play
ing eee-saw on our backs? Between
them both haven't they strapped upon
us a great weight of evergrowing mo
nopoly burdens? And the Populist
party alone has undertaken to cut off
those crushing loads.
A POWER of consumption equal to the
product of ones labor must be by law se
cured to each individual, or we ehall
j continue to have periods of enforced
Idleness, leading to the wage Blavery
and miserable serfdom of all except a
class of monopolists and usurers. And
this power of consumption can only
come by cooperative production, or
product sharing.
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tlon. The present capitalistic and land
dona not allow the work-
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t . nt OiaIt nroduct. And net
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profits in the shape of money taken
from the producing ciass sou ;umu
t.tit.. tha r(h ntdueei the workers
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power to demand.and falling to consume
the market becomes glutted and work
periodically ceases,
DIRECT LEGISLATION EXPLAINED
DEwrrr, Neb, Sept. 17, 1894.
Editor Wealth Makers:
t An nnt understand all that is meant
hv Initiative and Referendum. I think.
a fnii Tnlanation will no doubt interest
many of your readers, especially
I ours truiy,
, O. H. JCDD
The Initiative and Referendum meth
od of legislation is simply direct legis
lation by tbe people, Instead 01 Dy
elected representatives. The people
take the initiative by petitioning mat a
law which they desire be submitted to
the whole body of voters, and it has to
be done. If the majority vote In favor
of it, It forthwith becomes law. The
Referendum Is the undelegated majority
sanction and veo power. In Swltzer
land, where this method of legislation
has been In use for many years, the peo
n1n filBct representatives, but retain
both the right to take the initiative in
the matter of legislation and also the
veto power, or Referendum, every Im
portant act passed by the legislative
assemblies havlnir to be referred to, not
the president governor, or major, but
the people, who meet and vote aye or
nay upon the acts submitted to them as
thev individually see fit. If the ma
jority of the people vote aye they sanc
tion the act: if the majority vote nay
such vote vetoes tbe proposed legisla
tion.
The majority can always be trusted to
ask for justice and to veto class legisla
tion, i. e.( legislation for ammoniy ana
against a majority. The majority can
not be bribed by sugar trusts, armor
olate contractors, or railroads, or tbe
furnishers of campaign funds. .If no
Important legislation could be com
pleted until voted on by the people,
lobbvlsts could secern plish nothing and
the whole dangerous, fearfully costly,
aooursed crowd of spoils-hunting, justice
selling office seekers would bs forced
into honest labor.
The Initiative and Referendum can
be easily grafted on to our present mu
nicipal, Btata,nd national methods of
legislation. The Initiative In each case
Is virtually a motion by petition that
the law proposed by the petitioners
shall be submitted to the people for
majority approval or rejection. The
labor of securing a sufficiently large
number of petitioners to make their
demand respectable and compulsory
would deter from petitioning for unim
portant legislation, and the reasonable
belief that the popular will, or majority,
would be against a measure wauld also
restrain a minority generally lrom peti
tioning. But whenever publlo opinion
was educated up to favor municipal
ownership of street railways, or light
ing, heating and power-furnishing
plants, or the telephone business, br
tenement or cottage building for the
people, or the single tax, or municipal
or state conducted product sharing in
dustries for the landless unemployed,
or woman's suffrage, or the nationaliza
tion of the liquor traffic, telegraphs,
railroads, mines, etc , or state or nation
al works of irrigation at cost, when It
seemed probable that any one' of these
or other Questions was favored by a ma
jority, then it would be easy to secure
the necessary number of petitioners and
the demand for the submission of the
proposed law would lead to a vote of
the people upon that one question sepa
rated from all others.
In Switzerland where this method of
direct legislation is in vogue compara
tively few new laws are enacted. In
this country we have vastly too much I
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lrtisiauuu, mo ureal uum ui ii uoiuk
lobbied and log-rolled through in the
Interests of corporations and classes.
It mav be well doubted If the last ses
sion of Congrt ss passed three measures
In the Interests of the whole people, or
that can be called just. We need to
stop heaping up a crushing mountain of
unjust enactments which tend to destroy
all reverence for the covernment and
confuse the sense of the people regard
ing what is just.
It is very evident to tVie intelligent
citizen that it is not safe to delegate the
lawmaking and vetoing power to politi
cal parties and smooth-talking profes
sional politicians. The caucus manipu
lators, the secret trading of office seek
ers, the temptations and dishonest use
of vastly valuable delegated power, the
complicated machinery of parties and
legislative bodies, make it possible for
the will of the people to be thwarted
forever, almost. Let us put a stop to
party rule and boodle rule and tongue
rule, and In future demacd that the
people shall rule.
NO WILDCAT HI OURS.
In an article in the financial depart
ment of a great New York weekly, un
der the heading, "Points In the Cur
rency Problem," we noticed last week
financial teaching which we wish to
call public attention to. The first point
made by the writer, a goldbug, was that
there Is need of an elastic currency,
that the people recognize this need and
It must be met somehow by Congress
and the bankers, or the demand for
more money aiad an elastic currency
will voice itself politically. To head
off the political demand for more money
(free Bil ver and greenbacks) and to pro
vide an elastic volume of currency he
argues that the banks must be given
powor to expand the currency to move
crops and whenever there is need of
more money.
The argument of this financial writer
(a banker, and speaking for the bankers)
is the argument of the Populists who
call for either the sub-treasury currency
system or, better, a system of govern
ment banks. But, mark you, there is
this difference, viz ; the private bank
ers want conferred on them the power
to make the currency elastic, to issue at
almost no cost to themselves bank-note
currency to loan and collect Interest on;
whereas the Populists deroard that the
government shall not delegate its sov
ereign power to issue money, currency,
bat shall Issue as much money as the
people need to borrow, upon good se
curity, at cost of doing the business
Why give away to be present money
monopolists the power to print paper
and loan it at high ta'es of Interest to
move crops and pay for work and so
provide capital, when the government
alone has the right to create money,
and whatever service It can render the
people belongs to the people by right,
and should not be taken from them and
given to gold or gold and sliver monop
olists?
This financier rightly argues that
silver coinage at Washington would not
provide the needed elasticity, the free
and sufficient expansion of the currency
needed, "In the farming states at har
vest time, for example." So he would
give to the banks In the rural districts
power te issue bank notes and collect in
terest on their own debts, on. bank paper
notes that would cost them not to ex
ceed a cent a hundred, a scheme to
force the people to pay them from ten
to thirty-six per cent on the face of
paper that cost them only one per cent
of its face which would be a profit of
ten hundred to thirty-six hundred per
cent on the cost of such capital.
If the paper currency can be furnished
tbe banks at one per cent, it can be
furnished direct to the borrowers cer
tainly at a labor cost of not to exceed
two per cent. And if the currency
needs to be made elastic, as the bank
ers and the Populists agree, let us have
it made elastic not by wildcat bank is
sues, but by means of warehoused se
curities and manufactured necessities
through government' banks conducted
by servants of the people, working for a
reasonable salary, as plenty of capable,
well qualified men will be willing to
work, and furnish bonds besides.
A new banking system must soon be
provided to take the place of the pres
ent system based on U. S. bonds. Let
it be, then, government banks and
banking providing currency at cost,
such as our party proposes. With gov
ernment banks, beloi glng to the people,
issuing on ample security legal tender
currency at cost, the usury or interest
drains will be out off, and the money so
lost will remain in the hands of the
wealthproducing class and famish
them the means to buy back as much
wealth out of the market as their labor
pours Into It, so establishing the necessary
equilibrium between supply and demand.
And, take notice, this equilibrium Is
what is necessary to prevent the peri
odic market gluts, commercial stagna
tion, contraction of credits and the en
forced Idleness and distress of destitute
millions. Government banks in each
county conducted by the elected and
bonded financial representatives of
the people, providing upon ample se
curity currency at cost for the needs of
each locality, would, with supplemen
tary land legislation, restore justice,
harmony and lasting prosperity to the
industrial and commercial world.
THE FINAL CONFLICT BEGUN.
We are seeing almost every day
prairie "schooners" on our streets,
headed not westward but eastward,
wagons with cotton covering containing
all the household effects and, with the
poor horses, constituting all the property
of the homeless, journeying families.
It l, wnen one considers, a pathetic
sight. No land that they can stay on
and live, no home to go to, no place in
God's great country that they can find
where they can freely labor. They are
going back where they must give a
third or more of what they produce for
the lost right, the legal privilege, to
live and work. They are going back to
compete with other renters and Increase
(because of the Increasing number who
must rent) the tribute extracting power
of land monopolists. For a hundred
years the young people and poor of the
east have been coming west and finding
homes; and because Uncle Sam was rich
enough to give whoever would move
west and occupy It a farm, we have not
known poverty among us, hardly, and
this country until recently has attracted
the oppressed poor of the whole world
But it can do so no longer. There are
millions and millions and millions of
fertile acres net cultivated, not In use,
but the greedy have gobbled up all the
good land and have locked the gates
against the poor, to speculate on the
pressure of hunger, and for monopoly
increased, despotlo power.
The whole situation has changed in
the last ten or fifteen years. When the
Cherokee strip was opened to home
seekers on a certain day a year and
more ago its border on every side was
lined deep with people gathered from
far and near, and on horseback, In
wagons, In all sorts of vehicles and on
foot, at a given signal, they made a
rush and fiercely fought and struggled
with and killed one another for the
land. The pressure of land monopoly
and need which this struggle for in
sufficient free land indicated, is a pres
sure which is steadily Increasing now
and must Increase, until but two classes
are left, landlords and miserably poor
abject wage workers and serfs, unless
radical land and labor legislation shall
bs enacted. The "thickening up pro
cess," as it Is called, with no free land
outlet for the oppressed poor and the
increasing population, Is like the
thickening up process of the wine press.
It Is a process which crushes the sweat
and life out of the legally disinherited
masses, to enrich and provide pleasure
for the monopolist classes.
Tbe supreme struggle with the beast
of selfishness, with the kings and cap
tains and mighty men (Rev. 19: 18, 19,)
Is upon us. The final battle between
the wealth makers and the wealth
takers of the world is begun. And it
will be a fearful conflict, calling forth
all the brutality of human selfishness,
of greed and power, the inhumanities
such as have blackened all the pages of
history; and it will also call out all the
sacrificing Christian spirit which has
entered into the hearts of men.
''And I saw heaven opened and be
hold a white horse; and he that sat up
on him was called Faithful and True,
and In righteousness he doth judge and
make war.
His eyes were as flames of fire, and
on his head were many crowns; and he
had a name written, that no man knew
but he himself.
"And he was clothed with a vesture
dipped in blood: and his name is called
the Word of God
"And the armies in heaven followed
him upon white horses, clothed in tine
lir en, white and clean.
"And out of his mouth goeth a sharp
sword, that with It he should smite the
nations: and he shall rule them with a
rod of iron: and he treadeth the wine
press of the fiercecess and wrath of
Almighty God.
"And he hatb on his vesture and on
his thigh a name written, ' king OF
KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS.
"And I saw the beast, and tbe kings
monopolists of the earth, and their
armies, gathered together to make war
against him that sat on the horse and
against his army."
"Marching dewn to Armageddon,
Brothers stout and strong,
f et ns cheer the way vie tread on
With a soldier's song "
MR- FLOWER'S NEW BOOK.
The New Time: A Pisa for the Union of the
Moral Forces for Practical Progress By B. O,
Flower. Published by the Arena Publishing
Company. Price In paper twenty-five cents.
Mr. Flower's latest book, ''The New
Time," is the combined papers of a
series of articles which have appeared
In the Arena during the past year, the
object of them all being to unite the
moral forces of communities "for a con
certed action for social, moral and in
tellectual progress." His first paper
led to an organization which took the
name, "Union for Practical Progress,"
and local unions have been organized in
many places. The book is divided into
five chapters under the following titles:
Union for , Practical Progress; They
Have Fallen into the Wine-Press: Jesus
or Caesar; The New Time; Then Dawn
ed a Light In the East. The first
chapter suggests the plan aid platform
of the proposed unions. The second Is
made up in part of an extract from
Olive Schreiner's "Dreams" with notes
by Mr. Flower Inserted. The "dream"
Is a maryelously fascinating, terribly
truthful picture of human life, and Mr.
Floer in connection with It gives
published facts, of dally occurrence,
which prove that it Is not overdrawn.
Recently In New York City there were
nine suicides In twenty four hour, and
one of the dallies which Investigated
these cases announced that a majority
of the terrible deaths were due to
hunger or fear of starvation. Particu
lar cases which come under Mr. Flow
er's own observation in Boston are also
given.
In the chapter entitled, ,"Jesus or
Ctsar," Mr. Flower speaks especially
to the churches and shows that neither
the threat of violence nor the crust of
charity can deal successfully with pre
sent social conditions and problems.
Not by strengthening the military arm
not by forcible repression, but by re
storing justice to the oppressed is
society to be saved. This chapter is very
interesting In its subject matter The
fourth and fifth chapters round out the
constructive thought and wisdom of the
author's plan.
Altogether the book Is timely, in
spired by great love, and intensely In
teresting, and already Its thought and
presentation of social conditions has
resulted in what may be called an
organization of the moral sense of many
communities whose work promises to be
effective a-d far reaching.
00AL8 FROM TRUTH'S ALTAR-
Tho sentences given below are se
lected from Prof. George D. Herron's
published or spoken words. If our
readers were not prepared generally to
receive and understand Dr. Herron we
should not take his words out ef their
connections. To those who cannot give
assent, or who fall to grasp the support
which Dr. Herron furnishes in his
statement and argument from which
these sentences are broken out we sug
gest the reading of his book, "The New
Redemption."
SELECTED FROM HERRON'S THOUGHTS.
There Is no sacrifice so great, so cost
ly, as getting the truth Inn the world.
It was the word of their testimony
which brought the ape sties to martyr
dom. Selfishness is always social disinte
gration. Competition Is not law, but
anarchy. ..
The whole social question is fast re
solving Itself Into a question of whether
or not capital can be brought into sub
jection to law.
The industrial worker is a poet, a
creator, an artist, a musician, because
all work righteously done, to the best
of one's ability, is a creation; it is a
harmony. It is the music of God sing
ing itself oat through the life of man.
Of all pauperism the most degraded
and degrading, because utterly shame
less and thriftless, Is that aristocracy
which Idly luxuriates In money obtained
through speculation, extortion, or in
heritance. The assumption that capital may dis
charge and employ solelv on the basis
of self-interest shuts God out of human
affairs and denies the brotherhood of
man. It is social anarchism. It is the
declaration on the part of capital that
it will not submit to law.
Absoluttenrof every sort is doomed
and cannot bold its own against the
purposes of God. It can no more sus
tain itself in industry than in politics.
If Democracy is good for the state, it is
good lor industry.
Capital is a social creation, and its
administration a social responsibility ;
so that industrial federation lies in the
nature of things. An industrial Democracy
would, be the social actualization of Chris
tianity. It is the logic of the Sermon on
the Mount, which consists of the natural
laws by which industrial justice and social
peace can be obtained and established.
Labor is not a commodity any more
than human souls are a commodity; la
bor is life.
Love was natural law. Love lay at
the heart of the universe. The right
eousness of the kingdom of God could
alone bring equitable prosperity to men.
The competition of selfish interests was
the very Insanity of sin. It was the
root of all human tragedy and deformity
and despair. -
The love of Christ is still the most
revolutionary element that can be in
troduced into society. It can mean
nothing less than entire social recon
struction. What we have been accustomed to
call economic laws is the lawlessness of
society. There is no law but love.
TEE NEW SONG BOOK GOING
The fame of oar new song book is
spreading and the book Is being called
for from ocean to ocean.
Hon. H. E. Taubeneck, our national
chairman writes that he is greatly
pleased with it and says:
"It is the best song book vet publish
ed since the inauguration of the reform
movement. I hope that you will be able
to introduce it into every household in
the land. Our local campaign speakers
and committees ought to see that it
receives the widest circulation."
The Missouri World says:
"It fills a long felt want."
The Rocky Mountain News reviewing
the book says: "It is the best of any
thing In the line that we have seen."
The Hartford City Arena of Indiana
says: .
, It is much the best work of the kind
we have yet seen, and any glee club
supplied with it will command the
crowds.
"The Shelby Sun welcomes the b'ok
and says:
"Campaign singers and glee clubs
should not fall to secure a copy of
Armageddon. It Is the best song book
with music we have ever seen."
The People's Poniard says:
"The Armageddon a"ng book is a
boon to the downtrodden tolling masses
and to people who love music . which
couples good harmony with lofty senti
ments."
The first edition will soon be exhaust
ed. The book has been copyrighted In
Great Britain and will be made the
song book of the Industrial political
movement for liberty in the entire
English speaking world Every family
should possess a copy even If they do
not sing. The words are the cry of the
oppressed, the cry for justice.
TOM, TOM, THE MAJORS SON
It has been charged that I helped
spirit Taylor away. My only answer is
that I wish I had the power to not only
have spirited that man away, hut that
I was able today to spirit every Populist
In the state away from Nebraska in
order that prosperity might return to
this stricken country.
Thomas J Majors.
Majors Is perhaps excusable for his
desperate desire to get rid of the Popu
lists this fall, because they are going to
politically bury him. But he is con
stitutionally, from lack of principle,
opposed to the Populists because they
are determined that the people instead
of the corporations shall rule. Majors
doesn't like the Populist because they
enacted a maximum freight law, and
cut down extravagant appropriations,
and unearthed the corruption existing
In state institutions, and cut off cam
paign boodle funds in part by pasting a
law requiring state and county treat
urers to make all banks give bonds that
handle public money and to collect in
terest paid for the use of such money
and turn it into the public fund. He
doesn't like the Populists because they
are in favor of honest, economic govern
ment that shall strike down oppression
and rescue the workers from his gang
of long-feasting insatiable plunderers.
He doesn't like the People's party be
cause he is a wellpald, well satisfied
servant ' of the ' corporations.
He doesn't like the People's party be
cause they propose to make all men
live by their own honest labor and will
not permit plunder or the repudiation
of honest obligations. See the repudia
tion bill which Majors himself years
ago introduced and voted for Ic the
State legislature. Majors is a conscience
less political parasite and corporation
cormorant.
It gives us great pleasure to call at'
tentlon to the testimonials published
on first page, respecting Prof. Jones as
an educator. Our candidate for the
office of Superintendent of Public In
struction is preeminently fitted for the
office for which he is named. Without
saying anything against Mr. Corbett it
must be admitted that he is not to be
compared with Prof. Jones, who for ten
years filled the position of president ef
the Indiana State Normal School
and who is ranked with the great
progressive educators of the nation.
The people of Nebraska should, as Prof.
Bell, editor of the Indiana School
Journal, advises them, regardless of
party turn in and elect Prof. Jones to
the state superintendency of Nebraska
schools. Prof, Bell says: "Mr. Jones
Is a leader among educational thinkers
and he would honor the highest educa
tional office any state could confer upon
him. Nebraska could not do itself a
greater honor or confer upon its chil
dren a greater blessing than to elect
him, without regai d to party, Supt. of
Public Instruction." No man in Indi
ana is more familiar with the school
work and school history of Prof Jones,
than is the editor of the School Journal,
himself a noted educator.
HJ.3 NAME 18 LEGION.
In the early days when Christ and his
apostles preached In Palestine men were
possessed with devils, and they cast them
out. The docrine or record of demoni
acal possessions is an unquestioned part
of Scripture. But, strangely enough,
people have got the notion that Satan
and his crew have gone out of business.
There isn't anything to indicate it In
fact there are some men today, who
seem to have a legion of devils inside
them. There is one such running a
paper at Madison, a man who, at thia
distance, seems not to have a single
redeeming quality. In the last Issue of
his sheet, the Reporter, he calls Thb
Wealh Makers ' a blatant liar and a
paid hireling," and asks, "How much
did you get Judas Howard Gibson
editor of Thb Wealth Makers?
Where did you get the money you gave
to your canvassing agent who went
through this district dropping money
to papers and voters to keep in the
middle of the road, while ostensibly
canvassing for The Wealth Maksrs?
If the worst devil in existence could
compress more diabolism into lying
ftnil rlpfiimufinn fhan fka aknA mita
tions contain we have hitherto not
possessed an adequate conception bf
devilish possibilities. It is a deliberate
effort to assassinate reputation and
the reputation of men against whose
character nothing can be truthfully
said. If this Madison would-be assassin
were a creature of any considerable
property he would not dare to publish
the baseless lies he does. But with alL
his maliciousness his influence is too
limited to make him really worth ser
ious notice.
The Plainvlew News has this to say
of the Madison Reporter:
Keep it before the people: The Madi
son Reporter, Fullerton Post and Platte
Center Signal are Democratic papers,
not Populltts The old party press Is
using articles from the papers named
and crediting them as Populist papers
for political purposes. Remember this.
PEBBLES ON THE SHORE.
The Wealth - Makers visits the
homes of more students of the State
University, probably, than any other
paper in Nebraska. It will therefore
be of special Interest to many and of
general Interest to ail to read below
mention of Prof. W. G. Taylor, who
holds the very important and responsi
ble position of Adjunct Professor in
cuare of the Dapartment of Political
and Economic Sciences
The danger of taachers and from
teachers today, as it ever has been, is
that they have learned too much, many
of them, to have really open minds.
They are apt to conclude that what they
know can not be questioned, and that,
having learned of the tltlt d and gowned
all the highest know, or think they
know, they have reached very near the
llmitof the unknowable. The accepted,
titled, hired teachers of the world, par
ticularly the teachers of political and
social science, would Bot be, hired if
it were known beforehand that they
would teach with the zal and faithful
ness of reformer! the equal, na'ura),
inalienable rights of all men to the use
of the land and mines and stored up en
ergies, and that governments should
protect the weak and serve each and all
impartially. It is not now required of
the schools that they teach what ought
to be Tbe church must do that. And
the church is too busy saving "souls,"
from the hell of the hereafter, to inter
est itself in what it calls secular matters.
So, between the conformity of the
schools and devotion to things Immate
rial on the part of the churches, the
work of disseminating saving truth
of a political, economic, t social sore to
break up the monopoly stratification of
society is left m stiy to untitled, unor
dalncd, unpaid mea wnose hearts burn
or the common people.
But there are professors and profes
sors. There are chancellors and chan
cellors, as we have lately seea. And
we cherish the hope that Prof Taylor
will at least encourage his students to
study Marxs "Kapltal,'1 George's
works, The Fabian Essays, 'Gmx's
Bay," Riis' ','How the Other Half