THE WEALTH MAI
November 8, 1894.
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W IIt In deed, not year; la thought, not
breath;
In leellngs. not In figure on a dial.
We ahuuld count Urn by heart throb. He Uvea
most
Wbo thiuk moat, teal tb noblest, act the
beat." '
Five years more in this century. And
the shadows ol coming events, new and
startling, may be Been.
He who thinks the, men on top can
keep the world from moving forward aud
turning them under, has not reckoned on
the resistless progress of truth.
The right to work, for every man that
is willing, is the next great human right
to be dpflued and enforced by the law,"
says Prof. John R. Commons.
. . H. Sorenson, business manager of
the Dannebrog Lumber Company, at
Dannebrog, Neb., is one of the men who
has no nse for the Business Men's Asso
ciation. And he is therefore the man for
Populists to stand by.
The American Bankers Association
which held its annual meeting in Balti.
more a few weeks ago, got a preacher to
pray to open the meeting, and he prayed
that they might "act in unselfishness."
This is considered in hades the greatest
joke of the season.
Ir the Populist party gains in this elec
tion enough to give it general impetus
forward look out for a tremendous politi
cal battle to follow. If it does not gain,
as we expect it will, oppression will in
crease and the volcanic fires will be
smothered by force, till the whole lid
blows off.
The Populist candidate for governor
of Minnesota, Hon. S. M. Owen, editor of
the "Farm, Stock and Home" in a recent
speeck well said:
No political party ought . to outlive
more than four presidential terms, three
would be as well or better, because parties
are very much like men after all, are only
pure and innocent when they are very
young.
The difference between the rich and the
poor is chiefly a difference caused by leg
islation. The rich are made rich not by
a difference in what they have produced,
but in' what they have eoiamanded
through unjust laws,. The iich are the
class wbo cannot be fooled by political
liars and demagogues; those who lack
means to live are the class who are
deceived by party leaders. Votes are the
means by which wealth is distributed.
A friend dropped into the office elec
tion day and related a fact bearing on
the practices of the old Rep party in this
election. A man whom we can name was
wanting to go to Texas and expected to
leave some time ago, but had been forced
to wait for bis transportation. On the
morning of election day the R. R. agent
let bim know he could get his transpor
tation that evening. Knowing him to
be a Majors Republican the R. R. had
held back his transportation and kept
bim in the state to vote.
"80 FALLEN, 80 LOST"
The spectacle of the leaders of the Re
publican party, the head and ruling
power of it, hiring steam whistles and
hoodlums to disturb the meeting of their
political opponents in Funk's opera
bouse the night, before election, was
enough to disgust and drive ont from its
ranks all fair-minded people. We have
nothing more to fear from a party that
has snnk so low and that makes a publio
shameless display of itself. The same
vulgar and contemptible intolerance was
shown at Topeka, we learn from a friend
living there. Here, as there, it can not
be excused as the work of irresponsible
toughs. They were brought together by
the Republican committee for the work
which they did. When corrupt politi
cians see' that their candidates are
threatened with defeat and that their
hold of power is slipping, in their despe
rate resorts they give themselves away
and hasten or increase their own over
throw. Another publio showing of the fallen
spirit of the Republican party and the
goldbug Democrat bolters in the cam
paign, was the exercise of autocratic
power in preparing the ballots to con
fuse and mislead the people and so pre
vents fair election. Instead of sending
out the sample ballots in theircustomary
form, as they have heretofore been
printed, placing each party's name in a
separate line and joining with a brace
when two or more parties nominated the
same man, Secretary of State Allen
assumed power to run upon one line
Democrat and People's Independent,
connecting them with a hyphen, making
a new compound name of his own, which
was contrary to fact, and he placed the
name of the bolters, who came op by
petition, as "Straight Democrats." This
arbitrary act was to confuse and mislead
voters so that they would not vote as
they desired and intended to vote, the
end in view being to so continue the Re
publican party in power by fraud, by
deception, if it should lack the needed
votes. The action of our committee
serving a writ of mandamus in the
district court in part prevented this
game to practically disfranchise thous
ands and steal the state government.
By order of the court, Judges Tibbetts
and Hall, the clerk of Lancaster county
was compelled to reprint the tickets for
this county and some others of the Re
publican clerks wero restrained, the
Douglas county for one. But these deci
sions from fair-minded judges (notPopu
lists, either) the Rep leaders could not
abide, so they hustlef the Supreme court
judges together, sending a special train
after one of them, and f these men being
notoriously corporation judges, the rail
roads having turned down Reese and
Maxwell to get their sort of men where
they were needed, the higher eourt to its
shame reversed the decision of Hall,
Tibbetts and Ferguson and declared on
technical grounds that the clerks were
empowered to print the ballots as they
first started out to, to mislead, aud so
thwart and overthrow the sovereign will
of the Voters of Nebraska. And so anx
ious Were the railroad Majors-headed
machine to mislead a few thousand voters
and to grasp the offices that in Douglass
county where all the ballots (60,000)
had been printed and sent out that at 11
o'clock Saturday night they scurried up
typesetters and pressmen and worked
them all day Sunday to replace the half
way fair ballots with grossly misleading
ones which the Supreme court sanctioned.
The waste of the 60,000 printed ballots
was nothing when others more mislead
ing would be allowed.
The Evening News of this city, a Rep
ublican paper, has warned its party that
thie game to mislead voters would react
upon the party. But it Was anything to
get the offices, with the old party leaders,
and the corporations must , down the
Populists, who persist in passing railway
monopoly-limiting laws. The methods
of the Republican leaders publicly laid
bare in this year's election ought to
make all self-respecting, fair-minded men
leave its ranks never, to return.
A VISIOS OF PARADI8E
A picture not of what has been, but of
what may be, is in our mind. It isdrawn
by reason, with all facts and forces of
good and evil considered at least, such
-is our intent. We see that love is the
law of the universe, the law of life, the
law of production and distribution, the
creative, conservative, economic, organ
izing law. We can see that it is wiser
than selfishness. By giving all we shall
gain all. By serving all we shall be
served by all. By caring for all we shall
be cared for and guarded by all. By
.trusting and obeying God we shall be
able to trust ourselves and all we have
to ptir brethren, and they will be able to
equally irust auu iifn." '
what another has created is what has
locked men out of paradise. But today
the doors of Eden stand oen to all who
will enter. Paradise may be regained by
simple obedience. Self love is not for
bidden, provided it be not selfish or
separate love. "Thou shalt love thy
neighbor as thyself." This is the whole
law.
Now a company of ns wish to live by
this law. What, then, does it require us
to do? We are some of ns possessed of a
considerable surplus, and others " Jack
means to work and live. We therefore
are led to communis our capital and
divide equally our product. We cannot
enjoy hoarding while our brothers,
eqnally willing to work, are suffering.
That all may hare work always and
freely serve one another and beabundant
ly supplied with good things, and be set
free from anxiety and strain and tempta
tion to be selfish and mean, ' we see that
we must be organized into a body of
workers with natural resources, capital
and the most economic plans for produc
ing for all. We therefore propose selling
our detached, widely separated property
and purchasing land in a body near Lin
coln upon which we can com together
and plant and build a farming, stock
raising, fruit-growing, manufacturing
and love-educating paradise. We shall
be able to cast the devil of anxiety and
covetousness from our minds and homes
at once. We shall make nse of the wis
dom of the best farmers, stockraisers and
others to plan and direct all the labor of
production, and shall thus save what
now goes to waste through the incom
petency of less wise individuals of bur
number. We shall economize greatly in
labor cost of production by using the
best tools and machinery and working
to much better advantage by working
together. We shall build much more
economically by having our capital com
mon property. We shall furnish oui
best thinkers and students of economic
production a common library, placing in
it all the latest works that will increase
the knowledge and ideas of our farmers,
breeders, fruit-raisers, manufactures
builders, machinists, inventors, teacher
and the rest. We shall provide inventive
genius with means to experiment in the
common interest. We shall plant every
tree and shrub aud flower that is pleas
ant to the sight and useful, which thie
soil and climate will produce. We shall
lay out beautiful grounds, nn encircling
park and orchards, and build with taste
in their center, with an eye to combina
tions and ( most pleasing effects. We
shall each and all be interested in all that
is being done and shall meet often all
together to learn of each other what
love is doing, and to discuss labor
economies, improvements in methods of
production, invention, discoveries oi
value, enlargement and improvement of
plans, moral and physical questions, the
training of our children in love and in
the care of their bodies, and to discuss
the condition of the selfish world outside
and how to most quickly save it, and
ourselves more perfectly with it.
: We shall not work to exceed eight
hours a day on the average and shall
devote th rest of the time to reading
and all sorts of enjoyable recreation.
All this which we have been picturing
will not come in a moment, but will be
built with labor year by year, and grow
perfect with education. The first genera
tion in our paradise will find the force of
lifelong selfish habits strong, and it will
require patience and forbearance one
with another until kindness and gentle
ness aud unselfishness become equally
habitual. The greater love we give to
those who serve most will be their only
additional, yet most blessed and satisfy
ing, reward.
SOME QUESTIONS AUD SUGGESTIONS
Valentine, Neb., Oct. 19, 1894.
Editor Wealth Makers: '
I have seen a few articles In your papr
on the subject of co-operative societies.
I would like to ask a few questions on
some points and make a few suggestions
on others.
I didn't make out from your editorial
of Sept. 6th whether your intention was
to form a local corporation at Lincoln
or to form a state corporation ami begin
at Lincoln. If it was to be local it seems
to me it should be located where a good
water power could be secured. In order
to succeed a co-operative society should
manufacture their clothes, boots and
shoes, harness, and some of their imple
ments. To depend on steam would place
them in the power of the coal barons,
who are non-residents and out of our
reach. It seems to me Crete or Grand
Island (the island,) or some such point
would be the place. If it were a state
corporation, however, to organize at
different points, each to be a part of the
whole, of course Lincoln would be as good
a central point as any.
I believe co-operative enterprise is the
only thorough solution of our present
social evils. Of course no thorough re
form can come short of government own
ership of the means of production, but it
seems to me if wecould organize through
out the state and aim to produce mainly
for our own consumption, we might de
feat the power the trusts have over ns,
in a measure at least. There are two
things which would make it difficult' to
organize: one is that if we should organ
ize in such a way as to allow every one
to draw ont in proportion to the capital
invested the time would come when the
greater investments would consume the
smaller ones, the same as the power of
interest consumes; yet to organize differ
ently those of considerable means are apt
to stay out; the other difficulty is, that a
large share of farm property is nnder
mortgage and it would be difficult, if
possible at all, for the owners to lift
them or dispose of their interest in such
a way as to save it nnder the" present
system of foreclosure.
I am inclined to the belief tbat a state
corporation would be best, provided our
1w.wa5 tax noiq pjj.p in sumcient
numuers iu ii!Sf r worwntgiorm&i
the different points. It would be an in
surance against hail, for one thing.
I should like to know whether the cor
poration would expect to set up a creed,
or whether the living under the principle
of universal brotherhood, each for the
others' good, is considered as defining
Christian character without subscribing
to articles of faith.
I should like to know whether there
would be opportuuity for those living in
different parts of the state to join in such
an organization where cash sales were
out of the question.
.,JT,hrejr,Bpme places in the state bet
ter adapted to raising cattle for beef,
than for anything else, other places
would be better for creameries. Some lo
calities are better for raising fruit, and
grain, some places have good water pow
er that are not very practical for any
thing else. So we might perhaps outline
other phases of production, where one
point wonld possess an advantage over
another. Why could not all these local
advantages be joined in such a way, as
to serve the interests of the whole. There
is perhaps not one in 500 who has read
the editorials in The Wealth Makehs,
and is In accord with their sentiments
who will feel like declaring bis views, or
inclinations, from an inborn fear of ven
turing upon new ground. Let me urge
upon all those who are disposed to enter
tain such a belief to express themselves
through The Wealth Makers (if our
editor has space) because the question is
vital. Tim was, when national laws
might have defeated national trusts.
But national laws, will not defeat inter
national frusta. I see no way but to
produce for our own wants, and thus cut
off their market. Charles E. Doty.
Brother Doty has set ns to thinking on
a new line, and I am glad he has given ns
his mind. No one man can think out all
that is wise and good. Jt needs aa all to,
do it. My thinking has been chiefly con
fined to a beginning, my object of desire
being to conceive the natural, wise, right
way of living, and to so clearly grasp the
right way as to be able with ittocapture
the reason and conscience of any and
every man and woman to whom ttshould
be presented. I would "preach the go
pel" (oi this way of living) "to the poor"
in truth so plain that its means of salva
tion from present want, anxiety, tempta
tion and evil would be seen by them. I
would propose a union of hearts for "the
brokenhearted," a union of hands and
heads for the captives in debt, and for
the blind and the bruised who have been
trampled beneath the heel of monopoly
oppressors. I would carry thegoodnews
of the restoration of men and women and
children to their eqnal natural rights in
the earth and to all its forces, and to the
accumulated wisdom and knowledge of
all the ages.
Creeds, statements of faith, now divide'
individuals and churches. Deeds of love
are all that is necessary, are the heaven
ordained means, to unite men. There
fore all we need to believe in, is the su
preme law of love, of service, of sacrifice.
Our conception of duty should be ex
pressed m au agreement to"byloveserve
one another," an agreement that could
not be a mere profession, for the plan of
giving up lands and capital, and of joint
production, and equal sharing of the
coinmou labor product, would make its
fulfillment both necessary and easy. I
am convinced that co-operative societies
must have a stronger bond than self-interest
on the part of the members, i. e., a
dollar or commodity interest. The ordi
nary corporation is composed of selfish
men. Some of the co-operative societies
are organized by the same spirit, by in
dividuals who think only of bettering
their own individual condition. The
cross of love, service, sacrifice, they are
not ready for. They have in them none
of the spirit of Christ. They are ready to
lead, but not to be led," to freely receive,
but not to freely give, to be served, but
not to lovingly serve. I consider the
Christ spirit of vital importance, the nec
eesnry bond of our proposed corporate
organization. I would therefore refust
membership to any who refuse to be for
all time to come governed by it. I would
ask all men who desire to unite with us
these questions: ,
Do you believe in God, our infinite
father, it Christ our perfect brother,
and in the law of equalizing love, ex
pressed in the command, "Thou shalt
love thy neighbor as thyself?"
Those answering in the affirmative, if
not already professed disciples of Christ,
I think should be (by any form which
satisfies them) publicly baptized into the
name of the Father, Son and Spirit, the
divine fatherhood, the human brother
hood, the spirit of uniting love.
As the philosophical basis of our indus
trial enterprise and social organization
1 propose the following declaration of
in er-dependence, which we published a
year ago and also three years ago, to
wit: We hold these truths to be self-evident:
that all men created have a right to live,
and to share equally the abundant natu
ral provisions for a happy existence; that
the earth is theirs by a common inherit
ance, for nse only, and not for specula
tion; that because it is the inexhaustible
source of values no eqnal value can be
offered for it, or a part of it, and that
therefore no just title of absolute owner
ship is acquired in it; that.it must belong
without possible alienation pf title to all
individuals of all generations. We bold
that the individuals of the race are inter
dependent, each needing all and having
the power to serve air; that each individ
ual differs in his wants and capabilities
from all others, differs not simply in de
gree, and that he is as much needed by
the body politic, as is each member of
the human body, to constitute a perfect
whole; we hold that self-interest, thogood
of the individual, is so bound up with
society interests, or the interests of all
other individuals, that it can not be pre
served apart, that individuals cannot
look out for their own interests only, as
in the present business and political
struggle, withoutinsecurityand immense
loss; we hold that there can be no clash
ing of interests between members of a
healthful, naturally organized society,
''aud'tfiBt in proportion to its numbers,
through organic unity, will be the meas
ure of individual service, benefits and en
joyments. We hold that each member
of society should be equally nourished,
equally exercised, and receiveequal honor
for equal exertion.
I am convinced that these are the
truths and principles of social science, the
basis and lines of harmony on which and
according to which the society of the
future, the society which is to remain,
must rise.
Now in answer to Brother Doty I think
there should be local, state, national and
world-wide industrial organization of
those who have in them or who accept
th spirit of Christ Organize locally
wherever two or three individuals or fam
ilies will come together in a Christian
corporation to bt-lp one another. ("Two
or better than one; because they have a
good reward for their labor. If they fall
the one will lift up his feHow. And if one
prevail against him, two shall withstand
him; and a threefold cord is not quickly
broken.") The greater the number join
ing hands and means of production and
exchange the greater the individual ben
efit. If a man cannot convince his neigh
bors that the way we are proposing is
the right, moral, necessary way to live,
then be shonld sell out where he is and
join himself to those who are determined
to so live.
We are determined to organize a Chris
tian corporation at Lincoln. Let others
organize elsewhere if they can; if not,
come to us. It is not necessary to hunt
the state or the nation over to find some
favored spot where people can live as
God commands? or as they ought to live.
We are somehow living now. We can
mass our resources, land, capital, labor
and wisdom, and live better than on the
average we live now, aud we can do this
anywhere, in any place where there are
resources to work with.
As to the fear that men of means will
not join us, tbat takes itforgran ted that
all men are and are determined to be
selfish. If it is true, this world belongs to
the strong and cunning and devilish.
No, we will not admit that there is not
a spirit in men stronger than that of
greed, mammon worship. Only show
men that the selfish struggle of the busi
ness world is sinful and self destructive,
that there is no salvation iu this world
or the next for those who continue in its
selfishness, and vastly more men will be
ready to join a truly Christian body, such
as we are conceiving, than are now in or
attracted to the churches. We must or
ganize as equals. "Every valley (of pov
erty) shall be exalted, and every moun
tain (of wealth, riches, power) and hill
shall be made low: and thecrooked (ways
of busiuess) shall be made straight and
the rough places plain." The wisdom of
the wise was not given him to prey upon
the ignorant, the strength of the strong
is his to bear burdens, not to heap bur.
dens uoon others. The wealth of the
rich is not theirs to collect usury or mo
nopoly tribute on forever; instead, it is
capital which should economize labor for
all.
Men under mortgage could join us by
selling their property themselves for all
it is worth, subject to the incumbrance,
and bringing whatever they could to the
"upw corporation." Among those who
have declared themselves ready to join
are men who possess f 10, 000, and
others, younger, who have nothing but a
'good trade and willing hands; and the
$10,000 brother asks no advantageover
the others who have less or nothing at
all. It is understood, of course, that we
shall from the start consume only what '
we together produce, that what is put in
to work with will be permanent capital,
which will with wetir and tear be con
stantly replaced, and even added to, out
of the common product.
As to the question whether our mem
bers may live in different parts of the
state, scattered as individuals, or sepa
rated families here and there, it is my
opinion tbat it will be necessary for all
who join a Christian corporation to
live within assembling distance of each
other. Local corporations should be or
ganized everywhere, wherever the truth
is grasped, and growth into state, nation
al and world-wide organization should
be made by organizing together the local
bodies.
Will Brothers Eyestone, Quigley. Neil,
Doty, Crane, Ingham. Ross. Seighman,
Keene, Humphrey. Dawes, and all others
interested in this "new kind of corpora
tion" proposed, write us what they think
of the above ideas and other editorials
we have written upon the general subject
of practical Christian co-operation for all!
Let us exchange our thought freely,
fully, in order to get all possible light on
tbe subject.
Prometheus, according to mythology,
stole and gave ns fire from heaven.
Greed has, in actual fact, stolen the
divine gift from us, and now dictates the
price we shall pay for its every form.
Matches, to begin with, are all made and
the price controlled by the match trust.
Coal, both hard and softy is owned and
the prices are agreed upon by the coal
barons. "Stoves, furnaces and steam
and hot water heaters; the governors on
steam-boilers and the boilers; ' gas and
gas-fixtures; natural gas and gas-pipes;
electric lighting and all the appurtenan
ces;" all these, and the railway locomo
tives, are controlled by a few men, says
Henry D. Lloyd, after years of thorough
and perfectly trustworthy investigation.
Kerosene and candles are also in the
clutch of monopoly.
"The czar Is dead" "long live the
czar." So the Russians exclaim. But
Americans seem to prefer the more
ancient address, "0 king, live forever!''
This is what we virtually decree, and
practically abdicate the throne, when we
allow all public lands of value to be
tnrned over with fee simple titles to pri
vate ownership. Already less thau half
of the people own all of the United States
More than half are homeless, landless,
pvingby sufferance in a country that
others own and paying tribute to thum
Again, wesay to thecorporations,in effect,
"Live forever." And we pay them por.
ptual tribute. Great country, this,
where monopolies rule. 'But we propose
to dethrone them.
EEPLY TO A 8UBS0EIBEB
G.JL Van Derveen of Codington, Neb.,
writes:
I had a dispute with a gentleman this
week about you, Brother Gibson. He
aid yon advocated co-operation, which
of course we all approve of; but be said
you even went so far as to want to take
the wealth from one man and divide it
with the man who had none. And that
you want to see the farms rented with
out rent and let the landlord pay th
taxes for the privilege of the renter work
ing his land. .
Now Ibad never seen anything of this
theory advocated by you and I could
not get the paper in which he said it
appeared, as thegentleman hadaccideat
ly mislaid tb paper. I have looked over
all my old papers and have failed to find
anything so absurd as,that. Now yon
could oblige me very much if yon would
kindly inform me in the matter. I am a
socialist, but not an anarchist, and I do
not believe you are, although the gentle
man (and he is very prominent here) said
you was. .
Just what thegentleman referred to by
Brother Van Derveen, fqnnd in The
Wealth Makers to base his opinion of
me on I am unable to say. But the
editor of this paper is not an anarchist.
He does not helieve in or accept as right
the anarchy of the present each-for-him-self
system.. Those who do believe in the
selfish struggle for gain are anarfbiste,
properly speaking. I most emphatically
do not believe in taking by force property
which one. man has earned and giving it
to another man.
On page 11 of Armageddon is a song by
me written which expresses my mind. It
is a follows! .
"An equal division ot unequal earnings,"
You say, with mock laughter, we're after today
But not tor the wealth ol the rich have we yearn
Inge,
Use up the last dollar you're gathered, we say.
Consume what you have when no longer you're
toiling,
And no one will question who earned it tor you
The thing we denounce Is the work ot despoiling.
It's eating your sponge cake and keeping it,
too.
By usury' magic, while thousand's are working.
Producing and wanting, your wealth grows It
self; -. ,
As klnK and as princes you tax us while shirk
inn; ' , i
You conquer the workers hy means of your pelt
It' eqnal division of work we're demanding, , ,
And laws which compel every eater to sweat;
'Tis Justice we'd lorce on your dull understand
ing. Who think that the shirker may hold us in
debt. ' ,
I have never advocated impossible
things, such as, compelling the lion-pro-ducer
to let others have the land and live
on air alone, and pay the taxes besides
I do recognize that all men have a
right,a natural,inalienableright,tai land,
God's gift in equal, ample measure to all.
But land having been made by bad
statutes a thing to buy and sell, to gain
and lose, it does not follow that he who
has saved th product of a lifetime and'
paid for a farm or house should, when he
is no longer able to work, get off the
earth and have nothing for his lifelong
labor. It is also true that land mono
poly is measured by rent. W. W. Astor
draws $9,000,000 a year net rent tribute
after repairs and replacements and cost
of collecting and taxes have been met.
Now he does not charge a higher rent
than the small landlord who owns but
one surplus house or piece of, other rent
able real estate; but it is plain to be seen
that a man who takes from the workers
$9,000,000 a year and does not work
himself is an oppressor most grievous.
But if it is wrong to oppress a great deal
it is wrong to oppress a little. If it is
wrong to take $9,000,000 of others labor
product, it is wrong to take $9,000, or
$90, or $9, or any sum,' in fact. There
for to save the product of our labor,
without either oppressing or being ,
oppressed, it is necessary for us to love
and care for one another. Love will lose
nothing if it is reciprocated. "Tboir
sha.lt love thy neighboras thyself." Does
that mean anything? What does it
mean? The important word is the little
word "as" "as thyself." What also is
the simple meaning of the com
mand, "The land shall not be sold
forever?" ,
Our critic has failed to read us under
standingly. The present system is a sel
fish system, therefore an evil system. It
must be changed to an unselfish system,
and it is the duty of those who Bee the
pathway of the just "to follow it" unto
the perfect day."
The Republican party once believed in
majority rule. The Democratic party
didn't believe in it notwithstanding its
name, and took up arms against the .
majority. Now the Republican party is
just as bad. It has not yet started a
rebellion, but it has used all possible
meaus in this state to deceive the voters
and prevent a fair election by its scheme
of printing the ballots. And also by its ,
effort to bulldoze the people with its
"Business Men's" address. It is prepared
to overthrow popular government by
any means at its commaud.
Claxexte Swm!, a member of the Brit
ish Parliament, has been electeal'dwirei1
sent the ' European holders of Central
Pacific stock, shares amounting to $53,
000,000. Is it not Btrange that we are
so slow to realize that this represents a
foreign power levying perpetual tribute
upon onr people? A commercial monar
chy is more costly and oppressive than a
political monarchy, and for the tribute
it demands itreturnsnoservice whatever.
Let the government own the railroads,
and if we allow it to tax us in transpor
tation tariffs more thau th labor.jaitu.,
as we are now paying, it will furnish a
vast revenue and save us other present,
taxes.