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The Commoner.
. . "VOLUME 3, NUMBER 21 ,
TWO VIEWS OF THE SITUATION.
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rosebuds
An' a-bracin' up the vines,
An' a flxin' up some benches
Where the mornln'glory twines;
An' I picked some glory blossoms
That was twisted shut on top,
An' I blowed 'em like I useter,
When a kid, an' heard 'em pop!
An' I took some ribbon grasses
An' I fairly made 'em talk:
As I bowed 'em 'twixt my fingers
You could hear the chickens squawk
Like they do when hawks have got
'em,
An' tho mockbird's lovin' call
Seemed just saturatin' round mo,
An' I made the catbirds squall.
An' I plum forgot the blzness
I was out there on, I did;
An' my soul jest bubbled up'ard
Like whon I was just a kid!
Till my heart was beatin' ragtime
lhinkin' of the times I'd had,
An' I ketched myself a-laughin'
Right out loud I was so glad!
Just a-laughin' an' a-chucklin'
You remember how you'd do
Swingin' on the gate o' mornin's
When the sky was drenched in dew
An' you was a kid an' happy
S'poso I acted like I'm daft,
But my soul was singin' "glory,"
An' I can't sing so I laughed.
J. M. Louis, in Houston Post
Wisdom from a College.
, A college professor in tho Univer
sity of Michiganan institution which
is, by the way, wholly supported by
taxation has set up a new theory
upon which to defend great monopol
ies. Tho masses of the people, he
says, have not sense enough properly
to handle their own finances. The
money they reoaivo they squander In
mere self-indulgence, or hoard to pre-
viuo ror their future needs. They are
neither able to furnish the great capi
tal needed to establish now produo
tive industries, nor have they the in
telligence or the self-sacrifice needed
to tax themselves for great and need
ful public instit itions.
It is because of this deplorable nar
rowness of the public mind I am
still paraphrasing the college profes
sor, whoso wisdom, like that of all
of ujS class, I deeply revere that men
of the Rockefeller and Carnegie stamp
are necessary and serviceable to a
nation.
'ou and I would not tax ourselves
for a public library. We might prefer
to spend the money otherwise. So Mr..
Carnegie, having power through his
monopoly of the steel business to tax
us without our consent, does so for
enough to build a library and says he
nas made us a present of it There
upon we are so grateful that wa
straightway promise to. tax ourselved
and our descendants in perpetuity to
maintain it
The extent to which this is being
done almost convinces me that tio
college professor's estimate of the in
telligence of us common folk is right
In the same way, if Mr. Rockefeller
thinkB we need a university he boosts
the price of oil a little. It is true that
comparatively few of the people who
really pay for the libraries and tho
university can use either. It Is truo
that if the people become accustomed
to receiving as apparent gifts things
which they shjould, and in many in
stances cheerfully do, provide Tor
themselves, they will lose the habit of
self-reliance and become mendicants.
It is true that if the benevolent mo
nopolists continue to take hundreds of
millions and dole back millions the
people's ability to provide needed pub
lic institutions for themselves will
necessarily disappear.
The professor further thinks that
if the millionaire monopolists did n jt
exist to furnish capital for great pro
ductive enterprises, capital would not
be forthcoming, because the people
being timid, and not trained In the
way of tho investor, only put thoir
money in savings banks.
Iiumiuuuy uo minus tnat money
put into a savings bank stays there
inert and unproductive. As a matter
of fact, through the system of bank
reserves, and deposits by country
banks at financial centers, the little
savings of the farmer and the wor.--ingman
go in the mass to swell tha
great stream of capital which the
practitioner of high finance uses to
float his gigantic enterprises.
In the end, it seems to me, the pro
fessor's contention resolves itself into
this:
The Rockefellers, Carnegles and
Morgans are better equlppedJby intel
ligence and ability to spend tho peo
ple's surplus money than the people
themselves. Therefore we acquiesce
in giving them, through tho power of
monopoly, the privilege of taxing and
spending the fruits of, taxation as thev
will. But the right to raise and ex
pend revenue is the very fundamental
of government Therefore Rockefel
ler, Morgan et al. are in fact the gov
eminent
I don't know whether the professor
It ready to go tho full lencth of hla
theory or not If he is, he deserves
credit for clearly seeing a condition
which actually exists, but merits con
demnation for apologizing for it
Willis J. Abbott, in Boyce's Weekly.
The Captain's Arduous Duties.
Captain Sigsbee tells of a conversa
tion he once overheard between two
marines who were arguing as to who
had the least work to do on board a
man-of-war, says the New Yorir
'iimes.
"It's the chaplain," said tho first
"How'd ye make that out?" asked
the second.
"Because he ain't got no work to do
and all day to do it in."
The second marine snorted his dis
gust "YOU ain't ernt It rfMit Tnolr."
said he. "It's the cap'n of marines.'
"How's that?"
"Well, me. boy, as you say, the
chaplain's got nothln' to do and all
day to do it in; but the cap'n of ma
rines he ain't got anything to do and
all day to do it in and a lieutenant ol
marines to help him do it"
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