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APRIL 30, 190
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and will bo fooled yet awhile, but
they are learning. Mr. Bryan and his
friends are educating them. A young
lawyer said to me recently: "William
J. Bryan has done more to educate
and enlighten the American people
to a correct understanding of the true
situation in this big country of ours
than any ten men in it. The people
are thinking for themselves and
some of these times the great com
mon people will all think alike and
they will arise in their strength and
correct the abuses in our grand gov
ernment, and take the Standard Oil
company and the express companies
and all other organized trusts, and
the tools and hirelings they have in
congress, and our legislatures, to de
feat and obstruct legislation for the
people, by the throat, and teach them
the much needed lesson, that we, the
common people, are the strength of
this government."
M. F. McCall, Parkville, Mo. I
don't think the democratic party is
down and out. I am just as much
a Bryan man as I was in 1896. The
trouble is, the great moneyed element
can not afford to permit Mr. Bryan
to be elected, but it is going to come
in 1916. The people will not always
be fools.
Isaac M. Loryea, Manning, S. C.
The democratic party is the poor
man's party, the working man's
party, the honest man's party and
must triumph ultimately. Its great
leader, Bryan, will be found ever bat
tling for the right and for those prin
ciples laid down by the greatest man
that ever lived, Thomas Jefferson of
Virginia. I sincerely trust that when
victory finally perches upon our ban
ner the great national educator will
be at the head of the column leading
us on to victory and right, and that
he will, as his reward for good and
faithful service rendered, become the
chief magistrate of the greatest re
public in the world's history.
F. P. Conn, Evansville, Ind.
Hamiltonism is making rapid strides
urider the push of 'the Yale and Har
vard group of politicians at Wash
ington. Most of your correspondents
are agreed that education Is needed
to bring the masses to a sense of
duty. So do our political enemies
believe in education. They are now
engaged in building new universi
ties, endowing old ones, and provid
ing pensions for their, professors, as
well as publishing magazines by the
millions. We agree as to education,
though we may differ aB to the man
ner and mirnose. In a free democ
racy there should be a common pur
pose the nation's defense. We still
remember how our pioneers built
their schools; we do not know of an
instance where one inhabitant, how
ever rich, built the school at his own
expense; nor do we know of any one,
who by reason of his wealth or his
beneficence, sought to connect his
name, church, or politics with the
school. We know of no such pur
pose now. Mr. Carnegie stipulates
that no sectarian school may partici
' pate in his pension benefits, and we
are .assured that Mr. Rockefeller
Btrictly refrains from any part in the
management of the great Chicago
University. No true American would
seek to bias education and in any
measure divert it from its intended
purpose to insure the nation's safety
its best defense against ourselves
and outsiders. Public education is
strictly the people's business. Bene
factions, if received at all, should be
given the state and the money ap
plied by the state. The school is a
par.t of the public service, and should
be as free from obligation as the
army. But the Hamiltonians fear
the mob; some of them view the mob
as composed entirely of those not
possessed of wealth. They believe
as their apostle of political faith said,
the government should be adminis
tered by the rich and well-to-do, ond
that "the British government is the
best model on earth." While this
may have been true a hundred years
ago there are those who still believe
the masses should not have an equal
share in citizenship. Since Hamilton
spoke, Great Britain has changed
from a plutocracy to something like
a democracy. The United States un
der republican domination is chang
ing from a democracy to a plutocracy.
Aristotle's prophecy made 2,400
years ago, that all enduring nations
travel in a cycle, and that no matter
how they start, whether as a despot
ism, they will arrive at democracy,
or whether as a democracy they will
arrive at despotism is not only con
firmed by the history of Greece and
Rome, but is being confirmed by our
own tendencies. But let us keep up
the fight and prolong democracy.
W. A. Schneider, Londonville, O.
In my estimation the only way that
the democrats can elect another pres
ident will be to expose the rascals
that are squandering our coin, op
posing remedial legislation for the
masses, coercing the voters, "white
slavery," and opposing the popular
election of United States senators. It
would be folly for the democrats to
unite with the minor parties and
form a new organization. The fact
is the most of them would refuse to
leave the old parties, and conse
quently we would bo divided worse
than we were before. Such a condi
tion would inure to the greater ben
efit of the boodlers that beat us out
in the last race. We were success
ful in many states, but the Introduc
tion of new and sectional issues
blinded the floating vote and many
who could not float. The paramount
issue for the democrats from now on
should be "Turn the rascals out."
H. C. Lilley, Covington, Ky.
There is no reason why the demo
cratic party should not be able to
gain control of the federal govern-
ment. This, of course, can not be
accomplished without a great deal of
fighting and loss of time. We should
not be discouraged, the party is not
declining but has made progress in
the last four years; the enemy is
well organized and strongly in
trenched, but by the determined
efforts of a united democracy we will
be able to dislodge them in the next
campaign.
B. B. Miller, Erie,,Pa. As a sub
scriber to your worthy paper and one
who believes that such papers should
be supported by the masses, I want
to express myself through your col
umns regarding one of the biggest
; OTm or ievery in ine country.
And that is the keeping of uncalled
For money by the banks. Many are
the people who are entitled to the
money left uncalled for in banks,
but who have no knowledge of the
fact. A bill should be passed com
pelling all banks to report to the
state or government all names of
persons who do not call or do busi
ness with their bank during a period
of two years, together with the
amount and character of the account,
when made and the last address of
the depositor. Their names should
be published in a booklet' that could
be had for the cost or production,
thereby furnishing a' medium by
which any one desiring could know
if any friend or relative had died,
nvine money on deposit. And if
this money was not claimed from
the bank after five years after such
publication the moneys and interest
should be turned over to the gov
ernment, which should -advertise-for
claimants; upon proof of their rights
to it should have it turned over to
them. If no claimants should turn
t-iuev v-five or fifty years, it
should be placed in the government
-rri" ond upp-i to build and promote
charitable institutions in the com
Twno j- was eftf an(j in the
name of the person who left it. As it
is now the bankers keep it to enrich
themselves. Let someone else speak
up on this matter.
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every day in the year, if you get the wrong machine until
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More than 15,000 users who had made such a mistake re
placed their "mistaken" machines with DE LAVAL separators
during the year 1908.
They had probably wasted Five Million Dollars worth of
investment, labor and butter meanwhile.
If you feel inclined to buy some other make of separator
by all means do so, if you can find any apparently good rea
son for it.
BUT why not TRY a DE LAVAL machine .beside the other
machine for ONE WEEK before you actually contract to
buy it? Simply SEE the comparative operation and compara
tive results and examine the comparative construction.
That's a proposition open to every intending separator
buyer. Any DE LAVAL agent will carry it out. WIIY not
avail of it and KNOW what you arc doing before making this
very important investment?
Don't let any alluring "catalogue house" literature or clever
talking agent wheedle you into buying any other separator
without FIRST actually TRYING it alongside a DE LAVAL.
In other words, buy your separator intelligently and know
ingly and not on blind faith in anybody's representations.
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