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possible that the insurgents have
Just discovered the ' corruptness in
their Btandpat friends. Beware, fel
low citizens, the insurgent republi
can has a' fighting chance to decclvo
you. If the insurgent republicans
are sincere, how is it they have not
been fighting their standpat brethren
years ago? This insurgency is a
scheme to defeat the democratic
party and reduce the tariff upward
again.
C. B. Thornmark, Hamilton, Miss.
' They do rule, but forfeit the bene
fit by electing rulers instead of ser
vants. Remedy: Initiative, referen
dum and recall.
pernicious influence of money fur
nished by the special interests at the
polls, and tho people could rule and
get what they want.
J. M. Kiser, Springfield, 111. Tho
people do not rule or get what they
want, nor will they unless it be
through a new political party or
through tho democratic party after
it has completely separated from tho
corrupting influences within its own
ranks.
S. .B. Belcher, Huntington, W. Va.
' No, the people don't rule. If they
ruled we would have revision of the
tariff downward instead of upward.
Mr. Bryan has been fighting for the
past thirteen years and is still fight
ing to re-establish in this country a
government of the people by tho peo
ple and for the people. The initia
tive and referendum will put every
office holder from a president down
to a road boss in the hands of the
voters to bo elected, and recalled
from office if it Is necessary to do
so. That is tho kind of a govern
ment the democratic party Is earn
estly fighting for, and a victory for
tho democratic party spells victory
for the people. Mr. Bryan won tho
hearts of the people when he deliv
ered that great temperance speech
before tho Catholic Total Abstinence
Union in Chicago, May 19, 1910. I
believe every state in the union ought
to have county option in order to
give the people a chance to vote on
the liquor question.
C. B. Bolin, Milton, 111; From my
viewpoint, they don't and will not un
til wo have returned tho power to
the people in tho way of tho refer
endum. Go back to tho people, givo
them tho power. As long as tho
railroad companies, steel, meat,
grain, cotton and banking interests
control tho country It will bo In their
interest. Being a banker, I am op
posed to tho government going Into
tho banking business through postal
savings banks. I favor tho guaran
tee of deposits. Mako all tho homo
banks good. Keep all tho money at
homo whero it belongs. Each com
munity should have tho uso of Its
own money, and a guarauteo plan
would do that. Why our bankers
throughout tho country aro opposed
to the guarantee plan I can not
understand. I think they wero hoo
dooed by the big banks in tho great
centers. Having been in tho bank
ing business in a small way in a
country bank for thirty years I know
that the people want security above
everything else, and this is what wo
will bo driven to, or wo will go out
of business. But this Is such a great
question to undertake to solve In so
small a space, but will say in closing,
tho only hopo of this great country is
in tho people.
American educational methods aro
bolng adopted by tho Chilean gov
ernment. In tho higher schools of
tho country many Americans aro
employed.
Last year Halifax shlppod 600,00
barrels of apples. When tho now
shipping facilities aro comploto, it Is
expected 1,000,000 barrels a year
will bo handled through that port.
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Irrigated Lands in the Fertile
Lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas
Alfalfa, Sugar Cane, Cabbage, Onions, Cotton, Corn
Lands near Mercedes, Texas, ylold Uio largest and earliest crop In tho United Htatas. Lortrroil Irrigation
canal In the state. Boll la Tortile: climato Ideal, both irummor and winter, water plentiful. No drought.
American Rio Grande Land & Irrigation Co,,
ltox I. Mercocles, Hldftljce County, Tux
Dr. L. H. Henley, Marshall, Texas.
While we as a people do not get
what wo think we want, we get just
what we deserve. Few of us aro
actually able to define intelligently
what we want. Wo have worn a po
litical collar and allowed others to
think for us so long that wo have
done but little independent thinking
ourselves, and have thus grown ac
customed to it. Wo have blindly
followed those who also followed the
lines of political expediency open to
them offering the greatest personal
rewards. We do not get what wo
want for tho reason that we are too
poor to accomplish anything indi
vidually and too mean to hang to
gether. Our flock can be scattered
and our ignorantly directed efforts
divided by any one who sails out
under the banner of "Our Party."
Thousands cheat themselves, believ
ing they are voting their principles.
Blind fools that we have been! We
have only been voting our prejudices
and all these dear good years we
have been standing in our own light.
For the foregoing reasons tho peo
ple are denied what they should
have, and they will remain denied
in like manner as long as they aTe
willing to sell themselves for time
worn political collars.
H. B. Wolohon, Magnolia, N. J.
This is certainly a well put and far
Teaching question. It is quite evi
dent that tho vast majority of the
people do not get what they want.
Why? Because the people play into
the hands of the few who do get
what they want. A primary law so
framed that the bribe taker may be
convicted while the bribe giver goes
free .is not intended to givo the peo
ple what they want." Remove the
"Commoner Reader," 77 years of
age, who cast his first vote for
Franklin Pierce. Tho reason the
people do not get what they want
they have voted the government out
of their hands and given it into the
hands of the money power. Five out
of ten do not know tho difference
between a tariff for revenue and a
protective tariff. Once educate them
to know tho difference, that labor is
tho forerunner of money and that
money is worthless without it, let
them know that the initiative, refer
endum and recall would place them
in control of the government, that
it would take the power out of tho
hands of the special interests and
give it to those that are entitled to
It and to whom it justly belongs;
once educate them, and you will see
them go to the polls In one solid body
and cleanse the Augean stables of
tho last trust attorney in it.
J. W. DeCon, Now Jersey. Be
cause they have not brains enough to
know that the stamp makes the dol
lar. The poor man should learn a
lesson from the fact that the rich
demonetized silver in '73, when
Grant signed the bill and did not
know it. Taft and Wickersham both
say that the quantitative theory of
money is borne out by the facts.
Bryan congratulated them, and the
gold standard advocates and republi
cans in and around New York com
menced having fits. Givo us a gov
ernment ownership and control of
the railroads and banks and money,
and then the people will rule. But
people have to have brains first, and
when you see 10,000 foreigners land
ing daily and walking right Into the
saloons Sunday and every other day,
how long, O Lord, how long will it
be before the people rule?
"TRYING TO QUIT"
The father of four boys, discover
ing the eldest, aged thirteen, smok
ing a cigarette, called tho four to
gether for a lecture on the evils of
narcotics.
"Now, Willie," he said In conclu
sion, to his youngest, "are you go
ing to use tobacco when you get to
bo a man?"
'I don't know," replied the six
year old, soberly, "I'm trying hard
to quit." Success.
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