The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-10-18

jo Ill,
In a very short time you that
do not own your homes will not
be able to, as all the land will be
owned by a few and none will be
for sa'e at any price, which will
make you and your children ten
ants at will, homeless, hopeless,
and in factslaves to the owners Of
the land, the source fall wealth. I"
In confirmation of this state.
ment I would call attention to til
fact that of 100000 people IL
New York LOO, 1000 live in tene.
ment houses. OF New York
3OO,O voters only $4,000, or
less than 5 per ct. are tax pay
ers on real estate. Thomas G.
Sherman, in a recent address,
claimed that in thirty years 1OO,-
600 persons will own three-fifths
of the wealth of the U. S. "The
American Economist" recently as
serted that Is years ago %ths OF
the people of the United States
lived in their own houses, while
now the number is reduced to
%ths.
A newspaper saws:
Gin the last number of the
Forum, Thos. G.. Sherman,
shows by figures that 1900 per-
sons in the United States are
worth thirty-one and a half bill
lions OF dollars, or one and a half
billions more than half the esti-
mated wealth of the entire ma
ton. II the causes which have
brought about this monstrously
unnatural and unjust state of al
fairs continue to operate a few
years longer, the people OF the
United States, while theoretically
free, will be virtually in a condi-
ton ofserfdom, free if they choose,
to quit working for their masters
upon such terms as their masters
may impose, but knowing full
well that the alternatives starv-
alton. Verify, the big and dan
gerous problems of this world are
not all settled yet as the opti-
mists would have us believe"
The Pelican Rapids Address
continues:
care you aware of thefact that
you have no voice in the fixing of
the price Of your labor as stored
in the products OF the farm,
nor in the fixing of the price Of
any article that you buy? Are
you aware Of the power that
old Shylock has over you in the
form of that old cancer, interest,
whose father is avarice and whose
mother is debt, that exercise the
most rigid tyranny over their
slaves? There is no rest under
their rule. They are the death
watch placed over you, and few
there are that ever escape their
vigilance. Their subjects are the
most abject slaves. Where they
move in, comfort and happiness
move out, seldom to return"
Are you aware that the present
system of insurance is a scheme
to enrich a few and hasten the
day of your complete slavery?
The sum OF $751;, 100000 is all
that you pay them in excess of
all losses and salaries, besides
about $1O,OOO,OOO interest an
nually which they receive for your
money that they have invested.
This interest labor must create
for them; then they invest this and
thus compound the whole amount
at your expense. They have
fortified themselves against loss
by competition by adopting the
same schedule of rates in all de-
partments.
Are you aware of the fact that
the same power controls all the
leading daily papers, with their
weekly issue, which constitute
nearly all your reading matter?
The same power controls the as
ISOLATED press dispatches, and
these self-constituted censors pro-
coed to alter and amend or sup
press all reading matter to suit
their own interest, which is al
ways the opposite Of yours, thus
passing upon all you read before
you are allowed to see it. They
fear for their position should you
become enlightened and awake
to a knowledge of your wrongs.
I'M