St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1890-09-13
and comforts of life Those alone are

and comforts of life. Those alone are
civilized who desire this, whose work con
tributes to it's attainment. Those who
seek t, prevent it, who for their own sell
fish gain perpetuate the discomforts, mis-
cries and privations of their fellows. are
the worst savages, because they have not
| the savage excuse of complete ignorance of
what they are doing.
The president and directors of every
trust in the country know that when they
strive to prevent plenty end create scarcity
they produce or perpetaate dearth, want
and suffering, that these may result in
high prices for what they have to sell
! Some chemist, giving his life to the service
| of mankind and asking no money reward,
makes great discovery some mechanic
makes great improvement in productive
machinery. Chemist ard mechanic are
| alike liberators-van leaders in the strug-
gle for progress, for freedom of mind and
body for higher life than that of per
petual want through which men by their
deprivations and needs are tied down to
brutality, Then when such nen, through
self denying toll, have found wa to light
en- the labor and sutferings of msnkind,
making production easier, increasing
plenty and lessening want, comes the PIu-
tocrat with his money, aud with brains
not brains enough to sec his own best in
terest In the common welfare, but only
with that quality of brains which can use
good for selfish purposes, All these plenty
producing inventions are good in the
highest degree In themselves, but in his
hands they become instruments for robbng
labor of employ ment while he is using
them not to increase plenty, but to check
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some comfort of life to so, 000,0 people.
He agrees with other owners of such ma
chimes that the supply shall be limited to
production for only $4,000 900, that the
deprivation of the rest may keep up prices.
fetal scarcity, he goes to Congress and
procures the passage of laws under which
those who suffer from the artificial scarcity
produced by him and his associates are
prohibited from supplying their needs from
elsewhere.
This is an "ordinary business transac-
tion." 1t is done every day. 1t is the
method of Plutocratic business, but none
the less is every man who is the agent of
depriving his fellows of the greatest posi-
bility of plenty barbarian, an obstacle to
progress, a stumbling block in the way of
civilization, an opponent of Providence, an
enemy of the human race.
A small class of men, in this country and
in Europe, are struggling to keep for
themselves the greas benefits of the lew
methods of creating wealth, which unset
fish students and thinkers have wrought
out during the century. The work was
done for the world it is the heritage of the
world, that the world may suffer less pri-
vation, and being rid of that oppression;
advance to large intellectual and political
liberty. Every invention, every new dis
covery, gives an added impetus to the
forces which are combining to crush this
Plutocratic class aud give the world the
benefits of the plenty created by the mas
terry of mind over matter. The Pluto
cracy will be overthrown. The time will
come when the world will stop troubling
itself with juggled figures aud with per-
centages when it will say, This is right
and il shall be done ;" "This is wrong and
it shall not be done" And that time will
come first here in the United States. 1t is
not far off The Plutocrats are showing
the hardihood of their blind covetousness.
They are struggling for their unearned
percentages in front of the rolling wheels
of the Juggernaut car of civilization and
progress, and if they refuse to see the
truth, to hear reason and to DO justice,
they may expect to meet the rewards Of
their injustice.
Senator Plumb has a partisan record
which makes it surprising that he should
be the one man of all others in his party
to stand forward to tell the whole truth,
but as he has done it, all who love truth
have only thanks and praise for him. H
has stood forward in the leaders place. If
he has the leaders stuff in him he will not
only have the whole West behind him,
but with it all tt ose who hate oppression,
who love freede m snd progress.-H Louis
Republic.