Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-08-28
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hold ON the central truth of modern
political economy, and If he has the
courage and the intellect to make HIM
self it, opponent it will make him .
rep1tat ton second to that OF no states
man in America annals Instead of
pOtterinG With truth and relying on
shFewd tIickeRy OF reasoning, as Mr..
Blaine is doing, he has gone straight
to the roots OF the whole matter. The
man Who sei1es on vital and funda-
mental truth and proclaims it unfliach-
ingly becomes great With its greatness
And in all the range OF modern politics
there il NO greater truth than that Air.
Plumb has statsA in s.atin6 that it il
the genius OF civilization to produce
plenty and cheaper price, while it il
the practice Of the Plutocratie allies Of
the Republican party TO demand laws to
sheek plenty that high PRICES may be
maintained.
Every lover OF humanity wishes for it
the least suffering and discomfort; the
greatest possible plenty OF the nsces-
Saries and comforts OF life. Those alone
are civilized who desire this, whose
work contributes TO its attainment
Those who seek to prevent it, who for
their own selfish gain perpetrate the
their fellows, are the worst savages,
cuse Of complies ignorance of what they
ere doing.
The president and directors of every
trust in the country know that when
they strive to prevent plenty and create
scarcity they produce or perpetuats
dearth. want and suffering, that these
~ oh r1riooS fCr ~y1 <l1x
have to sell. Some chemist, giving his
life to the service of mankind and ask
ing NO money reward, makes . great
discovery; some mechanic makes .
great improvement in productive ma
chinery, Chemist and mechanic are
alike iberstors van leaders in the
struggle for progress, for freedom of
mind and body; for . higher life than
that of perpetual want through which
men by their deprivstions and needs
are tied down to brutality. Then when
such men. through self-denying toll.
have found ways to tighten the labor
and sufferings Of mankind. making pro:
duction easier, increasing plenty and
lesseninG want comes the Plutocrat
with his money, and with brains-not
brains enough to see his own best inter
est 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 robbing labor of employment while
he is using them not to increase plenty,
but to check it. He takes a machine
that can furnish some comfort of life to
so, 600, 600 people. He agrees with other
owners of such machines that the sup
ply shall be limited to production for
only 10. 600. 600. that the deprivation of
the rest may keep up prices. And to
carry cut this agreement for artificial
scarcity, he goes to Congress and pro-
cures the passage of laws under which
those who suffer from the artificial
scarcity produced by him and his associ-
Ates are prohibited from supplying their
needs from elsewhere.
This is an ordinary business tran
saction." It 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 possibility of plenty a bar
bArian, an obstacle to progress. STUN
bling 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 great benefits of the
new methods of creating wealth, which
unselfish students and thinkers have
wrought out during the cen fury. The
work was done for the world; it is the
heritage of the world, that the world
may suffer less privation, and, being rid
OF that oppression, advance to large in
tellectual and political liberty. Every
invention, every new discovery, gives
an added i'm petus to the forces which
are com bining to crush this Plutocratic
class, and give the world the benefit
OF the plenty created by the mastery Of
mind over matter. The Plutocracy will
be overthrow. The time will come when
the world will stop troubling itself with
juggled figures and with percentages;
when it will say: ''This is right and it
.shsl1 b done," This is wrong and it
shall not be DONE" And that time will
come first here in the United States. 1t
is not fer OF. The Plutocrats are show
ing the hardihood of their blind covet-
BUSINESS. They are struggling for their
unesrned percentages in front of the
rolling wheels OF the Juggernaut car of
civilization and progress, and if they re-
fuse to SEQ the truth, to hear reason and
to do justice. they may expect to meet
the rewsrds Of their injustice.
Senator Plumb has partisan record
which makes it surprising that he
should he 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. He has stood forward
in the leaders place. If he has the
leaders stuff in him. he will have net
only the whole West behind him, but
with it all those who hate oppression,
who love freedom and progress.-St
Louis Republic.
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