Workmen's advocate., 1890-12-13
W FATHER SIGNALS
APOLITICIANS PREDICTION OF
 THE COMING STORM.


 i>t>- An 0Nrrburdcnrd Peoplr-
 The Popular Upheaval lncNit-
 able.
 Joseph Brown, eSMayur of St. Louis, has recently given to lh' public h, view, upon the present condition oG tine country, and the trend of events, He says, among other things:
 The state of the country at present i, phenomenal, the public mind and pri- vatt interest, are diviled into factions that are being intensified every day, Elements of the body polite that have hitherto lain dormant so far as taking any active part in the financial ur po,itI- cal economy of the country are now being aroused, and are marshal,ing their forces, not for a war of blood and carnage it ie to be hoped, but for a trlal of political strength at the ballot box.
 The entire labor and producing ele mcnt of tue country is becoming awakened to the fact that they are great, ly interested III the management of the country as the capitalists Capital has become concentrated in the hands of the few, and those few in turn are using the power vast capital gives to crush out the smaller dealers or manufacturers,
 Of late years it seems to make little difference in the price of products whether the crop is large or small, for the "buils and bears toss it up and down at wilI but they are very careful not to "toss It up" until it has passed ont of the farmers hands, so that the condition of things has got to be unbear able from the farmers standpoint, for they see that others who "tOl not" are reaping all the reward. And so it Is with the laborer and artisan; they find that the man with smooth hands gets all the money while the man with horny hands does all the work. There was d time when the labor element had not intelligence enough to see farther than days wages, or meals vituaIs. But that day has passed and they see that as capital gains power by cooperation and concentration, there is no reason why labor should not do the same. This gov ernment was started on different basis of principles from any other nation or government, and the constitution k susceptible of, and no doubt was intended for, far broader basis than has been given to it.
 Thanks to the farmers and mechanics journals, the working man is now keep ing we'll up with the times, and has a decided opinion to express on all general subjects. The result Is: Trades Unions and Farmers Alliances, and these in turn are seeing that cooperation means power, not only at the ballot-b box but in every direction.
 The farmers and the mechamcs are crowded to the wall and many of them 
 their efforts to come out ahead; and all this while mlllionaires are springing up everywhere, fOstered by the laws of the country, and in many cases made by the very men labor sent to protect it's in tereats.
 The next two or three years will see a new departure in the legislation of the country, To day. Walt street, the ma tional banks, the Standard Od Co, and a lot of other moneyed mOnOpOiieS con trol the legislation of the general gov ernment, but when the intelligent labor element and the producer get together they will overturn the tables of the "mOney changers" in the halls of Con gress and dictate laws that will reverse the present order of tungs.
 This government being originally de- signed for the benefit of the whole peO- pie cannot afford to take for its pattern the policy of any other government or people, because it holds within itself essentially different clements and calls for a different policy in may things.
 "The greatest good to the greatest number" should be tn" policy of thls government, and it is certainly not for the greatest good to the greatest number that few men should own or control one half of the present wealth of this continent.
 Just how these things are to be obvi. ated cannot be clearly seen a. yet. but they will be in the no distant future, and the man, or set of men that try to stand in the way will be ground to pow der. Immense wealth in the hands of any one man is against public policy, and should be abated. The wOrkingmaH is wronged, that wrong must be rlLhted The farmer is being wronged out of a just compensation for his products by a lot of gamblers in gram who get all the profit, leaving the farmer with the