The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-10-31
!. Ministerial Capitalist.

Sage, the millionaire, to rebuild his
tabernacle to that Christ whose
mission was to the poor, and who
commanded even a morally righteous
rich man to go and distribute every
thing he had to the poor in order to
win eternal life. Mr.. Talmadge knows
who buffers his bread, and SO he per-
petrates the following from his pull
pit:
sMuch is said against capitalists,
but the world would be very shaky
place without them. Who built the
great railroads which. while they give
such facilities OF travel, employ tens
of thousands of laborers, supporting
them and their families? Capitalists.
Who built great ships that stir the
rivers and bridge the ocean? Capt.
talists. Who reared the thousands
of factories all over the land in which
hundreds of thousand Of employees
earn their daily bread? Capitalists?
Who endowed your colleges, and
opened free libraries, and built asy-
lums for the orphan, the crippled and
the insane? Capitalists! But for
them there would not be an academy
of music, or a picture gallery, or q
free library, or a steamboat. or q
railroad in America. Who put the
world on seventy-five years beyond
what itwould have been in enterprise,
in comforts, in educational advan-
tages, in good things without num-
Der? Capitalists. The more money
a man gets the better, il it come hon
estly and is employed righteously.
Nevertheless, we all see that there
needs to be q redistribution OF prop
erty. Communism proposes to make
that distribution by torch and dag
ger and dynamite. Throw the mid
night express off the track and put
the factory into confagration. Dis
rupt society; burglarize; assassinate.
Such people believe neither in God
nor man nor woman, and they know
how to make things worse, and new
.er have made and never can make
anything better"
A more ridiculous, ignorant, fab
bergasted lot of hogwash balderdash
never emanated from the flume Of a
sewer. Communism take property
by force! Why, if he had said that
the sans culottism OF a century-de-
PRAYED despotism like that OF the
French Louies, meant force, disrup-
ton, assassination, the ''preacher"
Of plutocracy may have been justi-
fed! But if "force" on the part of a
race OF downtrodden services, who
had marched to death and destruc-
ton to protect the toe-nails OF the
"gentry'' for forty centuries, were
necessary to break open the doorway
to French liberty from the Bourbons
then force were right and justifi-
able.
But Talmadge is but the spawn OF
"a past century, spewed upon the
shores OF the present by an oversurg-
ing tide in the intellectual SEA. II e
sea retreated leaving blinded intel
lect in the midst.
Capitalists are not necessary to
build railroads. Civil engineers at SO
much a day are necessary. Capital
lists do not build railroads-nor do
they pay for building them! There
has not been a railroad built by capt.
tai since capitalists came into exist
,Ancel
Railroads make capitalists-capi-
talists no not build railroads! Mr..
Talmadge will search in vain for a
railroad which has been built with
capital in the last % years! We defy
him or any other man to point to one
single line upon which a capitalist
has expended $1,000. The man is
ignorant or else he is a knave-be-
cause he fellowships daily with the
men who build railroads.
Railroads are built upon bonds;
even stock has no investment in the
Toads. The bonds are issued on the
money placed in banks or trust COM
panies by depositors. The road is
n long. narrow mortgage on every
farm through which or by which it
passes. The farm workers paw the
interest on the bonds, both real and
bogus, and then, by sinking funds,
these same farm-workers pay the
bonds themselves-and these bonds
not only represent the bogus debts
but the real debts as well.
The panegyric on libraries, music
halls, colleges, etc, is all equally sick
ening. Usually they also have been
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