The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1892-08-26
THE NEW DEAL.
Tho An-Powerful, Unfailing Remedy Of
the Ballot.

time and again that fire will burn.
The fathers experience in that par
ticular is of no practical benefit to
the child Each child will insist up
on learning that fact for itself by
picking up a live coal or grasping the
blaze of a lighted candle. And so
on through the ages man. as an in
dividual, or as a people will insist on
acquiring. each his own knowledge
by actual experiment
Nations and peoples are only an ag-
gregation of men associated togethe..
under various forms and systems of
government says the National Econo-
mist each reflex to a greater or less
extent of the mental condition of the
several people who compose it. But
they are all. each only men. Man es->
tablishes for himself governments and
makes laws for his own government
as rule founding them upon princi-
pies of right and justice to all as he
at the time understands them. under
the operation OF which he grows up.
1ourishes wakes great and strong.
and often becomes a mighty people.
But with power comes wealth. with
wealth corruption, and with these
come kings caste titled nobility. (?)
monopolies. millionaires and tramps
Laws which should protect all alike
are converted into instruments of OPP
preston through the agency of which
the rich become richer and the weak
and poor are robbed with impunity.
Corrupt legislatures make and unmake
laws and venal courts cOnstrue them
in the interest and at the behest of
the millionaire and monopoly king.
Thieves and robbers fill the high
places Of honor and trust and riot in
their ill-gotten wealth. The other
extreme is represented by poverty.
misery restitution. squalor and
crime. But there comes. history tells
us. a time when this condition OF
things. these same causes, sci in
motion a latent but ever present force
which always has been equal to the
emergency; a power which. when
once fully in motion. never fails in
the end to restore things to statu quo.
True kings may lose their crowns,
and their heads with them; bastiles
may iall guillotines flourish. streets
be bathed In blood; but in the end
comes Il new order of things, new
deal all around and the laborer once
more has bread. the poor man a home.
and kings mobiles. aristocrats, pluto
Gratis monopolist, laborer. producer
all find their proper level-peace and
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rule. Men of to- day. men of
America look around you. come
up one more step where you
will get better view of your condi-
ton and environments a broader, a
more extended horizon; look East
across the broad Atlantic. see Russia,
Australia. Germany. England. Italy,
France. Spain. What do you discover
over there? Behold everywhere that
great throbbing. seething mass of
down trodden poverty.stricken. suf-
fering humanity struggling. surging
clamoring for the right to earn its
daily bread and share in the profits
of its own labor. The right to own a
home in the land of their birth or
adoption. The right to earn an
honest living for themselves and
those dependent upon them. Think
We these dynamite plots. these strikes.
these labor leagues unions and all
such other organizations are the idle
vaporings OF idiots or fools meaning
less. with no ultimate. we'll defined
object in view? Be not deceived;
for though apparently dis:ointed
and aimless they are constituent
elements of power which in
this age of progress. where single
decade is adequate to produce what it
once required centuries to accom-
plish. the addition of a single ele-
ment may cause all these apparently
discOrdant elements to crystalize
around one common center for COM
mon end with a rapidity and with
results that will astonish and startle
the whole civilizel world; a power
before which empires Kingdoms and
so-called republics shall go down as
grass before the modern mower, and
ANEW order OF things. a new DEAL be
in order Do you not see it9 Well
now. just turn your eyes upon your
own country. This great glorious.
free (?) country OF which you are so
proud; don't let your patriotism (?)
blind your judgment; look up North;
see those millions OF your fellow citi-
zens those wage slaves who are
camoring for bread. the right to hon
estly earn it; look West see your
once proud and prosperous farmer
grooming under the crushing weight
Of accumulated mortgages that are
eating up his home to fill the Golfers
Of Wall street gamblers and capitalists;
look South. look everywhere and you
will see right here under your very
noses the counterpart of what
you saw on the other side OF the
Atlantic in. perhaps a less intensified
degree. yet none the less dangerous
on that account; the difference is
only in degree if at alt Don't de-
te.ve yourselves or lay the fattering
JUNCTION to your souls that you (we)
Of America shall be an exception to
the rule. The same causes which
have contributed to and brought about
their condition are all present here
to-day in this glorious free (?)country
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