The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-05-13

and may be trustedd to do the peoples
WILL l do not think the senator could
have been really serious in asserting that
The government of the United States and
of the states is not now the popular gov
eminent. 1t is run by what are called
our business interests that is to saw
the moneyed interests 1t represents
great aggregations of money and not the
popular will. According to the mortgage
statistics of this last census or calcula-
tiUns based upon them made by Mr.
George K. Holmes, special census agent
for that subject, it is shown that per
cent of the American people own II per
cent. of the property in the country,
leaving but 20 per cent. to be distributed
among the remaining 81 per cent. of the
people. 1t is that per cent of moneyed
men who govern the country and dictate
the policy of congress The people are
not in it, as the expression goes. AT the
present time il is notorious that the sugar
trust and other great syndicates are die
tating the terms of the present tariff bill
Under such condition of things as this
it is necessary, if the people would indi-
cate their will, that they should have re-
course to popular demonstrations of an
unusual character. The machinery of the
government, executive, representative
and judicial, has passed from under their
control"
"We were speaking of these strikes in
the mining districts,'
''Yes; as to the great strikes in the coal
mines and other industrial disturbances,
there is, of course, no direct connection
between them and the march of these
commonweal armies These strikes are
in resistance to the tendency to lower
wages, by which means the managers of
our business operations are seeking to
load upon the working classes the losses
and damage consequent upon the recent
and continuing business crisis. There is
no hope in the long run that these strikes
in resistance to lowering wages can sue
coed. The only hope for the laboring
classes is the collective or public conduct
of industry by the people through their
governmental agencies for the common
interest. More and more the working
masses are beginning to see that this is
for them the only way out"
"Do you consider the Coxey movements
and these other movements to be, strictly
speaking, socialistic in character2"
They are eminently socialistic in char
acter, lnasmuch as they appeal to the
principle Of the collective, or public or
ganization of industry, but the members
of these various armies are very probably
not themselves ayowed nationalists or
socialists. In seeking relief from the
present industrial pressure they naturally
and necessarily find themselves obliged
to use the socialistic or nationalistic
method Circumstances have forced
them upon socialistic lines of action"
do you think that eventually social
istic revolution will work itself along
those lines}"
81 think, if you ask me what the future
development of this thing will be, that
while it is easy to predict the ultimate
outcome, it is not possible for any one to
predict the methods and the precise steps
BY which the result will be brought
about 1 confidently anticipate that
within fifteen years the people Of the
United States will have committed them
selves definitely to Industrial roorganiza-
ton on lines of nationalism, that is to say,