The advocate., 1895-08-07
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choose honest rulers and their administrations would
be honest.
"When say an honest people, l mean the average
honesty of the people aOho 10jU actually do the
0Oting for the most of the people will not really
vote, any more than would q machine They will
90 through the mechanical operation Of voting, but
their minds and consCiences will have nothing to
do with it. The most of the people will vote as
those upon whom they rely OF depend direct or in
duce them to vote published letter from General
Washington will supply the motive power which will
guide hundreds of hands with votes in them and 1t
will be all the same as If Washington himself were
allowed that many votes. Even under the most fa
VOrabe conditions one can expect, generations must
come and go before the great majority of voters will
discover that their own heads contain brains enough
to direct their hands in voting and that the brains
of leaders are better than the brains every voter
has in his own head if he will use them So, for
some generations, the wealthy classes viii control
the political affairs of your country and rulers se
ected by that class will regard the rich people
and will act accordingly. Legislators, judges,
soldiers will understand they represent the rich as
against the poor. SO aS the mass of the people
become responsible citizens instead of mere puppets
operated by men worshipped as heroes, the gov
ernment will change without the alteration Of a
syllable of your written Constitution.
"In vain do you demand free government, with
liberty as It's am at the hands of nation given up
to ambition, syarice and stupidity. The poorest
Vsgabond in the land will be told that the poor
est may aspire to the highest offices under this gov
ernment, and Straightwsy he will become the earn
est ally of the ambitious schemers who tell him he
may yet be one of them. The homeless wretch will
be told that the poorest man may hope to become
the possessor of princely wealth and he will be an
enthusiastic supporter of the schemes of sVarice,
because he will hope to one day make successful
use of those schemes 1t has been 80 in history that
slaves had no wish to put end to slavery for each
slave cherished the hope that one day he might be-
come master, with slaves of his own For the same
reason your poor men with votes will uphold with
those votes the most diaboical system Of property
and of monopoly the ingenuity of sVarice can in
vent. Every voter will hope to escape the hell the
system creates by becoming rich himself at last l
assume this will be the case for that is the philos-
ophy of life which prevails here to-day, and which is
to prevail with increasing intensity, until its terri
BILE fruits shall be realized after generations have
gone to their unhappy graves"
"By God, sir, you take gloomy view OF
affairs |"
care my reasons for that view erroneOusP at
the very moment your people were battling for
liberty at Bunker Hill Scotchmsn was welding
your future chains. Adam Smiths Wealth OF
Nations was put forth in 776. 1t is already doing
its work and undoing yours. Have you read it?
"I have OF even seen it, sir l heard of 1T, and
the damned thing 80 infuriated me that would not
look at it, sir"
"I have read it in your library" said Sydney,
"and confess, it struck me as hard and sordid. h
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