Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1895-07-04
Teller, would provide $4,000 families
with 81 900 homes.

Teller, would provide $4,000 families
with $1,000 homes.
This $4,000, 900 hold-up Of the Amer
lean people-as premeditated, as cold
blOoded and as effectual as though
made at the muzzle of a plstol-equals
one thirty-second of the entire circu-
lating medium of the United States,
and is a greater sum Of money than
could be earned by one man working
at dollar day for one hundred and
slxty-seven thousand years, or $4,000
times as long as the earth is supposed
to have been peopled.
1t is an appalling feature of this
transaction that the government seems
powerless to prevent its repetition on
even grander scale.
A more appalling feature Of this dar-
ing exploit of Robber Rockefeller is
the fact that the two most influential
and powerful guardians Of the public
morals and denunciators of public
crimes-the orthodox pulpit and daily
press-give tacit or outspoken approval
Of the crime, seeming to regard 1t as
a legitimate business transaction.
Such papers as the Chicago Tribune
have not word of editorial disapprov-
al and scarcely line of comment re-
garding 1t.
Not a prominent divine of Chicago
alluded to the subject In his last Sun
days sermon, or if SO his criticisms
were refused publication in the daily
press reports Of Monday morning.
Dealers in legimate enterprises are
questioning in their minds II there be
not for them some shorter road to
wealth than uncertain honest plodding.
and are preparing to turn spectators"
and "plungers."
This $5O,OOO,OOO "strike" of the "oil
King increases to desperation the Bit
terness and hatred for the rich enter
tanned by him out Of employment and
him who veritably sweats blood ten
hours day for bare existence.
It Is such transactions as this gigan-
tic hold-up, not only unpublished but
condoned by those in authority and
high position, more than all other
causes combined which makes intelli-
gent men turn inquiringly to plank
10" and wonder If matters could be
much worse If the people collectively
owned and controlled "all means of
production and distribution"
1t is such facts as these, namely
that the Rothschild family possess
property valued at $4,000, 100000, equal
to half the gold in the world, and that
Rockefeller can at will force $50,000,-
900 Of tribute from consumers Of a
single product of industry-that make
Populists become Socialists, that make
Socialists become Communists, that
make Communists become Anarchists,
and that make Anarchists rejoice and
set the day when shall be verified the
prediction OF ex-Congressman ]. Proctor
Knott in his letter to Senator Black
burn that unless some great change
takes place we may expect to see the
horrors Of the French revolution put
on the American stage with all the
modern improvement, and that within
the next decade"
The Rockefellers, the Goulds and the
Vanderbilts, with their llcksplttle fol-
lowers and sycophantic and subsidized
allies Of the pulpit and press, are An
archist breeders; they are revolution
mongers; they are Republic destroyers;
they are monarchy makers; they are
enemies of liberty and oppressOrs of
common humanity, Of whom they would
make slaves
These multi-millionaires must be
shorn of their power and that speedily,
or the next century in this country will
be but a repetition Of the Dark Ages.
The old parties are with them; a
new silver party" will not reach them;
only a party of the people can hope to
successfully contend with them.
If Robber Rockefeller's gigantic hold
up will serve to arouse the rank and
file of the Peoples Party to the danger
which threatens them, to the duty
which confronts them, and point I'M
mistakably to the united and patriotic
action now required of them, it will,
in the end, have served a good and
useful purpose.
This is the only good thing which
can truthfully be said Of 1t.
NOTES AND COMMENT.