The herald., 1896-12-13

said: 1.-The capital Of the country is
organized at last, and we shall see
whether congress will dare to fly in its
face" And on January II, 1878, it ad-
ded, additionally: THE machinery Is
now furnished by which in any emer-
gency the financial corporations of the
east can act together at single days
notice. and with such power that no act
of congress can overcome or resist their
decisions"
If this was true eighteen years ago, 1t
is doubly so now under the single gold
standard, which was absolutely essen
tial to the complete despotism of organ
ized capital-and that such is the case
no honest, intelligent voter who wit
messed the part played by aggregated
capital" in the methods Of Mr.. Hanna
recently can longer dispute or doubt.
Well, what next? We all know that
under competitive rule and the private
ownership of natural monopolies there
has been steady evolution of the prin-
ciple of conquest in commerce and land
lordism all the way from the first va
riety store and gristmill to the federated
trusts-the unrelenting dictatorship of
which rules every necessity with a rod
of gold. The despotism is upon us.
Well, what next?
Will the people--the great sovereign"
people-stand it any more submissively
than did our fathers the milder des-
potism of George the Third?
When the combined trusts, resting up
on single gold standard banking sys-
tenn, succeed in having everything their
own way-when the king of the combine
sits down to weep because there are no
more worlds to conquer, and the vast
army of outsiders. including millions
Of unemployed wage laborers and hun
dreds of thousands of tradesmen, in
voluntarily retired merchants" and
small. homeless producers and farmers,
find their occupation gone because Ia
bor-saving improvements and private
syndicates have relentlessly pushed
them aside as useless and not worthy Of
notice save by charitable Institutions
what then?
We centainly cannot return to things
obsolete and reincarnate the older order
Of things, and expect to live by 1t, any
more than company of miners can re-
turn to an old played out placer mining
district and succeed in getting rich or
earning livelihood, trading claims with
each other .....---
What then? Will the liveliest, freest
and most active and aspiring people on
earth put their hands in their pockets,
stare at each other, eat each other liter
ally, as competition is already forcing
them to do, commercially and flgura-
any further struggle for existence?
VIII they not rather utilize the CO.
opertive lesson taught by the trust and
so apply it through intelligent suffrage,
irrespective Of condition or sex, that at
last the people, instead Of the privileged
few shall finally reap the benefit of their
natural birthright, and of the cheapened
method and material which mans in
genuity and selfhshness have made pos
sible, and by taking quiet and peaceable
possession of the great utilities, one after
another travel the broad highways orig
inally cast up and graded by the toilers
under the direction Of a limited moneyed
class who, having been useful as public
instructors, will be of no further use,
save as good citizens?
This can and will be done as surely as
the mountain torrent and river finally
end in the great democratic ocean,
where all separate and seemingly con-
fiicting expressions of moisture meet at
last and. becoming settled and purified
through agitation, send back their COM
bined mists for the good Of all.
What do we call this? No matter what
name 1t has borne or may bear in the
future SO long as we achieve the thing
itself
In crisis like this. when the federated
money power, though its authorized ora
cles like Whitelaw Reid and his stolen
Tribune, is boldly advising legal sup
preston of agitation and free speech, it
is puerile and contemplate. 1T is criminal,
to hesitate and divide our forces over
the shadow that some abused name may
cast upon us-more especially since the
term anarchy" has been deprived Of its
deathly sting and made of non-effect, If
not popular, through its application to
one-half Of our best and most peaceable
citizens. In conclusion l will make two
predictions:
First, that the obnoxious funding bill
will be passed and become law in spite
of California's interests, wishes and op-
position.
Second that the great political party
now formulating and crystallizing for a
final struggle against the kings of man.
mon will through its platform and
through the express declaration Of it's
leader-who will probably be Bryan, the
leader who has already proved his fit
ness-turn its back upon the flesh pots of
our political Egypt. its face to the CO.
opeative commonwealth and not stop
till its gets there
The Red sea and forty years in the
wilderness may intervene. but as sure
a. there II . God Of Justice In the uni