Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1899-09-21

has been given them to the detrbnent OF other
people. My contention is that there is vicious
principle running through the various policies
which we have been pursuing that in our taxa
ton we have been imposing upon the great
struggling masses the burdens of government.
while we have been voting the privileges to the
people who will not pay their share Of the ex-
penses OF the Government.
Every unjust tax law is an indirect form Of
larceny, the speaker asserted. An income tax,
he believed. would remedy another great evil.
have DO fear that any man by his own brain
or his own muscle win be able to secure for
tune so great as to be menace to the welfare of
is fellow men.
When God made man he placed limit to his
existence. so that if he was bad man he could
not do harm long, but when we made our man
made man (the corporation we raised the limit
on his age
We did not give him soul, but il he can avoid
punishment in this world he need not worry
about the hereafter
AN UNNATURAL oUTeRowTH.
want to protest against this doctrine that the
trust is a natural outgrowth of natural laws 1t
is not true The trust is the natural outgroW tn
of unnatural conditions created by man made
laws.
Government under the four great principles of
the Declaration Of Independence is impossible
under an Industrial aristocracy.
Some people have tried TO separate the laboring
man who works in the factory from the labor
ing man who works on the farm. l want 10
warn the laboring man in the factories that they
cannot separate themselves from those the
farm without inviting their own destruction.
warn the laboring man in the factories that
when they join with monopohes to crush the
farmer, as soon as the farmer is crushed the
laboring man will be crushed and his alley will
be destroyed. and in a test OF endurance the
farmer will stand it longer than the laboriDe
man. The farmer was the first man on the
scene when civilization begun, and he will be
the last o e to disappear. You may drive the
farmer down 80 he cannot buy coal, but he can
burn corn. But you drive the Goa miner down
so he cannot buy corn. and he cannot eat coal.
But, my friends, why should we try to see who
could hold out the longest in suffering2 Why try
to see who csn.endure the most hardships and
yet live! Why not try to see who can contribute
most to the greatness and to the glory and to
the prosperity of this nation? Why these who
can contribute most should make this Govern
ment what the fathers intended it for. For one
hundred years this nation has been the light OF
the world. For one hundred years the best of
all nations have looked to this nation tor hope
and instruction. Let Us settle these great ques-
lions that we have: let us teach the world the
blessings Of Government that comes from the
people, and let US show them how happy and
how prosperous people can be. believe the
s~i,, (Hol oil 49, ba a
DUST and did not make some to crawl on hands
and knees and others to ride upon their backs,
LIE us show what can be done when we put into
actual practice those great doctrines of human
equality and Of equal rights, and make this
Government what the fathers intended, IS that
we shall lead the world step by step into higher
ground.
Facing sea of wildly waving arms and a
storm of cheers, the orator resumed his seat.
Three-quarters of the audience has been attract
ed by the announcement of his appearance,
apparently for that proportion LETT when he had
finished