The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1899-04-22
ARE SEEING LIGHT,
4 Few Professors and Others Startle the
Natives With Their Talks
ON Trusts

ON Trusts.

start ling the world The privileged
CLASSES are sitting upon the safety
valve. and their demagogical tools are
confusing the voters with their dis
cortlant and sham ''refOrm" battles.
and each year the: halfcraZed people
are led to make more. confirmed fools
uI themselves with their ballots. In
he great cities men are counted,
bouH!1 or sold. bullied and coerced
| like cattle, and anyone who imagines
| that such a conditiOn can go on much
| longer is himself too calliused and
corrupt to deserve notice. If trouble
comes, it is TO be hoped that the
sronndrels and traitors, who are be
1raying the people viii be the first to
receive their meritetl reward. Tx
Professor Small. Of the Chicago
University said recently: a
'In this age OF SO called democracy
we are getting into the thrall of the
most relentless system of economic
| oi2archy that history thus far records
That capital from which most of us,
directly or Indirectly, get our bread
and butter is becoming the most nn-
democratic. inhuman and atheistic oil.
all the heather divinities.~ 1t breeds
children oily to devour the bodies OF,
some and the souls of others, and to /
put out the spiritual eyesight of the
rest. In spite of the historic cam
paianS for liberty. i'm spite of the
achievements of Christianity. there
has never been a time when the in
dividual counted for so little or avHiled
so little as today. it is literal and
cardinal fact that our present eco
monte system cries to heaven for recti-
1ication. We are in the midst of. the
most bewiIdering labyrinth of social
engagements in which the human
race has wandered up to. date. If you
will heed the symptoms from bank
and office and factory and railroad .
headquarters and daily press, You have
discovered that the very men who arels.
making these combinations are Begin
nNs. These very business men. who
claim to have monopoly OF practical
common sense, have involved them
SeIrS and all the rest of us in a grim !
tragedy Of errors. 1t would make in
fin1ely more for human veal if every,
dollar CT wealth should be cleaned
from the earth. if we could have in 8;
stead of it industry and honesty and 7
justice and love and faith. than to
he led much further into this DEVILS
dance of capitalism 80 LILY
Like others who, suddenly awake 4
from Il long sleep to find themselves Is
in new era, n-rof Small imagines
that everything is a middle and he z
doesn't express the slightest hint rs
10 how TO get out of the tangle,
Like the rest. he is a Pathfinder, and
not pathfinder. IF we are in the
1hlalI OF Economic oligarchy." there
must De some way out. 1T is either,
to disrupt the combinations COM
planned of or to make all the people
masters of them. Now. as none of the ,
fanlt-finders appear to propose a
reasonable way in which to DESTROY
the present economic system, we are
forced to the conclusion that to social
IZe II is the best way to institute
honesty and justice and love. etc. And
specialization can only be accomplished
by turning down in political cam +
pnignS these very business men. who
r'a'm to have a monopoly of
pfac''ral common sense, who are
influenced by their narrow, self
'Sl' class interests. and placing men
who have all to gain and nothing to
lo>e--in political control.