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

I.startlng the. e.gworld The priv
Eclasses are sitting upon the safety
,alye. and their demag gical tools II are
confusing the voters with their slis-
.cordant and sham reform z il,q
and each year the, half-cr.azed & people q
are led to, make more, conf firned fools,
Sof Themselves with their ballots. II
1.-THE, great cities, men Y are colin nteisII
bought ! Or sold, bullied and coercsedl I,
like cattle, land anyone who irlag ginea
that such a condition can go on much
longer lis himself. too fused and
corrupt to deserve notice. # trouble
comes, it, is to be hoped that the
scoundrells and traitors, who are !. he 3
traying the people, viii be. the FIRST sto5
receive their merited reward.
|. Professor Small, of the Chicsai go,;|
University said recently 81 a,sI'S isIs
.'In this age Of SO o.called deno ocrAcySs
we. are getting into the tTrall of the 4
most relentless systen Of econ Qqnic \;
oligarcl1y that history thus far .sss
That capita + from j, " ich most Tof ia,
directly. OF indirectly. get our brealI
and butter is bee coming the most iiiissRs
democratic, .inhum;, d and atheistN fils,ss
all the heatheni d iyini .,sss / loreeskI
children oily to deyo,lr, + the a
some and the souls Of others, ard ;to ss
put out the spiTsitu yesight u ne
rest: In spite of the historic cApl
paigns for Ii bert tvs, in Il spite stl,
achievements Is Of Chris stiani there
has. never been a time when the sil
dividual count ed ffor SO title Or availefiss
so little as today 1T is a literal
cardinal fact tina Il our present 4 eco-sE
nomic system cries to heaven for recti-a
flea ton We are in the mid sts of the
most .beWildering labyrinth OF socials
entaglements in which the human
race has wand cred up to date. Xoiisss
will heed the sylnp oms from bank
land office and factory and ia ilroadS
heada quarters and ID lily press, You have
discovered that the very men who Ill rsS sS.
making these combin atoms are beg II
ming to be afraid of their owns sll
owns. These very busi ness men, who
common sense, have involved 8th hen1-S en-
seles and all the rest 81 rim 4
tragedy ofserrors. HsWonld max II
finitely more, for huma n veal siffs eVery
dollar Of wealth should 5be cleaned
from the earth. if we could have
stead oft industry and honest n ana
justice and love. and .ffasiit tn, Il than
be led much further into this DEVILS
dance of capitalism. . 9sjI NH
Like Others who .sudd denly aWakca
from a. long sleep to find themselyess N
in a new, era, rrof Small ina aginea
t hat everything is IA muddle and
doesil'tt express the slightest hint as
to how to get ont OF the tang g.
Like the rest, hf Iistas faiilt finder, and5g
not ,path-finde der. If we are s liz the
thrallf Of conomic !olig garchy z there "a
must be some way out :sIt isg geitherSs
to disrupt .thet a mbinations COM I
planned of to make'Ball sthes people
masters ofkthem. NoW,f:ls none OF the j.
fault finders appear to- propose I;
reasonable way in which to- destroy q
the present economic system, we Aregs
forced to the Inclusion that to social
ize z it is the 4best3sway to, 1 inst
honesty .and%justice and love, etc. nd
socialization can only be accomp plished
by turning down in poll s cam
paigns ."these very business men, who Il
claim to have a monopoly ofSs
practical common sense, who areS9ss
influenced by their narrow. self
ish class interests, and placing mel,
who have all to gain, and nothing. Ia 4
lose--in political control. S. .,34 u 33