The representative., 1899-08-03
HEAD COMPOSITE OF OUR CLUB
MEMBERSHIP.


The best description, from Mid
Road standpoint, of what the trust is
about to do for us that has ever been
written, is found in the little book
called "The Social Horizon" published
in 1893 by a Fabian socialist, G. F.
Millin, of London Publisher,
Swan, Sonnenschein & Co. Order it
through your book dealer, and you will
read the most eloquent and convincing
argument for Populism you ever heard
The same writer will issue this au-
tumn work on Commerce and Chris
tianity," which no family in this coun-
try should be without.
The Minneapolis Tribune argues that
1t would be unjust to socialize the trusts
because of the widows and struggling
professional men who have invested in
them.
They are the most fortunate minority
OF an immense class that has nothing to
invest, and even they are not owners of
preferred stock. They are generally
permitted to blow their money in on
common stock of speculative and fic-
titious value. Oh the pitiable trage-
dies that come from those investments
of little savings, invested in bubble
companies for wrestling profits from the
blood and sweat of fellow creatures!
Yes, Mr.. Editor of the Tribune, for the
money power, remember those widows
and struggling professional men. Like
wise smother your conscience and fail
to call to mind the vastly larger number
of widows without any income at all,
who by physical and mental constitu-
tion are unequal to struggle against
single one of the trusts. God help
them! What chance have they in this
wild and competitive hurly-burly
around them? Let our united club
membership lay strong hand on the
strugglers.
How perplexing it is to see our great
dailies, upheld by Christian (?) teach
ers, seemingly by instinct, range them
selves as defenders of the present selfish
system.
REPRESENTATION THAT DON'T
REPRESENT.
H. B. Fay, M. D.. Organization Column:
The representative plan of politics is
the slickest plan ever devised with
which to fool the great plain people out
of their political rights, without their
even suspecting it. So completely are
they fooled that they get together on
election days, Fourth of Julys and other
holidays made legal by their willy man
ayers, to flatter their vanity and inten-
sify their fealty, and chatter and twad-
die like so many carrion crows over the
eternal principles of freedom as set
forth in the Declaration of Independ-
ence, which they believe they fully en-
joy, when the fact is, there was no
deception ever practiced upon mortal
man farther from the truth.
The effective instrument used that so
completely fools them is the ballot.
With this in their hands, they foolishly
believe they are the arbiters of their
own destiny, when, in fact, the ballot
is only a method bestowed, enabling
them to make selections from the spoil
iating pack, to despoil them. Expert
ence has shown that under the repre-
sentative plan the managers are the
party.
The party attaches string to the
voters; when their managers pull on
the string the voters dance; when the
managers don't pull on the string the
voters don't dare to dance, so perfect
is the managers control that it is no
trick for them to skin the voters alive
by indirect taxation, without their even
kicking.
If one should have manhood to kick,
the managers raise the yell, treason,
crank, lunatic, etc. The voters, the
hangers satraps, take up the yell and
echo it all along the line; not knowing
from whence the yell comes, they
think it an evolution of their own
prolific brain, and strut away with the
pomposity of a solemn turkey in COB
bling time.
Now, were to employ another, give
him discretionary power to run my
business, clothe him with unlimited
power to borrow money upon my credit,
l refer to the constitutional power OF
congress to borrow money upon the
credit of the United States,' l should
expect, had l gold of the Klondike, to
lay my bones in a pauper's grave.
Yet this is true picture of the condi-
ton of the great plain people. Further,
it is a confession by them of incompe
tency to run their own part in party
guardians without bonds to manage
their part for them is a further confess
sion of incompetency. Yet nothing bet
ter can be had under the representative
plan in politics. The men of the Peo-
ple's party believe that they have sense
enough to run their part in politics,
have sense enough to manage their own
credit, know by bitter experience that
entrusting their business to guardians
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