El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-10-02
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Is he safe when foreign or domestic
inancier5 are allowed TO determine
the monetary system under which he
live? Is he cafe when stional bank
control the volume OF money with
which he does business? Is he safe
when the bopd-hold ing class determi-
mes the size Of the national debt upon
which he must help to pay interest?
laid almost entirely upon consumption
he 10 compelled To contribute according
to his wants rather than according to
his possessions?
II he is a wage-esrner, and you do
not know bow soon he may be, even If
he 10 not now, Is be safe when he lie
liable to be deprived of trial by jury,
through the system known as govern
ment by Injunction? Is he safe, IL
l.boring man, when he is denied the
protection OF arbitration and compelled
10 -ubmit to such hours and terms IS q
cor porste employer may propose?
But desire TO call special attention
to II e growth of the trusts, and to ssk
you whether your son is cafe under the
reign of private monopoly? III you can
not leave him fortune, you can leave
money, viz, the freedom to employ his
own brains and his own hands for the
advancement of his own welfare. When
private monopoly reaches It's full de-
velopment each branch of Industry will
be controlled by one or a few men. and
the fruits Of monopoly. like the divine
right OF rule, will be kept within the
possession of few from generation TO
generation, while the real producers of
wealth will be condemned to perpetual
lerkship or servitude.
It would be easy enough for any In
telligent school boy to show how
totally lacking the foregoing is in
logic, common sense, and truth. But
by way OF contrast the HERALD
presents two comments, one from she
ssaunch old democratic newspaper |
the Richmond Times, the other from |
the Brooklyn Times.
Says the Richm Times:
10 his address OF welcome to the |
students o. Washington and Lee uni
versisy President William L. Wilson
heslth, and opportunity which all the
wealth .of trusts could not buy, nor
the suffrage of the American people
confer. Tnis comes In refreshing con-
trast to the calamity vail of the
demsgoGue who tells the young
American that there IL, under existing
NO chance for him TO get
along in the world except rs the slave
Of our corporations, yet holding out
The hope that he may become great
and successful through some magical
influence Of government. There never
vas an age when there were 80 many
glorious opportunities az now to the
youth of the laod. There never wac
In age when the individual counted
or 60 much as he does In this age.
There never was an age when there
vas such Q demand for bright, brsiny,
Ind cultivated young men. It is .
chance, to be sure, and the
irope has hard time, but the man
low to do come practical thing well can
always turn his talents and his energy
% profitable account.
And then read this from the Brook
yn paper:
l. is not true that the opportunities
or young zen are scarcer now than
hey were a generation ago. Great 4,
nercantile and manufacturing estab- 9
ishments are constantly being built ,,
p by young men lowered with
othing but energy, Am bition, and {
ound udgment, and IL is only the Z
that complains that the
Dung man has no longer q chance. 1t
3 the whine OF the degenerates Of
berlin and Moscow that the Jews are /
all the avenues of bust T
ess, q whine that is simply a confess
ion OF weakness In the presence OF q
lore virile manhood. The votes of the
Dung men OF the United States will b
OF be gained by such an argument. l.
hey know that the stress OF com
,tition In business will nos be lessen
J, that the conditions under which
nsiuess IL pow organized will not be
tered by any change Of administra- II
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