Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1900-03-21

Lnlng for those who are in it., and, as
Colonel Little says, 1.-The only solu-
ton is for all the people to get in it. "
The long, feeble, fabby history Of at
tempted government control or state
control of giant corporations by CON-
missions, as we'll as the history of re-
pressive, restrictive and p-ohibitive
anti trust legislation. is one long, lu-
gubrious history of failure. To say
that these laws have not been pro-
perly enforced, that when they have
been, the courts have stepped in and
interfered. is to state the truth, but
not the whole truth. In the first place,
to enforce these laws. would require
statesmen SO incorruptibly pure that
they could not be bribed, so colossal
in genius that they could not be out
witted, so brave that they could not
be bulldozed. and so bullet proof that
they could not be assassinated. Hero
ism. genius aud dauntless bravery
spring up in emergencies but laws
which are worthless without con-
slant and never failing supply of such
qualities, are impracticable. 1t is
the same old fable over again. that a
brave, self sacrificing genius as auto
crat is the best government We find
these men occasionally, but the rank
| and file of the worlds autocrats and
politicians is not made up of that
if we had as statesmen nothing but
heroic geniuses, they could not, IT
they would. and they would not If
they could, tie the world down to the
crude, expensive, business methods OF
the late, and by some lamcnted,
"Competitive System" Heroism has
better business than blocking the
| wheels of progress; and all the
| genius we can muster is impcratively
| demanded il the great work, not OF
abolishing new labor saving inven'
tions, but of utilizing those inventions
for the common good.
Many &C our trusts are tn, unuat
ural and unhealthy products OF special
privileges. Some, for example, have
been built up by q protective tariff
and can be destroyed by removing the
fostering tariff duties. Others exist
through the aid and protection Of the
gigantic money power All these will
fall to pieces when the United States
government once more assumes hel
fundamental prerogativt of sovereign
ty and issues and contro the supply
of money. gold, silver or paper, in the
int erest, not of favor. ties. but of the
whole people. so thai tha demands o
business and industry shall be me-
ard stable pr:c. level mlinttin ID
Still others have been produced an.
kept alive by sccrc. contracts, re
bates and partners ii IS with railroads
The bottom viii drop out OF the n
when once the government ovns anl
controls the I'd lrol IS, giy.ns the
same freight rates and accommo1a
tions to large AMI slna / shippers
alike, just as to-day she Sc. postage
stamps at , cents apiece, whether
singly or by the million
The other trusts a:d moaopoiies
which are able to stand on their owl
legs, commonly known is "natura
monopolies," will then remain to b.
dealt with There IS only one pos
sible remedy for all sucn-they must
be democratized, transformed int
government monopolies. The onl,
good monopoly, like the only good
government, is one ''of the people, BY
the people and for the people. ~
CARL NRooMAN,
Chairman Press Bureau.