The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1901-11-02

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most heterodox. Better a free hereto
than the bond-slave Of orthodoxy. IT
that be treason, make the most Of it."
This creature Of demonry stands at
the educational gate. What is educa-
ton? "Readin', Ritin', and Rithmetic,"
answered the fathers, for want Of better
knowledge. s"Readin', Ritin'. and Rith-
metic, answers today the university
that rears it's walls upon foundations
OF robbery. The true education creates
not parrot, but thinker. It makes
a man, not a cog on the machine wheel
OF slavery. The education of independ-
ence is the ideal Of all true instruction.
from the Kindergarten to the most adj
vanced university. Every educational
institution built or endowed by the pro-
ceeds OF monopolistic robbery hinders
rather than helps true knowledge. for
the spirit Of freedom cannot breathe
In commercial and industrial slaughter
houses. No money that means the sale
OF intellectual mastery can be other
than curse to the institution that dips
Its hands in the blood Of humanity in
order to get it. A Republican manu-
lecturers tariff blood-money (here let
me digress to say that the whole tariff
system IL immoral and unjust, especial
ly in democracy crucified an An
crews at Brown. A Standard Oil mo-
nopohst's legalized theft-proceeds cru
Gifted Bemis at Chicago and Com
mons at Syracuse. A board of trustees
unholy greed for the results of trust
robbery crucified Heron at Iowa, and
every year the machine" for politics
pricipars sake, beheads the incumbents
OF chairs in our state universities be-
cause they dare to be men, think clear,
and talk straight.
The creature of demonry stands at
the industrial gate. From every passer
In he exacts toll, leaving the laborer
too little to satisfy but too much to
starve. He forms trusts. concentrates
and regulates production, shuts down
factories, increases hours and decreases
wages, that the percentage of earnings
may "boom" the stock market in met
ropolitan hells; sells out at top notch;
buys yacht, a palace in London. q
mansion In New York, summer house
at Newport, an estate in Scotland, and
lives on the "unearned increment" of
land and labor, SURPRISING in criminal
prodigality the barbarian ancients, for
I say unto you that Solomon in all his
glory was not arrayed like one Of these
His laborers? Oh, they are still notches
on the factory wheel of his success
sors on the throne of oppression.
Or the same end is achieved by secur-
ing control of natural monopolies in
city, state, and nation. and levying ex-
orbitant rates upon the populace whose
imbecility gives them the privilege. BY
what natural or moral right do water,
gas, and electric plants, steam, cable, or
electric railways. yield a profit to pri-
vate enterprise? None can be estab-
lished, and the inherent Injustice of
such ownership and operation at the
expense Of the public explains the nat
ural suspicion attaching to- legislators,
who are conspicuously favorable to:
these usurpers Of the peoples common
inheritance. Another failure of free
DOM" the result of which is that, nine
ty-nine per cent Of the wealth Of this
country is in the hands of eight per
cent Of Its inhabitants, leaving the re-
naming one per cent as their share.
Nearly one-half of the families of the
United States are without any property
Whatever. No such disproportionate
distribution of a. nations wealth could
be possible In a true democracy. We
are an oligarchy Of wealth founded on
trusts and natural monopolies. In the
ho Rof
socialism or anarchy.
''The French revolution was the loei-
cal sequence Of concentration into the
hands of Church and mobiles of the
greater part Of the lands and wealth
OF France. do not say that such a
condition is near at handfin our coun-
try, but firmly believe the pendulum
Is swinging in that direction. " The
citizen can do his commonwealth no
better service than by demonstrating
the existence Of unlawful pools and
trusts In the state or by bringing the
guilty parties to justice. He should
and he must, to the best of his ability.
faithfully and periodically go after the
trusts and combinations organized
against the laws of the state and coun-
try and clean out the viperous brood of
political demagogues who are largely
responsible for them.
This creature Of demonry stands at
the political gate. The government Of
the Constitution has practically ceased
to exist. In it's place has grown I'D
something that admits Of no classifi.
cation among systems of government.
ancient or modern. Republican in form:
as nominally representative, it is vet
not a republic; for it's representatives..
though chosen by the people, are NOT
the peoples choice. Democratic in
methods, as seemingly rests on univer-
sal suffrage, it is yet not a. democracy:
for the periodic appeal to the popular
vote is an empty ceremony. Though
the government of a class, it is not an
aristocracy, for it is largely composed
Of elements least Of all deserving re.
spect; and, though the government Of
a few, 1t is not an oligarchX de jure.
though it is such de facto-for It exists
by no recognized right, and it's existence
is not even confessed.
The imperfection Of language has
necessitated the invention of a. new
form Of words to describe it, and this
has been supplied by those familiar