The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1901-08-08
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magnitude, as in the factory stage, each
requiring special management, and so
the master workman became an indus
trial chief. These rulers, like those in
politics and religion, have perverted
their power, and the people are rising,
and will make their economic rulers, as
they did their political and religious
rulers, responsible to themselves.
Democracy has always followed des-
potism. Will it fail in the industrial
realm? No. We shall have an indus
trial republic planted upon the founda-
ton of our political republic.
Industry, then, has successfully
passed from the handicraft stage Of pro-
duction into the era of manufacturers,
and from thence into modern mechani-
cal industry, then into the joint stock
stage, and is now taking the form of mo-
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individuals have combined into corpora
tions and corporations into trusts, so
trusts will combine into cooperative
commonwealth This is inevitable.
There is no more possibility of our re-
entering any OF the past eras OF produc-
ton than there is OF the butterfly re-
entering the chrysalis. As slavery gave
way to feudalism and feudalism to cap
italism, so capitalism must give way to
socialism. The fruits OF industrial evo-
luton are now reaped by the few. The
trust is socialism for the few at the ex-
pense of the many. We want socialism
for all at the expense OF none. The only
solution OF the problem is the socializa-
ton OF the trust, that the benefits now
monopolized by the few may become the
inheritance of all. The development of
the trust is a great annoyance to the
middle class of small producers and dis
tributers. and so we find them raising
hue and cry about the tyrany of the
trust. Why is this? 1t is because they
belong to the competitive stage of in
dustry, which stage is fast being sup.
planted by the monopolistic, and as
result they are fast being forced into
bankruptcy. The middle class reads its
own doom in the concentration of wealth
in the hands of the few The field of
production is already nearly closed, and
the men OF means, having nowhere else
to invest their increasing wealth, are
now invading the field of distribution,
and the small store will in few years
be as scarce as the small factory is now.
The middle class is bending its energy
toward the dissolution OF the trust sys-
tenn. not realizing that the trust is a
natural product Of Industrial ecolution.
But their opposition to progress is about
as futile as the opposition of the labor
ers to the introduction OF new machin-
cry The solution OF the problem for
both the laborng class and the middle
class is not in DESTROYING machinery and
the trust, but in their collective owner
ship and control.
The capitalist class, as represented
by the republican party, endeavors to
uphold the trust and its private owner
/ ship in order to maintain its own SUI
premacy. Senator Hanna has pointed
out the ineyitableness Of the concentra-
ton OF industry and the advantages
which flow from increased production
and economy. But such statements are
one-sided, and endeavor to cover up the
pathway of blood. the bitterness and
failures that have attended its growth.
THE middle class, as represented by
the democratic party, chooses to see
only the evils, overlooking the great
power that concentration brings and the
economy effected by UNIFIED industry.
st remains for the socialist party,
untrammeled by the il erests Of the