Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1903-08-21
CnEELfY. AND WEIR
TIE MORRILL, MAN TAKES TIP
TIE DEBATE AGAIN.


Mr.. Weir's tale of the child slave
is truly sad one to hear, and when
we know it is in our lard of the free
where such conditions exist, we can
plainly understand that the worship
OF mammon brings such conditions
about, and sears our better conscien-
tious and moral natures until we can
hear it said in high circles, "Let we'll
enough alone, - and we as a people
let alone.
Mr.. W., the people who hire those
children and grow rich with the pro-
ceeds of such labor, may belong to
churches, but are as far from being
Christians as hell is fromheaven. They
are simply a legitimate product of the
political party that has run this
government the principal part of the
last forty years
No, Mr. W., do not wish to search
the Scriptures fer evidence of God.
If did I would find the untutored
savage was the offspring Of him who
ate the forbidden fruit and charged
the will to the weak er parts. as you
seem to do the small capitalist of the
dav.
Governments are not made. They
simply grow, and reforms in govern
ments are slow to be brought about,
except by means of revolution and
with evolution as our watch word
revolution should be thing of the
barbarous past, when kings ruled and
their subjects were less enlightened
than we Of today.
The socialist, the populist. the
greenback and the prohibition, and
all other parties which have sprung
up in the last few years, are all the
products Of misrule in the republican
party. 1t Is unsafe for one party to
hold the reins Of government for a
term Of forty years in republic.
Now Mr.. ". admits when he saws
the republicans are the party OF thebig
capitalists, and the democrats are
the little capitalists, that the former
ones should bedowned first. Mr.. WIFI it
became your part in the performance
Of duty to climb to the top Of a
mountain, which way would you ur-
dertake it? Step by step or would YOU
get there with one leap? As under
stand the socialists, they are deter
mined to get there at one leap. In
otner words, they viii not fuse with
any party and their enthusiasm is so
great that they expect to capture the
nth ip 1908.
On the second page of Appeal to
Reason. a socialist paper published in
Girard, Kansas, I found the follow
ing question and answer. The ques-
tion was asked by R. McClelland Of
Garland, Kan, and the copy of the
paper was Aug. /, 1908
''Under socialism will a certain
percentage of farm products be taken
in the form of rent, or will there be
tax used for that levied for the sup
port of public institutions, as school.
insane, etc?
Answer-''When socialism shall
have BEEN perfected the agricultural
department will produce all products
from the ground aud those citizens
who are thus employed will be public
employees. The public will own the
products. You can see that there will
be no rent to pay. To support the
schools and other public employees who
are not directly producing things for
sale. such as teaching, cierking, etc.,
percentage would be added to the
price of each article, sufficient to
cover such labor. AS to theAmerican
farmer, he will not easily be led into
socialism. if the above lie the perfect
plan.
It's true that theplan under whichthe
farmer Of today keeps soul and body
together ia anything but perfect, but
it Is his fault. For the last quarter of
century he has competed in the
markets of the world in order to sell
his products, and he buys his farming
implements in the highest markets to
be found and he also sees the same
manufactured implements sell in
European countries for less than he
pays at the very door of the factory.
He knows that gamblers keep the
price of his product down. to the
lowest notch, that the margin may
be as great as possible on which 10
namble. Occasionally the tariff is
raised, but never lowered. at the re-
quest of the manufacturers. And q
goodly number of the ignorant farmers
will still hold on to the republican
party, vote her straight. and hurrah
for protection. if the republican
party, that is the leaders thereof,
were to- put free trade plank in
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