Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1904-12-28
oPPREasIoNs oF IL oPuLENT

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America going to quietly sabmit
to being bunceedf When the
word people Is used, the real rank
and file Of the country, the prOdu
Ger, the man with the hoe, the
man inside the factory, the man
who works at any trade the pro
iessiOnal man, the clerk il bust
ness places, the laborer who tolls
alone with his mustle-an these
are inel0ded in this one word; but
for the purpose Of this article the
farmer alone VII be considered,
and what applies to the farmer
applies to all the others.
Tb again is asked the CUES
ton, how long do you, oh farmers
Of this country, propose ID be film
hammedi The ''gilly" who is at
the head Of the national AgricRl-
tural Department, who, on his fire.
quent visits to the South b IS been
royalty treated, has been met with
all the cOrdiality and heart felt
hospitality so characteristic Of
Southern gentlemen, and yet he
has shown his appreciation Of the
kindness and courtesy shown him
by abusing and slandering the
Southern people in his Roosevelt
tian campaign tour to fire the
Northern heart-this ''gilly" in
the interest Of the pampered pets
Of the money ring, has issued an
official bulletin from his depart
meDt, declaring the American cot
ton crop to be -, 1852, 900 bales
this year. Such a statement, false
by not less than 1900, 900 bales,
can hurt no section Of the country
save the South, and what boots it,
to the present government powers
that be, how much the South may
be iniuredi Only the Southern
cotton planter can be injured or
suffer. And what do our good
friends up North, the cotton gam.
blers of the New York Cotton Elk.
change, the government officials,
the plant creatures of a dominant
party of plumber and piracy, care
for thisi The South aud her PEG
pie are the legitimate prey Of the
cOrmOnants Of greed who are pro.
protected, fostered, aided and
abetted by a government admins.
tered by a political party whose
only tenet is gain; whose soul and
spirit is greed; whose only hope
and ambition power, place and
profigacy; whose only claim to
decency is in its apiDg OF respecta
bility in the fine linen and purple
in which 1t can clOthe itself.
Already this Ollgarchy Of finance
has it's foot upon the necks of the
people, and with CORY beak is tear
ing out their vitals. The com.
bines and trusts, the machines Of
this ~oligarchy, control the govern
ment and dictate it's policies. 1t
owns the railroads; it owns the
banks; it owns the trust and loan
companies; it owns the insurance
companies; it owns the lighting
plants, tho interurban and the
street railways and telephone sys-
TENS; it owns, body and soul, the
big daily newspapers; it owns the
magazines; it owns the factories
Of every kind.
The 5000 or 5000 people. who
today own the great bulk Of the
enormous wealth Of this country,
are the stock holders, some in one
series, some in another, Of all these
great enterprises and industries
above named, and they are jointly
directing and controlling every fac.
tor, however small and iHsignif
cant, in anywise potential in the
affairs Of this cOuntry's economy,
not only financially, not only in
dustrially, but in a large sense,
socially and morally, too.
It has come to that pass, we'll
nigh, that no man can buy or sell
save as this controlling interest
dictates, and at the prices it fixes.
Not content with shaping the
policies of the general government,
with dominating state legislatures
aud with owning the great inter
ests above enumerated, this oil
garchy is nov reaching out to get
possession of all the land in the
country that it may control the
acreage yearly pitched to this, that
and the other crop, so as to control
the output Of the fields.
Now, what is che remedyl There
can be but one, and that is the bal
lot box; and the ballot box cannot
be eifectual until the great masses
unite in solid planax against the
combines and trusts, this mOnied
oligarchy. And this can only be
done when the people get together