The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1904-10-10
TOM MWATS0N'S 'SLETTEROF ACCEPTANCE
ST|NC|NG ARRA|CNMENT OF PARKER

1lIlvILHI vi | MlNLIl
crime Of speaking diarespecffully u
their imperial master. Gee hoN me
soldier rides on the back of The bro
ducer. See how the common people
are ground down under the wheels III
q splendid extravagant. insolent mill
tarism, See me millions wasted year
ly on the personal yanitiss of the en-
psror See liow the smart young Of
ncers cnt down with their swords the
private soldier. or the private citizen.
AMI escape punishment
II See how this proud emperor sends
Ito penal seryitedc for seven years
/ peer degil of private soldier who
had expressed the wish that The swift
train which bore the kaiser by, on one
of his journeys, might aaye been slow
ed up, SO that his :naje ty's loyal sab
5ecf could have gotten 4 glimpse on
his royal face
i See how Italy IL narrowed by the
tax gatherer. who sqneezes out every
possible penny from tile common pao-
pie in order that there shall be maiu-
4 famed an idle aristucracy, and an ex
aggerated miliiarism. Ia thas unhap
py land. 50 richly blessed by nature,
misrule has been 20 fragrant thar half
Of the people never have enough to
4 eat
Condition OF Enqiand.
See Great Britain. with its lands
monopollzed by fe,g hundred lords.
rs legislation controlled by property
interests and its hordes Of homeless
poor crying for bread along the
| streets OF the richest cities of the
world Consider these legions Of eha
homeless Look into those tenements
packed like Gardines In a box by
hungry men, women and children.
Think of the morals inseparabie from
such conditions. Think what passions
must rage under the ragged shirt OF
the workman who stops In the stree.
10 pick up remnants of food which
are foul enough to turn the stomach
OF welikept dog, Think Of the null
titudes who sprawl about he parks.
sklllk under bridges, prowl through
the slums--not by tens, but by thou
sands, not In ore city. but ia aii ci-
ties. Millions Of human beings. God.
created men aud women, fashioned
GU. OF the same clay az ourselves. in
all essential respects the same sort of
folks we are: YET they suffer- they
starve. within sight Of the synagogue,
within earshot OF the preacher. who liz
holding forth 20 his hearers upon the
loyeiiness OF the creed OF Christ-the
Christ who never owned a home. and
never carried purse. and who under
some Of our statutes might have Jared
hard rs a yngrant.
How II Is in America.
How is II In our own land? God new
er made grander home for his chill.
dren than that which he cavalier Ia
Virginia. the Dutchman In New York.
and me Puritan in Massachusetts,
sought as a refuge from the systems
Of the old world In natural alvan-
tages this earth holds no region super
ior to ours. Once it belonged to the
people. With his gun the e0mntoa
man won il, mile by mile. from the In
dian. the Frenchman. the Saxon and
the Spaniard. What the common man
dil not win with his gun. he bought
with his money. From sea to sea. the
land which is ours became ours be-
cause the common man was ready 20
pay for Il with his tax-money or his
blood.
What has become OF it, With be-
wildering rapidity IT has been taken
from .he common people and given
to the corporations II belonged To
the government. 10 all the people Il
was meant TO supply homes 10 inji-
sidual citizens. aud there was enough
Df 1. TO last for many generations. To
he extent of about 200.00O,00o acres
1 has been given to railroad corpora
ions; and now. when common man
wants a home In all that vast domain
le must go to the railroad corporations
o get H.
A blacker chapter than that which
ecords how both the old political
'artles united to despoil the common
,eople OF their land Is not 10 be found
n the annals Of class legislation.
The Money Question.
Once upon a time we had a linsn-
.ial system OF our own. Placed in
he constitution as part Of our fnnda-
neatai law. 1t seemed to be firmly
ixed. For a hundred years this mo
ey system was n operation among
Is. Therefore Il seemed TO be -.irre-
ocably hyad~ Very wise men Great
j this system OF national finance. Il
las the one snhject upon which Tho
las jefferson and Alexander Hamil
IN agreed Those two were. perhaps.
be- creates. Statesmen this country
ser produced. So prominent we're
hey above all others that they divid.
1 the people into two distinct schools
! political though. But. upon the Vi
Il -ubject of finance. these master
lihss reached the same conclusion
- that conclusion became a part OF
le Constitution.