New Iberia enterprise and independent observer., 1905-10-07


so discouraging as, what happens to
the policy holding geese of the mod
ern life insurance company.
What could be more depressing than
the sight of great nation of intelli-
gent people absolutely unable to de-
tend themselves against cunning
theivery?
Do you realize how many different
ways the people of this country are
exploited by the money-fox that rules
in the place of a popular government,
such as the founders Of this nation
hoped to establish?
The people are robbed through
tariff which manufactures fortunes of
hundred millions-pretendin to in
crease the pay of the average man.
The people of the United States are
made to pass laws making it impos-
sible to import a ton of steel rails
competing with the steel Trust, or
ton of coal competing with the Coal
Trust.
But the foxes that manage the Coal
Trust and the Steel Trust, and that
make the laws, can import without
duty or any restrictions whatever all
the cheap labor they want to compete
with the American workman.
Under our fox government, the peo-
pie of the country must not import
free of duty a suit of clothes, bushel
of wheat, a pound OF wool-they
might interfere with some trust, some
one of the big foxes.
But under that same fox govern.
ment the exploiters of the people can
import labor as they please-there is
no protection for labor, only the fox's
pocketbook is protected.
The people-poor, helpless geese
are robbed through the system of gov
ernment taxation.
One set of laws piles up enormous
fortunes s-lncomes unheard OF in the
the worlds history.
And the interpreters of the law
acting for the fox on the throne-tell
the geese that they cannot put a pen
ny OF tax on those enormous incomes
taken from them.
The people themselves must pey all
expense of the Government that is
managed in the interest of the enor-
nous fortune. Not penny can come
from the income of man with a
hundred million.
The national Government must be
supported entirely out of the small
wages of those men who are tricked
and robbed to build up that hundred
million fortune.
In big city the man who makes q
dollar a day gives ten per cent Of his
income to the fox that has stolen the
public streets-the owner OF the street
cars. He gives another part of his
income to the national Government
W hen he takes glass of beer.
He gives another part of his in
come when he smokes a pipe of tobac-
co.
He pays to the fox of the Beef
Trust when he eats his dinner.
The woman who works for misera
bly, small wages gives up very often
twenty per cent of her entire income
to the street car that carries her to
and from her work-without giving
her seat.
And SO it goes.
The income of the great money
fox is protected; nothing can touch
him. Laws must not offend him-if
they do they are ignored.
The great lawyers work for him
they write the laws in advance or tell
HIM how to evade them.
Everything is done for him-no
wonder lac chuckles as he sits upon his
throne and sees the geese pass before
him on their way to the ballot box.
What is to be done?
Well the geese must look up instead
Of down. They must look at the
cunning power that runs them, under
stand it, combine against it
They must take away from crimi-
nal, organized capital its chief weap-
on Of attack control of industry
through the tariff, control Of the ma
tion through the railroads. control of
the rights of the individual through
q corrupt ballot.
Railroad, street car, lighting COM
panies, must be owned by the people.
Government ownership Of absolute
monopolies such as the telegraph
that is q necessity.
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