The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1905-07-09

chalk and water.
You don't like this thought-neither
! do l, but shall | remain silent because
4 the truths | must tell are unpalatable
and unfiattering? 1t is my duty to de-
/ scribe to you the terrible conditions |
/ see closing in upon you, so you may
! he warned before it is too late.
| What right have | to speak more
/ than another, you ask?
/ speak of a subject that / have
/ spent my life studying. | know the
robbers and their methods. | have
/ hunted with their pack and been har-
RED by their hounds. / have felt the
/ yoke of the System" round my own
neck and have thrown it off. Mine is
voice from the prison house, and
MY statements are not the assump.
/ tons of a closet financier or a book
worm student. / speak out of full
knowledge of the facts, and l demand
your attention because you need the
assistance l can render to you.
What is a Prosperous Country?
What Is a prosperous country?
One whose national resources pro-
dlice enough to supply its people with
Gard of living demands and in which
over and above consumption, there re-
mains a surplus. This surplus belongs
to the people in the degree to which
their labors have aided In its creation,
and 1t represents the profit OF their
work.
In a prosperous nation, when the
people strike a balance at the end of
period Of labor, they should find
themselves with a surplus-money in
tho bank or its equivalent; If not, there
should appear one or two reasons to
account for it's absence--fewer hours
OF labor or a more expensive standard
OF living. And If one Or the other OF
these effects is not in evidence, II
must follow that something in the ma.
chinery of that country is out of gear.
You will agree to the truth of these
following propositions:
Our country during the past 30
years has been prosperous beyond the
dreams of man.
We have created in this country all
that the people have consumed and
billions beside.
The statistics of our government
show this to be so; the statistics of the
world confirm it; the aggregate accu,
mulated wealth proves it. and the enor-
nous accumulations OF wealth in the
hands of certain individuals make it
plain as the MONDAY sun.
This being conceded aid il being adj
mitted that all the people of this coun-
try being free and equal, having SINH
lar opportunity and there being no
class of men legally entitled to take
the fruits of others labors, it should
follow that the people must have
shared in the enjoyment of this ex-
traordinary prosperity, or that they
labor fewer hours per day than former
ly and live more luxuriously, or that
they have great amounts of money in
various repositories throughout our
land. Yet you know that none Of
these things is true. The people work
as they have always worked, have no
greater Injuries save such convenient
sizes as any industrious and ingenious
race would make for itself in a century
Of life, and that a large majority OF
them have at the end of every month
only money enough to Fay for the
necessities they have consumed dur
ing that period.
This being true. where have those
billions of surplus. the fruit of the
labor of all the people, gone to?
Bryan Robbed of Presidency.
What are you going 20 do about it?
You know that the economic condi-
ton which allows the few to possess
all and the many are left with moth
ing, must be ended. If it is not, slavery
is the alternative. How shall It be
ed? By your ballots? What are ballots
against dollars. and the System" has
unlimited dollars. With $4,000. 600
| saw Rogers rob the able. fear
less, honest, electromagnetic
question, William Jennings Bryan out
Of the presidency of the United States
in 1895. Do you imagine he would
shrink from repeating the operation
In 1908 If he feared that the man You
nominated would upset his control?
Roosevelt Bound Hand and Foot.
To-day at the helm OF your affairs
is an able and fearless American, bold
to conceive and strong to execute. To
all of you he is a hero. and you are
behind him, ready to back up his
course wherever he sees fit to go.
President Roosevelt knows it, and to-
day no man in the country is more
keenly aware of the necessity of curb.
ing the corporate despotism under
which We live-but what can Presl
dent Roosevelt do? | hate to say II.
but he is as helpless in the system =
net as a bull in a balloon. Like Gull
liver in Lilliputia, he is bound by 1000
threads-cOngress the senate. the
rarty's interests, and gratitude, and
all the intangible influences which the
great money power can weave rouni
any individual. How brave and quick
the president is to do. A wrong is
called to his attention, a law must
needs be passed-the rebate evil must
be curbed, and he sends messages 10
congress demanding instant action.
What happens? Congress temporizes;
the senate snubs him, and the "sys
tenn" smokers.
Courts Bought.