Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1905-02-17
PUBLIC OWNERSHIP COLUMN

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Conducted by the New Ira
Grub of the town of Gran
tie, Morrison County, MINI.
NUGGETS FROM THE APPEAL
TO REASON.
Because wrong system is an old
system it doesn't make it tight sys-,
tenn. No, not by Jug full. :,
The tendency of affairs is always
towards what the majority consider
their present day economic interests.
Is it q crime to wish for better.
things in y world filled with good
things? One would think so t, hear
some preachers talk.
Formerly the mail sent to the little
isle Of Tahiti cost the government
$3.50 a year. Now Spreckles. the. sug'
ar king, draws from the government
as, 600 a year to leave the mail bag
there-which sometimes does not con"
tain ten. pounds-.of mail, and is deliv-
cred only few times year. And
you have to work for your. wages.
Spreckles doesn't work-he owns tho
congressman you elected. :.
We are calmly informed BY the
daily press that the meat trust win
have to change it's methods or it win
find itself in contempt of the supreme
court, which has just declared that It
ia and has been violating the laws Of
the United Statea That is Nke...a
court finding man guilty OF ooun.
terfeiting or smuggling and warning
him that unless he quits such crimes
he will be punished. It goes to show
that laws are made only to s.catch tho
little thieves, but never to touch tho
big ones at all. It 10 just as much
crime against the United States laws
for the packers to continue their COM
bins as to counterfeit money. Then.
why are they not punished
Thrifty workingmen in Michlaan 60
over into Canada and deposit their
savings in the Canadian government
savings banks. They know that these
banks have the government behind
them aud never fail. II the hundreds
of thousands who lost millions last
year in Iowa mad had postal. savings
banks there would not have been
dollar of loss to them. Forty-one Of
the banks failed, taking millions from
the people. The bankers maze all tho
laws of the country relative to BANK
ing, and will not permit any law
creating safe governmental bank
ing system. as they know the people
would never deposit a dollar. with
private banks, and hence the bankerr
would not have the peoples money
to gamble with. Sect OF course, you
don't see. else you would repudiate
the men You elect to congress who do
the bidding 0: the bankers and other
corporations-not tho bidding of the
welfare of the people.
Maynard, of Virginia, has intro
duced q bill in congress to pension
ex-presidents &25. 600 q year for life.
But to pension. the working -class,
whose lives have been used up to keep
the officials in luxury and free from
work-that would be really too aw-
fully sooialistic. communicate for any
thing, 80 it would When you have
kept q fellow In luxury for a few
years he expects you to go on keep
ing him and his children and his
children's children. They tell US that
the working class ought to save
enough on their measley salary of ~
cents to 3 day to care for them
selves In their old age. But the officers
who get SO. $50 or 500 day-they
are not expected to save anythingt
They must be pensioned. So the poor
people are taxed to keep the officials
and themselves. tool But they like It.
They are like tho Chinese or Turks
they are trained to think this In right.
Even the Russian peasants are kick-
ing. They are wiser than those who
| stupidity elect men to pension the rioh
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