The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1905-07-14


and having only to pay interest on their
real values, can reduce rates of fares
and freight and prices generally and the
revolution will then be complete.
viii Fight to a Finish.
.'About the course of procedure l am !,
advising, there is nothing complex. con-
fusing or dangerous. When | put forth
this plan of ending the regime of the
SYSTEM a great cry of murder and an
archy went up from Wall st. One might
think from the cutlery that L had sug
gested burning New York. Let me as
sure YOU that all the injury will be to
the thousand millionaires-all the profit
to YOU seventy nine odd millions of peo-
pie. At present the American people
can get high prices for their stocks and
bonds two to two and half times as
much as they are worth, so or 100 per
cent more than they could have got
fifteen months ago-they can get real
money for them and for this they can
get as much interest on government,
state city or town bonds, or upon real
estate mortgages as can be honestly
promised in any legitimate business If
eventually it should turn out that there
is nothing in my movement, all that it
is necessary for the people to do is to
repurchase from the System the stocks
and bonds they have sold
ssMake no mistake. My crusade against
F'renzied Finance and its votaries and
| their plundering. robbing game will be
carried to a finish. ] shall keep DINING
| into the ears of the American people
| the brutal facts of their injuries until
| I rouse them to action. l shall keep
urging them to sell all their stocks and
| bonds until they sell them. l am on
the trail-and if necessary, l shall tramp
! bare-footed summer and winter through
| eyerv town and hamlet in the United
States until I accomplish my purpose
and complete this reform. If l live, the
| American people will sell their stocks
and bonds.
| "When the proper time comes to an
nounce my remedy, l shall set it forth
shall operate it and prove it's efficiency
though it's practically will be apparent
at a glance. In operation it will benefit
all alike, the farmer, the laborer, the
nroducer and consumer first, and the
honest possessor of capital second. The
conditions of it's application are such
| that no man can misuse 1T or turn 1t
into an instrument for his personal ben
eft. This cannot be done at the be-
| ginning or at the end or at any time.
I. it's inventor, shall be as powerless to
| interfere, change or transmute as any
one else.
His Fortune Goes With the Rest.
| .You ask me here-what will become
of your own fortune? l answer-it will
have to go with the rest, for my fortune
like all those others made from the
people through the medium of the stocks
of corporations and trusts, should go
back where it came from. l have work
ed like a dog and never knowingly
wronged a man, woman or child out OF
a dollar. Yet l have done nothing when
would honestly entitle me, measured by
the standard which my remedy will pu>
in force, to absolutely own over mil
lion dollars for my lifetime's work.
have made five million dollars in a single
months work, and as high as two mil
lions in a single day, and as the bust
ness of the country is now done. l car
repeat the operation and honestly say
to my fellowman and to my God l have
not infringed any of the laws of the
game in the making of it.
''In saying this, and assert 1t WITH
the utmost conviction. you have the
source of the whole evil before you. Ii
is an evil not of men but of methods
, AS l said in the foreword of my story
take no issue with men; it is with G
principle | am concerned. The men are
merely individuals; it is the method tina
is at fault.
A Square Deal For All.
''There is but one people, and they
are Americans. The election of Theo
dore Roosevelt has just proved it, ant
! he the honest, he the brave and grand
has a great, strong hand upon the rud
| der of state. while in his left he holds
; the sword of justice. as he i'm voice
| which pierces the ears of all the world
rings out ga square deal for all!' Jus
then Opportunity knocks, and I implor'
YOU by all the traditions of the past
in behalf of the suffering of the present
and for the sake of unborn generations
answer the knock. open the door ant
show the whole world that Kansas. i
necessary, will again earn and doubl!
earn. her name of Bleeding Kansas.