The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1905-04-29
ONT. MORE EDUCATOR IS
DUE TO WALK THE. PLANK
Prof. Veblem Of Chicago UNI
versity to be Punished
For Lese Majestic.
Publish Unpalateable Truths
to Bald Headed Old In
dustrial Monarch,

dustria1 Monarch.
Once again word comes from the
STANDARD OIL University Of Chicago
that the crime Of lese majestic against
King Rockefeller Is to be punished
by official deoapitation. This time it
10 Prof. Veblem whom the financial pi-
rates are forcing to walk the plank.
The procession 1s now a long one:
Hourwtoh. Bemis, Triggs. Dewey and
probably others whose names have be-
come less known In this connection.
No sooner was Prof. Triggs dismissed
because he voiced truths that were I'M
palateable to the> bald-headed old in
dustrial monarch when he started a
magazine called Tomorrow. which IL
rapidly gaining in popular favor. In
the first Issue. Prof. Triggs writes Of
the "Changing Order" as follows:
Tomorrow the redemption of the
world will begin. Even shrewd busi-
ness men are preparing for the change
IA change which some believe will
come five years hence. 1t il surprising
who are accustomed to business cal
culations. National ownership Of In
dustries is strictly In accord with his
toric logic. When kingship reached
it's historic climax the people said, Let
the nation own the throne Some
heads were lost and some property was
confiscated. In some way or other
economic Independence will be
achieved"
But it seems that the new thought
cannot be stamped out. and where one
advanced thinker Is decapitated an
other or more start up to mount tho
man upon the industrial throne.
Through the Chicago University and
President Harper the Standard OIL Co.
also controls newspapers and maya
zines. One of those Is The World To-
Day, printed In Chicago, and DR.. Har-
per is president Of the publishing COM
pany. II you turn to the March num-
Der you will find an editorial there
in, captioned, What is a Revolution7"
written by none other than Mr.. Smaller
Mathews the editor, who says in part:
You cannot plan revolutions as you
do sunday-school picnics. A nation
must be possessed Of a great moral
idea, a government has to replace a
government, those with privileges must
submit to see the unprivileged, share
in their advantages, those men must
win who would have been traitors If
they had failed, before q revolt be-
comes a revolution.
What we popularity call the French
Revolution was the Reign Of Terror.
The cause of French feudalism had
before the Reign Of Ter
ror was organised to keep them from
being re-establtshed by the "respecta-
ble' men and women who had fled the
country. and were Infringing and
fighting to come back and re- establish
the old order Of things.
A revolution comes whom a people,
like one man, is convinced of Unequal
ity Of privileges, and finds its attempt
to establish larger measure Of JUS
tice opposed by it's government and
by those who have enjoyed privileges. |
It may be peaceful. perhaps even with |
out shedding blood. But no mon
archy, or feudalism, or slavery, or gov
that taxes without giving rep
or anything else can stand |
before a fixed social idea. Englishmen
have been shrewd enough to see this
and have surrendered such privileges
as would satisfy the immediate demand !
Of the hour. Reform has thus fore |
stalled revolution. We expect the same |
course of events in the United States,
for we have the ballots. If the Gear is
wise it may be possible even in Rus
uln DIT nat ho ha Int
or revolution in Russia or In the United !
States, or in any other country, will |
be determined not by the masses. but |
by the minority who, by virtue Of cir |
or outgrown law or Of
force, possess more than their Just |
share of the good things of civiliza-
ton. Sooner or later they must share |
their monopolized privileges with a
nation. It is for them to decide wheth- |
or it shall be by revolution. That is |
another of their privileges!'
Just how the foregoing defiant dec !
will be met by the system"
remains to be seen. Certain it is that |
when the so-called intellectuals, who |
have been more docile and conservative
in America than in any other country
on earth, begin to dare call their souls
their own the great mass Of hewers of |
wood and drawers of waters will move
with them, but judging from the grow
ing working class sentiment, they will
not be used to overthrow one priv
ileged class to establish another.
The coming new order will be an in
dustrial az we'll as political democ- |
racy. The need for old party politi- |
clans, princes and potentates and their
privileges disappeared when produc-
ton became socialized. That epoch is
now.
It il said that Gen. Lew Wallace,
who just died, uttered q prophesy. AL
most his. last words were that the
time Is near at hand when the work.
ing people will rule. this country.