The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-10-28

Hearst very gently. = 1t i'd full Of
meaning for me. have studied JEFF
ferson and Jackson and Lincoln have
studied carefully thel history Of this
means to say equal rights for all and
privileges for none. think ] know
Whatit means in words and what those
words mean as tossconsequences.'
And you think that the cure for
our evils lies in the re-estab lishment Of
that principle; not,in deeper going rem
edies, such as the government control
of manufactures and other industries
and the abolition Of private property
in tools, land, etc.7''
"Then you are not socialist at
allf''>
usocialism is unnecessary, = he
said. quietly. HIts remedies are en-
tirely unnecessary. Take away privi-
leges and opportunities will be equal. !"
1You mean governmental privi-
I'll mean the favors granted by gov
eminent.
Time. and time again we went over
the ground; directly and indirectly we
approached it., and always Mr.. Hearst
saw clearly the iniquities of advantages
granted by the government direct. And
that's all he does see. Somebody has
tried to make him go farther. That |
infer from the fact that whenever I
guments Of more radical theories, he
was irritated. The whole thing is polit-
ieal with him. Mr. Hearst does not
understand scientifically the economic
conditions underlying our. politics. He
talks Of the unequal distribution OF
wealth produced by labor" and he
tells the workers they should have a
larger share; but he seems to be think
ing only of higher wages.
My father was-I think, said the
son in his slow, but not unsure way
"a great MANN his day 'ss u.s. sd. q. "a
Mr.. Hearst said it was from his
father that he learned his first lesson
in democracy. - : I. = s.
"Jeffersonian democracy9"' g
eyes; Jeffersonian democracy was
the positive answer.
Senator Hearst was simple man,
who met men face to face, hgEting,
laughing, playing, and in that sense he
was democratic. And he sent his son
| of the big men of his class in Califor-
MIA in those days. There is differ
ence, however, between democratic
manners and feelings and democratic
theories,' and in California we never
heard that Senator Hearst in politics
had any theories at all. Still the son
may have had better chance than
outsiders to know his father, and Will
liam Randolph says that the senator
talked much to him about politics and
that the politics he talked was Jeffer:
sonian. At any rate, the son got from
this source his first knowledge Of the
existence of governmental privileges
in the United States and of their abuse
in California. - -
A Great Democratic Wave.
Mr.. Hearst went interestingly into
the democratic movements in Ameri
can history-Jefferson IS, Jackson s.
Lincoln s.. He seems to know these
men and these chapters well, and into
all these movements, ancient and mod
ern, he reads significance of the pres
ent movement.
"Then you think that the present
political movement in America is one
Of these great democratic waves9'
"Probably the greatest the WORLD
has ever seen,' he answered. Ger
tainly the, greatest in the history Of
the United States.'' s..~l
"You'd call it a spontaneous. move
ment7'
"More or less. Leaders appeared
to create it in different parts Of thu
country, but they only expressed what
lay mute all around them. They per
sonifed it, -. 6 /
"But you see it as a great nationa
movement, new spirit in the Ameri