New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1906-08-01
PEOPLES FOOD, PRODUCTS AND
PROSPERITY
INSURANCE COMPANIES AND RAILROADS

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Thousands of newspapers are de-
Gliding to print the truth about the
trusts.
They have concluded to give their
readers the power of knowledge.
Without knowledge people are help
less.
It is the basis Of our elf-govern-
ment
When we know what to do we can
do It. It is a free country. The peo-
pie control everything.
All Power is in the
Hands Of the People.
No political party has power except
through the people.
No political party can act without
popular support.
1t may do so, but that is suicide
at the next election it loses it's
power.
Political parties have but to hear
the verdict of the people to realize the
peoples power.
Combinations of capital are equally
helpless
they must yield to the people or
be crushed.
In these matters of meat, railroads
and insurance the power Of reform is
in the hands of the public.
The people have but to decide what
they want done and 1t will be done.
The Power Of the Press
Belongs to the People.
Publicity is the cure for the
trusts the President has said,
because when the press gives the
facts to the public the public will ex-
ercise it's mighty power.
The press belongs to the public.
The people who read the news.
papers and magazines control them
Let the people cease to read any CIV
en- publication and no matter how much
| money its publisher has and how
! much advertisers spend in 1t, its pow
er is gone.
The people are represented by the
| press. They delegate their power to
its columns when they undertake to
| Lave it solve public questions, for il
| just as much or more than when the
public power is delegated to a mem
| Der of the legislature or of Congress
| To secure the representation of the
public is the aim of every ambitious
| publisher. He is representative OF the
public just to the extent he has sub
| scribers, Just to the extent people
read his publication.
Getting Subscribers is
Almost Like Getting Votes
| It's about the same as getting votes
A subscription is practically vote
Tor the policy of the publication. II
furnishes the cash with which to pub
lish 1t furnishes the moral support
that lies in the fact that people reaG
any given publication.
So the struggle is for circulation.
i The great giants in publishing are
the city press. Millions in money backs
i the enterprises of the city publisher
I He reaches out into the whole coun
i try for subscribers.
He makes his publication so inter
4 esting that e--eryone wants to read II
He gets public support two ways
+ hrst he gets subscribers from district
j where previously the people hav'
r supported the local press solely. Thel
he gets support from the city advertis
!; ers who want the country trade-th
mail order houses, the whole long lis
Of advertisers who are sapping tn
country's cash and paying the cit,
publisher to help them do it.
He wakes wealthy and hires tn
best writer's In the country and dc
c1des to make his publications so II
teresting that everybody will have t
read them He stirs up public ques
tions-goes after the meat trust, tn
insurance trust, the railroads, all tn
vast enterprises which handle tn
peoples money and products and di'
!, tribute and augment the peoples pro!
perity. or vice versa, whichever wa
you want to look at 1t.
The City Versus
The Country
It's the same old story-creatin
central control, bringing the people
: money into the cities to be handle
by the men who publish the mag;
g zines and daily newspapers and VIII
aim to abolish the country store an
2 the country publisher by making
impossible for them to compete ju:
: as the other trusts have centralize
other things, such as insurance an
cattle killing and management Of raj
: roads.
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