Rocky Ford enterprise., 1906-08-17

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.
II is the basis Of our self.govern.
ment.
When We know what to do We can
do It. It is free country. The peo-
pie control everything.
All Power 10 In the
Hands Of the People.
through the people.
No political party can act without
popular support.
II may do SO. but that is suicide
at the next election 1, loses Its
power.
Political parties have but TO hear
tho verdict OF the people to realize tho
peoples power.
Combinations Of capital are equally
helpless
they must yield to the people or
bc 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 Il 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 tho press gives tho
facts to tho public the public will OK.
crcIso Its mighty power.
Tho press belongs to tho public.
The people who read the ncws.
papers and magazines control them.
Let tho people cease to read any CIV
en- publication and no matter how much
money Its publisher has and how
much advertisers spend In Il, Its pow.
or is gone.
The people arc represented by tho
press. They delegate their power to
Its columns when they undertake to
lave II solve public questions. for II
Jus; rs much or more than when the
public power 10 delegated to n mem.
Der of the legislature or of Congress.
public Ia the aim OF every ambitious
publisher. lie Is representative Of the
public Just to tho extent he has sub
scribcrs, Just TO the extent people
read his publication.
Getting Subscribers 10
Almost Like Getting Votes
It's about the same as getting votes.
A Leaf Ia
for the policy OF the publication. II
furnishes tho cash with which to pub
iish. 1t furnishes the moral support
that lies in the fact that people read
any given publication.
So the struggle is for circulation.
The great giants In publishing are
the city press. Millions In money backs
the enterprises OF tho city publisher.
He reaches ou, into the whole coun.
try for subscribers.
He makes his publication so inter.
esting that c-cryonc wants TO read II.
lie gets public support two ways
first no gets subscribers from districts
where previously the people have
supported the local press solely. Then
he gets support from the city advertis.
ers who want the country trade-thc
mail order houses. the whole long list
OF advertisers who are sapping the
country's cash and paying the, city
publisher TO help them do It.
He wakes wealthy and hires the
best writer's In the country and de-
cides to make his publications SO in.
tcresting that everybody will have to
read them. He stirs up public ques-
tions-goes after the meat trust. the
insurance trust. the railroads, all the
vast enterprises which handle the
peoples money and products and dis
tribute and augment the peoples pros.
perity. or vice versa, whichever way
you want to look at Il.
The City Versus
| The Country
It's the same old story-creating
central control. bringing the peoples
| money into the cities to be handled
by the men who publish the maya.
zines and daily newspapers and who
aim to abolish the country store and
the country publisher by making 1t
impossible for them to compete Just
as the other trusts have centralized
pther things. such as insurance and
sattle-killing and management of rail.
roads.
It's the city versus the country
the non.producer versus the producer,
the middle man versus the end man
the fellows who take control of com.
modities and cash between the pro.
ducer and the consumer and adding
nothing to either commodities
or cash amass vast fortunes
for themselves. Last year the
country's products were over twelve
billion dollars in value but the farmers
and the other working people got only
two billion dollars of this money. Who
| got the rest?