The newspaper., 1907-09-13
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trests of the stockholders are not
safe in the hands of the trust
for he has been known
to depress the market for the pur-
pose of freezing out his associates
or in order to buy more stock at a
low price. Those who, believing
that "a private mon poly is
indefensible and intolerable, are
laboring to restore competition
and to protect the small producer,
the consumer, the merchant and
the skilled laborer-these, not
the trust magnates. are the real
defenders of property rights.
The railroad presidents are also
very much concerned now lest
their particular form of property
will be injured by state laws, and
they are quick to describe as
demagogic all arguments that are
intended to inform the public
intelligence and to arouse the
public conscience on the railroad
question. What is the position
taken by the railroad presidents? j?
They deny the right of the people
of the state acting through their
legislature to fix the terms upon
which the railroads shall do busi-
ness in that state. They deny
the right of congress to interfere
with their privileges or the right
of government to fix the rates,
although they must know that in
the fixing of railroad rates the
magnate has made vigorous at
tacks upon the rights of property"
Not only is the reformer the
real defender of property rights.
but he is the best friend of the
very persons who abuse him.
inst as that physician is the best
one who points out to his patient
the dangers of the disease from
which he suffers and proposes
the remedy. no matter how severe.
so those are the best friends of
the rich who attempt to restrain
excesses and to correct abuses.
Jefferson in his first inaugural
address describes the right OF
election by the people as a mild
and safe corrective of abuses
which are Topped off by the sword
of revolution where PEACEFUL
remedies are unprovided. The
reformer seeks by peaceful means
to correct abuses which, if not re-
formed by legislation. are sure
sooner or later to lead, first, to
bitterness between the classes
and finally to violence. Dickens
IN his tale of Two Cities" gives
his readers picture of the French
revolution and points out that the
horrors of the revolution were but
the natural result of the cruelties
which the masses previously suf
fered at the hands of the aristoc-
racy. This is his language:
Along the Paris Streets. the
death carts rumble. hollow and
harsh. Six tumbrils carry the
days wine to La Guillotine
All the devouring and insatiate
monsters imagined since imagin-
alton could record its :lf are fused
IN the one realization, Guillotine.
And yet there is not in France,
with its rich variety of soil and
climate blade, leaf. a root, a
sprig. a peppercorn, which will
grow to maturity under conditions
more certain than those that have
produced this horror Crush hu-
manity out of shape once more,
under similar hammers, and it will
twist itself into the same tortured
forms. Sow the same seed OF ra-
pacious license and oppression
ever again. and it will surely
yield the same fruit according 10
It's kind
six tumbrils roll along the
streets. Change these back again
to what they were, thou powerful
enchanter, Time, and they shall
be seen to be the carriges of abso-
iute monarchs, the equipages of
feuJaI ,ObI.c tho to;l.tt.e of