Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1908-09-09

the prospect q Industrial, anu com.
mercial slavery no terrors for your
Do you not know that the concentra.
tion Of wealth and consequent power
have already circumscribed the field
OF your individual activity and USE
fulness. have limited the equality OF
opportunity even in some directions
have destroyed 1t altogether?
Tho Evidence.
To be convinced OF the truth of
what l state try to get into the lum-
Der manufacturing business. You will
find that you can buy no timber ad.
vantageously situated. This is all
owned by few lumber companies,
by the lumber trusts. This condition
was clearly foreseen and vigorously
pointed out by economic students
many years ago but the Iowa repub.
lican gave no heed to the impending
calamity Of lumber famine. While
he owned not tree of a quality to
make commercial lumber, "for the
sake of party harmony" and party
discipline, he annually voted for a
tariff policy that had the direct dis
astrous effect of Fastening the de-
struction OF our forests. Our forests
are now largely exhausted, the stand.
ing timber is owned by the few, ium-
Der is soaring in price, all of which
convictS us of being the victims of re.
publican folly. Form company with
a moderate amount of capital and try
to engage In the iron and steel bust
ness and you will be unable to buy
any ore or coal beds in any favorable
locality. these have all been pre-
emptied by the, United States steel
trust under the sanction of divine
trusteeship. Go into the meat packing
industry and the Armour syndicate
will treat you as an interloper and
not leave grease spot of you. Try
the sugar refining business and your
experience will be vastly more bitter
than sweet. Rockefeller may toler-
ate you in some, capacity as a men,
Der OF one Of his subsidiary oil COM
panies where you would enjoy i'm.
munity from the payment of any fine
for breaking the law. While many
small bankers imagine their particu.
lar field is free of monopoly, the
truth Is the small banker exists mere.
ly by sufferance. Experts are ad,
tusting the machinery that will In
time effectually eliminate even him.
Tho Danger Ahead.
The frenzied financiers now have 1t
in their power to produce a panic as
neatly and expeditiously as tailor
a 90 1rso hi,
emergency currency law enables them
to turn the panic into rich harvest
for themselves. During tho panic
last fall the eastern banks were given
free of any charge two hundred and
nifty millions of dollars OF government
money. Instead Of being patriotic
enough to send some of this to their
western creditors, which would have
materially mitigated the severity OF
the money famine. they cold bloodedly
refused to send dollar. They loan.
ed out his vast sum to spectators at
a clear gain to themselves of sixty
millions of dollars. This is the outfit
of undesirable citizens" who, we are
told, several weeks before the Chi
cago Convention of the republican
press, would be loyal to Taft. I
do not question this loyalty, but re-
member to say that Wall Street will
be loyal to Taft" is only another
way of saying Taft will be loyal to
Wall Street,. pity the innocence of
the poor mortal who should imagine
that Wall Streets loyalty will ever
be gratuitously rendered to any one,
or to any cause. That permanently
inferior industrial standard is in store
for the mass of our working people II
present tendencies are not checked
is to my mind perfectly clear. If the
concentration of wealth is not ar.
rested 1t will continue to concen.
trate at an ever increasing ratio. The
possession of immense wealth car
ries along with it corresponding poll
tical power; this power is used to ac.
celerate the speed with which more
wealth is gathered and thus more
power is acquired. the two pushing
each other along automatically. Are
the people to remain blind until the
curse of the relationship of master
and slave once more acquires the dig.
nifty and prestige Of a national insti.
tuition? A relationship not between
whites and blacks but between the
lucky white man and his unfortunate
brother? Do you tell me we are in
no such danger? Is it not true that
the dark shadow of this unspeakable
calamity is falling upon us even
now? Are we not within our rights
when we plead with all patriotic citi-
Zens to join with us and thus forever
avert his supreme danger? Remem-
Der 1t required four years of devas.
tating war to abolish black slavery:
white slavery will be so much more
odious. so much more intolerable, its
victims will be SO many more, that
1t becomes the solemn duty of every
patriot to help strengthen the move.
ment for the suppression of this ad
vancing white plague.
Do Not Be Deceived.
Do not delude yourselves, my re.
publican friends, with the soothing
explanation that Taft is Roosevelt's
chosen instrument to carry to sue
cessful conclusion the Roosevelt poll
cies. Temperamentally Mr.. Taft is
entirely unequal to this tremendous
task. Nature has not equipped Mr.
Taft with those militant qualities SO
conspicuous in the make up OF Theo-
dore Roosevelt. and when with all his
natural combativeness and determin-
alton Roosevelt has largely failed to
bring the rich criminals to JUS
tfce. who can expect the easy-going.
peace-loving Taft to tear up the
earth? Where strenuosity and bull
dog courage fail. the polished man.
ners of jurist cannot work a mira
Gle. Whatever Taft might wish to
do, in case he be elected, he will be
powerless to resist the impact of the
"frenzied financiers" reinforced as
they will be by the Tom Ryan's from
the democratic camp.
Democracy Wrongly Accused.
1t has been often asserted that the
democratic party in its persistent
advocacy of the peoples rights is gen.
Grating class hatred. stirring up
class prejudice and distrust of capital,
thus injuring business. This attempt
ed indictment of the character and
purposes of the democratic party is
positively silly. Let all men know
that the democratic party cherishes
not the remotest intention, either in
victory or defeat, to arouse unneces.