The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1908-10-24
"SHALL THE PEOPLE RULE?'

= N THE FIERCE struggle for the success Of particular candidates in this
campaign, We are likely to forget hat here is something in the election
: that means moret than he triumph Of any individual. or Of any party. We
do lot mean the local campaign, or the state campaign, but the fight that is
being waged throughout the country for the control of the government for the
The real fight il between III controlling form of wealth md he disin-
hried- It is a fight between the expofer and h exploited. It is a fight
between h robber n the robbed It is a fight between those who W the
protected wealth of the country ant those who W no wealth 1t is a class
fight.
Those who he wealth of a country control its government. The law,
control the government If ON wishest o ascertain what influences control the
government # a country he has to ascertain the 'predominating' form of
form If wealth was the chattel slave, and the owners OF h slaves controlled
serfs,a and he ne of these controlled he government. Before n Civil var
in America, tn pred0minating wealth vas BLACK slaves, and the southern slave
holders controlled tn government INC controlled it absolutely
Three hundred years ago. Sir Walter Raleigh, speaking to the English
people, said: THE nation that controls the high seas controls tn highways Of
commerce of the world; the nation that controls tn highways of the commerce
of the world. controls the commerce of the world; the nation that controls
the commerce # the world. controls the wealth If the world; the nation that
controls thu wealth Of tn world controls tn world IN IN governments
thereof
States. are its railroad systems. Those who control h railway systems of the
United states, control hc highways of commerce of the United ssatest those
who control the highways If commerce in the Unted States. control. the I'm
merce of thu United States; those who control he commerce If thu United
States control tho wealth of the United States; those who control the wealth
of the United States control the government If the United States.
How 10 the railway systems of the United States control the wealth and
government of the United States? Ely what is called the '.inasrlocked dnec-
tratc,' A railroad is built through a new coal field; soon the directors of
coal company is Disseminated against in transportation m is soOn frozeno t
Tho same in the oil fields; the same in the lumber districts; it is the same in
elevators IN their ightOfway. and buy all the grain o. a given section at a
price set by h railroads. There nj competition If N independent ee
vator breaks in and gets to buckng' the combination. it is throw OF the
railroad rghaofway Thus the railroads have ramhcd every industry and
practically control the products OF every section
ANOTHER FORM OF WEALTH.
While the railroads are the predoninatng form of wealth, control the
government and the party in power, there is another fon of wealth that also
has It's hands on the government am works in harmony with the railroads It
is that form Of wealth created by a protective tariff. Originally the policy
If the protective tariff vas sound; it was to foster infant industries after the
devastation of h war;. Under the stimulus Of protection, the infant indus
tries grew to be giants, IN the output Of protected industries vas greater than
in n other country on the globe. The people rebened against longer feeding
these industries at theirs wn expense, and a demand for a reduction of the
tariff swept wei the land The tariff barons set up the false cry hat pro-
lection was necessary to enable thu payment OF good wage Without protec-
ton, the was worker would 'have TO compete with the pauper of
Europe, The submrfuge worked, but while better wages prevailed in this
country than in Europe, the policy of protection also increased the cost Of
living to sch N extent that there ws relatively N difference in the pr
chasing power OF wages paid at home ad abroad. And he people are again
camorng against the Ubiquitous system
I. the meantime. tn tariff barons were becoming richer n more power
fL They fortified themselves at he nations capital by eleaing their own
senators and representatives, and now with thu railroads, they control the
appointment Not a manufacturing industry not a railroad. not a trust, but has
its special representatives in both branches OF congress- an in such numbers
as to dictate all legislation. As a Jesuit, trusts or combinations in restraint
# trade, have grow u to shne ant srange independent enterprises, and
the railways by their system of rebates and favortism to large shippers
have combined Will the monopoisuc nj tariff protected barons, to control
the commerce and industries Of he country.
ROOSEVELT P0wERLESS
President Roosevelt during his administration. has fought these known
abuses with sincerity and vgor; but h has found his party against i'm at
very turn of the road. He tried to force the trusts and the railroads into