The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-21

the work of their hands. Ease of transportation is. therefore. as vitalIy necessary to the 1aborer as ease Tn setting at the natural bounties: and as all mon are iaborers fn the true sense of the word. the few who have placed themselves in charge of the transportation facilities of . nation gst incredibly rich in the briefsst time. be- cause they tax more thoroughly and absolutely every human being in their 1urisdiction than does the government itself. The same may be said of the medium of exchange-monsy. Here again the world seems to be ell at sea as the elementary principle of this problem: the money lenders alone have fixed and profitable principles, which enables them to tax every human be- ing who uses money. for the use and for the continuance of the favor to use 1t. They have placed themselves bet ween men and the medium of exchange. just as others have placed themselves between men and the natural bounties. between men and the facilities of transporting goods to the market (you see the point)
 How can they help getting millions together as the "Rothschilds" have done; millions, again, that should be In greater part passing into the poe ket-book of the middle class. if you please. So then before we can raise wages permanently, and make the "v6nderbilt" and the Carnegie" for tunes as impossible as they are neces- sary, we must learn how to keep the natural bounties. the means of ex- change. and the medium of exchange free from the specuiators Tax, his interference. his tyranny.
 This gives us a fair view of one side now lets look at the other side.
 Conditions have changed greatly with the masses since the days of in one century:-sooner would they also the mental conditions; and now. after taste of'civilization and educa- tion, 1t would require centuries of gradual oppression to make thern again submit to the old order of things. in which they were the vassals of the landed nobility. It could not be done in one couhtry.-sooner would they die. The very suspicion of tendency toward such a future for their children would lead to a revolution, and 1t Is this fear which is helping to goad the poor to stronger protests than ever before attempted.
 But 1t may be asked. why should we contemplate such a tendency? Why not suppose a continuance. and even an luCTtAScs Oi tuo 8ChCEAh PAoSpCAAty of the past century, and particularly of the past fifty years?
 We cannot so suppose, because ob- servation and reflection show that such expectations would be unrea- sonable, indeed impossible. for several reasons I will only write of one here, i
 The prosperity. of the present cen tury has been--under divine supervi- sion, Dan ZII { directly result of the mental "Awak ening" of the world. printing. steam. electricity and applied mechanics being the agencies. The a. wakening brought increasing demands for necessities and luxuries from in- creasing numbers. Coming suddenly. the increase of demand exceeded the production; and hence wages in gen. eral advanced. And as the supply be- came equal to and beyond the demands of the home-markets. other nations long dormant, also awakened and de- manded supplies. For time all classes benefited. and all civilized na- tions suddendly became much more wealthy as we'll as much more com fortabie than ever before; because the manufacture of machinery required mouiJers. machinsts and carpenters; :; and these required the assistance of woodsmen and brick makers and fur na ace- builders and furnace-men; and when the machines were ready many Of them required coal and gave in- creased demand for coai-diggers. en- giheers firemen. etc.. Steamships and railroads were demanded all over the world. and thousands of men were promptly employed in building. equip- ting and opera ting thepsro Thus the ranks of labor were suddenly called upon and wages rose approximately to the skill, demanded. Indirectly still others were benefited as well as those