East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1910-02-02
SOCIALISM THE CURE.


During the presidential terms OF
Theodore Roosevelt the papers all
over the country were filled up about
his desperate attacks upon and des-
truction of all kinds of trusts 4
giant trust buster. Now the great
God knows Taft. president of these
United states has issued an official
warning to reassure those who feared
that he was about 20 destroy an the
trusts. should be looked upon as
very kind act Of him, but the warn
ing is unnecessary. IL he DESTROYS just
one he win have made a record He
need not go on any wholesale de-
bauch of trust busting TO prove his
sincerity If he succeeds in trans
forming just one poor. weak little
trust into mass of competing forms
that remain competitors he will have
something that has never been ac-
ccmplished before, when he succeeds
in doing this he win have proved his
capacity To round up the hen coops
in the Pendleton poultry show, and
put all the roosters back into the
eggs from which they came. He will
have accomplished something ana
logous to forcing the giant Segnoia
into the tiny seed from which it
sprouted generations ago.
He will have accomplished mar
velous feat, but then will come the
question What's the use he will have
made start but which way will he
be going.
The trust is the logical outgrowth
of the machine and the world market.
If he will root it out he must destroy
the railroad and the telegraph that
created the world market. He must
transform the machine into the hand
tool. and then duh the mind OF the
inventor lest the machine be born
again. Then. when all this has been
done. when mankind has been re-
duced to the hlissful savasery of the
stone age. the trust problem would
he settled for a few thousand years.
then it would all have to be done over
again. OF course that is not the way
things are going They will not go
that way. No matter how many
Tofts or other high officials may try
TO make them do so. When hlhs
Canute ordered the tide To go back
h.. soon had wet feet. ana would have
been washed out to sea had he not
removed his throne from the road OF
the advancing waves. So IT VIII oe
with our King Canutes, the trust
wave will keep on rising Industrial
evolution will continue. 1t will not
stop with the trusts any more thah
il stopped with the machine. the i'm
norrant thing to discover. therefore
is what will he next stage of evo-
Tuition. 1t is not so hard to determine
this now as it would have been IN
some earlier stage. the line Of eVoIu-
/ ton is so long drawn out that We can
easily determine its direction The
/ ltrusr cannot~rontiuue now much long
err as private property without its
owners literally devourinE society,
/ rut II would seem 10 me that under
/ a democratic form Of government II
is unthinkable that a majority OF the
people will sit quietly and be de-
lvoured The socialists are the pnty
! up To date students of sociology
Thev hold that the only alternative IS
for the trusts 10 be socially owned
/ This has been said many times and II
must be said again and again until a
majority Of the voters have come 10
know its truth. The spreading OF
this truth and the organization OF
the producers of wealth TO assist in
this next step in social evolution is
the great and noble task of the social
| ist movement.
Respectfully.
]. b. DESPAIR.