Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1910-02-03
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mas ndQ us uluS at IliSh Aii~oo
and the fight against the Meat
Trust, national and local, is being
carried on with unabating fury, if not
with marked degree Of success.
Apparently it is now our turn to
tell long-suffering and waiting
public just chow it happened and
we hasten to grab for the bait, as
a starved catfish for chunk Of
limburgor.
In common with the rest Of hui
mainly, we are aware that prices
are high and we are also az are that
agitation is a very effectiv, veapaa.
rightly used But we see no hop,
of permanent relief in the mode a
procedure now being INDUCED in fol-
the reasons first. that the System
is too well entrenched, after its years
of unhampered financial gormandiz-
ing, and second, there has not, as
yet, been blow struck at the foun-
dalton of the local combinations
and the national trust. The tactics
now being pursued are about equal
in efficiency to the effort of trying
to kin an elephant with pea
shooter
System
That one word is the only one in
the English language Cand the same
thing. unpronouncable to us, in other
tongues) that is applicable to the
veal or woe of humanity.
When God Almighty created the
world he locked within its bosom
all things that were for the benefit
of all His children, and in sufficient
abundance that, if no one had too
much, each would have enough. AS
the years grew old those of stronger
mind became dominant factors in
their age. They were the leaders of
men, They basked in the sunshine
of inaction. while ignorance toiied
that they might eat. This was the
beginning of SYSTEM" 1t has had
its nood-tide and it's ebb in every
age 1t has been dominent until
quelled by revolution on the part
of the pauperized masses, forced to
the station Of the brute creation. In
every instance the monster Sys-
tenn has been wounded unto death.
but the lingering spark of life has
rekindled and the process Of accumu-
lation by the few at the expense of
the many has been repeated.
Such has been the history of the
world since the dawn Of human life.
Such will be its history until this
world-old system is replaced by
new-the System Of Brotherly
Love
This is not Socialistic doctrine, for
the reason that Socialism. no matter
how favorable the auspices under
which it is born, only breeds in the
end, anarchism, and today we have
the age of Socialism.
But it is humanitarian 1t is the
doctrine that no man shall have too
much while his brother lives in want
1t is the doctrine that viii make
every man pr ducera paid pro-
ducer -of that which he enjoys Of
LIES blessings
Understand, thoroughly, that this
system does not aim at such an APP
palling and disastrous conditions as
an equal division of wealth But at a
just division. 1t means that he who
does not labor in the worlds vine
yard shall not eat of the fruit thereof
1t means that man is entitled only to
those Injuries procurable by the ex-
ercise of honest toll
Under our present System" the
litae combinations and monopolies.
such as the milk. bread and meat
trusts. curse and snap at the heels Of
the big fellows, while the people. who
are not fortunate" enough to be-
long to the inner circle of some com
bination. great or small. curse those
who do, until such time as they them
selves are chosen as of the elect
There are but two remedies for
present conditions;
The quiet substitution of Honesty
in government the turning over of
the present System through the
efforts Of honest and intelligent men
and women-or revolution of
blood. And this latter is not a per-
manent remedy and its cost in life
and treasure is an irreparable loss.
That the turning over Of the "Sys-
tenn in quiet and peaceable man
ner may prevail, It is necessary that
the masses and classes alike be ed
ucated to sense of duty
each Individual to his brother II
is necessary that idleness and ex-