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OFFICIAL COUNTY PAPER.
ALTERNATIVES
Senator Cummins, always eloquent
raid In the course of his speech to the
Iowa republican convention this
week:
The republican party "a not
born to make men rich; 1t was born
to make men free. It cannot survive
upon the feasts of millionaires; II
must live at the plain table of COM
mon men
Wealth is fighting hard for an un-
due share of the profits Of labor.
Great wealth is pressing small wealth
and individual wealth to the wall.
"COllectivism has made some in
roads upon Its rival theory in our
public utilities, but a yet we have
not c0urted socialism In general pro-
ductiOn. It must be manifest, how
ever, that there is no middle ground
between competition and cooperation,
and equally clear that those who
either actively or passively aid the
forces Of monopoly or combination
are the real apostles Of socialism. for
It 10 not to be doubted that II we must
choose between a monopoly or domi-
mating combination OF selfish indivi-
dualsor corporation interests and the
monopoly Of the government we are
assure to adopt the latter as are the
SeaSons to come and co."
One need not be an %..insurgent" re-
publican to see truth in what Senator
Cummins says. No one has been able
to classify Col. Roosevelt with refer
5ence to the factions in his party. and
he declared again and again during
his service as president, that it was
not 9 question Of regulating great
corporations or not regulating them,
but : question Of regulating them or
putting the socialists In control of
the government.
That this Is no idle warning, should
be evident from the strength Of the
socialists In Europe. In Germany, for
example. It Is only by making con-
stant concessions to the socialists
that the ~reichstag is kept out Of their
absolute control. In Great Britain the
same radical sentiment has forced
the majority party to establish such
measures as old age pensions, taxes
on income. on unearned Increment,
On rent. Further. England not only
regulates strictly the railroad COM
paies, but owns the telegraph system
and carries on q great parcels post
business.
Is great wealth in the United States
YER 90 intelligent. as It is selfish and
greedy. It would become aggressively
''insurgent," as the term is known.
We care not what may be the differ
ences q factions or parties, 1t ought
g be- clear to any one with ordinary
vision that II the government fails
q keep the great corporations within
Reasonable bounds. there will grow
mp insthis whole country an impera-
tive demand that the government own
these corporations. As distinguished
from the socialist, then, the "insurg-
snt'' republican Is an individualist.
He wants business to remain In priv
ats hands and he sees that IL the own
erShip Of great natural monopolies
and the means Of distribution is mis-
used. M viii be impossible to keep
business IN private hands.
Wealth should see this, but appar-
emily viii not. It seemingly Is blind
"a BY its own glitter. Wealth always
has been intoxicated by its own pow
or. II needs q guardian.
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