The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1911-12-26

as II is today. Never before was
money making the national idea. n
ansassing Of wealth has always mad
its votaries, but an entire nation was
not continually upon It's knees 10
Moneybags. Today he is a god
once he was a respected but not re-
vered member Of society; the law
maker, the poet, the sculptor. in per-
sOnal regard of the people took pre-
cedence over him. OF course It has
it's good side-this desire to see every
one comfortably Off, but with US it
has long passed the point OF COM
petence and descended to mere greed.
Women have sunk into this quick
sand of materialism, because 1t was
all about them. 1t takes a woman
of extraordinarily firm purpose to
struggle out, and we must remem
Der that woman in the past had no
such soft deterrents. She was the
true helpmate, brought up to strug-
gle side by side with men, in carry
ing civilization into the wilds. The
same typ lasted down TO after-the-
war days, when white hands turned
to toll without complaint. What has
become Of her? She lives in an in
dividual now and then, but as a type
is extinct"
but isn't this outburst oper?"
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possible for men to accumulate the
swollen fortunes hat they have beer
doing since the Civil War. The peo-
pie watch now; they slept before.
The sO-called Literature Of Exposure
has made them put watch-dogs On
what should belong to all. It's pretty
difficult to get q railroad rebate to-
day, even dangerous, as many who
have tried it and are now in the
nnifapfio~ NJ oan ofrno{ NNhor fhnro
were no watch-dogs it was perfectly
safe. If the robber gave his 1.-THE to
the church, he might go on maraud-
ing to his hearts content; but now
the ten per cen is scented before
accepted. We have coined the phrase,
tainted money People never made
'erm until certain indisputab1e
facts were put before them.
"Our Literature Of Exposure is no
more modern than our advance Of
women Before every revolution in
the past, there has been the pre-
period Of such writing. Voltaire was
the greatest Inuck-raker that ever
lived. Put Upton Sinclair beside
Swift, for both have done the same
thing, but how differently-one bleat-
ing like a lamb, the other with the
~ferocity Of a lion. Previous K all
rebellions, facts are put before the
people concerning the real conditions.
First, information-then reformation
by. r~evOlutiOn.'
will we DO the sarne?"
IF we don't, it won't be because
our abuses do~not demand the same
drastic treatment, but we are now too
to indulge in the waste OF
war. Battles are ceasing, not because
Ct a more highly developed humani-
IA ri q y icu1 hut c01n1y on ~ n
letter economic sense. They cost too
much. h spirit Of man has not
changed and is nc softer TO his fellow
men than when Tamherlaine ravaced
ASIA. riding across it as if he were
i'eath ~personified, or when Napoleon
ate up $4,000, eco OF men in his wars,
at the END Of which France had to
shrink smaller than when he found
her. We have such monster men
among Is; only they use an
other implement thar the sword
nance They would swallow all they
could get, only we are seeing they
don't get SO many to feed upon. 1t is
Us true today. that you either eat or
are eaten, as when Voltaire said
every man was either an anvil or a
Only the ogre is not get
ting to his prey in the old easy way;
IT is being made increasingly more
difficult.
W are experimenting with de-
rocracy. Now that we awe found it
has enabled q few to own the coun-
try in a surer seizure than any feudal
baron we are going to modify it, so
that will be impossible in the future.
Just what form that modification will
take, no one can exactly tell, or even
predict, because events that will help
to shape it are yet unborn; but the
most conservative economic thinkers
believe that equality OF privilege will
tie more and more widely distributed.
and that the great mass OF people
will rise gradually to direct power.
and not indirect, that often in the
past has been no power at all.
Certainly nothing is SO Intellectual
as trying to legislate these abuses out
Of existence. Law is a balm to the
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