Perth Amboy evening news., 1911-05-29
cUMNrrNs SEES REVOLUTION.

statement that a bloody revolution
of untold violence will sweep the en-
tire United states within the next
ten years" but pause a moment and
think it over and perhaps, though we
may not exactly agree with the sem
ator from Iowa, we will at least give
his words the serious consideration
that they deserve. When that great
prophet and statesman, Isaiah, of
Old Testament history, told the men
of Judah while they were in the
height of their power, that Jerusa-
lem would fall and the people would
be taken into captivity, there was lit
tie heed given to his words. The peo-
pie, with prosperity all about them,
could not see how such a thing
could come to pass. But it did. Isa-
iah, it will be remembered, laid par
ticular stress upon those men who
disregarded the Hebrew law by buy
ing and keeping under their control
many vast estates, piling up wealth
for themselves and at the same
time crowding out the poor till
there be no place" Is not the same
process under way in this country
today? Who knows the limit of the
power of the Standard Oil group?
This great corporation, controlled by
but a handful of men, has spread out
until there is practically nothing left
that it has not absorbed. Where it
cannot buy out it starts competition
and, when it desires, crowds the in
dependent man to the wall.
Standard Oil today controls its
chain of drug stores, restaurants,
grocery stores; it has its grip on sew
eral of the largest industries here in
Perth Amboy.
Then there are the other trusts
that have crowded out competition,
fixed prices and do business to suit
! themselves while the few men at the
head of these concerns grow rich
and prosper. They have their vast
estates here and there and every
where while you and l and the 9TH
er fellow stumble about to wait on
them to earn a few paltry dollars,
and We work extremely hard to get
that.
These trusts nave been built up
under our traiff. AS long as We con-
tinue to bar out competition from
abroad so long will we allow the
few to organize and combine and
take the profit while we do the
work and pay the price. But. yoH-
say, to abolish the tefif would mean
d hoou eIsHureign made goods on our
and our factories would be
closed; thousands of workers would
be out of employment and the coun-
try would have the greatest panic in
history. Doubtless there would be
more or less suffering during the
.readjustment of conditions. We
have gone so far now that enormous
business has been built on false bot
toms. 1t has been contrary to the
economic laws. But to go ahead as
We are, building more and more or
this false basis is only to continue the
present system of enriching the few
while the masses continue to toll for
mere existence, the final outcome of
WHICH may ne just "Hdt pOAdICl
Cummins predicts.
AS the Senator says, the greatest
problem before the nation today is
the equal distribution of wealth.
Other nations do not have such great
combinations as we have. They do
not allow them because outside com
petition comes in and prevents. Per-
haps the laboring man does not re
ceive as high wages elsewhere as he
does in America, but are we to sell
our freedom as men for a few dollars
a week more salary?
But another great element enters
into this question which must be
considered. There are the great
horde of foreigners, many of them
intensely ignorant, who are focking
to our shores and packing the for
eign colonies in our great cities.
What are we doing with them? More
important, perhaps, is the question,
what are they doing to us? Tomor-