The Elk Mountain pilot., 1912-10-03
4 The Knowing
Man.
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lers at Toulon, H., the other day
i was whirled over to kewanee in
an automobile, in order to cat n
Chicago flyer. On the way we ran
into n two mile stretch Of dust. 1t
was thick and numerous and perva-
sivc and on the job.
The political campaign is like it,
lots of dust, and-thc men who stir
it up are persistent and active TherS
ere plenty Of people who are hewild-
cred by it. 1t gets into -tleir eyes
faster than they-A:an rub ut out.
The trust question is specially try
ing to the eSes;'-it is made to furn-
ish the principal-supply offine earth
in the air.
But there il a man who has short
and easy way Of disnissing any. dis
cussion whichsprings up on thispro-
blem. Their was = goM specimen
OF him it the Kewaanee station.
The trainwas half an hour late and
groupe ofgentlemen killid time by
discussing presidential candidates
1t was 81 Taft-Rosevelt set-tO, for
that is where the battle RACES in III
inois. The split in the Republican,
party has reached an acute stage,
among the rank and file which :
| makessa discussion fierce. Ofcourse
there are sledgehammer blows ab-
| out the Standard Oil in Pennsylva-
MIA and the Tennessee Coal and Iron
Company, and the growth of the
trust during some former admin.
istsntiuns The debate developed
intas quite an entertainment, and
there was no charge for admission.
| f1hen the man with the short and
easy was, the knowing man, broke
in. with declaration that had. all
heairOf.finalhy What ia the use
to fuss about the,trusts" he said, or
tho s,en who run tllem2 They are
in.control. They are the power.
WlMseses slse ID ,lsppens theyxget
there and stay. All the acting out in
front d,'e, not chang the situa ton
The money power behind the scenes
Esettles the m atter."
| Having said this the gentleman lap
setl intOa silencs = as "a man does
!, when. lse.regardx on incident closed.
l"yNswsthis man is type, His name
4 is legion, ;or the next tc' it. How
mucifhe,sympathizes with the trust
canneeesy. butsne thing is entire
ly clear ,,-he. thinks that the trusts
have got us; whatever the people
may want or say or think or try to
do, or whoever may bc beaten or
electediat- the polls, or whatever may
he on, the statute books, or whatever
decisions the courts may render, the
money rower is invincible, and the
throne is inWall Street, not ut Wash
-ington. To.see gentlemen getting
rod in the face in railroad station
.hiscussiog over campaign amuses
him, or provokes his contempt. Il
! seems such waste Of breath. As fol
the crowds who turn out ut political
mass meeting, he half way pities
them for thinking that they really
can change things. He thinks the
farmer had better I've at home thrash
ing oats or doing his fall blowing.
How absurd e for them to EXPECT tt
get the government back into their
own hands, now that the captain Of
industry and the princes of plntocr.
acy have taken it over as a business
Proposition. y
If you attempt battle with this
mans conclusion he points to The
history of the past twenty five years
to the rapid and irresistible growtl,
of his power. to the fact that no ad-
ministration has stopped it.
He tells you that Judge KenesaM
Mountains l.andis undertook to cu.E
the Standard Oil trust with a 500
600, 900 fine, and the country shou-
ted approval, but another Chicago
jndge came to the rescue of the trust