New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-11-01

A Slave thinks through MS Master and Eternai-
ICES his Shackles A Free Man Thinks for Himself
and Perpetuates his Independence Their Women
Folk Think as They Think and Suffer Rejoice
accordingly, for Loyalty is the Badge of All the Sex.
These politicians, who in ordinary times would
not be permitted to select fish, flesh or fowl for
the everyday hard-headed American citizen brazen-
y seize the peoples very atmosphere at election
time and rant, rave and cant the voter to white
heat, enveoped in which he stamps his way to the
ballot-box and turns the country over to the poll
tcians' BOSSES those ron-minded, granite hearted,
cork-soled human grinders who know past, who
bow to no present, and who counterfet-coin the
peoples future into eternal bankruptcy.
For forty years this has gone on with the sure
ness, the monotony, the inevitablity OF the tides,
the moon, the sum-
The result it go no longer There must
be change, and now, or black, destroying revolu-
ton will be upon the nation.
For forty years the cost of the peoples living
has steadily mounted, with no commensurate in
crease in their wage and income, until to-day wage
and income will not meet the cost of their living.
The rich are growing richer and poverty daily adds
to the burden on the shoulders of the poor.
Everywhere throughout the land the daughters
OF America have been drawn nearer to the red-lt
street which pilots them the swiftest route from
shame to death, and the OF America closer to
the yellow glare OF that easy-money immortality,
: he britt he hone he
mind and sogs the soul of free born youth.
The story of the relentless march of the System
and the covering, crnging shrinking retreat of
the people is told in sentence Five million every
day American people have deposited in savings
banks FIVE billion dollars every dollar representing
honest effort of mind or body.
The income from this FIVE billion dollars is 4 per
cent a year, two hundred million dollars. 1t is a
very large part of the peoples total income.
Forty years ago it returned to them the same a
per cent to-day, yet then it would buy as many
of their necessities of life per cent or four hun
bred million dollars will buy to-day
In forty years this income of the people has been
cut in half.
Forty years ago the capital of the very rich, in
vested in banks and trust companies, returned per
cent To-day it returns SO per cent allowing for
its cut-n-two purchasing power, le per cent
In forty years, while the peoples income has
been cut in half the income of the Systems cap
ital has more than tripled.
Never have the politicians in election years told
the people of this awful wrong, Of its Of its
cure.
But the people of the present election year have
awaked to the enormty of this wrong, and on Tues
day the people will vote.
1t is not for any man to do the peoples thinking
for them, but it is for each of us to add match
to the flame of the great beacon that lights the forks
OF the peoples highway in this memorable twelfth
year Of the twentieth century.
Woe to the people OF the United States if they
take the wrong road, the politicians road, at the
coming election, for ere another four years brings
them again to where the upper and lower roads
cross, the nation may be in the throes.
Mr.. Voter it is up to you this time to meet the
question face on You cannot longer dodge it, shirk
it, or postpone it. 1t is for you to say whether, be-
ginning with the 9th of November, the people will
face their entrenched foes and drive them over the
brink or whether like dumb, unressting cattle, they
will allow themselves to be driven further into
the bog.
1t is not for any honest man to judge the merits
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