The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1912-02-08
SOCIALISM S. H. s 6,
This column Is devoted to propounding the philosophy
Of Socialism
Let the nation own the trusts"
Let the nation own the trusts"

against a foreign country and finan-
ciers or in domestic affairs, to their
individual benefit cannot be success
fully refuted. The reason that so
many Of our people will not believe
the few have such power is because
he many are afraid TO examine into
The actual conditions that exist. They
are afraid 10 investigate. They are
afraid OF the truth. They are afraid
TO disturb things. The more you dis
Jurb bad things the greater the odor.
Therefore, Don't "muckrake.'
There is a place in the Pacific
ocean called the grassy sea. 1t is not
disturbed, II is quiet and all floating
filth and rubbish. grass and weeds.
zather there that is thrown out by the
turbulent and ever active waters
around it. In the Pacific ocean peace
fulness, quietness, no strife, no dis
turbance, brings to the surface dirt,
filth, scum, ~foulness, and all sorts Of
debris and covers up anything and
everything that might be good while,
in the same ocean action, strife, tur-
mol, disturbance and tumult drives
out all filth and rottenness and makes
the waters pure and sweet.
SO il is with human life. 1t is the
same with nations as with individuals.
A nation that is active, disturbing,
eve seeking for light and the truth,
is hot afraid 10 show its every side
10 the world, and dares TO clean its
own back yard is a nation that will
grow stronger and better every year.
But, a nation that is afraid of the
light and performs its deeds in secret,
that hides its actions from the> world,
that seeks to keep its people quiet and
peaceful, that is afraid of disturbance
and the "muckraker," that wants to
slide" along the lines of least resist
ence is a nation hat is on the swift
road to decay and dissolution.
Slider" You can't slide without
you go down. If you rant to go up
you have got to work. The American
people have allowed national affairs
TO slide" along until the few have
gotten hold of the steering apparatus
and now there is danger of our being
stranded upon the rocks Of interna-
tional strife. How "a We prevent it?
How can we better our national poll
tics?
How can We take away the power
We have allowed the few men to as.
sumo?
That is the question Of the hour.
How? BY disturbance. BY digging
up everything to the light. BY doing
nothing in secret. BY doing every
thing in public. By not being afraid.
Kick. Knock. ("Knock and it shall
be opened unto your Turn your eyes
onto every proposition, republican,
democratic, ~socialistic, prohibition, an
archistic, mugwump. Even the Ku-
Klux had some things worthy Of look
Ing into. Disturb, have nothing Sc
cret tear open everything and take all
that is good no matter where you find
it and let all that is bad go. Cast
1t from you and it will drift away
into the Messy Sea" II the Ameri.
can people will do as suggested above
they will soon find that they are cap.
able of running their own affairs and
they will insist on doing so.
They will find that in the past they
have been competing against one an.
other to the benefit of the few and
then they will determine to cooperate
with n another for the benefit OF
the many. Elect your W president
and United States senators and ever
officer down to post master. Take
away the patronage power. All, my
friends, that Is the club that has
beaten you into silence and prevented
disturbance and kept you quiet and
sliding" Take it away.
Do your business. Take your own
railroads and mines and operate them
in the interests of all the people. Take
your W telegraph and telephone
lines and run them in connection with
the post office. Have all means Of
communication under one head
Hitchcock lie right but. first, o wan
to take your post office out of tn,
control OF the autocrats and put /
In your W control and operate 4
Tor the benefit Of all the people.
Be wise In your own wisdom. Dom
wait for some Statesman" to tell 70,
what to do. You know they Away
tell you to do that which always I,
their own adyanta1o ana hor>A< ~