The Alaska citizen., 1913-09-01


 midst of war. God grant that my fears may prove groundless."
 Corporations were enthroned after the close of the Civil War by special tariff taxation. An. who. would say that an era of corruption in high place had not followed when you have an abundance Of undeniable testimony that corporations and the money power of this country have made public officials in the legisla- lures of this country and mglded legislation in their favor in return for their liberal support Is there any doubt but that the money power $ endeavoring to prolong it's reign by working upon the prejud.ces of the people when il tries to scare the wage earners and laborers by bowling soup houses. panic" star vation, and destruction when 1t finds it's past favors no wslipping from it.
 All know that by this system for the last DO years the wealth of this country has been aggregated i'll the hands of a few. Then the prophecy of the great Lincoln is being daily verified
 Again he wrote:
 T affirm it as my conviction that class laws. placing capital above la Dor, are more dangerous to the Re public at this hour than chattel slaY- cry in the days of its haughtiest SUI premacy. Labor is prior to and above capital and deserves much ghe" consideration"
 This was a great prophecy. The day of this dreaded dream of the immortal Lincoln has dawned, Cor porations and money lards beat and throttle the body pclitic all because they are and have been receiving q legislated reasonable profit" at the expense of labor and the masses.
 "Is there no balm in Gilead?" Yes. there is The people spoke with no uncertainty at the last election at the rate of about eleven and ono half millions to three and a half millions against the past D Hey of the Republican Party. And ii is
 ur duty now to release the people from that unjust and unrighteous system of taxation.
 Trusts and monopolies by the hun. dreds have entw ned this fair land of ours under ths system within he last 70 years. Honest Competi- tion has been stifled and driven out. No man dares to enter into business without lowing down his head to kiss the toe of these hydra-headed monsters of greed and avarice to oB ain their consent. Trusts. indeed. have been enthroned. and our Re publ can friends say they must be further protected and given q req sonahle profit" So reasonable has that profit been under this protection that they all can and do make and manufacture American products hero Ill our owu country, pay freight on these products of their factories from here 10 England German@ Russia. and many other foreign lands and there sell them in competition with the products Of those countr es cheaper thman they can sell them t0 the American people at the doors Of their fact ries. Protect ar indus try at home so much that it can not treat you with the same respect that { does the foreigner. Even American sugar sells "hea per in London than at home. God forbid that may eyer give Suuport Or sanction te such a law
 Let all such laws be outlawc1 Let us have an end of all special leg s l2tion, except for patriotic service.
 If manufacturer is pail $30 for a slit of clothes under the tarifi, which without tariff could have been bought for $16 the wage worker yho earned the $30 and bought the suit is robbed of $14 The law compels him to pay $30 for $lG tn of gods: compels hm tG work for half price and buy for double price. The manu .acturer gets a clear : ft of Si4. Such laws are wealth oo the industry. They are poverty and death to the wage earner. Trusts and monopClies have the right idea and clever methods. It's their internal capacity for greed that prevents them from declaring general increase in wages of from 90 to 300 per cent and an almost equal reduction in selling price and still amass multiplied thousands all nually. By them the people are plundered. Competition is killed, bought out or starved out. They are conscienceless and unpatriotic They know less about conscience than Balaam's ass knew about the prn- ciples of Hebrew grammar. Never again let it be said that this has been a Government of the rich by the r.ch, and for the benefit of the rich.
 In the beginning of the nineteenth century it was Napoleons ambition, greed, and lust for power that not only prompted him to become con quercr of the French and Spanish empires, but also to try to be3ome conGueror of the seas. It was Lord Nelson. who was i'll command of the British Mediterranean fleet. With only 13 ships he sailed to the West Indies after the enemies fleet, wh ch numbered 30. Not findinf them there he sailed back in pul suit I.orl Nelson cbeyed orders. and on the Fist day of October in 1895 came in conflict with the conqueror. Nel- son said in r ain and forcefu! words to h's soldiers England expects every man to do his duty" and the battle of Trafalgar was won and England saved from invasion.
 In the campaign last year, which ended on November ), the Democra- tic Party came into its own, and now has plain duty to perform to save our people from further invasions. and the concordant cry everywhere is that the great Democratic Party expects every Democrat to do his