The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1913-08-23
The Fruits of Monopoly.

The Fruits of Monopoly.
According to morning press dispatches the
Huerta forces announce number of victories for
their arms over the Mexican insurgents. Refer
ring to the activity of the followers of the rebel
leader, Zapata, the government papers describe
these as "the last struggles of wounded beast"
The stories that have come out of Mexico dur
ing the past two years of nternecine warfare
have always placed Zapata in a very bad light. He
has been represented as being brigand of the
bloodiest kind and particularly ferocious in his
methods of fighting. No doubt this is true. He
and his followers probably are brgands.
But whose fault is it?
A mans life is worth living in direct proper
ton to what he gets out of it. If honest and con-
structive effort is rewarded basis of honest
and fair payment, mans incentive is such to
cause him to desire peaceful ways in which to
develop his constructive bent. If honest and con-
structive work is cheated of an honest and fair
payment, mans incentive towards constructive
work is lessened Only pride of accomplishment
remains to cause man in this position to put forth
his best efforts And generation two sub
jected to unfair treatment will naturally breed
out that pride and produce race of men who will
deliver dishonest and slothful work for dishon-
est and unfair payment.
The law of compensation will not be denied.
Such system must end in monopoly. Mo-
nopoly is but another name for slavery and slav-
cry must be instituted, the power to enforce work
must prevail when an unfair and thieving sys-
tenn is superimposed upon one that is upright and
just.
The quintessence of trouble under such sys-
tenn is reached when monopoly blooms and fruits
It's bloom poisons the air with the perfume of
sweating bodies driven to their work by the lash.
It's fruit is made bitter by the revolts of latent
manhood unconscously outraged by enslavement.
In Mexico poems life is worth living in direct
proportion to what he gets out of it. And what
does the Mexican peon get out of life?
Slavery!
The land monopoly in Mexico is so strong that
it has worked the ensavement of 15,5O0,000
poems. Five hundred thousand individuals COM
posing 81 900 families own all the lands of the Re-
public of Mexico. And they also own body and
soul their 15,50OOOo fellow countrymen.
These poems have been overworked and under
paid. The lash and bullets have been often called
into to keep the ensaved workers at their
tasks In fact bullets are flying now in the ire
mendous effort being made by the monopolistc
forces to kill off drive back to their slave work
the revolving peon-saves.
When a man has no property, when he and
his are slaves-hs wife and daughters and all
that implies-what restraining influence is there.
except fear, to keep him from going the war
path against existing institutions, brigandage?
And when that slave finally realizes that death
is preferable to enslavement, not fear of
his masters bullets will hold him in leash His
tory is full of examples proving this proposition.
Why should the brigand be nice in his meth
DDS of war against existing and wrongful institu-
tions and the individuals representing them or
blindy obedient to them or only passively resist
ing them? His sensibilities of humaneness and
of justice have been bred out of him by the in
human oppression of his ancestors. Call him a
fend in human form. He is such and such is but
representative of the fiendishness of the system
that produced him and his kind.
Kill off many of them as you can hunt
down, and you will never exterminate them. You
not destroy the root that nourishes brigand-
age and outlawry without destroying monopoly
For monopoly is the root that gathers up the
nourishment of the many and gives it to the few.
That results in fatty degeneration of the clear
and fair thinking facilities of the few and MANU-
triton and neurasthena for the many And when
the few take more than they are entitled to they
are just as much brigands those individuals
from amongst the many who try to ''even up by
taking the law into their own hands.
Mexico will never see an end to the struggles
of the wounded beast as long as Doctor Mono
poly is attending to the patient. He can neither
cure nor kill. He can only prolong the agony
When the case is turned over to Doctor
Autobiography the beast" will be cured for that
physician will use as his curative agent the med