The Harrison times., 1914-04-11
W. H. (COin) Harvey on the
Situation.

o tBc CtIzeHS OI inc IHHd CCH-
gresSional District:
The primary election is now over
and it is the duty of the Democratic
organization to Loyalty support
Judge Tillman at the November
election. am satisfied. he will fall
in line and honestly support the pol
icy of the Democratic administra-
ton
To the friends of my cause who
supported my candidacy, ] want to
express to each my profound appre-
ciation, We have done much good
tending to the publication of poll
tics and a proper study of civiliza-
ton. We have done no harm and
some good. Where | was best un-
derstood, as in my township, Big
Spring, and the two adjoining
townships, War Eagle and Escula.
pia, my vote was heavy, more than
all other candidates. Had the peo-
pie been educated along the lines of
our cause, we would have won in
the district easily.
We are facing serious situation.
A few thousand men own sixty per
cent of the Nations wealth, and
about ninety millions of people are
trying to get along, naturally with
Indifferent success, on the other for
ty per cent, and any permanent rem
edy must look to getting the sixty
percent back among the people.
Sixty wears ago a man worth one
hundred thousand dollars was re-
garded as a rich man anywhere in
the United States, Twenty years
ago we had millionares And now
we have billionaires-so rapid has
been the transfer Of the property Of
the many to the few--all in the life
time of men now living,
with somewhere between sixty
and a hundred per cent belonging
20 the few, the masses lose all re-
spect for laws, the cords snap and
free government goes down in inter
necine strife, despotism and mon
archy, with suppression Of free
speech and the rule Of tyronts,
A majority of the people, taking
the country as a whole, now have. a
narrow, a covetous, a selfish view
of politics. They are not to blame
as by training and example they
have been thus taught. They do
not understand the elementary
truths of free government and are
unaware that they are digging n
grave in which to bury our civiliza.
ton Our only hope lies in the ma
jority of people learning this in time,
Our laws recognize this covetous'
ness by which If one man owned the
whole United States our laws are
intended TO protect him though it
should reduce a nation Of people to
dependence, tenantry and lost
opportunities and when a few
thousand own sixty percent Of the
wealth, the dagger is in half way up
TO the hilt, and the nation is bleed.
my at every pore, as evidenced by
its million or more of unemployed, ,
and its millions of citizers who are
merely managing to make both ends
meet and TO whom foreclosure Of
depths would mean bankruptcy,
In the meantime the GO per cent is
increasing and the 40 per cent is de-
crepsing, and the end of free govern
mcnt is in sight unesa we soon get
an intelligent, educated and aroused
people who will put the right men
in Congress and the Legislatures
Education must accompany ituot
proceed legislation; and no remedy
will come till majority Of Congress
and the legislatures understand the
source Of our danger and the rene.
dy-conseientious men who sincere.
ly wish TO promote the common
good,
In q convenient time the ten silver
cups / Avn giving 20 the boys and
girls 60 aid education will be award.
ed and the one winning in each
county will receive the cup,
", II, HARVEY,
Monte Ne, Ark, April G, 1914,