The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1922-10-27

feel il my duty to the voters of M(
- Cone County to remind them of thei
duty to their representative. TIL
voters are the sovereign power of tn
State. They have absolute power il
their hands to shape our social ant
economic life as they will and in
republic like this where they have tt
speak through representative it il
, very important for them TO know
: whether he will speak as they wish
: him to. But first, it is necessary that
: they know how they wish to be repre-
sented. This is a great responsibility
: which the voters should not shirk
, They should know how they wish to
be governed and issue mandate to
their representatives how to represent
them and then see that they do it.
But from my observation have CLEAN
ed the fact that the great majority
are at sea as to what should be done.
1t is like a person trying to tinker a
machine and make it go when he
knows nothing of the working prin-
ciples. We all, especially the common
people will admit that the machine
is not running right but judging from
the popular questions asked most of
them don't know what is the matter
and little wonder considering their
source OF information. The most COM
mon questions are: Why are taxes
getting higher each year" why don't
we get cost of production?". why is
our Indebtedness increasing and why
have we panics, industrial depression
and unemployment" These are the
defects in the machine that we are
trying to tinker and no matter what
we do to them it doesn't seem to help.
Now my purpose in writing this ar
ticle is to try to show you the reason
why. Just simply because they are all
natural effects of our economic sys-
tenn and we can never remedy an eff
feet and leave the cause of it. Now |
wish to go back and we will see how
our system started We, or our fore
fathers threw off the yoke of Feuda-
lism and started Capitalism. We took
the little flower Capital, and planted |
it in our economic garden and provid-
ed for it with an iron clad constitu-
tion which said that everything that
could be developed and done for pro-
fit should be done with private capital
and individual initiative. And every
thing operated and maintained at an
expense and often a dead loss, must
be done and owned by the public. The
forbids the public to en-
gage in profitable industry. Now that
was fair enough 1t is plain right from
he start what the public was intend
Frts IL fox, hot |
lie plant with hord Of statesmen !
md politicians as gardener to cater to / y
III its needs and demands and culti- +
ate it and make it grow. (and it did) y
70 it grew and spread like quack grass !,
T thistle and absorbed everything and s
ow it is smothering itself The con- a
titution was drafted in the interest q
t capital and all laws since with few n
Until this day the only y
hing the statesmen and politicians a
link of or try to do is to see that r
apital gets its profit. In building up d
lis system of taking profit all our a
lstitItions have been built up to n
Ield profit and no institution is pre- n
erved or allowed to survive that can r;
OF be made to yield profit and they h,
re sacred to the exploiting interests n
the extent that they are success s,
exploiting man; and be made prof O,
able to business and they have cap n,
allied them for every cent that can
rung, squeezed and gouged out Of or
EN-. That is why you always hear in
e vultures cry out, preserve our in 50
buttons" If we discovered way to 70
inmate war, poverty, crime, prosti- in
ton and disease, and would sug ex
st doing it the cry would go up n
ave our institutions" There has not "a
en- a progressive move of the pro- in,
cling people but what has been ac- co
sed Of wanting to destroy the sac no
d family institution. The Socialists in,
'uld destroy the sacred home, and 70,
? Bolsheviks were accused of nation W.;
cation Of women and destroying the 70,
me, and the Nonpartisan League 40,
re free lovers. The home is sacred 70.
all and so they hope to rally the is
5port of all home lovers to keep mr.,
wn any one who interefers with fer
)ital-taking profit. But what are will
y doing to the sacred home in lie,
tuition under our present system? 7
tn the great majority of the pro- inf
eng class the home is little more will
IN slave pen. Poverty, slavery, fl No
nclal ruin and despair are their det
sest associates and they are incom- AZ
able with love- happiness and con- tba
ltment that should be the domin- tba
ng condition in the home. In the Flo
ne Where the future generation is nro
,eioplng, poverty and lack of OPP tbe
UNITY should never exist, so the CIV;
I could be developed in every child, nos,
SAD to say there is the only 49,
&c where poverty and lack of OPP ma as
tunlty in its darkest form is to be OH
no. Just because we have to pro- o.
e below cost of production so cap -
can get its profit The ravage of 1t.
ioitatlon cares not if a mother is Dor