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IN NEW ZEALAND.
GOVERNMENT OWNERSHIP EN¬
RICHING THE PEOPLE.
A Sensible Talk from a Man Wh“
Knows — Railroads and Telegraphs
Yield All the Tares for linprove
mcn t s.
Macaulay’s Now Zealander is stop¬
ping at the Grand hotel in this city.
He is a member of the New Zealand
parliament from Wanganui, named A.
D. Willis, who has been making a trip
around the world. He told yesterday
how the woman’s suffrage, the govern¬
ment ownership of railroads and tele¬
graph lines, government Insurance,
government banking, co-operation in
public works, the doing away of large
land holdings, Henry George's single
tax theory, and other things only
dreamt of in the rest of the world are
known In the practical every-day life
of that southern land. All these things,
he says, have been brought about by
their legislature and are fur beyond
the experimental state. Speaking last
night, at the Grand, Mr. Willis said:
“The mass of the people Is the first
consideration with us altogether, and
everything Is being done for them,
from the government ownership of
railroads down to loaning money on
land. I have been for some months
traveling in different countries in Eu¬
rope and the United States, and find
that everywhere a great deal of interest
Is taken in our government on account
of the many new departures we have
made and the desire to know how our
new experiments, as they regard them,
are coming on. Hut we have got far
beyond the experimental stage. I have
received the greatest kindness from
Americans everywhere, and I am leav¬
ing the country with a very feeling
toward the people, but with a decided
dislike for their system of government,
by which wealth is represented and
not the people.
“With us, all that, onr government
Is for Is the mass of Hits people. We
are very radical. There Is no conser¬
vatism about us at all. 1 suppose you
want to know something about wom¬
an's franchise and how that Is work¬
ing. The hist parliament was the first
to be returned under the new system.
The women are coming to the front at
a rate that astonishes us. The most
astounding thing about It, all Is that,
while the conservative party took the
greatest interest In giving the fran¬
chise to women, in the hope that it
would help their dying cause,
the women have come out
strongly against them, and over
two - thirds of the members of
the house of representatives were re¬
turned by the liberals. The liberals
never had so large a majority before
the women were given the franchise.
Even the women who were careless
about getting the franchise are mak¬
ing full use of it. As you Americans
say, it has come to stay. Generally
speaking, nearly as many women
voted as men. They formed their own
committees and worked very hard and
very systematically and are making a
careful study of all political ques¬
tions.”
Evidently, according to Mr. Willis,
there is no question about the ad van
tage of government ownership of rail
roads. He said:
I have been astonished to see how
blind the .people of America are to
their own interests in allowing rail¬
roads and telegraph lines to bo taken
up by monopolies. In* our country we
look upon railroads much as we do
on wagon roads, and think it would be
Just as bad to hand the turnpikes over
to monopolies to erect toll gates every
few miles and collect tolls as to hand
them over those greater highways
railroads. Railways, we believe, should
bo a means of assisting farmers to
ttike their products to market even If
there is no profit in running them.
There are over two thousand miles of
railway in New Zealand, nearly all
owned by the government. Our sys¬
tem of managing them can not be
beaten. There Is no corruption and
not a single abuse.
The telegraph system belongs entire¬
ly to the government.
Then we have a government system
of Insurance which works admirably.
Through this wc are abolishing all pen¬
sions. AH government employes, in¬
cluding those connected with the rail¬
roads and telegraph system, are com¬
pelled to provide for their own insur¬
ance out of their salaries.
Our taxation is based on Henry
George’s theory of a single tax on
land, and we also have an income tax.
All legislation is so arranged that there
Is no taxation on Improved land. Land
improved and unimproved pays the
same tax. Under our income tax we
exempt all Income under 300 pounds a
year, and on incomes from 300 to 1.000
pounds the rate Is six pence per pound.
On incomes from 1,000 to 2,000 pounds
the rate increases from six pence to a
shilling, and on incomes above 2,000 !
pounds it remains a shilling to the I
pound.
Last year we adopted a system of ! j
lending money to farmers on both free
hold and leasehold lands at a low rate i
of interest with a 1 per cent sinking I '
fund which clears off the loan in thir- i
ty-three years by compound interest, !
Nr Zealand has taken the bull by
the horns in the question of preventing
large holdings of land. As to this Mr.
Willi sjii
We have pas S( d legislation by which j
we can take b :ii k lands held in largv' !
blocks. 1 hat is. a bill has l 'll pass I j
giving the government a r t to pur
one man's holdings over
from three thousar 'OS. rip.
pending on the quality, to b* decide*
by arbitration. It does not follow that
much of th!* will bo done yet for awhile
until our population Increases. Then
wo have not the money to spare.
Government land Is now leased for
999 years In small portions form 100 to
500 acres. Any one who wishes to
take such land pays a low rate of in¬
terest on the value of the land, and for
the first two years is required to put In
a small amount of work until it is in
condition to settle on. Then he must
live on It. But our people are not satis¬
fied with that. What we want and
what wc shall probably get. soon is a
system of leasing In perpetuity with a
revaluation from time to time.
We are trying something entirely
new In the way of co-operative labor
in public work. Instead of letting
such work out to contractors, it is cut
up into small pieces by the government
engineer, who values it at fair working
wages, 7 shillings a day, or about $1.75
In your money, and contracts are given
out to the men at that rate. This sys¬
tem has been so successful that it is
being extended to all work such as
painting public buildings, building
stations and tin- like. Probably there
will be no contracts let under the old
system in the future.
In every way, as I have said, we look
carefully to the Interest of the mass of
tlx* people. Our factory girls are not
allowed to work over eight hours a day,
children under 14 years of age are not
allowed to work In factories and until
they have passed through certain
grades in the schools. We compel em¬
ployers in factories to give a weekly
half-holiday. No shops are allowed
open on Sunday, and every shop must
he closed one day in the week at 1
o'clock in the afternoon. The closing
of the shops on Sunday was not at all
on secular grounds, hut simply to give
employes a reasonable amount of rest.
The governor sent over by the fpieen
has no veto power over our legislation
and is really only a figure-head, for ho,
has really very little to do with our
government. We have home rule in
reality.
Mr. Willis looks hopefully to the
practical workings of the single tax
theory as soon as It is adopted In its en¬
tirety by the government of his coun¬
try. San Francisco Examiner, May 4.
Will They Do It Again?
In 1H7H there was ft strong greenback
sentiment in Missouri that threatened
to overwhelm the Democratic party.
When their state convention met it
adopted the following plank In its plat¬
form :
“We regard the national banking
system as being oppressive and bur¬
densome, and demand the abolition and
retirement from circulation of all na¬
tional bank notes and the issue of legal
tender notes In lieu thereof, and In
quantities from time to time sufficient
to supply tho wholesome and necessary
business demands of the entire country,
and that all greenbacks so Issued shall
bo used in the purchase and retirement
of bonds of the United States, so that
the Interest bearing debt of the coun¬
try may be lessened to the extent of
the greenbacks thus put in circulation."
This plank corralled the boys. They
all fell in and whooped for the grand
old party. The grecnbackers warned
them that It was only a bait and meant
nothing except to catch votes. These
warnings were unheeded. They fol¬
lowed tho leaders until they are now
in the gold-bug camp.
And now the Democrats of Missouri
are trying that same old trick. They
have held a freo silver convention.
They have declared for free silver. But
the trouble is they still remain with a
gold-bug party. They are in the minor¬
ity. They will have to vote for a gold
bug for president in 1896. It is tin*
same old story of betrayal. Tho people
must be deceived in order to save the
party and give a few men office. It Is a
continual scramble for spoil instead of
principle. The same farce is being
played in oilier states. How long will
the people suffer themselves to lie thus
fooled for the sake of a party that
frustrate their objects?
Debt Slavery.
Chattel slavery could have been leg¬
islated out of existence had it not been
for the intolerance of the slave power.
Not by proclaiming them free without
remunerating their owners, but by
purchasing them, and forever prohibit¬
ing slavery in the future. This would
have been much cheaper than the war.
But the Slave Power in its arrogance
would not permit it. The policy was
compromise. It secured the Dred Scott
decision. It hung John Brown. But
all these did not make it right. The j
party leaders refused to settle it by
legislation and tho people rose up and !
shot it to. death. We have in this
country today a system of debt slavery,
Its burdens are greater than chattel
slavery imposed upon the blacks.
The people have been trying to settle
it by legislation. The creditors, the
ownors of labor, are
They want to extend their dominion i
over the people as the slave power did I
over the blacks. The people are willing I
to pay their debts, but they insist on i
the right to pay in the dollar of the '
contract. The creditors insist on
meat in a dollar of greater value. They
bribe the people’s representatives, the
executive and the courts. The income
tax decision is almost a parallel to the
Dred Scott decision. The court of last
resort has declared for plutocratic
wealth. The people have lost confl- |
deuce in government and respect for
law. They are approaching the temper
of revolution. Debt slavery must go.
If it is not legislated out of existence
that is, if the people are not given an
opportunity to pay their debts in the
dollar of the contract, they will shoot
debt slavery to death as they destroyed
chattel slavery. Nothing is ever set
Fed until It is settled right, and debt
slavery 1 no more right than was chat
tel slavery.
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REV. SAM JONES TALKS
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GIVES HIS VIEWS OF THE |f6
L1T1CAL SITUATION. !
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Kayo Old I’arty Lines Are Fading: VHit.
and the Country Is Organizing on he
Drains and Common Sense of the
Common People.
For the past twenty years the ra nk
and file of citizens have given very lit tie
attention to politics. Our rapidly le
veloping country, tho various commer¬ hdive
cial and agricultural interests,
commanded their attention, every n/ian
has been busy with his own affalnji—
watching his opportunities in the busi¬
ness world. We have literally tur: id
the governmental machine over to ‘re
politicians, and for years the prof'- H
slonal politicians and tricksters halve
manipulated tilings to suit thomselvies, clut
and all they had to do was to write
their platform and write democratic the [or
republican above It, crack par ty
whip, and the people fell in line. As
long ns the old governmental cow ga ve
milk enough for the family nobody
cared how many calves sucked, byit
when there was not milk enough jto
go in the coffee the question was raised.
The people have attended to their own
personal business and have turned gov¬
cians ernmental and tricksters affairs over until to they pot politi¬ ha^
e
managed things their own way urn, il
the government of tho United Sta*"*’ n
I Re rally in The hands of a'set'oi poll,
cal stealers and government robbers. 1
* * *
The only question the average polit|
"ian of to-day asks is: “What, planjc
md what man will capture the most
votes?” The vote hunter has made ap¬
propriations wherever he could capture
a vote, and every fellow who got scared
at the sight of a soldier or a gun during
the war, or who had a bad cold or
stumped his toe, has got his pension and
gone to town to whittle white pine,
while a few of the honest soldiers arfe
supporting nearly a million of Uncle
Sam’s loafers and white pine whittlersi.
The question now is how to got a pubii^
pap to suck. When the democratic
calves are sucking the republican calves
stand around the lot and bawl. When
the national election opens the gateo
and turns out tho democratic calves
every little republican calf rushes in,
grabs a tit, shakes his tail and goes
sucking.
* .
The people looking on the depleted
treasury, gazing on their property re-j
duced to one-half its value, putting)
their grain and stock upon hard-earned the marketj
at half price, pouring their
money into the depleted treasury of the
United States, in heavy taxes, are be-!
ginning to look square in the face the
question of the absolute bankruptcy of
the United States unless something is
done. They have waited four years on
a wrangling congress, cross lifting with
each other and the President, and
bringing no relief. They have stuck to
old party lines till hope has died within,
their bosom, and now almost every
thoughtful citizen in the United States
has got his ears backed and is prepared
to kick the filliug out of any fellow that
cracks a party whip over him.
The old party lines are fading out
and the country is organizing on the |
brains and common sense of the com
mon people; organizing on a basis to
secure speedy legislation on the ques
tions that most need immediate atten
tton. 1 looked upon this as the most
fortunate thing that could happen to
our great commonwealth. This is a re
publican government. Me need an in
telligent citizenship. To have this we
must have first a free press, with brains
and statesmanship at the head, not
bought and bribed and dominated by a
party lash, but governed by patriotism,
intelligence and sense of right, instruct
Ing the people honestly and Impartially
on the great governmental questions of
the day. The common people are be
ginning to think more than ever on
government questions; they are begin
uing to doubt, investigate and examine,
and the time is coming and ought
quickly to come, when the masses of
the people will cease to be driven into
line by party lash wielded by corrupt.
selfish and designing politicians.
If I should make a cartoon of the ;
government of the United Stat*s I
would picture Uncle Sam standing
with his hands thrown up saying:
"Anything you want, gentlemen,” to
the liquor king with his gun presented
on the right and the money king with
his gun presented on the left. Money
and whisky have got the politicians,
and the politicians have got the gov¬
ernment. My hope has always been
in the people. 1 have never had any
hope in a politician except as he
feared the people and acted for the
people. People are aroused from one
end of this country to the other, and
well they may be, and the politicians
may look to hear thunder before long.
* * *
Party lines are broken; the people
are thinking independently and the
time has passed when a little pot poli¬
tician can take a drink out of his flask
and yell Jeffersonian democracy a few
times and call the democrats into line,
hitch them to his little wagon, crack
his party whip and ride into office.
This country is bigger than any polit¬
ical party. Political parties have died
and tho country has lived, and some
more can die and the country will be
better off by their death.
An Anolent Chestnut.
The Boston Herald says that the
treasury has the same old story to tell
about the “dishonest silver dollar”—
it won’t circulate, it keeps coming back
into the treasury. If the silver dollar
were one-half as dishonest as ^hose
wuofl6"dusnie8s it is to malign '.t~ ft
would be In the penitentiary, rather
than In the treasury. Coin, whether
gold or silver, does its work through
its paper representations. The people
would rather have silver certificates
than silver coin just for the same rea¬
son that they would rather have gold
certificates than gold coin. The day
has long since passed when either gold
or silver in the form of coin will cir¬
culate except as “change,” because
their paper representations are more
easily handled. But why doesn't the
Herald make its point all the stronger
by telling how people fall over each
other to get one dollar gold coins?
Perhaps that would be too glaring a
falsehood for the Boston Herald to tell.
The fact is, that silver dollars do cir¬
culate freely, while the effort of the
government to force gold dollars into
circulation was so complete a failure
that congress stopped their coinage by
law. The people simply wouldn’t have
them, and they wouldn’t circulate at
all. Whoever sees gold coin of any kind
In circulation? Where is all the gold
complacently supposed to be “in cir¬
culation” by the circulation artists of
the treasury department? What il¬
limitable nerwe it requires for a gold
bug newspaper to talk about silver coin
not circulating among the people, when
not one man in a hundred ever gets
even a glimpse of a gold coin of any
denomination, and no man will have
one if he can get a silver certificate, a
greenback or a banknote in place of it.
What gold is in circulation among the
people is In the form of gold certifi¬
cates, and thore is precious little of
that. The Nev,- York Financial Chron¬
icle in 1888 published an editorial on
this subject calling attention to the
fact that not on»? man in twenty viewed
either a goM eoVn or a gold certificate,
and said this was as true of the north
as it was in the south, though the
treasury officials figured it out that
there were sometlung like $300,000,000
“in circulation,” ju st because there was
that much whose whereabouts was un¬
known. The truth seems to be that
about $200,000,0(10 of this gold circulates
only in the treasury reports and in the
minds of treasury officials. It is not in
the country, a/nd what is here doesn’t
circulate and is not wanted for circu¬
lation in the form of coin.
A few days ago the Mobile Register,
a monometalldst paper, declared with
charming naivete that Mr. Bryan
had put the people there to great in¬
convenience by charging that the
banks were hoarding gold: that the
banks thereupon began to pay out gold
to their customers* who protested vio¬
lently and vigoro usly against being
forced to receive it—they didn't want
gold coin if they could get silver certi¬
ficates or anything- else. The only rea
gold coin Moesr.'t “flow back into
the treasury” is that there is so pre¬
little to flow. It certainly doesn't
in the chaaiae is of trade.
dear money folly.
DEBT INCREASED $111,17a054
IN ONE YEAR.
And Millions of Cash In the Treasury
—A System of Financiering That
Would Disgrace Hottentot Barbarians
Practiced by Honest Money Men.
The following is taken from the an¬
nual report of the secretary of the navy
issued July 1:
The monthly statement of the public
debt, shows the debt on June 30, 1895,
the end of the fiscal year, to have been
$1,096,913,120, exclusive of $579,207,863
in certificates and treasury notes in cir¬
culation, offset by an equal amount of
cash in the treasury. Nor does it in¬
clude $31,157,730 in bonds of the last is¬
sue which have not yet been delivered
to London purchasers. The correspond¬
ing debt on June 30, 1894, was $1,016,-
879,816, showing an increase for the
year, including bonds not yet delivered
in London of $111,173,054. The cash in
the treasury, however, has increased,
during the year from $117,584,436 to
$195,230,153, a gain of $77,655,717. The
true public debt, including bonds not
yet delivered, less cash in the treasury,
is therefore $922,830,717, an increase for
the year of $33,517,337.
In plainer language the secretary of
the treasury in order to find an excuse
for the issue of additional bonds, has
added
$77,655,717
to the money lying idle in the treasury
a year ago, and added $11,655,054 to the
bonded debt, and the interest-bearing
burden of the people.
Or, to put it in another way, while
money was scarce and all business suf¬
fering, labor Idle and farmers pinched
for money, the heartless scoundrels in
control of the government deliberately
manipulated things so as to buy up
and withdraw from circulation $77,-
655,717 of cash. To make it still plain¬
er: While the body politic is suffering
from lack of blood—money—these
wretches deliberately tapped the body
and bled it to the tune of seventy-seven
millions, thus making money still
scarcer and pinching the people more
and more. That this was a damnable
conspiracy is proved by the report
which further on gives the following
item of cash in the treasury July 1,1895:
Gold...................... $155,893,931
Silver..................... 512,338,750
Paper..................... 125,925,883
Distributing officers’ bal¬
ances................... 16,903,120
Total $811,061,684
In the face of these figures the people
are led to believe that there is only
$195,240,153 “available” cash in the
treasury. The treasury officials get this
figure by deducting $615,821,533 “de¬
mand liabilities” as they call them and
designate the balance as “available.”
The total debt including these “de¬
mand liabilities” (gold and silver cer
V.»- •i’’ Vp-JR ,*WR”
Was there ever a business man in
the world, who having a large amount
of assets and owing $1,600 kept $811 in
the drawer to pay his creditors who
don’t want their money?
That is precisely what the adminis¬
tration is doing. And by that system
it makes money dear and labor cheap.
—Milwaukee Advance.
Slaves at Auction.
On June 24, 265 convicts in the In¬
diana state prison were auctioned off
to the highest bidder, with the privilege
of buying them again at the end of that
time. These men were sold as slaves to
contractors! This is plain, unvarnished
truth. In olden times, when the rulers
needed more slaves, men were arrested
for alleged violation of some law and
made to do service. In Indiana and
nearly every state this is true to-day. If
the reports in the daily press are true
these men. on an average, are better
than the average officers. The reports
of forgery, theft and brutality by those
in charge of prisoners and other public
business is notorious. There is no
moral reason why convicts should be
made slaves of. It is brutal. It will
make them worse. Why should the
state house and feed and guard slaves
to allovT some grasping contractors to
make a profit? If the prison officers are
not competent to employ the prisoners
in a self-supporting manner they should
be displaced and others vvho are com¬
petent employed.’ A max's actions are
bis mind; his mind is the reflex of sur
roundings, Make his surroundings
just, kind and fraternal. Nearly every
criminal could be reclaimed if their
minds were cultivated in prison, but to
do this the minds of the prison officials
must be right. When a man is sent to
prison for violating a law that Is not in
accord with morals, that man is not a
criminal but the men who make and
execute such a law are the real crim
inals. Most men In prison are not to
blame.—Coming Nation.
Why Is It?
Why is the plute press so quiet about
the bankers’ national convention held
at Sarataga. N. Y., the other day? Have
they caught on that bankers’ opinions
are mightily unpopular now?—New
Charter (San Jose, Cal.)
Haven’t you heard the news, broth¬
er? The bankers have decided not to
allow any more of their proceedings
to become public. The people are
catching on to the conspiracy.
-—
There is no getting around it. The
main question is now, as it has al
ways been, whether men or money
shall rule.
Bankers and usurers ere the only
men that ever questioned the credit of
this government in time of peace.
If men won’t vote for freedom they
deserve what they get
WaYLAND’8 csnter shots.
The On* (low Editor Rips ’Em Up the
Hack.
A government fiat makes three cents
worth of copper into a dollar worth 100
cents, but it can’t make 50 cents worth
of silver into a dollar worth 100 cents! !
Rats! *
We do not kill and eat people now-a
days. Greed and gluttony have found
out a better way. A body would not
net over a hundred pounds and would
not go very far. But by making that
body’s mind believe certain lies about
“sound-money,” “protection,” “private
property,” etc., the captors can make
that body produce thousands of pounds
of fine meat, vegetables, and pleasures
galore. It’s cannibalism all the same,
only the present system of wage-slav¬
ery is far more profitable. There is no
moral difference. One eats his neigh¬
bor who lives by making a profit off
him.
The textile workers of Rhode Island,
after starving more or less for three
months’ “striking,” have returned to
work at the master’s wages. The mas¬
ters didn’t starve. They had feasts like
unto Belshazzar, they balled and dined,
while the workers, too foolish to listen
to socialists, were outside and starving.
They vote their masters’ ticket, and
are afraid to listen to socialism and
learn how it will make them masters.
Let ’em starve. Darn a starving voter
who insists on voting for a system that
starves him. Vote for boodlers some
more, eh?
If public ownership of railroads were
submitted to a vote I think it would
carry three to one, even with as cor¬
rupt a government as reigns at Wash¬
ington. The tactics being played by
the kings is to keep it frem being dis¬
cussed, let alone voted on. The rail¬
roads are the armies of conquest by
which a Gould, Vanderbilt, Hill or
Huntington gather in the riches of the
people. They are as much opposed to
government ownership as would be a
conquering general to the taking away
of his army. But the people being
robbed should take away from the gen¬
eral the army used to oppress them.
Confessed His Ignorance.
Prof. Jordan of Stanford University
(California), has been very busy of lata
denouncing socialism. He is a professed
disciple of Darwin, but is evidently go¬
ing back on the teachings of his mas¬
ter, whose evolution represents human¬
ity losing its tail in search of a soul,
while Jordan's economic evolution leads
to the loss of a soul in search of a tail
that can never be restored.
According to the San Francisco
papers. President Jordan was lately
announced for a lecture in the Oak¬
land Unitarian church on “Socialism,
Altruism and Individualism,” but on
learning just before the lecture that
Laurence Gronlund had made his
way past the door-keeper, and had
cjvmo
address, in ta« presence of the same
assembly, he prudently refrained from
delivering the literary goods for
which an entire audience had paid in
advance, and donated an hour to per¬
sonal abuse of Mr. Gronlund and other
social reformers, “who are trying to
get something for nothing.”
When the reporter asked him why
he failed to deliver the original lec¬
ture, as announced, he answered that
not being a scientific student of social¬
ism lie did not care to discuss the
subject with Gronlund. Yet, he was
assuming to instruct the public on
the very theme of which he confessed
himself so ignorant that he did not
dare to discuss It with a thinker and
author whose works in that line are
uitiversally regarded as authority.
That Ten Per Cent "Raise."
All over the country the statement is
published that w r ages at Pullman have
been Increased ten per cent and the
company has received eulogistic notice
from the daily press generally on this
unselfish act of a corporation that only
a year ago was the most extensively
abused for pusilanimous meanness of
any corporation In the United States.
The real facts appear to be that the
Pullman company are deceiving the
people and that the pretended raise in
wages has not occurred.
The Chicago Chronicle under the
caption “The Pullman Fraud” says:
“Inquiry among the men who earn
the wages demonstrates that there has
been no “raise.” At least, the people
who draw pay have not found their
checks bigger or their pay envelopes
heavier. One man—a skilled work¬
man, not a laborer—tells a Chronicle
reporter that a week’s work of 10.%
hours a day brings him only $13.80.
Another says that in the cabinet-mak¬
ing department $2.35 a day is the limit
set. Pay is theoretically by the piece,
so as to prevent loafing—which is Just
—but If a man is particularly active,
industrious and efficient, he is still
prevented from earning more than 22
cents an hour—which is more than un
j US t, it is fraudulent,
it is singular that even for three or
four days the Pullman concern could
humbug ♦»**» press of Chicago. No¬
body who has had opportunity to study
the methods of that corporation could
attach importance to the assertion that
jt had voluntarily increased the wages
j 0 f its employes. Philanthropy Is no
part of the Pullman code of business,
nor even is justice. Wages once low
ere d never increase. The hand of Pull
m an is against every man—that Is,
: against society, and it is not extrava
gant to say that society is coming to
raise its hand against Pullman.”
j
j The way to win is to work to win.
Now is a good time to begin.
j Democracy seems to be afflicted with
a bad case of lost identity.