Let our wrongs be righted without physical force, by all means. History,
however, has no encouragement for such a hope. The contentions with
those on top have ever been of the blood-red order. Power once obtained
has never been surrendered only through conquest. The ballot should do
much, and had it been in use in the past history might have had less of
blood in it, as it should have less of it in the future. But the ballot
for a long number of years has, like a great many stomachs of late, been
working on wind - the wind of the Protectionist, the wind of the Free
Trader, and the wind of the latest cure-all, the fellow who is hunting a
market for his silver.

If something substantial to work on is not soon given to this man with
the ballot, he will drop it - and then let the blame of it rest with the
fools and rascals who have been deluding him so long.

The average man makes a better soldier than he does a voter. He can get
the range of an object easier than he can comprehend an economic truth -
this one, for instance: If the capitalists have obtained possession of
the money issued in the past, what is to prevent them from getting
possession of all that will be issued in the future? His answer will be
to issue more. He has been told so by his political mentor. When the man
with the ballot loses confidence in this mentor, he will start a game of
his own, and then the jig will be up with that idiot. We use the word
idiot advisedly here. When a tax was assessed against the incomes of the
rich, this driveler would score a point gained in favor of the people.
This claim of itself shows the institution to which he should be
consigned.

Victoria, Empress and Queen, rules a country where, pauperism is