floor of the Senate. The public treasury will ever be the objective
point of such wholesalers until the inducement is removed. Humanity,
Honor, Patriotism, each and all are powerless before this all
conquering appetite of Individual Greed.

What can such people as they care for this people, their country and its
benign form of government? What use have such as they for a government
that denies them the title that distinguishes their kind over the sea?

Ay, what is to prevent them from using the vast power that goes with the
wealth they are absorbing day by day, and to gratify the one unsatisfied
wish of their purse-proud and selfish souls, and establish an Empire in
place of the Republic? The Republic is but a shell and their work would
be easy.

The sophistry about the inalienable right of one man to crush another
has had its day, and their hypocritical wail about civilization and this
inalienable right, when these conscienceless rascals find their race is
run, will be like the yelling of remorseless wolves that have been
trapped and kicked into the vanishing distance.



VIII.

Understanding the principle of Confiscation, it will be easily seen how
it must work in every individual case; and, therefore, it is needless to
dwell on or elaborate its workings when it is applied to banks,
breweries, sugar refineries, water works, gas works, street railways,
etc.