then, is, can we not formulate a policy that will work harmoniously
throughout the whole country for the benefit of all sections and every
individual? Can we not find some way out of the swamp into which the
masterful greed of a few and the dense stupidity of their legislative
tools have mired us?

If we cannot, then let us submit, with the best grace possible to our
masters who know how to lay on the lash when their dividends are at
stake.

The resources of the United States have hardly been touched upon; but in
less than a hundred years individual greed has done its work, and the
people are bankrupt. They have been legislated out of everything, and
the one function of our government, as at present conducted, is to see
that this legislation is enforced. Yes, it is beyond the reach of
contradiction that this government, that was founded in the interests of
All, has degenerated into a merciless taskmaster, ever ready to beat
into submission the slaves of the country, when their few owners give
the word.

But this treatment should be expected. It goes with ownership. Give me
the ownership of men, and all else goes with the title - how I shall
clothe, feed, and lodge them, and how I shall keep them on the grind. Of
course, the wise ones will say, Was it not our own chosen representatives
who made all those laws that gave our resources and the people themselves
over to the favored few, and must not we, the principals, grin and bear
it, and live up to whatever contracts those representatives, our agents,
made in our name?

It is not, however, how we were despoiled, but how we are to recover the