The advocate and Topeka tribune. [volume], December 21, 1892, Page 11, Image 11

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A Great Soldier of Fortune.
Jay Gould is dead. He will be re
membered in history chiefly as an ex
traordinary illustration of the facilities
afforded by the present chaotic industrial
system to the commercial soldier of for
tune. The conquest of Mexico by Cor
tez and the conquest of Peru by Pizarro,
have figured large on the pa re of history;
yet measured in actual cash secured
these famous freebooters were in the
baby class compared with Mr. Gould.
Cortez and Pizarro started in to win
backed by ships and steel-clad battalions.
Gould started on nothing. He first
entered New York as a peddler, a peddler,
as is related, of a patent mousetrap. lie
died, one of the halt dozen lords who
have mastered the material resources of
ai empire, to which the wealth of the
Montezumas and the Incas would serve
but as vest pocket change.
There are those who commend these
times because men are able thus, by no
other capital than their shrewdness, no
other desert than their devotion to self,
to become princes, kings and emperors,
of men, like this Mr. Gould. And yet
these same persons who boast of the op
portunity for clever men to master their
fellows call them 'elves democrats and
say they believe in a republic.
Surely there is here great confusion of
ideas.
A system which makes possible such a
career a9 Gould's .is not a democratic
system, but on the contrary, one which
lends itself to irresponsible tyranny as
no other ever did.
Why is it that this system, while pro
fessing to be democratic, proves such a
nect of Caesars?
It is because it refuses to recognize, tu
regulate and to repress 'the power of
money, which, in modern times, is the
greatest of all powers and basis of them
alL
The economic equality of all citizens
ia the necessary corner stone of any
social structure that shall be truly demo
cratic. Mr. Gould has been much abused by
people who thought they thereby showed
themselves reformers. The New Nation
has never abused Mr. Gould or an other
individual. He and his like are the re
sults of a stupid and wicked economio
system.
We attack the system and we strike at
its root, which is economic inequality.
Give men a chance through inequality
of wealth to obtain power over their
fellows, and of course they will abuse
that power. Do not waste breath in
cursing them for abusing the power; take
it away.
We cannot have democracy, we cannot
have a republic till we establish economic
equality. New Nation.
The Monetary Conference.
Editor Advocate: I am, and have
been for some time, fully convinced that
there is more in that international mone
tary conference over the money question
than a great many are prepared to be
lieve. It is in the nature of an interna
tional contract This contract is intended
to bind the United States to what is
done, so that when the people get in
power and are ready for reform legisla
tion, the wheels will be blocked by an
international treaty. Of course the mon
etary conference is controlled by the
money power. Now if they can forestall
legislation contemplated by the great in
dustrial reform movememt, and precip
itate a war in case any legislation is un
dertaken that may be detrimental to
them, they will have made our progress
materially more difficult. I strongly
suspect that this is simply what Harri
son, Sherman, Rothschild & Co. have
undertaken to do, and the turn things are
taking at Brussels goes, I think, far to
corroborate such a view of the case.
Nothing can ultimately foil the reform
movement, but we do well to watch
closely our enemies and point out the
danger to the people. "Eternal vigilance
is the price of liberly."
J. L. Switzer.
McCune, Kas., December 10.
Sound Doctrine.
The Nicaragua canal convention, held
in New Orleans last week, came at an
inauspicious time. The object of that
convention was very plain. It was to
influence public sentiment in favor of
the federal government's giving aid to
the company to the extent of guarantee
ing ita bonds for $100,000,000. The Panama
Canal Company also tried to get the
assistance of the French government.
At the time the New Orleans convention
as held, the facts about the astound
ing corruption in connection with canal
legislation in France were leaking out.
Here is a list of the eums paid to news
papers to influence public sentiment
Petit Journal, 300 000 francs ($50,000);
Telfgraphe, 2iu,000 francs, Matin, 50,000
francs; Oaulois, 45,000 francs; Radical,
100,000 francs; L'Evcnement, 50,000 francs;
Journal Des Delmts, 40,000 francs. Tre
mendous sums were paid to deputies and
other officials. It may not be very cour
teous to call attention to these facts in
connection with the Nicaragua canal
project, with an honored public man like
Warner Miller at its head; but the dan
ger is the same here as it was there,
when the federal government is asked to
lend financial aid to a great enterprise
that is operated for personal gain. If the
government puts either money or finan
cial credit behind the Nicaragua canal,
it ought to take entire control of the
construction and management. If the
enterprise is too big to be swung by pri
vate capital, let the government have
entire charge, pay the bills and reap the
profits. We want no repetition of the
Panama canal corruption here. New
York Voice, December 8.
Gives Himself Away.
The Economist will be a better paper
for Alliance men and farmers in the
future than it has been in the rast, be
cause in addition to making its vigorous
fight for the principles of the order, will
expose the scoundrels in all the political
parties. National Economist.
From the above it would seem that
the Economist has not been exposing the
rascality of the politicians. Many people
thought as much when the Economist
offered to the country an editorial apolo
gizing for Livingston when he went into
the democratic caucus, after he had
offered a resolution at Ocala pledging
Alliance members to vote for no man for
office who did not endorse the Ocala
platform. The editor of the Economist
has ever been a follower instead of a
leader, and as an individual he has been
a load for the reform movement to carry.
Already the monopoly press have begun
to lean toward Macune and his coterie
of followers. Now let him join the
ranks of bourbon democracy if he pre
fers, then we caa all locate him. Alli
ance Vindicator, Sulphur Tprings, Tex.,
December 8.
Death Lurks in the Folds of Sweat-Shop
Made Goods.
The Rev. W. D. P. Bliss, a member of
the Anti-Tenement House League, of
Boston, reported at a meeting of that
committee the results of a personal in
vestigation of the sweating system in
New York city.
"The sweating system does exist in
New York city to a most rightful ex-
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tions," he said, 44 and the streets on which
these tenements are situated are worse
than T have seen in London, Paris and
Berlin, or even Constantinople, and I have
visited the slums of all these cities.
" I took up some of the clothing and
found it stained and smeared with sus
picious filth. I sa women working with
naught on save a flimsy skirt and chem
ise; babies, marked and pitted, playing
amid the clothing; pale-faced women
bending over the work, working only too
evidently, as some of them said, from 5
o'clock in the morning until 10 or 11
o'clock at night to earn even half a man's
low pay. I am absolutely convinced
that there are whole blocks and square
miles practically given over to the tenement-made
clothing trade.
''I have lived in Constantinople during
the visitation of the Asiatio cholern, and
know the condition of the cholera-vieited
quarters there, and I do solemnly aver
that the conditions in New York city are
worse. I saw seemingly fine work, as
well as poor made, in these wretched
houses." The Vanguard.
Down, Down, They Go !
Stoves, buggies, carriages and other
goods. J. II. Foucht will for the next
thirty days give bargains way down for
cash. Try him and be convinced.
Personally Condanted Excursion to Call
form.
Jaok Frost stimulates travel. When he
touches our ears, we think about getting
warm. California bas the ideal winter
climate just far enough south to be sun
shiny and frortless, and yet with sufficient
tonio in the air.
Santa Fe route takes Jaok Front's hint,
and has arranged a series of personally -conducted
weekly excursions to California.
Pullman tonrist sleepers, furnished wtb
bedding, toilet articles, etc., leave Chicago
and St. Louis every Saturday evening, and
leave Kansas City every Sunday morning,
via A., T. A S. F. and A. fe P. line, for Lob
Angeles and San Francisco, on fast express
trains.
Speoial agents and porters in attendance.
Second-class tickets honored. A small
charge for use of tourist sleeper. Everything
neat, clean and comfortable.
Inquire of nearest ticket agent, or write to
O. T. Nicholson, G. P. & T. A., Santa Fe
route, Topeka, Kas., for a copy of folder
describing these excursions.
"Anions the Ozark s."
"The Land of Big Bed Apples" is the
title of an attractive and highly interesting
book recently issued. It is handsomely
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scenery, ino'uding the famous Olden fruit
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the Alliance make the Bloeaom llonst
their headquarters when In the city, anr
their general place of meeting when at
tending conventions abroad.
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