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PACIFIC TREE AND VINE 



^vrath, and revolutions by the people. 

 Patience is a virtue ihat the n-.ajority 

 1 ractice to the uttermost limit before 

 demanding justice. But, thei-e is a 

 limit, and when that limit is reached. 

 *he peoplt reassert their rights and 

 the dignity of the populace. 



The methods of the French revolu- 

 tion belong to the period in which 

 they seirved their purpose. The call to 

 arms that aroused the Patriots of '76. 

 was 1 call justitfied by the conditions 

 of the times. It Was a call to over- 

 throw the despotism of an egotist ~a 

 fool misnamed King. 



cut the domain of the tillers of the 

 soil. 



Some one has said: 'The fool is 

 wise in his ow'n conceit." Likewise is 

 iha fool daring and unscrupulous, 

 when entrenched behind a cordon of 

 ill-gotten gain, — riclies he has gotten, 

 "and not by right." In this role he is 

 the gambler, — the partridge that sit- 

 leth, but hatcheth not. Bye-and-bye, 

 when the purpose of the American .So- 

 ciety of Equity is unfolded, and the 

 farmers break dowTi the mountain of 

 profit between him and the consumers, 

 Ihe barrenness of this vulture of com- 



are entrenched in every exchange of 

 any consequence in the country, is 

 working miore injury to the producers 

 than all other causes combined. N!or 

 is- that oil. The consumers also ruf- 

 fer from the same source of iniquity, 

 and all the peojile are forc'.;d to pay 

 tribute to the bird th.at sits on infertile 

 eggs. 



Boards of trade are legitimate and 

 honorable, and so are exchinpes. where 

 the exchange is fair and above board; 

 l;ut the manipulation of the market by 

 unaciupulou? stock gamblers, and the 

 buying and selling cf options, .so called. 



The new despotism whicli the Amer- 

 ican society of equity confronts, is 

 the despotism of the dollar. Back of 

 the dollar, manipulating it to his own 

 selfish advantage, there is a miodern 

 fool, known to the world as a sto.k 

 gambler. Out in the field is tlie farm- 

 er — and abroad in the land is the or- 

 ganizer of equity — and the day is ap- 

 proa<'hing when the gamibh r shall de- 

 lart fronx bis stand and then befori' 

 all the worhi lie will, in the end, be a 

 foul. I<"(>r iMiuity is mighty and shall 

 ] revail. It docs not require the raising 

 of the red flag; nor is a call to arms 

 necessitated, othe'r than the producer 

 arming himself with the banner of 

 co-operation. It is a noiseless current, 

 that is i-amifying in and out through- 



merce will be made plain to all tlie 

 people; and he, "at the end shall be a 

 fool." 



That the Society of I'^piity can oust 

 ihe gambler and reveal the fool, goes 

 without saying, when its plans arc 

 fully inaugurated That the condlet 

 will be a sharp one, — for there are 

 more fools than one, — ^^is equally cer- 

 tain. The march of equity, however, 

 like the forward movement of any 

 great cause arising from the people, 

 and espoused by them — is necessarily 

 slow, but eventually resistless. 



It iiiay he said that this is the 

 strongest fort the society will have 

 to charge — its most vital purpose. The 

 manipul.atlon of the grain, produce and 

 live-stock markets by the cliques who 



trades withnut any suDStance in fact, 

 should be prohibited by law, but law 

 availeth not and the fanners will arise 

 and wreak vengeance. Such transac- 

 tions make fictitious prices; and. com- 

 ing as Ihey generally do, after the 

 farmer has sold his ytiar's output, he 

 reaps no benefit, while the consumer 

 has to pay tribute to the stoci'. gambler. 

 Conditions change with the centur- 

 ies, but the principles of which the 

 prophet wrote three tliousand years ago 

 are just as nvuch alive today as they 

 were at that lime. This is why the 

 cnjusl man is being pointed out now. 

 as then, and the cry for equit.v is heard 

 from the people. They recognize the 

 stock gambler now. Eventually they 

 will reveal the fool. 



