56 HISTORY OF THE WHEEL AND ALLIANCE. 



Satin, the head of the firm and proprietor-in-chief of the 

 entire concern, who has inaugurated the infamous system, 

 sent forth his agents, instructed to use every means possible 

 to reduce the world to hellish slavery. It demands every- 

 thing God has made, for its own use. It would absorb 

 Europe, Asia, Africa, America, Australia, and the islands 

 of the sea, with the cattle on a thousand hills, and every- 

 thing given mankind for his use and comfort. Monopoly 

 aspires to make the people its servants, politically, finan- 

 cially and socially, and demands that we offer on its golden 

 altar all that we are and have, souls, bodies, lives, liberty. 



' 'God hates monopoly, and so do we, and heartily en- 

 dorse his condemnation of it. To all whose hands and 

 souls are stained with this vile sin we say kick as you may , 

 your conduct has given rise to the organization of labor. 



' ' What led to the Wheel movement ? Monopoly is 

 the true cancer, but like other cancers its roots penetrate 

 the entire body on which it subsists. In consequence of 

 which we challenge the world to produce the equal of some 

 Arkansas monopolists on a small scale. We know of a 

 certain mercantile firm who, twenty-five years ago, owned 

 nothing comparatively, but to-day owns 18,000 acres of 

 land, a great part of which is in cultivation; also several 

 mules, horses, cattle and several stores. Perhaps one 

 person would be more correct than a firm, for one person 

 owns the greater part of the property. 



"The inquiry arises, how did this man, who had no 

 capital to start with, amass that amount of property in 

 twenty-five years, while farmers who had capital grew 

 poorer every year ? The answer is, monopoly and extortion ! 

 These, in the instance named, were managed through the 

 ' ' anaconda ' ' mortgage, which he succeeded in obtaining on 

 crops and stock, and often on lands. Then began the whole- 

 sale robbery by charging two and three prices for the goods 

 furnished, thereby reducing his victims to extreme poverty, 



