THE REMEDY. 703 



getting more than its just or pro rata share, land and 

 capital will become poorer. If capital is getting 

 more than its just and pro rata share, land and labor 

 will become poorer. There can be no war between 

 capital and labor if each get their share of what is 

 produced from mother earth. If there is a just distribu- 

 tion of the wealth that earth produces there can be no 

 antagonism. 



"While the laboring people are being oppressed, 

 money influences are fattening on the general disaster. 

 Take from idle capital its profits, and make it as unprofita- 

 ble as idle labor, and there will be no conflict between 

 them. But the industries of the country are growing 

 under the iron heel of monopolies, and the people need 

 another such man as "Old Hickory" Jackson to regulate 

 our finances as he did in opposition to the United States 

 banking system, for there is but little difference in the way 

 our present banking system is oppressing the people and 

 the system then proposed. 



"The farms of the Northwestern States valued at 

 about $5,000,000,000,. are mortgaged for about $3,000,- 

 000,000. This means that we are drifting in the same 

 channel that led to the downfall of the Roman empire. 

 And I warn you that it is a duty which every citizen owes 

 to his country, to his family and to himself to investigate 

 this question. ' ' 



He thought it was useless for him to say there 

 were railway pools combinations of the railways to 

 control the transportation of the United States. He was 

 here to tell the people to-night that the vast railway cor-- 

 porations were binding the industries of the people in the 

 iron chains, notwithstanding some statesmen say, that rail- 

 roads are built by private capital, and ought not to be 

 interfered with by legislation. Railways cannot be built 

 without the sanction of land, for they could not secure the 



