704 THE IMPENDING REVOLUTION. 



rights of way over the people's lands, much less receive 

 grants from the government and the States of large bodies 

 of the people's lands. In fact, the people build the rail- 

 ways and furnish the produce for transportation that returns 

 a revenue to the stockholders. The interests of the railways 

 and the people are mutual, and there should be no discrim- 

 inations in rates. 



' ' The theory of over-production is false. If the 

 cotton producer, who raises the surplus of the staple, is not 

 able to furnish his family with the articles he produces, 

 there cannot be an over-production of cotton. If the pork 

 producers are told that there is an over-production of pork, 

 and, in consequence thereof, prices are low, and at the 

 same time the producer is not able to supply his family 

 with pork, there is no over-production in pork. The same 

 may be said of the cattlemen. There can not be an over- 

 production in anything when the people who produce it 

 can not supply their families with the article. Then these 

 are the questions that every American citizen, regardless 

 of party, must investigate, and unless we do, the time will 

 come when this government will follow in the wake of 

 other republican governments which have fallen under 

 misrule. 



U A11 wealth is based on the production of mother 

 earth, and when that is oppressed the people must suffer. 

 The farmers pay for all furnish the wealth for all. In 

 the bosom of the earth we find that which gives employ- 

 ment to all." 



"Five-sixths of the bonds of the government are 

 owned by capitalists, and they necessarily control the sys- 

 tem of finances. This system of finance is based on iron- 

 clad mortgages on the lands of the people. This system 

 has also contracted the circulating medium until there is 

 not enough money to carry on the business of the country, 

 and, in all candor, I state to you that it demands the careful 



