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attention of the people. Georgia, Louisiana and Texas 

 are plastered all over with mortgages owned by foreign 

 capitalists 50 per cent, at least operated by loan associa- 

 tions. 



"It is a shame for a country that can boast of so 

 much skilled labor and rich material to be compelled to 

 give its subsistence to foreign capital. They already own 

 22,000,000 acres of our lands. 



"The time has come when we are called on to act, 

 and not stop and investigate the condition of foreign 

 nations, for their subjects already own too much of our 

 territory to be wholesome for the growth of our Republic. 

 When a republican form of government oppresses the 

 people they lose respect and interest in its institutions that 

 will tend to its downfall. There is opposition now and it 

 is tending to dissatisfaction among our people, which 

 demands that our statesmen come forward and do something 

 to relieve them, or the people must look around for a Jack- 

 son to lead them out of the dilemma." 



It is an axiom as true as if it was capable of mathe- 

 matical demonstration, that the "vitalizing power of labor 

 produces all wealth." How, then, is it possible for one 

 man to accumulate one, ten or fifty millions of dollars 

 worth of property within the brief space of a lifetime, 

 without absorbing the just reward of the labor of others? 

 What is a civilization which produces such -results worth ? 

 Under it, and aided by its laws and systems, one in ten 

 thousand accumulates a vast fortune from the labor of the 

 other nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine, and 

 these are reduced to a condition of semi-slavery. Necessity 

 is a harder master than ne who wielded the lash in the 

 days of chattel slavery. Necessity possesses no heart, 

 knows no law and fears no consequences. It is no 

 respecter of persons, but imposes its burdens and inflicts 

 its sufferings on all alike; the aged and young; the weak 



