7 10 THE IMPENDING REVOLUTION. 



monarchical theory that was left behind in Europe has 

 slily crept into this country. Its old aristocratic designa- 

 tions and flashy garniture are absent, for 'vested privi- 

 lege' with its haughty power, now masquerades in strange 

 garments, and is known by new names, but the vile thing 

 itself is unchanged and robs the many for the benefit of 

 the few just as it always has done since tyrants first began 

 to enslave their fellow-men. 



"Does any order of nobility in the Old World hold 

 sterner sway over the lowly producers than is exercised by 

 our trust and monopoly aristocrats? Name and rank are 

 nothing; it is the substance of power and authority that 

 counts. We have to-day in America five hundred men 

 who are richer than any five hundred nobles that could be 

 selected from all the nations of Europe. The world has 

 not seen so many enormously wealthy families in any one 

 country since Rome entered upon the era of corruption and 

 profligacy that preceded her decline and destruction. If 

 five hundred rich schemers and idlers under specious laws 

 and unjust institutions can take to themselves one-half of 

 all the wealth annually produced in a country, it naturally 

 follows that the remainder of the people will be compelled 

 to live off the other half. 



"The reign of justice must be brought back to this 

 Republic if we would have both people and Nation pros- 

 per, and that can only be accomplished by going back to 

 first principles and the rule of righteousness laid down by 

 the man of Galilee, and have the government administered 

 for the benefit of the many and not the few. Railway 

 monopoly, land monopoly by great corporations, capitalists 

 and English lords, money monoply by cliques of favored 

 bankers, and the trust monopoly of all good things which 

 men need, must one and all be shorn of their malign 

 potency to work evil. Who shall do this mighty task? 



