762 THE IMPENDING REVOLUTION. 



three-card-monte, betting on a small scale. These are 

 condemned and outlawed. 



"But stock-gambling, dealing in futures, bulling and 

 bearing, the methods of boards of trade, by which the poor 

 are cheated out of the bread their hungry children cry for, 

 these are tolerated. So-called respectable people practice 

 this method of gambling. Church members, deacons and 

 elders get rich, and play the game of robbing God's poor, 

 and the world looks on and smiles. 



u The man that gathers in the greatest pile of wealth. 

 The man who piles up the greatest number of millions, is 

 the greatest robber. 



* ' He may be no worse, as a man, nor even so bad as 

 other men who have little or no money. But, the fact of 

 his having more than any other man, without giving so- 

 ciety an equivalent for it, settles the question, as to the 

 matter of beating all, besides in robbing society. It is the 

 systems of business that people ought to condemn. These 

 systems are schools of vice. They educate men up little 

 by little to be thieves." 



Party methods have assumed a character that presents 

 the highest awards to the most unscrupulous and dishonest 

 candidate. The best wire-worker generally secures the 

 nomination. The most fitting man is considered to be the 

 one who endorses everything his party does, right or 

 wrong. There is no chance for protest, no room for inde- 

 pendence. Party methods are the remorseless masters of 

 candidates for positions of trust. The duty of the citizen 

 is to frown upon and break down these methods. Under 

 the prevailing system a man's Republicanism or Democ- 

 racy is measured by his allegiance to his party, and not by 

 the principles he advocates. That he never u bolted a 

 convention" or "scratched a ticket" is one of the highest 

 recommendations. 



The corruption everywhere prevailing in public life, 



