VO-OFEBATION. 3 



Anil Ix'foie c;oiul)ined monopolies of such niouslruu> jiiojxntions. 

 the people retire in subservient antl appalling- apathy. 



INSUFFICIENCY OF G0VJ:RNMENT AID. 



Now it is evident, to reach these evils, we must have uational 

 CO- opei'ation, but this is a diflereut thing from govenmental co-op- 

 eration. There are some so totall}' confiding as to suppose that tlie 

 government can aid them out of their difiicult\-. Such credulity is 

 beautiful to see, were it not lacking in sagacity to supposes that 

 government can ever become a grand bureau of philanthropy. 

 When that bureau is established, it will be the one missiu"' article 

 in its furniture. How did wise men come by the idea, that the far- 

 ther back one goes, there is no government, while the farther for- 

 ward you come, government increases ? Just the opposite is the 

 case. The great inaugural, the culmination of governmental au- 

 thority, the palmiest days of the era of "law and order' were when 

 savage beasts roamed the wilds, and i-ent the air with their ferocious 

 howling. Then government began, in aggression, and by it it. has 

 always lived, and when it ceases, the government will be no more. 

 For this is its last analysis describing its species.'' 



But there are certain well meaning ones, who hold the same rela- 

 tion to authority in government, that others do to the same in reli- 

 gion. They think that they will remedy the source of one party's 

 oppression by substituting that of another. Thinking they see a 

 law that needs 'repealing,' they feel it their duty to be drawn into 

 the cogs of the political machine. And so they defraud themselves 

 and nature, by repeated attempts to galvanize new life into this 

 great, secular superstition. 



Every article is bought and sold forty or fifty times while delivered but once. In 

 the city there are also ll.'io, brokers, which probably average $,5,irtHi a year, to cover 

 expenses. Cotton, wheat, corn, and other cereal products, lard, pork, bacon, butter 

 cheese, oil, iron, steel, copper, ifec, have been added to the list of things bought and 

 sold on margins. 



* The basic idea of all past governments has been force, not liberiy. Itemanaten 

 from a central head, oran arbitrary power. The pretest for the exercise of its au- 

 thority is to make men good, wise, pure and moral. 



Now cooperative government does not meddle with people's pursuits, nor aim 

 to make their acts moral, good, wise, or pure. Its authority emanates fiom no cen. 

 tral head or arbitrary power Its use of force is to counteract and destroy it, 



Iheref re. they are opp site; where one commences, the other leaves off ; until one 

 is destroyed, the othercannot prosper. Such a brutal monster has government ever 

 been, there is no doubt that when it is outgrown, there will be a peaceable reeiproc. 

 ity. The cry'of anarchy,' isonly the cry of sacrilege by the worshiper of his idol. 



