People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 August 1894 — industrial Equality. [ARTICLE]

industrial Equality.

I’. O’Neill Larkin, in August DonaliAe's. Monopoly in private hands has proved injurious politically, industrially, and ethically. The essential feature of despotism everywhere is power withou responsibility to the people whether it be found in the bureaucracy of the sovereign, as in Russia, or in the board of directors of the Standard Oil. gas, waler, or railrbad companies, uncontrolled by the public. Free competition in large undertakings has grown into the monopolistic trust, syndicate, or combine. This evolutionary development is logical, but it is also, equally logical and in the pi’oper order of tilings that the people alone should exercise exclusive contro'l in all matters relating to the general interest, in city, state, or nation. Every private monopoly must be transformed into a public one. Then the curses which How in such abundance from- private ownership will cease. The bitter waters of Marah will grow sweet. There is no middle course. The people must i assume sovereignty industrially las well as politically. With , Lincoln’s emancipation proclaI mation political equality was ' established throughout the land: I ! industrial equality, or equal 1 opportunity for all, is yet to be i secured. One is the complement iof the other. One cannot long j exist without the other. Such is the history of all past ages. -There is no affinity between plutocracy and democracy. We ■ must bring the republic into our ! industrial life. The people must trust themselves. Mr. J. C. Boswell, one of the : best known, and most respected ' citizens ,©f Brownwood, Texas, 'suffered with diarrhoea for a long time and tried many differ- , ent remedies ~ without benefit, until Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoee Remedy V ; was used; that relieved him at once. For sale by F. B. Meyer, Druggist. i We have received some new printing material, and are better prepared than ever to do your job printing. Come in and see i us,