People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 January 1895 — Is Major Doxie a Crank. [ARTICLE]

Is Major Doxie a Crank.

Major Doxie, of Anderson, the great gas king, who is traveling in the Old World for his health, has written a letter to a friend a porton of which follows: “The German people are very nice and plain, but very polite, their soldiers are elegant and well drilled; in fact all Europe looks like a military camp. All of these countries are prepared for war and some day they will have one of the biggest scraps the world ever knew. Labor is cheap and the man or woman that depends on their labor can never get ahead, and they have no more chanc than a slave. I wish all of our people could see the true conditions here, and then they would appreciate our own good country better yet. Our own good country will, in time be in the same fix, unless we can head off the concentiation of capital. No man should be allowed to hold over $50,000. All over that he should give to charity or to provide homes for the poor, then if he did not have enough interest in humanity to continue in business after he had reached his limit, let him sit down and give some one else a chance. No man should own over 80 acres of land and an additional 40 for each child.

The government should own all our railroads and telegraphs, and pension the injured and retire the old employes.” We believe Major Doxie has never been accused of being a crank. But of course, the enunciation of such sentiments as the above will at once place him in the list of the crankiest kind of cranks. All who have come in contact with Major Doxie, and especially in a business way. have been impressed with the fact that he had an unusual amount of good horse sense. He is now viewing the object lessons which show to a man capableof reasoning what is the real tendency of our system, and he hastens to warn our people of the dangers that await them. Send over a few more men who have good hard sense, and let them be impressed, and perhaps in time we can get the American voter to see the folly of voting with parties controlled exclusively by men of great wealth.— Tipton-Kokono Union Dispatch.