People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 February 1895 — Government Ownership. [ARTICLE]

Government Ownership.

You say it would bankrupt the | crnment to buy the railroads. Ye gods! And has it come to this? Is it a fact that w T e have allowe few thousand stockholders of gi corporations to accumulate eno properly to bankrupt 60,000,000 peoj To bankrupt all the balance of country. Do you know what you are sayi If these few men already cod more than half the wealth of country, for heaven's sake how 1 will it take them to own it all? J Don’t you think it is time to ca halt? If by owning the railroad sys alone it is possible to acquire all wealth of the nation, how easy for government to make railroads pay themselves, and buy in all other g public utilities by the use of this < After the government, the peu became owner of the railroads, easy lor the people, the governm to become again owners of all wealth of the nation. The corporation socialists are J ing the problem themselves. When human nature gets a chi to exercise itself, it shows the p bility of a government and social ganization based on ties of broth love. Behold how people respon the cries of their brothers’ distres Nebraska. What a pity we can have a statute rule of brotherly guaranteeing that no citizen » suffer for food, fuel clothes and sh< as long as he is willing to do his ip the great national industrial w