People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 February 1895 — BOYCOTT THEM. [ARTICLE]

BOYCOTT THEM.

The Corporation Paper* Mbould Not Be Read by Producer*. Do you know that nearly all the dailies of the country are big corporations? Do you know that the presidents and stockholders of these corporations are also, nearly always, presidents or stockholders of some other corporations; railroad, or telegraph or Standard Oil, or coal, iron, flour, in fact everything in which money can be invested at a good rate of interest and profit? These corporations are linked with each other, either through money Interest, blood relationship or social intercourse, into a large network, covering the entire country, taking in magistrates, senators, judges, officers of the army and others; so that, in most cases, our daily press, by its very make up, is the mouthpiece of corporation, the lawmakers are the agents of corporation, the judges are the attorneys of corporation, the army is the instrument of corporation, even most ministers of the gospel wear glasses of corporation. How can we expect otherwise. We ourselves breathe the air of corporation, live and move and have our being in corporation. We are brought up by corporation; our school books are furnished by corporation; our earliest education, which leaves the deepest impression upon the minds of men and women 4 , is under the strict supervision of corporation; the “iron law of wages” Is forged by corporation; the law of supply and demand is controlled by corporation; our very lives are regulated by corporation, a being with many mouths and no eyes, no feelings, no soul. Do you know all this? Do you ever think of all this? If so, how can you know all this if you do not support an independent paper?—lnternational Railroader.