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

Government Ownership.

You say it would bankrupt the govern ment to buy the railroads. Ye gods! And has it come to this? Is it a fact that we have allowed a few thousand stockholders of great corporations to accumulate enough properly to bankrupt 60,000,000 people? To bankrupt all the balance of the country. Do you know what you are saying? If these few men already control more than half the wealth of the country, for heaven s sake how long will it take them to own it all? Don’t you think it is time to call a halt? If by owning the railroad system alone it is possible to acquire all the wealth of the nation, how easy for the government to make railroads pay for themselves, and buy in all other great public utilities by the use of this one. After the government, the people, became owner of the railroads, how easy lor the people, the government, to become again owners of al} the wealth of the nation. The corporation socialists are solv> jng the problem themselves,