People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 April 1895 — Do Yon Know? [ARTICLE]

Do Yon Know?

Do you know what you are raising your child up for? Do you know what it can do in the future against the gigantic monopolies that are crushing all competition? If it is a daughter and has to struggle for a living? Or it marries a man who gets out of work? You know the balance. Or a son who finds every avenue of honest industry closed to men of his means? Crime is the only thing left. Yet you, a father, are so eternally blind, so idolatrously prejudiced to your party, that you oppose a party because these monopolists tell you it is “paternal,” that offers your children an equal show with every child in the nation. The rich don’t want your child to have an equal show —they want their children to have all the advantages, and you vote for their methods! Great heavens, how can you be so dumb you cannot see through a trick so gauzy? What hypnotic spell blinds you to vote to destroy your own life and that of your children that a few rich may prostitute them for their pleasure? Fathers, think! Don’t think of me or how it will affect your party, but think of your family ju6t as it is, just as it is likely to be, and then of the monopolist’s idle, vicious, extravagant family. They are supported by your labor, on account of monopolies in private hands that should be in the ownership of the whole people.—Coming Nation.