People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 June 1895 — DESTROYING THE LOVE OF LIBERTY. [ARTICLE]

DESTROYING THE LOVE OF LIBERTY.

The American people crushed the slave power, they washed its stain off our flag and saved our institutions. Can tihey Yescue them again? Many say yes. but they have not reflected that the crushing force which how confronts them is greater than was ever the slave power. Besides slavery itself was sectional and in the end it was possible to unite the rest of the country against it. But the corrupt money power has its withering finger on every pu so in the land and is destroying the rugged manhood and love of liberty which alone can carry a people through a great crisis. What then is the situation today? For over twenty years foreign and domestic capitalism has domin-

abed. “It sits in the white house and legislates in the capitol. Courts of justice are its ministersand legislatures are its lackeys.” And the whole machinery of fashionable society is its handmaid.—Gov. Altgeld.