People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 February 1896 — It Is Coming. [ARTICLE]

It Is Coming.

Disguise it as you may 99 out of each 100 people are looking and longing for a way out of the troubles of today. They would accept anything that promised relief—except the only thing possible to give them relief, study ing to find out. They are dissatisfied but believe because the *‘great” people have not discovered and applied a remedy that there is no remedy. They do not know where to find and literature that will enlighten them, and seek information from the very source that has brought on all their woes. A marked change has come over the people in the last few months. It is noticeable everywhere. They will listen now with some patience. They are not going wild over Reed, McKinley or any other place or fortune hunters. No such apathy was ever before noticed five months before the national conventions. If reformers will do their duty now millions can be made to see the Great Conspiracy to reduce the people to a new form of vassalage. Never was a more propitious time to spread the Gospel of a New Civilization. I know from personal contact that there never was a better time to get men to read our books and papers. To my mind there is nothing more certain than that a New Social Order is just ahead of us, and it will be for this generation. /How long will depend on the personal exertion of each reformer. Nineteen hundred ought to see it established and will if reformers will do their duty. It will be a more radical change when it does come than any that has ever come in the history of human society. It will bring the abolition of all corporations and the assumption by the people of these. functions for the benefit of all. It will mean that man is first and that property will be looked upon as a means to make man collectively happy. All the people may not see it. but it will as surely follow as that the abolition of chattel slavery followed the agitation to prevent the extension oi slavery. There has never been an agitation before to wipe out private property. It has always been held as sacred, except when escheated for the kings’ benefit. The neople are getting ready for this change. Everything shows it. The protest against corporate oppression is leading the people on to the logical conclusion. The great trusts have taught the people against their will. A. New Social Order is in the atmosphere, and before many years the sun wiil rise over a New Nation in which the shouts of joy and the smiles of a happy people will replace the misery, woe and want that now everywhere darkens the world. Be of good cheer, and put enthusiasm in your labor of opening your neighbor’s eyes to the Glorious Prospect,—Appeal To Reason.