People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 June 1896 — YOU ARE TO BLAME. [ARTICLE]

YOU ARE TO BLAME.

Th« Man Who Takes a Kick Deserves It There is no sense in workingmen finding fault with their surroundings as ldng as they are content to stand idly by and let monopolists work their own sweet pleasure. The man who ]g robbed is just as much to blame as the man who robs him if it is in his power to prevent the robbery. Instead of whining at their position workingmen should realize that it is their own fault ‘if they are imposed upon. They constitute the great majority of the voters of the country, and at every election they bob up serenely and deposit their ballots to perpetuate the very state of affairs they declaimed against. If they are in favor of this kind of thimg, and they generally vote as if they were, they should be manly enough to brace up and take their gruel like men and do less whining. When the masses really mean what they say they will tell the robber he has gone far enough and must go no farther, and they will vote In such a way as to show that they mean business. The man who 1b always running down the professional politician and then votes for him on election day is a pretty contemptible individual and worthy of no consideration at the hands of his fellows. To abolish robbery and poverty, and one always follows the other, it is necessary for labor to change its diet and take a good-sized dose of common sense, then it will talk less and do more. You cannot kill monopoly by supporting its ticket. You must get a hustle on and do a little voting for yourself, and until you are sensible enough to do so you will get what you deserve —the bone, with all the meat scraped of. —Industrial Banner.