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Show IS A REVOLUTION IMMINENT? IM-MINENT? (Goodwin's Weekly.) Unless present signs fail, we do not believe that either the Republican Repub-lican or the Democratic party will elect more than one more President. Presi-dent. There are strong men in every state who have exhausted their thoughts on the question of how to stop the domination of wealth and its mighty aggregation in a few hands and have decided that the only way to rescue the country and prevent its further falling under the dictation of a few wealthy men or firms and thus establishing an aristocracy of wealth is to so adjust ad-just matters that money will be merely a convenience, and cease to be a controlling force. These men are moving in every state and the increase in a single year in the Socialist vote, is so significant that it points to asocial and political revolution in the very near future. Suppose there should come a government which should decide that the railroads of the country should be owned by the government, should appraise them and pay for them in government bonds, and then provide for a sinking sink-ing fund which would in a few years take" up the bonds, that then one and another of the public utilities of the country should likewise like-wise be absorbed and finally decide that the land like the water should be free to all men and proceed to levy taxes accordingly, is it not clear that in a very few years money would be almost valueless for any purpose of gain through its use? If a man had one million or ten or a hundred millions of dollars, how could he invest or use it in a way to give him an income from it? Well it requires only a vote of 51 per cent of the people to bring this about and alert men in every state are working to that end. Again, the laborers of the country were never in such a state of unrest before and thousands, millions of them could easily be induced to vote with a party whose slogan would be: "Down with the rich," and which would insist that as all Inou are equal under the theory of our government, so the poor man's boy should not be handicapped in his cradle, and before be-fore ho can walk, made at least a partial subject of the child in the carved cradle next door where wealth is building up the most offensive of-fensive aristocracy in the world; that aristocracy which claims sovereignty sov-ereignty because it has bought it for money. The title will not be disputed specially, but the effort will be to so adjust things that the power of money will be broken, and the children will emerge from their cradles on a perfect equality. Of course, no end of arguments |