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Show READERS' OPINIONS (The opinions expressed in this column arethose of the writers, and are not necessarily corrcurred in by the editor and management ofthis paper.) WHO CAUSED "APOSTACY" FROM DEMOCRACY? Last Ocotber there was delivered a lengthy address on what he called "Apostacy from Democracj." It was a vigorous political speech toa reiigious gathering, intended to discredit the President. He approached his subject from a purely political angle. He inveighed against "Bu-reauocracy," "Bu-reauocracy," but failed to utter a word against plutocracy the real destoyer of democracy. Evidently the speaker is unaware that the economic aspect of hfe is nine-tenths of life, and that who controls the industrial and financial interests, in-terests, rules the nation. There has been an apostacy from democracy but it did not start during the last nine years. It began with the rise of plutocracy about 1840. This departure was not political. pol-itical. It was distinetly economic. One writer describes this plutocratic power, the real menace to democracy, in these trenchent words: ''Science p.nd genius gave to modern man a thousand new tools and machines by the aid of which one set of hands can now produce what it took hundreds of hands to produce five decades ago. Here was opened to insatiable insatia-ble greed a new enlarged field for human exploitation. Financial Fin-ancial craltiness went to work and constructed the giant I corporations to take over and eontrol the modern marvel-I marvel-I ous instrumentalities of production. What is the result? Today littie groups ofmen, dominated by inordinate greed have acquired almost eomplcte control of what man eats, drinks and wears." Demosthenes ELit". To be Continued (This and what follows is very good matter. We wish lhat some one would furnish a few dollars to help get all of the long; scholarly article set in type so it may all be contained in one issue, then possibly in pamphlet.) |
