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Show IS A REVOLUTION IMMINENT? Goodwin's Weekly; Unless present signs fall wo do not believe that cither tho Republican or tho Democratic party will elect more than one more President. Presi-dent. There aro strong men In every state who havo 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 res-cue tho country and prevent Its further falling under the dictation of a few wealthy iricn or firms and thus establishing estab-lishing an arl&toracy of wealth is to so adjust matters tliat money will b-i merely a convenient;!!, and cease to be ft controlling force. These men are moving In every stato aud tho Inercaso In a single year In tho Socialist vote Is so significant that It points to asocial and political revolution revolu-tion In tho very near future. Supposo there should conic a government which should decide that tho railroads of the country should bo owned by the gov ernment, should appraise thbtri and$ay for them In government bonds, and then provide for a sinking fund which would In a few years take up the bonds; that then onq and another of the public utilities of the country should likewise be absorbed and finally decide that the land like the water should ho free to all men and prqeced to levy taxes accordingly, Is &, not clear that in a few years money would be almost f alu-less alu-less for any purpose of gain through its use? ,i . If a man had ono or ten or a hundred millions ot dollars, how could ho invest or use it in a way to give him an income in-come from it? Well It requlresonly a voto of CI per cent of tlio" people to bring this about nnd alert men in every eve-ry state aro working to that end. Again, the laborers of the country were never In such a slate ot unrest before and thousands, millions of them could easily be, Induced to yoto with .a. party whoso slogan would be: "Down with tho rich," and which would insist) that as all rncn arc equal under tho'hiity of our government, so tho poor man's boy should not be handicapped in his cradle, and before he can walk, made at least a partial subject of the child In tho earned cradlo next door where wealth Is building up the, most offensive aristocracy iu the world, that aristocracy whlah claims sovereignty because It has bought It for money. The title will not be disputed specially, but tho effort will be to so adjust things that ttic power of money wljl be broken, and tho children will emerge from their cradles on a perfect equal-Ity. equal-Ity. Of course, no end of argument against this can,bo framed, no end of dangers pointed out if such radical changes are tried, but supposo that 51 per cent will not -listen to Iho arguments, argu-ments, will not crew timid on the prospect of danger and vote for tho change. The signs now point to such a culmination cul-mination before two hloro Presidential elections can bo hold en the old Dries and is4uds. This Is so apparent, tliat tho belief that there will bo a social and political end Industrial revolution In the very near future hae bn-ome a conviction In thousands and hundreds of thousands of minds in our country, and convidtlcnc of that kind cannot spring up spontaneously all over n country without a cause. |