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Show MILLIONS OF PEOPLE STUDYING THE TRUSTS THOUSANDS. OF NEWSPAPERS DECIDING TO PRINT THE TRUTH REGARDING THE ) GIGANTIC "SYSTEMS" J THAT CONTROL THE PEOPLE'S FOOD, PRODUCTS AND PROSPERITY ALSO THE INSURANCE COMPANIES AND RAILROADS IN ORDER THAT THE PEOPLE MAY CONTROL THE TRUSTS BY THE POWER OF KNOWLEDGE Thousands of newspapers aru do-cldliiK do-cldliiK to print the truth about thu trusts. Thoy liuvo concluded to lvo tliolr rondo tho power of knowledge. Without Knowledge people aro helpless, help-less, It Is thu basis of our self-govern-tuetit. When wo know what to do we can do It. It Is a free country. The people peo-ple control everything. All Power li In the Hands of the People. No political party has power except through the people. No political party can act without popular support. It may do so, hut that is suicide at tho next election It loses its power. Political patties havo but to hear tho verdict of tho peoplo to reallzo tho peoplo's power. Combinations of capital aro equally helplouB they must yield to tho peoplo or bo crushed. In theso matters of meat, railroads and Insurance tho power of reform Is In the hands of the public. Tho people havo but to decide what thoy want dono and It will be dono. The Power of the Press Belongs to the People. "Publicity la tho cure for tho trusts," the President has said, becaimo when tho press gives the facts to tho public the public will exercise ex-ercise Its mighty power. Tho press belongs to tho public. Tho peoplo who read tho newspapers news-papers and magazlnca control them. Let tho peoplo cense to read any given giv-en publication and no matter how much money its publisher has and how much advertisers spend in it, Its power pow-er Is gone. Tho peoplo aro represented by Uio press. Thoy delegate their power to Its columns when thoy undcrU o to have It aolvo public questions, for it Just as much or more than wlion.the public power Is delegated to a member mem-ber of tho legislature or of Congress. To secure tho representation of tho public Is thu nlm of evory ambitious publisher. Ho Is representative of tho public Just to tho extent ho hns subscribers, sub-scribers, Just to tho extent peoplo road'hls publication. Gcttlnn Subscribers Is Almost Like Getting Votes It's about tho samo ub getting votes. A subscription Is practically a vote for tho policy of tho publication. It furnishes tho ensh with which to publish, pub-lish, it furnishes the moral support that lies In thn fuct that peoplo read any given publication. So thu struggle Is for circulation, Thu great giants In publishing nro tho city press. Millions In money backs tho enterprises of tho city publisher. Ho reaches out Into tho wholo country coun-try fur subset Ibers. Ho makes his publication so Interesting Inter-esting that u eryono wants to read it. Ho gets publlu support two ways tlrsl ho gots subscribers from districts where previously tho peoplo havo supported tho local press Bolely. Then ho gets support from iho city ndvortls-ors ndvortls-ors who want tho country trade tho mall order houses, tho whole long list of advertisers who nro sapping tho country's cash and paying tho city publisher to help them do It. Ho waxes wealthy and hires tho host writers In tho country and decides de-cides to mnko his publications so Interesting In-teresting that, everybody will havo to read them. Ho stirs up public questionsgoes ques-tionsgoes after tho meat trust, tho Insurnnco trust, tho railroads, all tho vast enterprises -which bundle tho people's money nnd products niul distribute dis-tribute ami augment tho peoplo's prosperity, pros-perity, or vice versa, whlchovor vay you want to look at it. The City Versus Tho Country It's tho Bamo old btory creating centrnl control, bringing tho peoplo's money Into thn cities to bo handled by tho men who publish tho maga-zluos maga-zluos nnd dally newspapers and who aim to abolish tho country store nnd tho country publisher by making It Impossible for them to compote just sb tho other trusts havo centralized other things, such as Insurance and cattlo-kllllug nnd management of railroads. rail-roads. It's tho city vorsus tho country- tho non-producor versus tho producor. tho mlddlo man vcrsuB tho end man tho fellows who tako control of commodities com-modities nnd rash between tho producer pro-ducer nnd tho consumer anil adding nothing to elthor commodities or cash amass vast fortunes for themselves. Last year tho country's products wore ovor twclvo billion dollars In value but tho farmors and tho other working peoplo got only two billion dollars of this money. Who got tho rest? It's tho corrupt, Immoral, sensational, sensa-tional, lawless, dirty and diseased I city vorsus tho incorruptible, moral, sober-minded, law-abiding, clean nnd healthy country nnd tho city Iuib tho best of it to date. And thu city publisher Is gloating oer his millions of magazine aSd newspaper circulation with which ho Is building up tho city stores and banks and wholesale houses and Insurnnco In-surnnco companies through bringing tho countryman's money nnd trrju Into tho city Instead of lotting It remain re-main to prosper tho countryman's own community. Aided and Abetted By the Government "Millions for postal Bcrvlco to distribute dis-tribute the city publications to tfio country people but not ono dollar 1 r ono cent postnge," Is tho policy of t e government Democratic or Itopub I can, it makes no difference, forno city publisher has been getting his little million dollar a week graft out of tho postal department under both for years. "Help tho city all you can," Is tho cry In Congress. "Crush tho couSTry-man. couSTry-man. Hulld up Chicago, St. Lours, Now York as Jobbing and manufacturing manufactur-ing and railroad and packing nnd brewery and publishing conters. Don'' let a single state have n wholesale center of Its own unless It's located whero It can help us politically. Regulate Regu-late railroad rates to compel the wholo country to buy everything from theso great political centers and to send everything there wheat, cattlo, cotton, ensh. "Kill off the country merchant and tho country store, They Interfere with centralized control. Kill off tho country banker. He keeps somo of tho peoplo's money at home. Kill ofTtho country publisher. Ho appeals tp n fruo and Intelligent peoplo andean power wo must curb. Drlvo nVmTmM oral advertisers to uso only ypB city publications nnd let tnH ordor ndvortUer get all tho loippH away from thu country mlvcrtlflpflj supports tho country liewsjMK Hurray for centralization. Thop' try peoplo supply us with ovuryB wo cnt and wear nnd now Ict'iH 'cm supply nil our cash nnd buH log except what's advertised L publications." Hal That's the Cry of the City I That's tho cry of tho city the hungry, hun-gry, sensual, wicked, HclfUh, lazy, cruel, cursed city that takes our young peoplo and converts them Into dls-, ciplcs of mammon, Into non-rollglouiy non-vlrlunus, non-Intelligent supports era of city systems of graft and grecA and now wants to take nil our otb r possessions. Including our indopei I-euce I-euce of thought. And tho city publisher goes nto it it shrewdly. Ho publishes what looks at tho fit it glance to bo honest articles, sett I g forth tho facts about 'Trcuzl d Finance" nnd meat methods and n I-reading I-reading nnd private car Bystom n d Insurance scandals, but which a e really inspired by motives that w II not bear analysis. Tho plaualblll y of these articles is their shruwdi t point. They look exactly as If thoy we e wrltton "l-'or tho Common flood," b t they should nil bo labeled "Centr I-Izo I-Izo Everything In thu Cities." Fr n rate legislation to packing houko i .-postures .-postures they 'all aim to create cote tlons that will compel nil huslnvss ho done In groat cities by groat trus , Tho local butcher can't kill cattlo i der government Inspection, tho cot -try store can't sell goods In conipc Hon wlilt the city mail order hnu and the oidluary Jobber In any tdu ' neuter can't compete with thu ohb In big cities that nio favored by U Interstate Commerce Commission ai I rato legislation. Hut when tho country nuwspape band together and einloy men of ti out to wrlto regarding great subject , men who will glut the farts and I c tho people Judge for tbeiuselvoi. ,tc i tho country publisher protects hi' keif nnd his patrons. This Is exart whnt thousands of them are dolu They nro combining to havo the tru brought out regarding thu trusts m thus putting tliolr readers In poslth to onset legislation that will sal guard tho country against tho attac! of tho city and tho city's publlsho i and politicians Thus thu country puulli.n r Is h sorting himself and will ho nblo to w i In tho struggle for his own existent i nnd that of his patrons tho counti storekeeper, farmer, cattleralser an I hanker. The publication of the facts rognr ing cnttlo nnd cash, meat and whei railroads and rates, private enrs ai fruit, vogotublo and beef dlstrlbtttlrj lnsurunca and "Kronzled Flnarxl will place tho great country peopn tho producing and prospering popul.l tlon of thn nation, In position to ni clso Intelligent control over their i fairs. |