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Show These be blessed days for the Socialists, with Morgan and his monopoly defiantly telling the people peo-ple and their President to go to. The wiser of the Socialists recog-nized recog-nized the inevitable in the trend of the trusts, and foresaw the end in the nationalization of some of the necessaries of life, such as coal. It looks very like we would have to confiscate the anthracite coal fields and operate them in the interest of the whole people. Blackstone, many a long year ago, laid down the principle that "there is no wrong without a legal remedy," to which Chief Justice Waite of the Federal Supreme court added the corollary, that private property in which the public has an interest "can always be controlled by the public for the common good." If once public sentiment should be strong enough to demand of Con-oress Con-oress the national control, or even ownership, of the coal fields, good-bye good-bye to Morgan's monopoly. While we do not look for such a revolutionary revolu-tionary change, still it is the hope and almost the expectation of the Socialists. Salt Lake Telegram. |