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Show ing save a chance to work that they might feed their children. ' ; . , ; " , ; ' " , . Then why this perpetual assumption that a rich man must necessarily be a bad man and a public enemy? Mr. Carnegie, for instance, is a rich man. Is he harming any one? "But," Mr. Watson ould say, "Mr. Carnegie was the father of a great, all-compelling all-compelling trust" Very well, does that trust injure in-jure any one? Mr. Carnegie, began without a cef-t, but he was a canny Scot; he worked by day, studied by night, he had the natural money-making gift, he grew rich. But from the first he paid higher wats than any" rival did ; he paid higher premiums for efficient ef-ficient work and for approved inventions than any of his rivals, and, at the same time, because of his work, according to the testimony of able men who understand the question, he reduced the price of steel to the consumers of the United States quite 50 per cent. Why should the life work of a man like that be discounted and assailed in order to convince the indolent that in some way they have been wronged? It seems to us that the effort should be to rouse the "common people" to high and honest exertion, rather than to continually insist to them that they are being wronged. There is, in. some hands, a grinding power in money. When that is enforced, then it is the Government's place to stop it by righteous right-eous laws, but the thing to teach the jteople is self-reliance self-reliance and to burn the truth into their souls that ''by the sweat of Tiis brow man must earn his bread", until he can gather a little inheritance of his own. Common people! Why, half our Presidents sprang from the ranks of the lowly, nearly all our industrial kings were right from the ranks. Our foremost soldiers and sailors were originally children child-ren of poor parents. It is so in every walk of life in our country, and the chances for the poor are better bet-ter today than at any former period of our nation's Listory. Why not stop the. raven croak and urge men' to make for themselves homes and fame? THE COMMON PEOPLE Tom Watson, in his magazine, says: "The day of the Common People is at hand, for the Masses are being educated as never before." What are common com-mon people in this country? Every opportunity is open to every man and has been from the first. Then, as to education, is it not true that every man that wills to be educated can be? Born and reared as Abraham Lincoln was, if he could educate himself, him-self, what other American cannot do the same? This eternal crOning to the masses that they are in some way hopelessly oppressed and abused, is not only sheer demagoguery, but it is exceedingly harmful, for it excites perpetual discontent, and gives the slothful an excuse for not making a brave fight against unkind fortune. Wages are better than ever before, and it is true that any healthy and earnest earn-est young man or woman can, with three years of wage-earning and prudence, have a better start in life than. 90 per cent of Tom Watson's neighbors had. Watson eternally raves against the trusts, the rich and the Government. The trusts are all wrons; when entering into a combine in restraint of trade; but a trust that opens a market for thousands and enables thousands more to obtain profitable employment, employ-ment, is not an evil or a menace to liberty. In this respect matters have vastly improved since 1893, when men by millions in our country asked for noth- |