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Show A rOOLISH UNJUST THEORY. .V - . Th government has for asveral years past bean doetoring syinptome, believing it waa going to the roots of the diseases whirh the ermptoms indicated. Is it not time to quit f Standard Oil it has worked upon for years; how much restitution baa it received re-ceived f' To punish tha Guggenheims for supposed grafting, it has inflicted , incalculable , wfong upon Um people ia Alekw--r struggling to make a living. And all the time the Guggenheims would' be glad to get back the honest money which they have invested there and get out. Where has tha government received back half that it has paid ont to special attorneys, educated fool agents sent out to teach the mea of the west honesty and cor. reet b-sineaa principles t Pinchot during his reign spent $18,000,000. What portion -of that haa the government got back t Thousanda of rich men have gathered up as much of their fortunea as possible snd gone abroad to live where they can have peace. The banishment includes the finest stock of horses ever raised in the world, because a certain clsss of men Vill It thsy can cheat on the race track. In-stesd In-stesd of punishing the grafters the horse has been bsnished. In the aame line, instead of establishing a financial system, something like' those of enlightened enlight-ened nations,', to give all men equal opportunities, the great gold combine hasebe-i given full awing, until now it literally haa ths nation by the throat and Ita ahadow ia over every large enterprise in the land.' Instead of taxing incomes with a graduated tax and fconftseating them after they reach a certain paint, the struggle has been to attack the methode by which ab.-e of them are accumulated and try to get even that way, and in almost every ease the effort haa been ahatnefuly costly and nothing has been accomplished. In th laat four or five years the effort haa aeemed to be to fence in every resource in the west ont of whieh settlers might make something some-thing and provide work for men who need the wagea'wnkh they might get if at work in order to livs. ''. - The price of eoal. lands is raised "in tha interest of the poor." It simply shuts out all but rich men rom aver 'owning an acre, and gives those who do own eoal lands, a monopoly. It reserves water powers, "in tha interest of the people." Meanwhile Mean-while tha water ia running to waste snd those who haVa power now, have a monopoly. It ia proposed to leas coal lands, at say 10 cents a ton. 8uppose a man had a lease. Ther would be a government agent to see how much ooal was mined, another government agent to see where the coal would go to and whether it conflicted con-flicted with some other man 'a lease.' Then the coal would have to be transported. Who would put in transportation facilities on a leased mine! The result re-sult would be more expense to pay agent than the coal produced would provide. ; The samo reserves are planed around supposed oil lands. , But boring for oil is always a gamble. Who w to- borer the wells t - The -whole- system is founded on a fake theory and ia ita working there is nothing but injustice. It i dearly aa unjust as. it would, he to. be gin suite to. quash" the patents grsnted u tha old first race .that eettled - the Miasissippi valley and paid $2.50 per acre for their land; to commence suits to get the difference between be-tween $2.50 per acre and $250 per aer which the land is worth now, on the ground that' when the land waa sold for $2.50 per acre th people of th whole United States wer cheated out of $247.50 per acre. Y- , ' The Whole business is working a shameful injustice in-justice tipor, the country snd is killing ths patriotism patriot-ism of the people faster than anything thst haa been sprung sine th birth of the republic. |