Show I LETHARGY O OF VOTERS THE CAUSE OF THE DISTRESS OF PRODUCERS A t Majority of the People Do Not I ice In- n- n Joy JOT Prosperity and Will Not So Long Longas as the Non Producers Control Control the tho Government The power of this government was Intended to be vested nested in the people The will of the people was Intended to be the supreme law when expressed It is believed by the founders of the government that the people would have sufficient intelligence to divine I their interests and enough courage to toi i demand their protection and advancer advance advance- r ment In Iu the earlier j years ears of ot the country country coun coun- try public men sought by close observation observation and study to evolve theories to tobe be made issues by which the interests of the people would be advanced and he who succeeded best in bringing forth these practical the theories rles and c carrying them to successful consummation was the ideal deal public servant and was continued continued con COIl I d in fir office because of his fidelity and loyalty to the interests of the peo peo- All the progress made by this government government government gov gov- was secured during the prevalence prevalence prevalence alence of that system It is a remarkable fact tact tl that at the in interests interests in in- of the majority of the people no longer or bring forth plans for their elevation and welfare This country has less attention paid to the masses of the people than any in the world It has become a reproach up upon m many any man to be a champion of the In Interests Interests interests In- In of the masses He Is called an agrarian a socialist communist or anarchist The people still sun have the power but they do not or can not use it Two Two- thirds of them are mere party slaves who belong to a party and blindly follow follow follow fol fol- fol- fol low its leaders has become more practical and business like as to the party and less so as to the people The first desideratum of a party as ns has been practiced by the two old parties is to get a campaign fund In order to do this it must make pledges and enter into obligations which must be carried out in case of success In Inthis Inthis Inthis this way an administration is sold in advance It is pledged to interests adverse to the people in order to get geta a campaign fund to pay speakers and newspapers rs to mislead and deceive them A majority of the tae people have not enjoyed any modicum of ot prosperity for five years There is little prospect of their enjoying much more for the tho thel next five years h agriculturists produce large crops and the mines yield Immense products but those who produce this wealth secure only a bare subsistence Why is this It Itis Itis Itis is a recognized fact that If a man wants to become independent that he will seek some other field for his energy and industries This is not the place He who produces does not get the product of ol his labor When it strikes the market the first man who strikes It gets one-fifth one as much profit as the man who produced it and it goes on down the line to the last hands with each one securing five times as much profit relatively as as s the the man man who produced it These Thes inequalities are caused by business sense and management management management manage manage- ment which all these other people display display display dis dis- dis- dis play through organization and all other assistants which the producer scorns But even this account of this reason is unsatisfactory There Is something more Systems are organized organized organized organ organ- to assure this result These systems systems aye aye- embrace and embody all the factors in the problem with their ratio or proportion of benefit which have become so fixed that it is almost Impossible Impossible impossible Im Im- im- im possible to change them certainly never to be changed while so little effort effort ef et- ef- ef fort and so little organization are combined combined combined com com- for their overthrow If It the laborer is worthy of his hire certain it is that the producer is worthy of the best and largest proportion proportion proportion tion of the benefit realized in the use of his product but such Is not the case and it seems a very long way ahead in inthe inthe inthe the future before It will be vouchsafed to him But if public men were held to a stricter accountability for their management management management man man- of the public interest it would be a great groat stride towards a return of favorable conditions for tie the producers and laborers laborers laborers la la- la- la borers but that is Js what it seems Impossible Impossible impossible Im Im- possible to impress or to secure any tangible and earnest effort to secure Failure of one causes failure of ot the tho I other FRANK BALTZELL |