EDITORIALS
Your Day NOVEMBER 8 is election day. It is YOUR day, Mr. Voter. Do you realize that? Remember how often during the past two years, after some new outrage on the part of the System, you have said,...
...Are you going to make the most of it...
...Let us not wait until the monopolies have grabbed everything there is to grab while we are quarreling about the "rights...
...States' Rights AT THE recent National Irrigation Congress, as in the St...
...If "It" can only get possession of the country's natural resources, "It" will not care a fig whether the states or the nation have the "rights...
...and that is what "It" wants...
...You will choose men to represent you...
...You saw the representatives of Big Business sitting in the committee rooms and writing THEIR demands into the bill...
...Tuesday is YOUR day...
...It" wants no interference with "Its" designs upon the valuable lands still remaining to the public...
...dictating the provisions of the law which give them the right to take more pennies than ever "from your pocket and to make it still harder for you to make ends meet...
...Railroad, cotton, oil, woolen, sugar, beef, rubber, banking, steel,—all the big interests are hoping that you will forget to vote, or that you will vote indifferently, or that you will let yourself be blinded to your own welfare by partisanship or prejudice...
...When the tariff was being "revised," you saw, day by day, the most amazing betrayal of party pledges by the men whom you elected to represent you...
...Are you going to send back more "reserves" for Big Business to draw upon in emergencies...
...Paul Conservation Congress, the "states' rights" cry was raised by the land grabbers and the water power monopolists...
...These claimants are in a group in which the Guggenheims have no interest.—Collier's...
...It isn't that Big Business is solicitous about the "sacred rights of the sovereign states...
...What are you going to do with it...
...Not at all...
...Next Tuesday is your Day of Opportunity...
...Are you going to vote for men who will really do so, or for men who will surrender to Privilege...
...When the fight was on two years ago to free the House of Representatives from the pernicious Cannon rules, you saw how the System turned defeat into victory by bringing forth its Democratic "reserves...
...Monopoly is not eager to have the state control the natural resources, any more than it is willing that the nation shall control them...
...Are you going to vote for the kind of a man, who will sit by supinely, while the emissaries of the trusts fill their coffers thus at your expense...
...Remember how often during the past two years, after some new outrage on the part of the System, you have said, "There's a day coming...
...Every day is THEIR day...
...A Plain Proposition IN SEVERAL STATES the people will have an opportunity next Tuesday to accept or reject the direet primary, the initiative and referendum, and the recall...
...Well, that day is here...
...It" will have the wealth and the power to levy tribute upon the people for all time to come...
...Monopoly wants no control whatever on the part of government...
...That is all there is to it...
...You saw schedule after schedule increased when you had expressly declared fer downward revision...
...These are all instruments of democracy...
...Two years will pass before it comes again...
...It is to the credit of the delegates present that they refused to be stampeded by this outcry...
...Let us see to it that WE control both the state and the national governments, after November 8. * * * Naturally INDICTMENTS have been found by the present Administration against some fraudulent land claimants...
...In accepting or rejecting any or all of them, the voter has only to answer this question: "Shall I resume real control of my own government, or shall I leave it to the bosses and The System...
Vol. 2 • November 1910 • No. 44
