Even the naked savage has found that it is a good thing to have
something to sell, and our agriculturists are brought into competition
with territory the New World over where a plow or harvester was unknown
ten years ago; instead of having a monopoly in the European markets, as
was the case a few years ago, where they could dispose of their surplus,
they are now compelled to feed it to their hogs, which, as a source of
profit, ranks even now with the thing they are fed on.
But we are not depending on foreign markets for enough to eat and wear.
Those things are here, not there. We may have lost the foreigner as a
customer, but what prevents us from eating that which he refuses to buy.
We look back a hundred or more years, and cry out in horror at the
inhumanity of those then in power, in allowing human beings to be burned
alive and living creatures to be torn to pieces on the rack. Those who
will look back to these times will be no less astounded at the
inhumanity and imbecility of those now in power in allowing starvation
while food is actually rotting for the want of consumers. The question,
then, is, can we not formulate a policy that will work harmoniously
throughout the whole country for the benefit of all sections and every
individual? Can we not find some way out of the swamp into which the
masterful greed of a few and the dense stupidity of their legislative
tools have mired us?
If we cannot, then let us submit, with the best grace possible to our
masters who know how to lay on the lash when their dividends are at
stake.
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