Volumes could be padded in showing how this can be done, but we can
demonstrate in this brief work how poverty can be obliterated as a
feature of our national life, and if it does not make justice more
even-handed for all, and the people of this country as prosperous as any
on earth, then the fault must be in the plan itself, and not in the
resources which we possess, for of those we have enough to empty every
poorhouse in the land, and eighty-five per cent. of the jails and
penitentiaries.
Let our wrongs be righted without physical force, by all means. History,
however, has no encouragement for such a hope. The contentions with
those on top have ever been of the blood-red order. Power once obtained
has never been surrendered only through conquest. The ballot should do
much, and had it been in use in the past history might have had less of
blood in it, as it should have less of it in the future. But the ballot
for a long number of years has, like a great many stomachs of late, been
working on wind - the wind of the Protectionist, the wind of the Free
Trader, and the wind of the latest cure-all, the fellow who is hunting a
market for his silver.
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