That is the natural order.
Why does not the government take full charge at once?
Why does not the hen lay a hen all covered with feathers, instead
of laying an egg? Everything must have its crude beginning and
its perfect ending, for on this basis we are organized.
The French government to-day makes millions from the national
control of the match industry. But a solitary individual working
in Batavia, New York State, had to create the match and make his
little money out of it before the French government could take it
and make its millions.
That same French government derives millions from its tobacco
business, incidentally giving the people good tobacco cheap
instead of poisonous tobacco dear. The red Indian dodging bears
and using his squaws as slaves had to start that great tobacco
industry before the French government could get it.
Don't waste your time and energy joining the thoughtless crowd
that howls against trusts. Use your vote and your voice to put
those trusts under government control as soon as may be. Be glad
that an old Vanderbilt had brains enough to build great railroad
systems. Don't denounce him or begrudge him the fortune he made.
His work was worth the money.
Let us say to his little descendants the pee wee Vanderbilts of
to-day:
"You have had enough now.
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