The way to make the cuss-toady-ans of public interests more amenable to our will is to have ready an Imperative Mandate lariat. Yes, the trusts are in the people’s pasture, and they got in over Republican and Democratic fences. It is better that a whole lot of business shall be “hurted” than that the trusts should continue to rob the people and be a standing menace to free government. The Governor of Kansas is right; building a state refinery is not Socialism; it is competition, just what the Populists stand for. The trusts also have “big sticks.” The Standard Oil Company has outlawed itself and ought to be “swatted” off the face of the earth. The bandit bag barons are going to have some hard sledding from now on. If the concentration of wealth means the destruction of the republic, then the people have a right to stop the concentration of wealth. The fact that the trusts are now in control of the railroads is another reason why the Government should own them. An economic principle that does not rest upon a moral basis should receive no support from honest men. Every applicant for a special legalized privilege is an enemy to good government. It is the men who are always hammering at the doors of legislation for special privileges that want “something for nothing.” The greatest power in the world is that which controls the volume of money, and the Republicans are talking about turning that power over to a few private buccaneers. When the very rich men are called by their right names there will not be such a scramble to get rich. It is to be hoped that in this fight with the trusts and railroad corporations that “big stick” of Teddy’s will not prove to be a stuffed club. If Uncle Sam wants to mix his credit with anybody’s let him mix it with that of the farmers. Their security is better than bonds. More that half of the men in the United States Senate wear corporation collars. If all the big thieves were sentenced to jail we should have to turn the little thieves out in order to make room for them. I challenge anyone to point out a single instance in this country where the national bankers have made a recommendation in the interests of the people. It is always a jug-handled proposition in their favor. One of the biggest pieces of foolishness in this old world of ours is for Uncle Sam to make free money for the bankers to loan, and then borrow that same money for his own use. Unless there is some change made in the manner of selecting United States senators, that body of corporation attorneys would better be abolished. So insignificant was the last Presidential candidate of the Democratic Party that a great many voters have already forgotten his name. The country is now ready for the election of United States senators by the people instead of the corporations, but that body of august lawmakers will block every effort in that direction.