When prices fall, moneyed interests gain. When moneyed interests gain, produce interests lose. Moneyed interests and produce interests cannot both gain or both lose at the same time. When prices are falling, money can be hoarded without loss. When prices are rising, money cannot be hoarded without loss. A hoarded dollar has never yet paid for a single day’s work. If produce interests had not first existed, moneyed interests never could have existed. _An honest dollar is a dollar that is willing to help produce something._ _The Say of Reform Editors_ Until the people who want reform get together in an organization all of whose members are substantially agreed, and with this organization elect a President and Congress, they will never get from under the heel of monopoly. Nothing can be done in a party which contains the monopolists.—_The Missouri World._ * * * * * The United States produces 319,000,000 metric tons of coal a year, worth at the mines $485,000,000, and costing consumers nearly a billion dollars.—_Exchange._ That little item of 515 millions, absorbed mostly by the big corporations that own the railroads, is the people’s tribute to Our “_Chevaliers d’Industrie_.” When you come to think of it, aren’t we a nation of bloomin’ chumps?—_The American Standard._ * * * * * _Teacher_—Johnny, how many legs has an octopus? _Johnny_—Seven. _Teacher_—Why, Johnny, you ought to know better than that. The meaning of the word shows that it has eight. _Johnny_—I know it used to have, but that was before dad was elected to the legislature. I heard him say he pulled a leg off the octopus.—_Wetmore’s Weekly._ * * * * * Under government ownership alone will it be possible to make railroad rates which shall be just to all the people, and this is now being generally recognized.—_The Augusta Tribune._ * * * * * What means this general onslaught, all along the line of the plutocratic press, upon one William Randolph Hearst, Democratic Congressman and late candidate for the Democratic nomination for the Presidency? Republican and Democratic advocates of plutocracy vie with each other in the work of sticking pins into Mr. Hearst. Have these great newspapers been informed that Mr. Hearst is sincere, is honest, in his fight against the trusts? If so, their spontaneous and unanimous attempt to disarm him can be accounted for. The man who attempts to tear down the screen which is held up, mainly by these great newspapers, between the people and their despoilers, is sure to get the vials of their wrath poured out upon his head.—_The Dalton Herald._ * * * * * One of these days there will be two Republican Parties: one for government ownership of the Kansas oil refinery and one against it. Which are you going to stay with?—_Smith Center (Kan.) Messenger._