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But, on the other hand, suppose the Democratic Party should win the election of 1904.

As the same causes for a panic would prevail, no matter who won, a panic would be inevitable in such a case also. And further, as the trust barons and monopolists would be afraid of tariff tinkering, Wall Street would begin to draw in all of the money it possibly could. They would be scared and uncertain; the withdrawal of the small amount of currency that we have from the channels of business would only hasten the crisis. In fact, it is well known that the volume of currency is far below necessary requirements, and that at the slightest scare it is withdrawn by the money lenders from legitimate enterprises. Fifty capitalists in Wall Street could precipitate a panic at any time.

So, should the Democratic Party win in 1904, with ever so good a man as President, and ever so good a platform, we will have a panic in 1905 and the Revolution in 1906. But the Democratic Party will never win! Plutocracy will see that the Republican Party does, and after it is in power will do everything it can to bolster it up.

The panic of 1906 is all that is needed to cause the explosion. The explosive has been prepared. Dumped into the national mortar are mortgaged farmers, and the unemployed. Heaped upon them are pauperism and child labor. Added to their misery are strikes, lockouts, the injunction, machinery, panics, corruption, bribery, class legislation. This mass of misery is aggravated by the strong

arm of oppression; the militia, Pinkerton detectives, federal troops and plutocracy.

I repeat that it only requires a strong agency like a panic to bring a revolution that will be terrible in its effect.

Strikes of great magnitude will precede the cataclysm. Two classes will oppose each other. On one side the striking working classes, supported by the vast farming population, and a murmuring, discontented poor, unemployed, wretched and desperate; and on the other side, an arrogant rich, backed by a corrupt government, the army, militia and police. The former will have the advantage o numbers, but the latter will have on its side the wealth, law and army of the land.

Then the foolish attempt to settle an economic problem by force will once more be made. Reason, by which alone it might be settled, will be set aside. When we look back at the Civil War, the stupidity of resorting to force instead of reason to settle a question is plain enough. All of those lives, all of the misery and pain, to say nothing of the vast treasure, might have been saved had the country resorted to reason. But they didn't, and won't in the impending revolution. As has been said before, sociology teaches that no great social cataclysm is ever prevented by the people coming together and reasoning. Perhaps in the dim future such may happen. To-day we only think together when mending and curing, and after it is too late. Then we unite and patch up.

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