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Great and numerous riots will follow the many strikes, and force will be used to keep them down. Bread riots have been common in the past, but meat riots are something new. Many people were killed in New York recently in these latter. It shows how easily the people will resort to violence when goaded on to it.. It also affords a forecast of what will happen when the great panic and revolution comes. The granaries and storehouses will be filled to bursting with grain, cereals and food. The warehouses will be filled with dry goods, clothing and all kinds of supplies. But millions will be hungry, ragged and wretched. In this condition, in the midst of plenty, they will not quietly, meekly and submissively reflect, but will riot at once. The absurdity of the situation will only goad them to frenzy. They will see one thing. We have raised and produced too much food, and millions of us are hungry. We have produced too much clothing, and the majority of us are ragged. We have built too many houses, so countless throngs of us are crowded into tenement houses like cattle, while others are homeless. Over-production, over-production, over-production of everything. Too much, and yet we go without. Frenzy, madness and rioting will be their answer-bloodshed their only satisfaction.

The hungry, the wretched, the unemployed; the strikers, paupers and fanatics will be the most aggressive and will bear the brunt of the battle.

The other side, having a trained army and the latest de

vices of warfare, will clash with them, and once more the free soil of America will flow with precious blood.

Let none, then, be deceived by two or three years of prosperity between now and 1906. Plutocracy must by all means prevent a money panic between now and election time. They may possibly extend it a year beyond that time. While they may do this much, they cannot by any means ward off an over-production panic! That is an ill that goes through the whole social system, from top to bottom.

The evidence of an over-production panic does not appear as plainly just yet as do the financial disturbances.

But this is coming and cannot be avoided, as has been clearly shown. Because, simply, the consumers are not paid enough to buy back the product and the foreign markets are about gone, leaving no outlet for the over-production.

No human power can prevent an over-production panic! To give an idea of what the revolution will be like we quote various able articles and the views of some of the world's best thinkers on the subject. Prof. Fisher, of Yale College, in his Universal History, page 497, says:

"First among the causes of the revolution in France was the hostility felt toward the privileged classes-the king, the nobles and the clergy-on account of the disabilities and burdens which law and custom imposed on the classes beneath them.

"The Land.-Nearly two-thirds of the land in France

was in the hands of the nobles and of the clergy. A great part of it was illy cultivated by its indolent owners. The nobles preferred the gayeties of Paris to a residence on their estates. There were many small land-owners, but they had individually too little land to furnish them with subsistence. The treatment of the peasant was often such that when he looked upon the towers of his lord's castle, the dearest wish of his heart was to burn it down. with all its registers of debts (mortgages). The clergy held an immense amount of land, seigniorial control over thousands of peasants, and a vast income from tithes and other sources. In some provinces there was a better state of things than in others; but in general, the rich had the enjoyments, the poor carried the burdens.

"Monopolies.-Manufacturers and trades, although encouraged, were fettered by oppressive monopolies and a strict organization of guilds.

"Corrupt Government.-The administration of government was both arbitrary and corrupt.

"Loss of Respect for Royalty.-Respect for the throne was lost.

"Abortive Essays at Reform.-The efforts at political and social reform in France and other countries, emanating from sovereigns after the great wars, produced a restless feeling without affecting their purpose of social reorganization.

"Political Speculation.-The current of thought was in a revolutionary direction. Traditional beliefs in religion

were boldly questioned. Political speculation was rife. Montesquieu had drawn attention to the liberty secured by the English constitution. Voltaire had dwelt on human rights. Rosseau had expatiated on the sovereign right of the majority.

"Example of America.-Add to these agencies the influence of the American Revolution, and of the American Declaration of Independence, with its proclamation of human rights, and of the foundation of government in contract and the consent of the people."

In all those leading causes which culminated in the terrors of the French Revolution we see a strong resemblance to similar conditions to-day which are rapidly and surely leading to the foretold similar results.

A thoughtful writer recently said:

"In France before the great revolution the condition of the peasants was, in most districts, miserable in the extreme. Exactions of all sorts which went to feed the luxury of the court at Versailles left them with barely the means to sustain existence. They were impoverished to the level of brutes, and were not even well fed and well housed animals. Writing under these conditions a great French statesman denounced the economic system which took from a thousand men the necessaries of true human life to feed the immoral extravagance of one courtier. A thousand men, he said, were debased by poverty in order that one man might be corrupted by wealth too great for his virtue. This description of the condition of the peo