Warning Against the Tidal Wave of Socialism
Governor Hoch, of Kansas, is quoted as having said in a recent speech touching the subject of railway rate regulation:— I want to say to you, not as an alarmist, but as a slight contributor to the American awakening, that unless we find some effectual remedy for the control of the great trusts and corporations in the interest of all the people, a tidal wave of socialism will sweep over this country one of these days that will do incalculable damage. It will not come to stay, if it comes at all, because its wrecks, which strew the pathway of human history for three thousand years, attest the fact that it is not a stayer. To avert such a calamity conservative corporations, as well as the wisest and the most distinguished statesmen, should bend every energy.