The Great Issues

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Excerpt from The Great Issues: Reprints of Some Editorials From the American 1897-1900 Are human rights, liberty, to be crushed to earth, that property rights, a moneyed oligarchy, may be enthroned? This is the all-important question before the American people, into which all others are resolved, a question often, too often, lost sight of in consideration of detail, but which, ever present, cannot safely be ignored. To do so is to open the way to the enslavement of our industrial classes, the undermining of the Republic and the building up of an oligarchy. A generation ago, the nation, in bloody strife, overthrew one oligarchy, the slave-holding oligarchy of the South, an oligarchy as detrimental to master as to slave. At the same time the seeds of a new and more far-reaching oligarchy were sown. The War called into being a new class. It made the opportunity for a class caring less for country than for self, caring naught for the sufferings of humanity, weighing not injustice where their pockets were concerned, caring more for the dictates of Mammon than the teachings of the Saviour of man, to exalt themselves in riches, in power, in the eyes of man but not of God, upon the sacrifices of their fellow-men. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.