mules, is very funny to the fellow on the inside of the automobile. Running ahead of the buggies and carriages, and giving the people the dust of the road and the stink of the gasoline, is highly amusing to the fellow on the inside of the automobile. Chasing through the streets of a city at the rate of thirty miles an hour, blowing the honk, honk, which means for us common people the jump, jump, is the funniest thing that ever happened, to the fellow on the inside of the automobile.
But the old gentleman who climbed the barbed wire fence behind a pair of bob-tailed mules, the people who swallowed the dust of the road, and inhaled the stink of the gasoline, and all those who do the jump, jump, when they hear the honk, honk, join in one grand and glorious chorus, saying: "Damn the automobile. That machine should be busted. Those people ought to be sent to the penitentiary. Why don’t you shoot them, Jim?" etc., etc.
And yet every mother's son and every father's daughter, just as soon as he or she gets on the inside of an automobile, acts just exactly as the people have acted who were in there before. So we see that the only way we ever can become reconciled to the automobile, is by getting on the inside of it. And since we find that all the people on the inside of the trust, are well pleased with the trust, the only remedy and the only way we ever will become reconciled to the trust, is by all of us getting on the inside of the trust. And that is the proposition made by the Socialists.
Confiscation.
The question now arises, how will the Socialists take possession of the trusts. There are
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