together in labor movements, some of which may Hs extrome or impractical
at.first, but which wary vill scttle down to serve abtcktively
the interests of the common Mane : |

-When the frecdom-loving people narche-whe ial the farmers have an
opportunity te buy land at reasonable prices and to sell the produce
of their land through their own organizations, when workers have the
opportunity to form unions and bargain through them collectively, and
when the children of all the people have an oppor” tunity to attend
schools which teach them truths of the real world in which they live
--vhen these opportvmitics are opon to everyone, then the world moves
straight ahead. ,

rt in coumiries where tho ability to read and write has been

recently acquired or where the people have had no Long canteens in
governing themselves on the basis of their own thinking, it is easy
for demagogues to arise and prostitute the mind of the common man to
their own base ends. os denagogue may get financial help from
- some voneon of wealth who is unaware of what the end result will be.
With this backing, the demagogue may deminatc the minds of the people,
and, from whatever degree of froedom they have, — them backward into
slavery. Herr Thyssen, the wealthy German steel man, little realized
what he was doing when he gave He tier pats money to enable him to
play on the minds of the ens people, The demagogue is the curse of
the modern world, and of all the cemagogues, the worst are those fie
naneed by well-meaning wealthy men who sincerely believe that their
wealth is likely to be safer if ace can hire men with political "it"
to change the sign poste and lure the people back into slevory of the
most degraded kind, Unfortunately for the wealthy men who finance

movements of this sort, as well as for the people th hemselves, the