Excerpt from The New Nation, Vol. 3: January 7, 1893 Public management of the railroads, the telegraphs, the telephones, the express service, the coal mines, the liquor traffic, the deposit and exchange banking system and of the issue of money, state insurance and the municipaliza tion of all the public services of cities and towns, ideas scarcely heard of four years ago, many of them not two years ago, have become burning issues before national state and municipal conventions and at the polls, and nowhere have the nationalists any other opposition to meet than that of mere inertia. The moral sentiment and the busi ness sense are so absolutely and wholly on their side in every proposition they have made, that a hearing is all they have needed to ask for. Ridicule was the only weapon that greed and ignorance could use against nag-from the start and that, long since dulled, we are turning against them with newly whetted edge. Our cause is instinctively recognized even by those who have not yet joined us, as that of all against the few, of the masses against the classes, the people against the plutocrats. We have everywhere put the other side on the defensive. 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.