The space of this article does not allow more than a very cursory allusion to the historic and inscribed glasses made shortly after 1745, many of which are commemorative of English loyalty to the lost cause of the Stuarts. The goblet with its rose, two buds and stem tells the story of the rebellions-1715 and 1745 and is a Jacobean relic treasured in many an old English family to-day. More touching is the glass with the roses on the bowl, and the heraldic rose and leaves engraved under the foot from which the loyal adherents of the old and young "Pretenders" might drink without being incriminated by the

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ernment. The rose and the thistle and the Jacobite star are often to be seen in these old 1745 glasses.

Sometimes the reigning beauties were immortalized in these frail relics, and Mrs. Albert Hartshorn possesses one which bears the

words, "Mrs. Walpole, June 27th, 1716."

Among American manufacturers, the Tiffanys have produced a very beautiful art glass called the "Favrille" which possesses some of the qualities of the Murano and is of exquisite design. Among the most interesting of the house's drinking vessels are some which are purely American in material, design and workmanship. A silver cup with handles of buffalo horn is really unique, and another representing a distinctive Navajo Indian pottery pattern is both a beautiful and original conceit. Other American firms, Reed and Barton, Gorham, the Rogers, and other New York houses. are making very beautiful drinking vessels in the precious metals, but of that frailer and more commercially used substance it may be said that the progress of art, the daily service of the human races, religion, and the social life of the nations, are recorded in its various uses throughout the ages, and are definitely preserved and daily presented to us if we choose to recall that story written in glass,-the story of the goblet.

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OR more than a year I have, time and again, in these articles, warned the people of this country of the dangerous approach of socialism through the monstrous abstraction of financial buccaneers. Not the socialism of ignorant and discontented classes but an active, strong, controlling socialism headed by such intelligent, high-minded and purposeful commoners as James G. Phelps-Stokes, Robert Hunter, Joseph Medill Patterson, W. J. Ghent, Arthur Brisbane, Thomas E. Watson, Jack London and others of their kind.

Those who attributed this impending peril of the nation to the efforts of freakish reformers who sought to awaken the public to the havoc of certain so-called abuses, have not appreciated the significance of the tendency of strong and true men in high places to enter the ranks of real socialism. They

looked upon the warnings as miasmatic effusions of "queer" tutelary geniuses. The big pirates of Wall street smiled at these apprehensions and made merry. They continued to eat, drink and digest money. Having in their safe deposits practically everything of value the people possessed they saw no reason to be disturbed and as the law was a sort of bought and paid for privilege and dispensation of their own, a little agitation was more or less diverting rather than aggravating.

But an awakening camee-a severe and savage eye-opening. Unexpectedly a yawning chasm opened and exposed the dark secrets, the treachery, sham and cunning by which the people had been cheated and robbed. It is not necessary here to enlarge upon the story so fully published in the series of articles, of which this is a continu

ance the story of rottenness and perfidy, of fraud and venality which aroused the people to intense abhorrence of the detestable plunderers and induced hundreds of thousands of influential men to make common

have been tolerated, un-American as it was, but they were merciless and arrogant financial tyrants.

It was folly to suppose the plain people of this twentieth century democracy, cherishing the proud charter that placed them all on a level under the law, would much longer endure tamely the confiscation of their property, the trammelling of their opportunities, the strangling of competition and imposition of heavy burdens, the absorption of their savings and reduction of their earnings by plutocrats more insatiable and grinding than the most inexorable despots of history. A social revolt seems inevi

we come to consider all the conditions the abominable and direful conditions, should not the outcome be naturally accounted for? Here were five billions of money in insurance companies, banks, trust companies, railroads, industrial trusts and other entities representing most of the employments, the products, the resources of the people, in the absolute control of men who could be counted on two hands. Had these men used their power decently and discreetly for the upbuilding of the nation and the steady, consistent betterment of the common people this condition might

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table now and the consequences, whatever they are, will be upon the heads of the real perpetrators of this revolt the Rockefellers, Ryans, Morgans, Harrimans, Rogerses and their confederates.

The people have been sadly worsted but their moral vision has not been blurred. They have seen men of highest power and station in the commercial and financial world joining savagely in the selfish and dishonest race for wealth. They have seen all kinds of dubious schemes carried through to the enrichment of their promoters and the greater impoverishment of the producing classes; they have seen a Morgan rise from obscurity to a high position in the financial world by empiric manipulations of great corporate interests without personally earning a dollar; they have seen high officials of life insurance companies sink to mountebanks and charlatans and steal the money of policyholders; they have seen the iniquity of Amalgamated stock flotation and know of the colossal profits of its manipulators; they knew of the Standard Oil octopus with its forty-five per cent. dividends and its law-defying tentacles; the sugar trust and its rewards of millions to its promoters; the baneful beef trust, controlling prices both to producer and consumer and levying toll upon every mouthful of food in transit; they knew of railroad rebates in disregard of law and court decrees and that some of the lawbreakers were promoted to high positions. They have seen their franchises given away and illegal charges extorted in their operation; they have seen legislatures bribed, juries fixed, courts and officials made subservient to money; they have seen graft in every depart ment of public affairs; they have seen thieving politicians fatten upon the spoils of their miserable trade; they have seen tainted money eagerly sought for by colleges and

pulpits and the ruthless absorbers of their natural heritage living in marble palaces built with the people's money and by the sweat of the people's brows; they have seen immunity given to criminals of the respectable millionaire class by a timorous district attorney and arrant rascals held up as examples worthy to follow.

It can be well understood how, facing these oppressions and others even more onerous that I will shortly mention, men of the type I have named and thousands like them have said to themselves or among themselves; this condition. of things shall not continue longer, the people will rise in their might and prevent it.

To understand more clearly why this higher socialism is becoming a great power and why the mpending social revolt is being brought about let us consider a few specific examples of the plutocracy it is intended to destroy. The Standard Oil group for instance control practically all the oil produced in North America with all the analogous industries and commerce connected with the business; they have made it impossible for others to engage in the traffic; they have successfully maintained a crushing monopoly in open defiance of law and have carried on an enormous system of absorption until they dare to tell the President of the United States what shall and shall not be done in matters of government. The Constitution provides a government by, of and for the people. The Standard Oil group demand a government by, of and for the Wall street pirates. The so-called Rockefeller group control wholly or in major part