Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1853-06-11
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SATURDAY. JUNE II, 1850.
s.The Coalition ON corporations.

Boston Atlas, or the Atlas him, Mr.. Charles Hud-
son has had the ndiscretian to seat himself in It's
Editorial Chair Whether that notorious print
will gain mere honorable name for veracity
than it has hitherto borne, from the political NOR
ais of its new editor, no one who reads Inc fol-
lowing extract from its leader, viii he all pux-
zled to guess
The CoALtrIoN ON CoRPoRATIoNs.-
1t is a curious fact that party which has made
opposition corporations Of its rallyiug cries,
should all at once discover that corporations are
the great republican element in our Institutions
the very thing TO be represented in our Legisla-
iure. They have, in the Convention, reported a
system iounded mainly upon corporations, as the
basis ofthe House Of Representatives
ii When the editor of the Atlas penned the FORE
going, he was moi himself mised; he only wished
10 mislead others. The subject was familiar to
him--so familiar that misapprehenslon on his
part was impossible. He presumed on the APP
proval of such of his patrons as knew whom they
employed to turn the crank Of their political or
gan, and on the stupidity Of those who regarded
all tunes as sacred music which his reverence
might choose 10 play for thertpotical edihcation.
No one who has understood The former pranks of
Mr.. H.,will be shallow enough to question either
the purpose or the hope of so deliberate and so
extravaganza misreps eSentation, to call 1t by no
harder name. IfMr. II has adopted the maxim
that 'sall is fair in politics., the meridian of Mas
sachusetts is badly chosen for the successful prac-
tice of so base maxim, and he will, too late for
his comfort, find out that he deals with commu-
nifty both too intelligent and too virtuous 10 justify
the expectation Of imposing on or corrupting
them.
It's not a whit too much to say, that when
The editor Of the Atlas wrote his Wednesdays
leader, he had perfect knowledge that the 500
alition" never coaesced on the Issue for which
he pretends they professedly united-never made
that issue, in any manner or degree, the ground
or object Of their combination. No man under
stands better than Mr.. Hudson, the fact, that
neither wing OF the Coalition, nor any individual
of either wing, ever opposed, or thought Of OPP
posing, in any way whatever, the existence of
corporate towns, or ever hesitated to favor the
making Of new municipal corporations, whenever
and wherever good and sufficient reasons exist
ed for creating them. But Mr.. Hudson does
know, perfectly well. that while every individual
of the Coalition understands the value and the
necessity of such corporations, and has uniform
ly upheld them, the Coalition, as a body, have
been jealous, wisely jealous, of the undue multi
plicatiOn and overgrowth ofmoneyed. corporations,
and have sought to protect both private interests
and the public policy, from the grasp of organic
combinations of greedy capitalists, oveneachlng
stock jobbers, and reckless adventures. While
they have been reldy 10 favor industrial enter
prise in all quarters, and to give it free and full
scope, they have not shut their eyes against the
tendency, strong and active, Of all corporations
whose end is gain to take advantage of individua
weakness, and to feel irresponsible in proportion
to the numbers combined, and the accumulated
wealth and consequent power of the combination.
Mr. Hudson, himself, is not at all in the dark
IN respect to the purpose the reasons Of the CO.
aition on these matters; but his position, as editor
Of the Atlas, is wholly unfavorabe to ingenious.
ness and fair dealing-a position for which he
u
shrewd discernment of his irieI fexibiIty 10 per-
sonal selfish interest, according to his own imme-
date perceptions, whether wise or foolish Mr..
Hudson understood the difference, the vast diff
ference, between those corporations Of all the peo-
pie, the rich and the poor, into municipalities, for
the welfare Of all the people, giving equal power
to the poor and the rich, in all municipal and DO
li,ical concerns, and those other corporations in
which the poor have no power, but in the man
agement OF which they have often the deepest in
terest-an interest often great in proportion to
their need and their helplessness If, therefore,
Mr.. Hudson would regain, hereabous, reputa.
ton for fair dealing in public matters, he must abb
stain, with rigid seIf-denia, from misrepresenta-
tons SO gross and unfounded, or which amounts
to the same thing quit both the Atlas and himself
together, with the least possible delay.