The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1869-10-21
MOnODoiiaS,

The speech II Hon. Matt IL. Carpen-
ter, at the State Fair, has attracted
wide spread notoriety and universal at
tentlon, although the leading papers In
the State have as yet said but little about
it. The E'cenjng Wiscoastn of last Sat
urday has short synopsis of the speech,
and=%iBds with a sort of cavalier
treatment Of the closing proposition in
reference to the government building and
operating competing lines ofrailroad
disguise 1t as we may, the constant
and steady encroachment of associated
wealth. in the form of express, telegraph
and railroad lnonrpoiies, is causing wide,
spread dissatisfaction among the people.
Go into any intelligent community, and
wherever the subject is preached, the
mutterings Of discomfort are both loud
and deep, and the wrongs they are suffer
ing whetber real or imaginary, are can
vassed with -earnestness, and the great
mass Of the people are really in despair
at the prospect before them. Day by day
and year by year sees the chains riveted
tighter and tighter around them The
vast Corporations are constantly consol-
idating, the decision of every case In the
higher courts, witnesses some concessions
to the moneyed power juries, courts, off
GERS, legislatures, and even the public
press corrupted and Contaminated by its
intiu euce. Not one man or one public
newspaper in thousand dares espouse
the cause Of the people against these
giant monopoIieS that WELD their millions
and coDtroi, oy thepotency of the allaigh
ty dollar, interests so vast that the mind
IS almost lost In contemplating their mag
nitude
The great statesman, Maynard, once
made the remark that associated wealth
is the dynasty Of modern States" This
remark is true and particularly applica-
BILE to the condition of the country.
While a national debt of gigantic proper
tions. contracted in the effort to save the
nation life, is pressing the people with
the burdens of taxation, and while the
people are struggling honestly and man
fully against tho dogmas of reputation
put forward by those who sought to des-
troy the government, and, failing in this,
now as last resort seek to dish 1nor it,
an insiduous foe stealthily moves among
the great moneyed contres of the country
operating silently and unseen, and yet
effectively sapping the very life Of our
national prosperity. Year after year a
dlscordant and desultory effort is made by
the Legislature OF the various States to
stay the progress of the moneyed fend,
and each succeeding session witnesses the
rights Of the people FILTERED away. and
the iron grasp of associated capital tight
ems around the throat of labor Men
elected to stay this constantly accumula-
ting tide OF expressions, go with honest
motives, upright intentions and deter
| mination to do and dare for the right,
butalas the glitter of gold proves too
much for them, and by the seductive in
fuenceS OF gain they became transformed
into champions of the very evils they
were elected to oppose. Thank g ID we
have one Senator IN the west who, in the
face Of monopoly, has dared to assert his
manhOod-who has dared to hurl def
anee into the very teeth of consolidated
millions.
The question raised in Carpenter 8
speech are fast becoming the issues of
hour. Ere long they must and will be-
come the living issues upon which will
divide two great parties, one represent
ins millions upon millions of associated
wealth. and the other the productive Ia
Dor Of the nation. Long before another
presidential calic paign these issues will be
well made up and o...,>tictly defined. The
fight may be long and severe one, but
mark the prediction, the productive Ia
Dor interests OF the great west will be sus
tanned, and the people eclU sUtn.-Sheboy-
gan CO. Herald.