Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-11-20
The Curse OF MOnOpOlies.
IEror,a the Industrial Aoe

The annual address before the Ozaukee
wis County Agricultural Society, at
Cedarburg. Mr.. Horn is a German law
yer, who has filed alarge space In the pub
lie affairs of Wisconsin for the past 30
years. He is an independent and strong
thinker, and seldom moves that he does
not make himself felt. In this address,
Mr.. Horn has some salient points and
fair hits. We think we recognize in
one of his n-psintings the features of
some men who have inflicted great and
permanent injury upon the people of
Wisconsin, by robbing them, according
to law, of large share of the earnings
of their lives, and VINO arrogate to them
selves an Importance due to nobleness
and patriotism, whereas their true posi-
ton should be that of heartless sharpers.
The people Ozaukee county have paid
those parties over q quarter of million
of dollars to get up mortgages, held
principally by Wall street sharks, on
their farms, and given for worthless
railroad stock. We have only room for
the following extract from Mr. Horns
address:
Although these corporations will not
kill the goose that lays the golden eggs,
yet past experience shows that they will
try to divide profits with you in such
manner that it remains questionable, in
some localities at least, who owns the
farm, the wood, timber or stone-quarry,
the railroad company or the owner In
fee on the land; for whenever a COM
pany makes more profit in carrying the
produce, wood, timber or stone to
market than the owner of the land in
raising or working it, then the company
is the principal owner of the land, and
all it contains, to all intents and pur-
poses.
st has been said with much truth
that corporations hare no souls to
saUe, that they are bodies without
souls If you have not experienced
the truth of that saying, others that 1
might name have done so to their sor-
row the railroad farm mortgages cost
the people of this county alone over a
quarter of a million of dollars lately.
And here we find this popularity in the
composition of corporations, that men
who stand highest in the esteem of their
fellow-citizens will, when united in
business as a corporation, lose, so to
say, their identity; the honest and fair
dealing private citizens, Smith, Jones
and Miller, become INSCRIPTIONS, grasp
ing, avariciOus and unfair Smith, Jones
and Miller, when united III corpora
ton. 1t is, therefore, never safe to
recommends corporation as trustworthy
because it is composed of some of the
best men of the city or State each
seems to hide behind the other when
concerned to do fair thing; each
speaks very friendly to you, but it is al
together different when united action is
required to do what is fair and honest.
q am not painting in colors of too
dark hue, when I say that the repub-
lie is in danger from these monster
monopolies that are embracing these
United States like boa constructor with
their iron rings.
History tells us that Rome, after
filing the world with her fame, de-
clined; the cause was that laws were
enacted affecting real estate, and the
condition, skill and products of labor
the lands were held by a few persons
land monopoly destroyed Rome.
hcdI Wldb Vic 1tOu1ssA,
tells US of the effects of that kind of
monopoly upon the citizens, and then
ask yourself whether our various monop-
olies must not produce the same result
ia this country, nay, whether their evil
effects are not already too apparent.
Rome's ruin should be a warning to
America. Ammianus says: A pro-
found and secure peace succeeded the
tumults of the republic. Distant ma
tions revered the name of the people and
the majesty of the Roman Senate. But
this native splendor was degraded and
sullied by the conduct of those who dis
played the rent rolls of their estates
(here, the stocks, bonds and mortgages
of sthe corporations), and provoked the
just resentment of every man who recol-
lected that their poor and invincible an
cestors were not distinguished one
above another. Whenever these rich
(here, monopolists and
shoddy aristo "rats) visited public
places, they assumed tone of loud and
insolent command towards their equals,
and appropriated to their own use the
designed for the Roman