Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1873-11-06
ons. who thus succeeded in .isfea;ist,
one oil our most useful and ,rusty puI,.
lie servants fNJr Cai1,,,u>

ohs. who thlis succeeded in .iefea,iau
one oil our most useful and ,rusty null,
lie servants Mr.. Caldwell
VIC cannot scarcely believe Thai citL-
| cr ut those two men can he - rr..rean,
to principle rs to totally ignore Tho
pledges tieE parties have made 10 thp
! people 10 protect us from the hcartless
! tnrroachinenis OF railroad mononuIie.
| hey came before us asking ourespec-
III snilr1ges, proilering TO faithfully aet
a' our public servants, il we, us a MA.
| ioiltS' desired them 10 10 80. We only
asked them to accent our Ieclared
principles They have done SO, and
we nave supported them according Ia
,hc TERMS OF agreement, aud we cannot
believe they Will violate those terms.
because a few railroad ncn who's,
numbers is mere cypber compared
! with The masses have supported them
with their suiirages also.
III there is no other mrthod OF relief
from the present system of railway OK.
tortion, without drawing The fire of
railroad men, we will tight ii out on
this line. II farmers dare not so much
as ask the removal ola feathers weight
of the load those soullcss corporations
have placed upon their backs without
them and their employees. conccntra.
ting themselves at the polls TO defeat
the wishes the great industrial class
es. we have only TO make little
change of front before the next cam.
paign begins, 10 defeat their royal
guards. a little more slumber to The
sluggard, and he will arouse to the
necessities Of the hour.
It we must continue Gas some would
be friends advise us), in a state OF
lcthargy, trusting TO the tender nerctes
of railway magnatcs then il we cannot
say in the language of one of old -
How have the mighty fallen, we can
truly say, how have the masses fallen.
The people certainly have had lessons
enough sufficient 10 teach them that
there Is but little mercy for them, when
monopolies start their machines 10
grind out of them tho hard -earncd pit
lance Oftheir toll.
No reasonable person desires wal
of caste or class, but if we must shrink
back and have our declarations of free
dom ESQ assurediy accepted as estab-
lished principles by the political par
ties1 crammed down our throats or ac-
cept the Issue, we prefer the latter. In
such an emergency, we feel assured
that but one class would be against ns
(men in the employ of railways. and
they only partially and perhaps few
engaged in other professions, whose
speculalions lie in railway channels.
II railroad men were satisfied with
reasonable profits, no necessity for such
strife would exist, but investigation in
the transportation carried on in this
country, compared with that of other
countries, show too wide a difference
our legislative bodies must possess
great wisdom. and be money proof 10
properly lcgislatc upon this great ques-
iion.
When the New Jersey legislature.
nearly twenty-five years ago, under
took TO restrict Cwhat was then known
as the great eastern monopoly the
New York and Amboy railroad. Ii
has been said that Commodore Stock
ton. who was thea president of the
road. laughed NJ the friends of the
measure. and arrogantiy informed
them that he carried the little State oi
New Jersey in his pocket
A hundred thousand dollars Is OF
little consequence To those men when Il
million can bc obtained by an extra ii.
naReial maneuyer, such a. they are be-
coming SO accustomed to making. We
know tha. man il Il 1'rail being te
whom The aluremcnts of wealth is hard
10 resist. No men are more alive To
this fact than our railroad officials:
hence tho foundations u.uSi bp tpulXt