The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1873-11-06
CAPITALIZATION.


The tendency to concentrate all power in
the general government at Washington has
been seen and struggled against by the best
men of the country ever since the Constitu-
ton was adopted and the Union formed.
The Democratic party mainly took its rise
on this very question. Itswar cry from the
beginning has been State rights against Fed
eyal encroachments. But with the growth
Of the country AID the continuation of the
Union, and the wars against foreign coun-
tries, the growth of national feeling has
been so rapid and has become so strong that
it has been a hard matter for the Democracy
to contend against it and keep before the
people the true nature of our complex form
of government With every trouble, finan-
cial or otherwise, too many of them are dis
posed to look up to the general government
for aid, as if that was the fountain of all
good. During the reign of Radicalism, the
State governments have been ignored as
Il they were nothing in the Union.
Leading Radicals have spoken of
them as being nothing more in
relation to the Washington government
than counties are to State. They have even
gone so far as to declare that the States owe
all their rights and powers to the general
government, asif they were its mere creatures
instead of being, what they really are, its
creators. Thus the Radicals of Texas de-
clared in our present Constitution, forced on
US by bayonets, thatit could not be changed
except by the permission and consent of the
Congress of the United States
This tendency to Capitalization and con
solidation is evidently increasing to most
alarming extent. Our attention has been
Immediately drawn to it by reading the pro-
ceedings of the late Farmers Convention at
Chicago. That body of men, feeling the
pressure of the times and mad with the ex-
isting railroads aud their high freights, ac-
tually call upon the general government to
build new railroads for their accommoda-
ton, and they are anxious for the govern
ment to get the control, in some way or
other, Of all the railroads now finished and
in operation in the United States
They seem blind to the great danger of
all this, in their eagerness for some relief.
Such seems their necessity, that they would
sell their liberties for the prospect of
cheap frcights ike Esau his birthright for a
mess Of ootage. Can they not see that the
general, government has already too much
power and is grasping for morea For some
time it,has been trying to get the control of
the telegraph. It is now proposing, through
Postmaster General Cresswell, to establish
government banks, connected with the post
Office department To obtain all this addl-
tional power, il is tickling the cars Of the
people with the cry OF cheap kilograms and
safe banks II, with the control of the
banking system and tho telegraph wires, is
added the ownership and management of
the railroads, what limit viii be left to its
powerl Tell as not that all this power will
be used aud used only for the benefit Of the
people. The people viii have no securi-
y against it, they will be powerless in the
hands Of the central government, and we all
know what a selfish and corrupt set Of men
are now controlling it and running it solely
FOR their personal interests. With all this
accumulation Of power, the telegrnphs,
the banks and the railroads, what is to pre-
vent Grant from declaring himself Emperor
for life, Ulysses the first, with succession to
bis hcin. Heis already in command Of the
army His official tools number By hun
drcds Of thousands. The millionaircs Of
the country viii aid him, and the United
States Treasury win be under his control.
With the money. wrung from the pockets Of
the working millions, he can bind the fct-
tels around them and make them his slaves.
''the hevcrs Of wood and the drawers Of
WATER for the New Empire. In the name
Of Heaven, win not the people awake to a
sense Of the dangers impending over theml
VIA they continue 70 60 on as they arc
nor going, letting more and mere power
pcc,nRlalo in the general government, and
even hegging ik Ike the Farmers Convcn-
ton az Chicago, to assume morc and more.
where il s. now V'snlia1. until il swallows
up everything, che rights lhe eroperty and
the lihriiiosol once free ana nolle raco.