The new daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1872-1873, 1873-01-29
Ghe cDcw nai'p Appeal:
SOMETHING REGARDING ..rHE
DANGERS OF GENERALIZATION. >,

Inc halcyon days OF railway sub
sides and land grants seem to hay,
passed away. This is Ia accordance.
with pressure Of public opinion
sometimes noisily, but in general
quietly eHerted. They vino gut thei1
slices Of the public pie before thi.
era of frugality set in are to be con.
graduated. In two years time i,
will be easier for a camel to pass
through the eye of needle than for
. subsidy bill or a bill providing for
the gift of lands for the furtherance
of the schemes of any corporation
to be passed through Congress. The
indicate ms are that with the next
Congress will come some needed
schemes and assertions in behalf of
the government as against the great
corporations; and the tendency is
as we hope, moving in the direction
of 80 much of Capitalization" as
will relieve The National Legislature
of the tyrranous influences of cor
porate and CO leagned wealth. A
prediction to nationality is so
strong within MS that we look forward
with hopefulness to the time when
those great propulsive agencies
which now, in self protection, mis-
direct the machinery of legislation.
may be incorporated within the fab
ric of the government itself. Sena
tor Jones, bold aud emphatic as was
his proposition in favor OF the alb
sorption of the great lines of railway
into the national authority only EN-
bodied in his own strong Saxon some
ideas which we have long since ad
vocated here. There have been many
hasty strides toward the perfection
of the national idea since the great
Rebellion was crushed out and slav
cry was abolished. The initiative
step was taken in the right direction
when the Fifteenth Amendment was
passed. The promising preliminar
les toward the further fulfillment OF
the logic of the times begin to make
manifest in efforts in be
half Of the Postal Telegraph scheme
and symptoms of healthful alarm
which are apparent as resulting from
the recent investigations into the
Credit Mobilier and the other doingS
of the Union Pacific Railway. The
high seas and the rivers assert their
freedom from the thraldom of mon
opoiy; let the government interpose
its prerogatives to relieve the great
lines of commerce from the
hands of greed. Let the existin"
order of things be reversed; and in
stead of the government being held
to confederation of power
full capitalists, let itself absorb the
great railway lines, the telegraph
system and the system of banking
the more decided the Capitalization
of these forces the better; for in a
representative. constitutional gov
eminent such GENERALIZATION is but Il
restoration of their original powers
to the people themselves. That SO
for the public good which
finds expression in lugubrious fore
castings of the dangers Of "centrali-
zation'' is either actuated by the pas
sive negations of q vain and retro
spective admiration for the exploded
heresyo of State sovereignty, or is tlre
creature of those interested motives
which underlie the making and 8
of enterprises whose futher
ance depends upon the subserviene,y
Of the government to their ends and
purposes. If the people can be
trusted with so grand thing as the
Colossal business of this huge Re
public, it is weakness and folly toas-
,ert that they are not fit to be trust
pd with the direction of some OF the
mere incidents of its existence. As
10 the weak and sorry stuff, that with
more expanded functions and re
,pousibilities there would come an
increase of hazard and warrant of the
lone man power" and wider and
more dangerous scope to the powers
If the Executive, it need only be
aid that a republic which, in less
Than 4 decade can absorb into It's
oopular life the whole material and
Of two as great armies as
Hose which fought and bled upon
,;ther brink of the bloody chasm
land Who have since the Confedei-
.te catastrophe at Appomattox been
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