The Placer herald., 1873-03-01
.sptUL MAY PLANT AND APOLLO Wn -
RUr The MONOPoLiE GATHER Tab ~
CREASE

tFp tCls MI PLANI AND AEObLO
CREASE"
From all parts of our county and even from
Ill portions of our State, comes the joyous
news of fine prospects for most a5undah'
harvest. My it be co. But his it not
been so for years? Have not the fertile
soil, warm sun and geniel showers, common
to California, been the agents in yielding for
the husblndmen abundant returns, in both
quantity and quality, as a reward for their
industry? Yes. And yet in purse are they
poor We make the latter assert on, and
for satisfaction of its truth you have but TO
inquire of the f,rmers, even in the richest
locality you know Of to fnl thlt a IN jority
of them are heavily encunbered with debt.
And why is this? 1t is because griniing,
unprincipled, tyrannizing monopoly take their
products at price which will bearly allow
them to live to the coming harvest, and sits
in igh places and gloats over the subordlna-
ton Of the people, and smile to think of their
own increasing power. The farmer feels SEN
sbly the effect of this oppression, but fills to
fully comprehend the cause. He seeks to
remedy the evil by extending his domain and
increasing his facilities for more extensive
operations, though in doing SO he becomes
more deeply cnt,n,led in the snares of in
debtedness. Again the year rolls round; he,
Us previously, is allowed to subsist, barely,
while the proiics of his immense production
lodges in the hands of the greedy, unscrupu-
lous, speculative monopoly. Again the short
lighted farmer has failed to realize his fond
hopes of accumulted property from the pro
ducts of his soil, bat not lacking determinl
ton he resorts to another plan Resolvir :
to curtaiI his expenses he adopts rigid rules
of economy, with the determination that he
will succeed though he deprive himself in
the attempt. Another season passes over
his head, another turn has been given to the
screw of oppression, and still the ambitious
,nd would be Independent f,rmer is blrey
lowed to live. And what is true of the
farmer applies in some way or another to
every class of people whose interests are in
contradiction with those Of the monopoljes
And how can it be otherwise? With Con
gress owned aud run by the will of the iron
monopoly, whose most exhalted IDEAS consist
in the lavish expenditure of the people
money on unworthy subjects; indeed wili
llw makers and administers of tie law from
President to constable, who look upon the
interest of the masses as of secondary impor-
tance, and who dare not speak in behalf OF
the people they pretend to represent, on any
subject contrary to the interests of their lord,
and monied masters which masters seen,
to be conspirng to subvert the ancient plaf
md principles OF our Government and estab-
lish-t'od only knows what. Bnt we cat
conceive of the oppression that awaits th
the people by giaaca at the load, in the
pretended freedom, they now bear tn,
remedy, though, is sill in the hands of tn,
people, and would to Heaven it were in on
power to depict the danger in its actual pro
portions. Bat we know words are but veal
when the enemy lies concealed. A man
born to freedom, flies at once for drfens,
when an open enemy intrudcs, but in hi
holdness be rather incines to rid cule th
man who in good faith tells him the gopher
ire buIrowing under the corner stone of hi
mansion, and warns him TO stop heir advance
ere the noble structure shall fll upon him,
N lss of ruins.