Liberal Republican. [volume] (Dallas, Or.) 1872-1???, 1873-09-27
FAIRNESS DECLATATION INDE-
PENDENCE.


it becomes necessary for class of
people, suffering from loug continued
systems of oppression andssabuse. to
rouse themselves from an apathetic
indifference to their own interests,
which has become habitual to assume
among their fellow citizens that equal
station, and demand from the Govern :
ment they support, those equal rights
to which the laws of nature. and of
natures God entities them descent
respect for mankind requires that they
declare the cause that inpels them
to a course SO necessary: to their own
protection.
We hold these truths to be self evil
dent, that all men are created equal
that they are endowed by their Creator
with certain inalienable rights that
among these are life; liberty and the
pursuit of happiness. That to secure
these rights governments are instituted
among men, deriving the just powers
from the consent of the governed, that
whenever the powers of the govern
ment become destructive of these.
either through the injustice or in n-fic-
lency Of its laws, or through the cor
ruption Of itsadministrators. it Is kthe
right of the people to abolish such
laws, and institute such reforms as to
them shall seem most likely TO effect
their safety and happiness. Prudence
indeed will dictate that laws log
established shall not be changed for
light and trifliing causes, and according
ly, all experiuce hath shown that
mankind arc more disposed to suffer
while evils are sufferable, than to right
themselves by abollshing the laws 10
which they are accustomed. But
when long train OF abuses and usur-
pations, pursuing invariably the same
object, evinces desire to reduce a
people under the absolute despo.ism oil
combinations, that, under the fostering
care of the Government, aud with
wealth wrung from the people, have
grown to such gigantic proportions as
oVershadow all the land, and WELD an
almost irresistible influence for their
own selfish purposes, in all it's hall:
of legislation, it is their right-it i:
their duty to throw off such tyranny
and provide new guards for their future
security.
Such has teeu the patient sufforauc'
of the producing classes of these state:
and such is now the necessity whicl
compels them to declare that they viii
use every means save a resort to arm:
to overthrow this depotism of monpoly
and to reduce all men claiming tn,
protection of American laws to ar
equality before those laws, mixing
the owner of railrond as amenabl
thereto as the ''varlcst beggar that wal
the streets, the sun and air his sol
inheritance.
| The history of the present railwa
monopoly is history of repeated in
juries and oppression, all having i
direct object the establishment Of a
ab olute tyranny over the people thea
states unequaled in any monarchy oftb
Old World, and having its own para
/ in the history of the Medevie
ages, when the strorg hand was tn
only law, and the highways of com
moree were taxed by the Feudal Baron
who from their strongholds, surroun le
by their armies of vassals, could lev
tribute upon the traveller as their ow
wills alone should dictate 7
prove this, let fact be submitted to
candid world:
They have influenced our executiv
officers, to refuse their assent to law
the most wholesome and necessary fo
public good, and when such laws hav
been passed they utterly refused t
obey them.
They have procured the passage c
other laws, for their own benefit alon
by which they have put untold million
into their own Golfers, to the injury q
the entire comm ercial aud industric