, 1873-08-16

becoming dispensers ot tho worlds goo'1ln
was building up tlio land and claiming tho har-
veatn for llor own. When nrrivod upon the
ground, l found before nc m audience which
bore rs few marks Of oppression Ms my which 1t
brilliant with huoa which almost ontstono tho
rainbow or tho colora Of ilowor-gardon, accllod
with feathers from Africa, aikH from Franco,
and tho products of tho loomB Of Massachusetts.
tho wnros made in other aud distant regions. A
happy, contontod, proBporouB rnoplc, externally,
al loaBt, people to whom, In tlliB rich land Ma
turo Inns been bountiful With 1lor gifts.
1oontrastod your condition with that OF your
TWENTY-FIVE TEARS AGO,
az aomo Of them, now hero bofore yo,,, can do
scribe It. They ronlembor how 1t WAS necessary
for them, II thoy des'rod TO got lond Of sugar
moditos TINT today overflow the whole conmu. %
n'ty,-it waB necessary for tllon to mako up
parties Of two, throo, or dozen, md drive hun
dreds Of miles from their settlements. eithor to
tho grcat City of tho Lhkoa thou litto, strag-
st. Louis. These Journeys occupied sometimes
months, and they had to tako along thcIr PRO-
visions, and littlo money besides, Il The wagon
would not hold grain enough. 7, saw to.
dny ss onm9 1long hoy this wa, rast
rice, stopTod to tho aldo Of tile railroad tracks,
and got into luxurious coaches, which whir1od
them along FREQ from dust and discomfort, and
landed tlom, cloan nnd comfortable, III this groat
gathering. uonce concluded that not Nil con.
ncctod with those railroads was OWL, and that
II thero WAS any OWL connected with them, 1t was
not in tliair nature but in their management.
This iY u substantial truth on which We can
stand Tho railroads aro the great
DENErAoToRB OF THE LAND.
They touch tho sleeping prairies and they bloa-
som with tho wealth and splopdor Of agriculture
and commerce. What Is wrong with tllom
Gov. Palmer says tho lawa mark them na conf
and transport il at reasonable ratoa. Where,
then, ii tho default9 1t la TINT you hnvo boon
aonding your powers nway from you, elocting
mon to office III tho name Of party, mon who
wanted to grah tho Of the people and not
bont upon enforcing tho law.
WHAT Is TIE nEMEDY2
We mood y Bet OF officials who will execute tho
law III tho interests of the people, and not Of
my clique or ring; mon who will keep thoir OIL
not want to 60 to existing parties to got
mon WHO woro mixel up IL Batary-grabB or
Crodit Mobi1ior operations. Your material in-
forests, those Of transportation and navigation,
hayo bcen neglected becauHo tho pooplo havo
delegated their rights to partisanB to bo used
Tor party purposes. Now lot ,1B declare that we
will honceforth choose tho representatives Of no
party but whoHe onu and him, ut Springfield and
Washington, shnll bo to administer your laws as
you mako thonl. It is Bolf-ovidont that n people
which fails to exercise its powers aud appoints
4 trustee to look after them, muHt hold him to q
strict accountability.
Another proposition Is. that tho further you
remove any powor from tue control Of tho poo
M accountability those who exercise it. Honco,
look upon al1 propositions for tlo solution OF
this railroad question which speak Of carrying
tlom to
THE NATIONAL CAPITAL
rs pornicfous in theory and fatal in principle.
Your legislators ut Washington arc removed
from homo influence, surrounded by aplondid
monuments, Of wealth, and they forget those
Who , elected them. They arc approached by
to bny aud soil yotos, You nsk for q tariff re-
tuotion but what chnnGe tto you havo with your
Legislators whom the money bugs arc thero before
thon2
I do not beliove that
CENTRALIZED GOVERNMENT
In any shape has tho right to say that railroad
shall bo laid acrosa the prarieB Of Illinois or
orerciao the power Of eminent. domain againHt
my Of our citizens. I do not belieyo the Fed
oral Government IL intrustod with tho duty Of
Interfering with tho artificial creatures Of this
State.
Neither do yon Bee tho way In Which YOUR
material wealth ia being swept from you. 1 toll
you, too, that theao railroads arc not tho faulty
parties Livery year you ara paying into tho
Golfers OF tho General Government, in one way
or nnothor,
THREE HUNDRED AND TWENTY MILLION DOLLARS.
You do it by n process TINT leyios tlutieH upon
every thing that onters into tho composition, Of
your railroads, and doing it 80 quietly that you
do not know it ut tho tmo. This is wrong In
principle, ninco it is an inHidious levy. You do
not mind being robbed, II you do not know 1t
when 1t Is going OH.
You do not caro for the character Of your pub
lie servants, or The vnBt sums they receive. Sup
pose you were called Oh to, give your County
Collector $4,000 yenr, what would you do2
But to-day several Of tho Collectors Of Customs
receive tint amount from YOU by way of the tar
iif. What do you say to thnt? Tho sum should
layo gone to pay reasonable salaries, and tho
romaintor should have been applied OH your
public dabt.
TIE RAILROAD THEORY
ig wrong. The State can grant no powor to any
corporation which it cannot manage md control.
Nor do you want to aond your powers to wash
ington, bnt keep them at home. What chance
hnyo you thore, whom fifteen States oloct sena-
tors ut tho beck and nod Of capital, or wlen
nearly eycry Senator South Of The Ohio is the
representative Of tho moneyed interest Cap1-
Of tho people, put 1t i'll those Of Congress-, and
then own Congresa.
What we want on the revenue question Is to
hayo tho
TAXE3 COLLECTED DIRECTLY
upon oyory dollar Of property eithor by State or
Federal collcctorB--no lnnttor as to the ma-
chincry: When TINT is aono, iron will be cheap
or, and your clothes will cost loss. No favor
will DO shown to ClaAa interests. and tlpro will
10 equal taxation Of all, while to-tlny the man
with largo family pays tho royonue rather than
tho man OF property. What you have to do, thon.
equally, md thon you can say you are doing ea-
act Justice to all.
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