The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1873-09-20
THE ONLY REAL ANTI ONofVLl
PARTY"

in" article in favor of the recently nominate
- republican county ticket thus;
. Let every republican, therefore, do his dut
and maintain the integrity Of the only res
anti-monopoly party in the country by SUI
J porting cordially the ticket nominated D
. their duly appointed representatives
? "The only real anti-monopoly party .
| That, it must be allowed, is cool enough Ia
G any December morning. What is the repuS
lican party and how is it "run' and controlled
In California;, as everybody knows, II
owned body and, soul and controlled by tn
Central Pacific railroad company and II
adjuncts The ablest and purcst man III
party had in its rank. in that state l""'
Booth WIS kicked out Of the party becau'
heI rcbeled against this ownership. II
Nevada it is the same Half the Legislation
of that state is concocted in the Central Paci
fc railroad office, and its United States Ncna
tors are nominated and elected there. How
many republican leaders are there in hanSa'
outside Ofthc railroad rings, or what radlca
politician calls his soul his own there cNccp
by permission of the railroads? In Mincsota
Jay Cooke and a squad of Massachusetts, rail
road monopolists own and run the state
government rs complaCently AS they rule their
own companies. In Wisconsin, it is the
Chicago and Northwestern and 81. Paul rail
road companies In Indiana, il is Tom scott
In Ohio il is Tom Scott, In Pennsylvania,
it is Tom Scott and the pigiron rings. In
New York il is Vanderbilt and jay Gould,
In New England, il consists of the Amescs,
the l.awrenCcs, the Spragucs, ard few other
representatives of vast money combinations.
In the country az large, it j. the tariff rings,
the bank rings, the railroad rings, the money
rings Of all names The republican party is
nothing but the agency through which the
ya>., oycrgrown money rings exercise the
powers of the different political governments
which constitute an essential, and the most
essential, part of thcr possessions"
And this is the only real antimonopoly
party! What does anti-munopoly mean? GOV.
Booth, the apostle of the new party" on the
Pacific coast, tells us what, in opposition toI
the present monopoly icttcred dominant party
of the country, he desires the new party toI
accomplish:
II say that railroads shouldn't be- political
any more than @istmilIs, tin shops |
and farms"
II protest agais, n favored few making ,
machine through which to !
acquire property at the expense of the |
many"
II say that if government is allowed to he |
he agent Of vast concentrations Of capital, re- |
publican institutions cannot exist"
II say that the future, with all its illimita-
Die possessions, should not be morgagcd to !
my set of persons with power to appoint
guardians and receivers for all generations to
ONE
Il say it is not necessary for corporations
II rings TO own governments in order to pro
ret their rights, that only becomes ncCcs-
airy in order to pcrpetuate wrongs
Gov Booth therefore desires Il new party TO
upcrScde the present party in power, which
5 but Il roidicM machine in the hands of the
abroad, tariff and banking monopolistS and
ings Til, party, or political combination, |
whether it consists Ofthrcc or three thousand !
men, must be broken. The governing power
Which they WELD must be taken from them,
government must be made to get out Of bus
ness; must be stopped from being the bust
c,s partner or business agent of anybody;
must quit protecting industry;' must quit
developing our natural resources must get
ut Of the banking business the pig-iron
uSincss, the railroad business, and every
thcr branch and kind of business must stop
individual interests of any
ind, and go back to its only legitimate prov.
ice, that Of guarding individual rights by
Tvs equal and universal in their effects. BE
yeen politics and money there must be a
pmplctc and perpetual divorccmcnt."
This seems to BE- Gov. Booths idea of a
real anti-monopoIy party" which is Ger
linly something very different from any
arty that can by the rcmotest possibility be
wncd and run by the SpragaeS, the Lawrcn.
,s, the jay Goulds the CamcronS, the Tom
colts and the bank, tariff and railroad rings
'ncralIy that now carry the republican party
their brooches pockets