The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1874-06-27
MOSePOIIEs. CORPORATIONS AND
FARMERS MOVEMENTS.


tides, topausc and reflect well on eur
reht events. In governments likeours
where political advancement Is 0iel
to all, men are prone to fall into lin'
with the changing flows of public feel
ing, In order TO obtain place ant
power. A certain portion of men, s''
perlcially shrewd and well posted vii
do this without regard to their owl
convictions of truth and right
The west largely, aud the south tc
some extent, are just now in what may
be termed Il fermenting state, which
deserves the attention and most cam
did consideration of all who would ac!
the part of good citizens.
In Indiana, Illinois and lowa-three
great states-more than elsewhere the
farming and laboring people are pro-
foundly moved at the condition in
which they find themselves, and are
organized and organizing into political
associations in search of relief from
systematic governmental and corpo-
rate wrong. The growth of those states
for forty years, in population and
wealth, has been without Il parallel,
excepting in their section of the union.
Yet the very means of their long
boasted prosperity has returned to their
lips rs bitter fruit, dangerous to politi-
cal life. Omitting the calamities of the
war, the long-abused and plundered
south, though moving at much slow
er pace, has planted no such seed, and
has no such poisoned chalice from
which to drink.
The west, in the hot bed eagerness of
development, long ago fell into the
meshes of land sharks, monopolists
and spectators. Their visions were
dazzled by the gilded splendors of east
ern magniiicence in railroads, facto-
ries, inventions and associated capital
in a thousand forms. Keen to enlarge
their own powers, they eagerly bit at
every bait placed before them to secure
similar institutions, and blindly voted
bonuses to every New England scheme
projected in their states to build rail-
roads, establish towns, etc, little heed
ing the occasional hints of old men,
that pay day and grinding taxation
p1lI tho manila
would mourn while the iron-clad and
iron-hearted money and bondholders
in the east would laugh in their case
mates, and coolly demand annual trib-
utes to the uttermost farthing,
Thus it came to pass that, in some
sense, every foot of land in those states
was mortgaged to the Shylocks of the
east, while the same we'll organized
forces also owned and controlled their
much boosted railroads, and so run
them as TO wiring from the toiling mil
lions the chief profits upon their pro-
ducts in its handling and transporta~
tion to the Atlantic seaboard, The war
came at an auspicious time to stay the
day Of reckoning. The east saw at
once its opportunity, as the money and
manufacturing section, to rcapa golden
harvest, sanctified by the plea of pa
triotism, while the west, the helpless
consumer of eastern fabrics and the
more than willing dupe of eastern lit
erature, with its specious poisons, was
made to shout, "Great is Diana of the
Ephesians !" while they were being
bound more securely to the very power
which was fattening on their wasting
life blood.
Both sections embraced and united
in crushing the south, the great agri
cultural region, which had stood soli-
tary and alone in resisting the assaults
of the money holders and consolida-
tionists on the constitution of the
country, and the equal rights of the
people of all sections. Under the Wild
est delusions, the outcome of forty
wears of false education, at the critical
moment, eastern Pharisees used the
well fed and contented negroes OF the
south as the scientist uses nitro'glycer-
inc, to burst asunder the ties of nature,
and drench our common country in
fraternal blood. The south may have
been wrong in her final resolve and
committed great error, but angels in
Heaven know that forty years of east
ern Phariseeism lashed here into des'
peration. The land shook in strife
Brothers from the south and west met
on u thousand ensanguined fields, anc
fell by each others hands into coffin
less graves. "Rachael mourned for hcl
children, for they were not" Th'
best and bravest blood of the west wa
poured out on southern soil. Angels
wept, while the demons of hell rejoicet
at the terrific carnage.
But, all the while, money poured
into eastern vaults, and amid ali th'
carnage and desolations of the thunde
riven south, and the sacrifice of life ant
substance in the west, the east waxe'
fat, and steadily extended its monopo
lies among its dupes beyond the Ohio
We speak of sections as such, vel
recognizing the many and noble eX
ceptions, both east and west.
SO it has at last come to pass, sine
the subsidence of the passions of wal
that the western farmer and workin
man realizes that he is in the condl
) ton foretold by the statemen Of th
south as far back as the day when, fol
ty.one year ago, Andrew Jackson bold
, ly struck down the first great monopC
ly of our country, by vetoing tn
United States bank charter. Lik
other men, the toiling westerner d'
: serves to enjoy the fruits of his own !;
) Dor, and has become rebellious t.
2 wards the soulless corporations whic
5 have fattened on the sweat of h
4 brow. But he finds himself in ARA