The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1874-06-23
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MONOPOIIEs. CORPORATIONS AND
FARMERS MOVEMENTS.

tides, topnusc and reflect well on eur
rent events. In governments likeonrs,
where political advancement IL OPEN
10 all, men aro prone to fail ihlo l'he
with the changing flows OF publlc leei'
Ing, In order 10 obtain place ana
power. A certain portion of men, SUI
perlicIally shrcwd and well posted VIII
do this without regard to their own
convictions of truth and right.
The west largely, aud the south to
some extent, are just now In what may
BIO termed u lermcnting state, which
deserves the attention and most can
did consideration of all who would net
the part Of good citizens.
In Indiana, Illinois aud lowa-tllree
great states-more than elsewhere the
farming and laboring people are pro-
foundly moved nj 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 ana
wealth, has been without n parallel,
excepting In their section of the union.
Yet the very means of their long
boosted prosperity has returned to their
lips AZ bitter fruit, dangerous to politl-
cal life. Omitting the cnlamllies of the
war, the long-abused and plundered
south, though moving Mt II much slow
or 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 magniticence in railroads, iacto-
rles, inventions and associated capital
IN n thousand forms. Keen to enlarge
their own powers, they eagerly bit Mt
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
lug the occasional hints of old men,
that pay day and grinding taxation
would surely come, and the people
would mourn while the iron-clad and
irOn-henrted money and bondholders
In the east would laugh in their case
mates, aud coolly demand annual trib-
utes to the uttermost farthing,
Thus IL came to puss that, In some
sense, every foot of land in those states
was mortgaged to the Shylocks Of the
east, while the same well organized
forces also owned and controlled their
much-boasted railroads, and so run
them rs 10 wiring from the toiling mil
lions the chief profits upon their pro-
ducts in its handling and transporta-
tlon TO the Atlantic seaboard. The war
came Mt an suspicious time to stay the
day of reckoning. The east saw at
once its opportunity, AZ the money and
manufacturing section, to rcnpa golden
harvest, sanctiiied by the plea of pa.
trlotism, while the west, the helpless
consumer of eastern fabrics and the
more than willing dupe of eastern lit
erature, with its specious polsons, was
made to shout, "Great is Diana Of the
Ephesians 4" 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 soil
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 decisions, the outcome of forty
years of false education, Mt the critical
moment, eastern Pharisees used the
well fed and contented negroes of the
south rs 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 a great error, but angels in
Heaven know that forty years of east
ern Phariseeism dashed her into des-
peration. The land shook in strife.
Brothers from the south and west met
on thousand ensanguined fields, and
fell by each others hands into coffin
less graves. "Rachael mourned for hcl
children, for they Were not" The
best and bravest blood of the west was
poured out on southern soil. Angels
wept, while the demons of hell rejoiceG
at the terrific carnage.
But, all the while, money poured
into eastern vaults, and amid all the
carnage and desolations of the thunder
riven south, and the sacrifice of life and
substance in the west, the east waxed
fat, aud steadily extended its monopo.
lies among its dupes beyond the Ohio
We speak of sections as such, wei
recognizing the many and noble ex
ceptions, both east and west.
So 1t has at last come to pass, since
the subsistence of the passions of war
that the western farmer and working
man realizes that he is in the condi.
tlon foretold by the Statement of the
south as far back as the day when, for
ty-one year ago, Andrew Jackson bold
ly struck down the first great monopo-
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