Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-04-02

their money, buy legislation and courts, con-
troll rates of transportation, manage Boards Of
Trade, get up rings and corners, and contrive
In all kinds of ways to wiring money, without
production, from the earnings of the people,"
The writer speaks as follows of the
existing condition of public affairs, and
the duties of the producers
This is no holiday affair the people have
got upon their hands. Money is the most DO
tent force in the world. When organized as
it now is, it is well-nigh invincible. As the
monopolists sneeringly remark, the people are
really an unorganized mob and cannot ex-
pect to make Roadway against capital without
thorough organization and intelligent drill
They must remember that the evils under
which the country is grooming tester in every
department of power, from the General Gov
eminent down to the town caucus. The evil
being one of such compass, it is apparent that
the remedy must be sweeping. 1t is as i'm
possible to ignore politics in this contest it
would be to discard steami in tn construction of
a locomotive. The effort will fall dead and
pulseless unless there is effort at publication
and elevation of our politics.
"Are we fully aroused to the fact, as farm
ers or mechanics and operatives, that
neither of the classes alone is strong enough,
| numerically, to produce anything like radical
change in the administration of affairs? Such
is the case. Neither the Changers, nor the
Soverelgns of Industry nor the Farmers
clubs, nor workingmen's associations, as sim
gle organizations, can exercise any appreciable
amount of force in this vast country OF multi
| farious classes and interests. This ought to
| be understood. There must be comprehen-
sive unity of all the industrial population of
| the country. In order to accomplish this
| there must be a Thorough State and national
| organization outside Of all these respective
associations, but embracing all of them whose
functions shall be political in the best sense
of the word. 1t should seek, by honest and
pure elections of good men, to cleanse and
revise our legislation to suit the exigencies of
the times"
PROCTOR KNOTT ON THE MONOPOLIES.
Why, every avenue of active enter
prise Is crowded with them. In every
conflict for material prosperity, whether
on land or on the sea, in the mine or
the mandatory, in the busy haunts of
commerce or the desolate solitude of
the forest, on every arena in which hui
man industry or skill can be employed,
we find them arraying iron sinews of
remorseless consolidated capital against
the overmatched tissue of individual
energy and unorganized labor. Turn
which way we will, on every hand we
are confronted by these soulless beings,
these artificial, intangible, immoral
monsters whom an Omnipotent God
never created. If we take the
wings of morning, and dwell in
the uttermost part of the sea, 10 they
are there. If we say, Surely darkness
shall cover us, they are there and I
have no doubt if you would descend
into hell, you would find their lobbyists
crowding the corridor of pandemonium,
asking charter that would enable them
to make monopoly of the road that
leads to perdition. Why, they have
even invaded the sanctuary of the living
God, and assumed to peddle out the re-
igion OF Jesus Christ. The rage for
corporate privileges has actually got to
that pass that Young Mems Christian
Associations can not hold a prayer
meeting until they have procured a
charter from Congress, or some State
Legislature, authorizing them to sue
and be sued, plead and be implicated,
and to buy and sell real estate.
THE POSITION OF THE GRANGER.
When the Granger comes to vote, he
concludes that he will vote, first, for his
principles, and, secondly, the man he
votes for, he must know is man of in
tegrity and in full sympathy with the
principles and policies of government
that the Grange and It's influences have
brought him. The Republican Granger
will not vote for a railway monopoly
man if forty Republican Conventions
have Endorsed him. The Democratic
Granger will not vote for such O man,
though jackson should rise from the
dead and tell him to vote the straight
Democratic ticket. As the individual
Granger acts, so will the grange as a
body act.-Pars0n Kansas Sun.
CALL OF THE CHANGERS.
Hol ye Who nerve the toiling Earth,
| Sons the soil arise and give
The olavn time another birth,
newer life that men may live.
Up with the pillow aud down with the shame,
| That cursed the world with lying lives,
Break down the barrier that now dams
The healthful current labor gives.
So shall you see a world unthrsIled,
| And man to man with honest grip
| OF fervid hands with labor soiled
And words fresh from a truthful lip
| Oh men; brave men! the serpen.s grasp
Is at a nations throat to-day;
That serpent gitters, and We gasp
charmed but throttled life away.
\ cuoh tuC uOut us Wigs
And suck your life-blood while you sleep?
| Oh! wake and break the spell that filings
Its torpor through your veins, aud keeps
Its silken bondage your will
Despite the cold and hidden strength
Too long representation long-untI
| You feel II must be freed at length.
Strain at the gives upon your arms,
And feel how brittle are the bonds
That wealth, with its seductive charms,
Has knotted with repeated wrongs
Up with the pillow and down with shams
That curse the world with lying lives
Break down the barrier that now dams
The healthful current labor gives.
JOIN THE GRANGE.
Join the grange, study its inner
workings, and learn from your own OBJ.
servation that what you regard as
abuses, are really abuses, before you
accuse your fellow-farmers who are Oh
the order, with countenancing unfai,
acts. In other words. you NAV be cry.