The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1874-07-10
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heir splendor, and costly enter /.
ailments and turnouts, so COM
,letely bewiIder and befool. our
,oor weak headed congressman on
heir pittance of 5000 per year that
took gambling and salary stealing
eem 10 them their only means of
escape from pauperism. But fur
her, railroad wealth has claspcd
hands with the National bank mon
,poIy. They are nov essentially |
1ne and the same. The great rail-
-oad kings have become bankers
md the great bankers of wall street
md Philadelphia manipulate the
railroads. AS bankers, the govern
ment of the United States hands
over 10 these monopOlists 400 mill
ions of dollars in national bank
notes, on which they pay no inter-
esI. On this as bankers and gam
blers they realize from the people |
profits ranging from Z |
TO 2I3 per cent. per snnum.
AS railroad men they have re-
ceived from the government terri |
tories five times as large as the state |
OF Illinois or the Kingdom of En-
gland. These lands remain I'M
taxed while in RAILROAD hands.
From the people these Tnonopo-
lists, under laws dictated by them
selves, extort untold sums in
Ireights and bonds, measured only
by the capacity of the people to
pay, and their enterprise to prom
Use. Ali these incOHceivably vast
sums, realized from all the sources
mentioned, are shoWered back up
on western farmers as eastern cap
ital." Derived from toll by extor-
ton, it is loaned back at high rates
of interest. 1t fastens itself upon
our lands by means of mortgages
and trust deeds. The success of
agriculture is controlled by the
managers of transportation and
finance. At their option the debts
are paid on maturity, or the estates
are forfeited and our posterity dis
Inherited. Thus surely and swift
ly is this huge and terrible COM
pound monster, with its briarian
arms of commerce and its devil
fish teniacles and suckers of finance
encircling and absorbing the ma
ton. The death of individuals
coNO wi w
not die. And thus ia revived in
America all the evils of British pri-
mogeniture and entaiis We now
see another aspect of the monster
| this terrible financial devil fish.
1t is supple as leather, strong as
steel, secret as tthe grave, cold as
night! 1t is a glutinous mass, en-
dowed with a malignant will! I'm
der the embraces of this horrible,
merciless demon, born of treason
and sustained by the vilest corrup-
ton, society now Writhes. Every
vein and fiker is spectacle ofunnat-
ural contortion. The life blood OF
enterprise and thrift spurts out and
mingles horribly with the lymph OF
the monster. The monster clings
to its victim with 1900 mouths
each armed with living blisters
eating and fostering into the very
vitals of our social and political in.
situations. The hydra incorpor.
ates itself into society. Society be-
comes one with the hydra. 1t il
difficult to tear ones self away from
its folds. 1t is but animated telly
through which the fingers pass and
the nails scratch Intellectually. The
leathery substance slips and yield.
under the knife. The position O
attack is such, that to wound the
monster wounds the victim. One
is tortured and oppressed as by {
vacuum, drawing at a Thousand
POINTS. TO tear the flesh is terri
bic, but less terrible than sucking
the blood away with these horrible
serpent-head air-cups. The fang;
and talons of the wild beast enter
the flesh, but with the dewitt il
is the man that enters the beast
The money power Of America is {
financial devil-fish of huger di
mansions than was ever dreamed
of by Hugo in his loneliest hours
of Punishment. 1t is absorbing
and destroying every incentive tc
enterprise for the present, anC
hope of liberty for the future.
Before another generation oul
sons will have but two means o.
access to the soil which they now
tread as proprietors, viz: serfdon
under despotism on the one hand
or physical revolution and forced
agrarianism on the other. Ma
tlOnal bank dividends and taxation
under national bank interests are
swallowing up the country. Ev
cry business is PROSTATE except
that of the broker and money
dealer. Industry is paralysed
And that enterprise which should
be entering upon new projects fol
the development of the natural
wealth of the country and lifting
it upward and onward into the
richest, freest and grandest EN-.
pire in the world, is borne down
depressed and crushed by the IRE.
sistible force of this stupendous
system of legalized robbery.
What was the tyranny OF
George III and his ministers,
compared with malpractice like
this? We talk of stamp duties on
paper, and tax ievies on tea,
backed up by threats of military
force to insure obedience. Bad
enough surely, and our fathers
did right to resist! But here we
have taxes on bread, meat, shoes
and clothing-all We eat, drink
and wear-levied for unjust pur-
poses and limited only by the abil-
ity of the people to perform. We
talk of legal resistance through
the courts, and are told that re-
sistance will be made SO terrible
to us, that we will not repeat it.
OF what avail our Declarations OF
Independence, Bills of Rights, and
Constitutions of Liberty, while
snch tyranny is rampant and par
amount in the land. OF what use
the glorious 4Jh of July which we
celebrate to-day, if its hallowed
remembrances are but burlesques
on the liberties it was meant to
commemorate. All, fellow citi-
zens, we may annually assemble
in crowds, fiaunt our banners to
the breeze, and rend the air with
loud huzzas! We may plant our
guns on all the heights from
Bunkerhill to Orleans and the
Northwest Pacific, may fire up
their Threats with deep toned
thunder, until the whole CONT
nent is filed with the mighty
chorus of cannon in concert, We
may talk largely of the liberties
our fathers won, but unless we
also speak of liberties preserved,
ali is mere sound and smoke, and
tyranny, not liberty rules the land
Why those seventy bank presi-
dents in halls of congress? 1t
means prosperity to bank monop-
oily, death to popular liberty and
long life to financial tyranny.
But further, there are monopo-