The farmers' vindicator. (Jackson, Miss.) 1873-1???, 1874-06-19

e Organization Of sufficient power, wis
e dom and comprehensive adaptation, is
demonstrated in the fact that it meets
S the demands of the times, and, as yet,
is harmless from the shafts of the most
J., brilliant criticism. That it should
e meet severe opposition, and encounter
t the fierce hostility of antagonistic sys-
i TENS, was natural and to be expected.
e That systems so grasping, so inimical
J. to the material interests of the country;
e that had grown in strength and in
n creased in audacity, until their projec-
. tors, in presumptive arrogance, as
/. sumed by the prestige Of uninterrupted
usage, permanent empire over the in
dustries of the people of this fair land,
/ should be revolutionized by counter
f system, cogent, strong and irresistible
there is no one so stupid as for one mo-
E ment to doubt.
1t requires no proof to establish the
fact that moneyed combinations and
monopolies have risen TO fearful pro-
portions. Every intelligent reader of
the history of the the country, and en-
quirer into the details of its CONNER
cial, financial, manufacturing, as well
as its political economics, is well aware
that capital has proven power so ir-
resistable as to sway with IMMUNITY the
destinies of the country. Money power
has proven more potent than the wis
dom of the sagacious statesman, the
purity of the theologian, or the pro-
found depths of the soundest philoso-
ply. Ever since the organization Of
human society, or the advent of civil
cation, it has asserted its empire over
every interest, and controlled the des-
TIMES of every industry. Its usual
and universal rule has prevailed in our
own land, and our institutions have
yielded to its grasping power, from the
birth of the Government to the present
day. Its ingenuity has been so skillful
as to bend every provision of the Con.
stitution to suit its purposes, and lend
the prestige of its authority to its
vaulting assumptions.
And here let us examine the opera
ton of capital as it has worked in our
own locality, and as it operates in every
land. We find in the investigation of
this question, that it has in a control
ling measure drafted into the manu-
featuring, commercial, marine, bank
ing, and railway industries, and these
greatand controlling departments, have
assumed an empire over the agricultural
and made it newer Of wood
and drawer of water-a powerless test
of their grasping avarice.
BY their superior skill and concen-
trated effort, they have invaded the
palladium of our liberties, and made the
subservient to their law
ess usurpations. They have demon
,trated the irresistible powers of com
1ination, and as the result proves, have
converted the government into an
lgency, whose main purpose seems to
,e, to foster and promote their designs.
The manufacturing interest Of this
country, through tariff laws, by which
We are made to pay tribute, has risen
o power, wealth, and presumptuous
whilst the railway corpora
ions have grown to collasal proper
ions, and makes every interest sub
ervient to their increasing demands.
Whilst capital has thus proven so
owerful in fostering and building up
lstitutions of such overshadowing
over, it has also proven an agency Of
generalization and corruption. By its
lsidious and subtle force, it has proven
lore potent than the charms Of patri-
tism--its song is sweeter than the
lusic that hymns the praise of the
wing God. Our legislative halls have
ecome cesspools of financial corrup-
on, and out of its filth has risen the
lonster fraud of the age, the CREDIT
oBrLIER and IFS scarcely less infamous
the salary grab. 1t has in
AIDED every department of national,
cial and business life, and by its cor
pting influences, poisoned the foun-
in of every stream. A haven SO po-
mt for good, and yet so prostituted,
Is proven too strong for constitutional
,ariers, or ecclesiastical bonds.
BY concentration and combination,
is fast settling a despotism upon this
untry, that will out rival the brutal
of Nero, the vaulting ambition of
lpoleon, or the unbridled will of the
tocrat of all the Russias.
1t may well be asked, in view of a
wer 50 fearful, so grasping, and hith-
to so irresistible, through what agen-
can we nationally hope to check its
ogress or ultimately to subdue it
thin legitimate bounds. There is
one hope, and that is through the
n, b;nad novar of our MIRO and hon