Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1880-12-04
COMMUNICATED.
"RAILROADS AND THEPEOPLE.

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we nope '"a' VIC 'o.e's VI "es'
virginia VIII "a'cii ciose'y Inc co.'se
OF their representatives IN inc l@Sisia-
ture OF 1891 land learn whether they SUD,
serve their lnterests,or are the tools and
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PIC a'e l" i"'o' VI VI. Id" 'o'
the county court receiving from the ID.
IL D. Il. t. less than the full amount OF
taxes assessed against that COMPANY.
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"' $500 ~
several years Vioihtcd lhat law. Every
citizen Is forced 10 pay his taxes In full
hut the court accented what the Is. 81
a y y otf,.rS1 VIM 1;,, tho ,ourt
m ..;,L :,
wthuty ''o'"'o ,n"' 40" ''" P"" 80, 80
! dniduais FOR violating 0ther laws! Inc
court has no right 10 diSOfey tie law.
The ,eoule are o,posed TO having more
f,r ,r.,,sno,,;ro th,;r ,,rodnc,. than tho
Western Statrs pay. Lower rates OF
transportation make the lands, mills
and factories of the Western States
Nor. ,,,u.,,l. ,b,n those ,f Nast V;r-
80 - o,,,,I,, l,,.ors ,ho
S'"'"' any, IN
wages Vi 'ne iuccha'i'c anu i'ooiei' lug
interests OF the farmer. mechanic ana
laborer are identical, they are mutually
donendent TIN. loss of the farmer soon
,.i,hoo ,b, .cb,o;c ord l,horor
IS
o. ~
cit is an open secret that the railroads
furnish Il large share OF the money re-
a,,ired to operate the machinery of our
elections, and in all districts where polit-
ical parties are closely matched their
money on the size of the candidate who
will promise to favor their interests scu-
orally carries the day. They know no
marty. and consult 10 interests but their
own, and, rs a matter of course, the venal
and less worthy element in our political
life. uuder such a system as this, usually
triumphs. and men who are too honest or
too ;ndepcudent TO bow to corporate will
arc SO weighted in the race for political
prcfcrmcnt that they seldom come to the
front.
'"rhe railroad is the invention of the
last half century; the tremendous devcl-
opment of corporate life, attended by the
obuses of which the hubble complain, has
occurred within this period, and largely
within the last twenty-five wears. Con-
tinuc for another half century the present
power of corporations to tax the public,
and VIC will have a monied ariStocracy in
this country such as the world has never
seen, and with all the attendant phcnom-
cna of ucnal Legislators and corruption in
high places. which has caused the down
fall of ali the great republics of history.