The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-06-02
MONOPOLY.
The treat Tabernacle Preacher, L. ID.
Tlamage Says Our Land Must Not be
the Bride Of Monopoly.
Extract from his Sermon


! the Bride of Monopoly.
Extract from his Sermon
TExT-Isaiah LxII, A." Thy land shall Be
married
As the greater includes the less, the proph-
ecy OF future JOY which encircIes the earth
must include our own republic Bold,
unique, startling, exhilarant, divine imagery
| OF the texti At the close of a week when
the world has been full OF the sound of
wedding-fells, and the heir of the Austrian
empire takes home his bride, amid the con-
graduation of many nations (may God
preserve Rudolph and Stephanie,) it will
not be inspt to anticipate the time when
THE PRINCE OF PEACE
and the heir of universal dominion shall
take possession of this nation, and "thy
laad shall be married" In discussing the
future of this nation it makes every differ
ence In the world whether we are on the
way to funeral or a wedding In pnlpit
and on platform and in places of public
concourse hear SO many mutfied drums of
evil prophecy sounded, as though we were
on the way to national interment besides
Ihebes and Babylon and Tyre, and in the
cemetery of dead nations our republic
would be entombed that | wish distinctly
to be understood that instead of obsequies
1t will be nuptials, and instead of mauso-
leum it will be carpeted altar, and instead
of cypress it will be orange blossoms, and
instead of requiem it will be wedding
march, for "thy land shall be married.
shall tell you who are offering their lands
for this betrothal. This land is so fair and
beautiful and affiuent bride that she has
plenty of snitors, and your advice will have
much to do with her acceptance or rejection
IN any case. One
GREEDY AND GRASPING WOoER
is named Monopoly His seepter is made
out of the iron track of railroading and the
wire of telegraphy. He proposes to have
everything his own way for his own advan-
tage and the peoples robbery. This monster
of monopoly already controls the three
States of New York, New Jersey, and Penn
sylvania, and is fast gaining the supremacy
of all the nation. He dictates what laws
shall be adopted or hndered. He stands in
the railroad depot and puts into his pocket
each year two hundred millions of dollars
beyond the reasonable charges for service.
He holds the steam of locomotion in one
hand and the electricity of swift commun- |
cation in the other. He has put the Demo |
cratic party into one pocket and the Repub- |
lican party into the other pocket. He con-
tons, State elections, and National cleo
tions. He
BUYS UP LEGISLATURES
with free passes and the appointment of |
needy friends to lucrative positions and by /
them as attorneys if they are law
yers, and by carrying their goods at fifteen
per cent. less if they are merchants, and, if
he find a stubborn case on which much de- |
DapHS r. he md Sb e hill
L has come to this pass in many of our Leg
islatures, that laws which monopolists favor
pass and laws which monopolists oppose are
defeated. They have become so skillful in |
their manipulations that there is no catch
ing them now as they were caught during |
Mr.. Buchanan's administration, when a
legislative committee of Wisconsin exposed |
the manner in which railroad company
got their donation of public lands. Thir-
teen members of the Senate received $40
BOO among them; sixty members of the
lower house received from s., 900 to $4,000
each /, the Governor of the State 0000
and his private secretary, $4,000, and the
Lieutenant Governor 10000, and the
Clerks of the House $4,000 each, and $780,
BOO to lobby agents In many of the legis-
atures the monopolists are carrying on
similar schemes, but not in such a blunder-
ing way as to be found out The
0VERSHADOWING CURSE OF AMERICA
to day is Monopoly. He puts his hand up
1n every bushel of wheat, every sack of salt
and every ton of coal, and not a man, woman
nor child in America but feels the touch OF
despotism. | rejoice to hear that
in twenty-four States of the Union anti-mo-
nopoIy leagues have been formed. God speed
them in the work of liberation | hope this
will be the chief issue of the next Presiden-
tial contest. Between now and then we
have time to compel the political platforms
to recognize it. We say nothing against
capitalists. A man has right to all the
money he can make honestly. We say moth
ing against corporations. Without them
great enterprises would be an impossibility.
But what we do say is that capitalists and
ought to have no rights not
granted to the plainest laborer and poorest
for the Vanderbilts and Goulds. Monopoly
in England has ground millions of her peo-
pie into semi-staryation, and in Ireland has
driven many of the tenants to frenzy, and
in the United States is plotting to put the
wealth of sixty millions of population into
few silken wallets. This braZen-fa faced, iron
fingered, vulture-hearted Monopoly offers
ais hand for the acceptance of this nation.
He stretches it a1ross the lakes, and by the
Pennsy lvania, New York Central and Erie
and over the poles of the Ameri-
,an Union Telegraph Company, md says:
Here is my hand and heart Be mine for
eve." Let the millions of people, North,
south, East and West, rise up vehemently
FORBID THE BANS
If this marriage. Forbid it at the ballot