Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1881-03-17
THE MONOPOLY" SHOE
Begins to Pinch the Feet OF the "Prom.
inent" Citizen.

l ork, under the auspices Oh tne ANU
Monopoly League The President of
the meeting was Hon. L. Z. Chitten-
den, under the Lincoln administration,
United States Treasurer. Judge
Black, the veteran and well-kn0wn
lawyer, was the principal speaker.
The audience was composed ef New
York's wealthiest and best known cit
izens-which fact is mentioned to show
that the monopolistic shoe is begin
ming to pinch the feet of the 'promi-
nents."
The most important points made by
the speaker are contained in the fol-
lowing report:
JUDGE BLACKS REMARKS.
will tell you what | know about
railroad monopoly, or at least what /
believe. At the bottom of the subject
there lies one question of mere fact,
which one man of common sense can
decide for himself as well as another,
if he will but open his eyes and look
upon the proof. 1t is alleged that
railroad corporations being put into
possession of the public highways of
the country are bound to run the roads
in the interest of the public to whom
they belong, and are public servants
and trustees But they have violated
their trust grossly and shamefully.
They are clothed with power sufficient
Inv law to enable them TO perform their
functions efficiently and we'll but, not
content with that they have grasped at
and seized other powers which don't
hplonr TO them. and all which they
have bv law and all which they have
usurnpd thew neryertcd for the purpose
of privote gain. "a man who wants
to haul a ton of coal twelve miles from
philadelphia. will have to pay as much
MS he would he charged to bring the
same ton from Chicago to PHILADELPHIA.
Thn cborre is fifty times too much.
$40 is robbery. II may not be stealing
according 70 law. but the difference
hrtwprn that and the larceny for
which Won send a man 70 Sing Sing. is
nurcIy ipchnicol 4 man in Georgia
undnrtool; to mnnnfactIlre A corn-plant-
er. He built Il factory and made his
goods, but was ruled ont OF business
by the competition of distant manu-
faclurers, who got preference III
lrcightS. lie was Obliged TO smut up
his factory, and wrote over it: "Closed
by order of the Georgia railway
Then he got his machinery manufac'
turcd in PENNSYLVANIA, seven hundred
miles away, and had his goods carried
for the same price that he used to bt
charged for short distances. Whole
communities had been treated thai
way. He had gone among his owl
friends owning coal mines, and hat
found dcsolation spread over whole
region because the Baltimore " Ohio
railroad would not carry the coal t
compete with their own mines. Th'
same dcsolation was spread i'll othe
parts Of the country. In Kansas mt
Texas they had suffered beyond concep
ton by railroad eXactions, which hat
been harder upon them than snow ant
frost.
How is this TO he stopped? am il
favor of letting them keen what the,
havc got but they must stop now.
am, wiIlinr to admit fine good that rail
Tnads hnve donc-.we could NOT hay
rnt ,,ono without ihem-bnt that is NJ
re,snn whv ,Lev should 90 on uncon
tr"lrcJ Sunnoso an official abuses hi
ir,st what nIoht Won TO do with him
W." sbomid Jn nreciscly nc Won ouch
70 do With those railroad neonle tTrl
tHom ont and cot a new set, Who i
onti,Iod | ~ M tho bonoGt of the increase
C,ciIitios For CARRYING possenpers
Surn,v thc railroad coinunics s6oul,
r"t h,ve MI thc motifs What nre IN
romcIiesg some gentlemen propos
aonroJorot;,r tho roilro,ds Orioinoll
tTore wnre fonr running from east t
,"ost They nnt thn;r mower under on
,,ar ~ and nooi tbeir receints All III
mroCits or tbe fonr nro divided eouall,
lrho~ % ooI, themselves NOT the cnnfe,
crate states but the confederate raj
roads. They have constitution, i
which they have divided their depar
mpnts into legislative and iudicia
They charge what thev please. The
nronose to destroy connection. The
will decide whether rates shall 90 L
or down, The whole set of them Al
criminals in the eve of the law.
has hepn decided a hundred times thi
such combinations are criminal CO.
spiracy, for which every man concernt
in them are liable to be arrested, trie
and imprisoned. Under fair conn
lition, which is the law of trade, the
comnanies would rival each other
doing the people n service What
lhe true remedyY The state the DOW
that Governs the authority that wiel
the nnblic power of the country. h
ihe nower to prevent one mart of Il
noonle from ininrinr tho other Y,
cannot make any law in this count
which will suspend the operation
the eighth commandment.
Thoro oro dio,cr,tios in the wov
,aiiun HOap , 'H ato,e ~ iow thot will I remo, 1
ihe oviI II was the intention of q
const;tutiop that all states sbould
ona for the nIrnose Of commerce +
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