The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1881-04-02

We are led 10 consider o the eF-
licences which are multiplying around
~, that the people are nov awakened
to > sense Of their danger in the exis-
tence Of the great and d~omineering
monopolies which interfere ~ serious
" with their rights and liberties, and
are resolved 10 do all that they ear TO
limit and control them.
It would indeed be = sad calamity
II this awakening has not been in time
10 grapple successfully with gigantic
corporations and the few men who
govern them. The viligance which
one Of the sages Of our Republic truly
declared was the price of liberty, has
not been on the alert, 1t Is true, and
while much has been lost, it is likely
that by united action on the part of
the people, much can be done to make
amends for past inaction. 1t may be
that this great and general desire
throughout the country, to resist and
check the power Of the great monoPo-
lies, will cause q union or fusion OF
our two great parties, as effective as
that Of 1851, to preserve the Union.
The danger to the existence OF the
Republic Is a great, if not greater,
now, than then. We had then to con-
tend against an armed opposition,
whose declared intention was con-
quest for disunion's sake, but now
We have an insidious combination of
powers, which with no declared hos
tile intentions, are intent On our sub
jugation and the control of everything
we hold dear, and which we cling and
look to for the protection o four rights
and liberties. The chief of
travel, the railroads, the offspring for
the most part of the bounty Of our
Government, and nursed and fed by
It, belong TO them. So also, the banks,
owing their existence to . like liber-
atty. The tslegraphic companies,
and the associate press are not inde-
pendent OF their control, while the
Judiciary and our Lawmakers are
more or less exposed to their sinistef
influence. The powers of these gigan
tic monopolies controlling everything.
regulating and expressing every
thing, require streng, united and Wig
orous action on the part Of the people
TO extricate themselves from their
anaconda folds. A movement has
been set on foot in New York, which
has :.keu shape a the ssAnti-monop-
oily League" and to this league a let
ter was addressed by the Hon. William
Window, the now Secretary Of the
Treasury, remarkable for its able I
position Of the peoples suffering un-
der the control of domineering mo-
nopolies. This letter Is advisory and
eminently conservative OF law and
order. "You must" he says, "be as
prompt to concede rights, as you are
determined In demanding them. No
sgrarian or communistic spirit must
hnd q place In your proceedings"
There Is nothing which could be
more truly wise and patriotic than
this advice /; for nothing could be
more unjust and impolitic than to in
trench on, or invade any rights. in
m agrarian or communistic spirit,
which these m~onopolies should enjoy.
It Is alone with the assumption of
powers which these corporations or
individuals claim in the name of
rights, which are not suck, but wrong
ful abuses of power, of which the
people have cause to complain, that
tho league proposes to deal, and for
which 1t has been called into exis-
tence, as we consider, at an suspicious
moment In the history Of our country.