The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1881-06-30

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bluntly told that they were cut of from
all political preferment. A o. 3. Sena
tor from Pennsylvania for many year
was accustomed to attach price to man.
of the Legislators, just as KentuCkial
puts q price upon his raCe.horses--thi
one worth $1,000, that one worth % OOC
The railroads are the common carrier
OF the people, and should be impartial
but by form of contract, which is onl,
another mode OF bribery, the great rail
roads favor this or that business Th,
Standard Oil Company in Is months hat
paid to it in rebates, by a railroad trunl
company, $40, ,l5l 900, thus disadvantag
ing other companies. That Standard Oi
Company produces only one tiftieth o
our petroleum, yet 1t controls tie prlc'
Of all that kind Of light which now belt
the earth. The great merchandise in pro
visions and grain and cattle, by the faVol
Of the railroads in many Of the cities, IL
gradually being put into the hands o
one or more firms, and all others in the
same business get hard pushed. Bribery
under 80 many forms, l can only hint al
them. How much did 1t cost the eleVs
t. d railroads of q certain city to keep the
fare from dropping from 10 to CentsP
have been told $S00000. Very seldom
does bill pass any Of our Legislatures
il there be no money in 1t. Sometimes
the bribe is in bank bills, sometimes In
railroad passes, sometimes in political
prefelment, sometimes by the monopo'
lists giving to the legislators who desire
to speculate in Wall street what are call
ed "points." Perhaps you may not un'
derstand what "points" are. The other
language Of Wall street has gone into
the common vernsCulsr, and most of ls
know what is meant by corner fly
err cover buyer 8, seller B. carrying
stock washing the street. long in
Stocks sailing down, ten up but many
of you may not know what is meant
when a monopolist gives member OF
the Legislature points" Do you really
want to know what points" are2 Ask
the bribed member at Albany and Har-
risburg. But bribery begins away back
Of all this in the money subscribed for
election purposes. Unless a man has
large wealth he cannot afford to run for
Congress or any other position. The
question asked before election is, how
much money has he, and how much will
spend for his election; or, how much will
bis friends subscribe? And from the
great reservoir OF subscribed election
expenses, the little rills run down in ten
thousand directions, and by the time our
great Gubernatorial and Congressional
and Presidential elections are over, the
land is drunk with bribery. l pity that
little orphaned $1,000 wandering about
the stree's of Albany, and finding no
parentage. 1t strayed off from q family
Of big brothers who ought to take charge
Of the founding laid at the Lei islator's
door. What striking phenomenon,
that, in the last fifty years, among the
millions Of dollars expended in the NY.
Legislature, only So 900 have misCarriedI
1t sho Ws that if there were no God and
no Judgment Day, the safest business in
the United States is bribery. What
other great business, great enterprise,
involving millions of dollars, can be car.
ried on for ten years with only loss of
$4,000. ... ....
All this contention for the spoils of of
fee, which kept the United States Sem
ate for four months playing the fool, and
for the last month has made the parlors
of the Delevan House the center of ma
tional interest, is only another phase of
bribery. 1t 8 not 80 much bribery in
cash paid down, but bribery in the way
of Offices promised. You help me into
one Office, and / will help you into an.
other Office" Iti often true that by
the time a m is sworn in he has pledg-
ed all the patronage of that Office. The
trouble comes from his unWillingness or
inCapacity to deliver the goods be sold
the fret Tuesday in November. The
machinery of bad American politics Just
now Conists Of five hundred wheels, but
the cogs of these wheels play into one
great wheel, and that great center wheel
has tire made out of railroad iron, and
on that wheel is a crank, and on that
wheel is the hand Of Satan, and as he
moves the big wheel, all the smaller
wheels spin round in the mandatory.
What has Deen the destruction of other
nations is getting to be the overshadow.
ing trouble of this nation. While, thro'
favoritism of legislat on, the great mass
of people find it harder and harder to |
make living, and we have too many
men worth $10,000000, and $40,0C00O0,
and $50 100000, and they put the Legis.
lature into one pocket and the Congress |
Of the United States into the other pock. |
e. Revolution is just ahead of us, and |
l pray God it may be peaceful revolu.
ton, and at the ballot-box, where this |
great wrong is to be corrected, if correct |
ed it will be. We had forty years quar-.
rel about black slavery. What we must |
have now is twenty years contest
about white slavery. We must have the |
of American labor from
The curse Of monopoly. We must send |
men to State and National Legislatures
who cannot be suborned by bribery, eli.
ther in the shape of promotion or dol |
lara. / do not relieve in union of church |
and state, but l do believe that unless
the church Of God rises up and she VS.
herself the friend Of the people, as we'll
as the friend Of God, and proclaim her
sympathy for those who are, with their
'amilies at their backs, fighting this great
battle for bread, she will become de-
iunCt institution, and Christ will again
70 down on the beach and invite Twelve
plain, honest fishermen to come forth in
,he Apostleship Of new dispensation
If righteousness, manward as we'll as
5odwSrd. What is the present disgrace.
iul phase of state and ational politics?
You and | are paying today the board,
md washing, and cigar and whisky
bills Of the Legislature Of New York, |
while they are lowering over the spoils
If Office. No one supposes that the fl
cen or twenty candidates, over which |
hey are contending, are the only men
1t for the Senate of the United States.
Why not branch out into new field, Land
yiye US for change two great Christian
,hilsnthropists, who would sdorn the
senate OF the United States more than
be Senatorial Office would adorn themp
nominate VIM. E. Dodge, the great
Christian philanthropist Of New York,
Ind Geo, l. Seney, the great Christian |
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