Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1881-04-06
THE MONOPOLIES SHRINK FROM
LOGIC.

At present there is an important dis
cussion going on in the East relative to
monopolies. The monopoly side of the
question is sent across the continent on
the wings of lightning, while the argu-
ments of the people come by mail a
week old. The New York Tribune,
which under the master control OF
Horace Greedy led public opinion in the
United States, is now controlled by Jay
Gould, and daily prostituted to the SER
vice of the railroads and the telegraph
lines, which he owns. The following
circular, from the National Anti-Mon-
opoly League, speaks for itself:
NEW YORK, March -, 1881
To THE EDITOR:
Following the mass meeting OF the
Autobiography League, at Cooper Insti-
tute, February q, the New York Iri5-
2uae publishes an editorial cOndemning
in severe terms the purposes of the
League, and stignatizing them as
"benefitting the Reds and Communists
of a bygone day in Paris rather than the
free citizens of the United States"
Feeling that this is eminently unjust,
Mr.. f. B. Thurber, an officer of the
League, sent a communication to the
Tribune contrOverting the ground taken
in the editorial; but after ten days de-
lay it was finally refused insertion.
Thomas Jefferson said: 'Error of
opinion may safely be tolerated when
reason is left free TO combat it," But
when sinister influences obtain control
of public journal, which ought by all
past associations to be the defender of
public rights, and hearing is denied
to those it condemns, we feel that the
only resource left the citizens of Re-
public who believe in free speech and
free institutions, is an appeal to that
portion Of the press which is still free
from the control of corporate owner
ship, patronage and influence. The ne
cessity for this is made more apparent
by the following from the Rochester
UniOn:
awe are indebted to Mr.. Jay Gould
for the slip ofan editorial from his paper,
the New York Tribune, of February %,
on the anti-cOrporation meeting in
Cooper Institute, addressed by Judge
Jere. S. Black and other eminent men,
who are denounced as 'apeing the Reds
and Communists of bygone days It
is good writing but bad reading. Mr..
Jay Gould owns too many railroads and |
things 10 give any weight to what any
of his newspapers say on the subject of
corporations"
So it seems that the editorial in ques-
ton was being circulated for republic |
cation at the very time a hearing was |
denied the other side. Truly, one por-
ton Of the letter of Senator Window.
read at this meeting, was prophetic:
"The channels of thought and the |
channels of commerce thus owned and |
controlled by one man, or by a few |
men, what is to restrain the corporate |
power, Or to fix a limit 10 its eXactions
upon the people? What is then to him
der these men from depressing or in
hating the value of all kinds of prop
erty TO suit their caprice or avarice, and
thereby gathering into their own cof-
fers the wealth Of the nation? Where
is the limit to such 4 power as this?
What shall be said of the spirit of a
free people who will submit without
protest TO be thus bound hand and foot:"
Comment is needless. The people
ssk your help! Faithfully yours,
l.. Z. CHITTENDEN, President.