Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1881-07-26

The Enterprise of Sunday morning runs
tilt against the Anti Monopoly League
and finds in that organization material for
the grayest censure. It accuses the League
of employing men at regular salaries and
also finds serious cause for condemnation
in the fact that it has money at its COM
mand to wage war against the abuses of
monopoly. The editor of the Enterprise
has of late become SC influenced by con-
tact with wealthy employers that the bare
idea of any body but n monopolist having
q small share of the worlds wealth Is
abhorrent to his sense of the fitness OF
things. A hundred mi lions of money in
the hands of Jay Gould to purchase Legis-
latures, congressman, judges, jurors and
newspapers is glorifed spectacle, but
few thousands in the hands of league,
recognized by the leading minds of the
country, to regulate existing abuses, appears
to him to be q state of affairs which needs
immediate regulation, He says:
There is a great deal of arrant nonsense
spoken and ritten to create artificial
agitation against the wealthy men of Amer
lea, which is simply rank communism, and
nihi ism cumsily Disguised, The only
object Of such agitation is to inject lnsidl-
Gus poison through the ranks of society In
this Nation,
The monopolsts of America will find
that there is nothing artificial about the
present agitation. It is as genu lie an
issue as was ever made in the his DRY OF
politics. To characterize the earnest
struggle of a robbed and tramped people
against the outrages, extortlon and lnJus-
tice of monopoly rule is a weak and purile
evasion of the argument which can but be 1t
tie newspaper which INDUCES in. Such
men rs Secretary Window and Judge
Black are not communists or Nihilists. In
reply to the charges made against the men
who have unfairly and dishonesty absorbed
the bulk of the country''s wealth, there has
not been presented single intelligent piece
of reasoning, or ole successful attempt to
disprove single charge. The Enterprise
quotes this from the APPEAL:
It is hard to make the people see that
they are paying for high treights every
time they purchase pair OF boots, coat
or hat, or any article which is shipped over
a railroad. They cannot be made to realize
that the merclless freight schedules wipe
out manufacturing industries.
And proceeds to reply IS follows:
The propos ton involves a ialsehood. If
The manufactur ng industries are wiped out
by any process nothing can be left to them
to carry, and hence it would be impossible
to buy boots, coat or hat unless The raw
material raised and the goods manufac
tured at the home of the Consumer, The
railr ads would be working out their own
sure destruction and this is contrary to
the law of self-preservation.
We hold that any mandatory in Cal
ifornia which makes the raw material into
saleable commodity will not be and never
was countenanced by the Central Pacific
Railroad. So long as there are no boots or
shoes manufactured in California on an ex-
tensive scale, 81 long will the raj road |
company be called upon to ship them from
the East. 1t is therefore TO ly to assume |
that a crushing out of industries would be |
a railroads ''self destruction" The Cen |
trail Pacific want no industries on this |
Coast, and want nothing manufactured |
which they can ship overland.
Moreover, if it were true that cur manu-
featuring industries are being extirpated,
investors in railroad stocks would be as
qucH to discover the fact as a"y one and |
the n ! ions of capital now flowing into
new raj road enterprises would be diverted
into other channels.
The above as it reads simply means that
because railroads are crushing out manu-
featuring industries, this fact shou d tempt
capita lists to invest in the very thing that
the raj roads are extirp sting. Probably
the writer of the sentence did not mean it
exactly in this way. At the present time
nothing is SO hazarous as an attempt to
start manufacturing industry in California.
The freight Ga sesshinery is simply appal-
ing. and after the machinery is shipped
and paid for tariff is put upon al raw
mate ial from the East which swamps the
business utterly. At tie end ola couple of
years the owner is glad to turn the build
ing and machinery over to the road, take a
receipt for his freight hi Is and retire from
the field a ruined man Should he rise up
o few weeks later and make public speech
recirlng his WI ngs the hired organs of
mOropOy would indie to it as 'sarrant |
nonsense" and describe him as a commup-
list, nihilist and agitator striving to create
pJta fho !