Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-06-17
An Autobiography Party.
NelO Orleans Times.


From time to time there has appeared
in the papers more or less talk about
new parties, and since the headlong
plungeof Mr.. ConkIing out of the bosom
Of the Republican fold he has been sci
up as the chief priest of the coming new
party. The party, which it is said the
eminent ex-senator is to bring into the
world and then boss is to be founded on
the principle of opposition to monopoly.
Just what the functions of an anti.
monopoly party would be, it is not easy
to see. The corporations and combina-
tions of capitalists which control rail
ways, commerce and manufactures re-
present a money power which the pro-
fessional politician finds far more profit.
able to serve than to oppose. Combina-
tons which are rich enough to influence
State and National Legislatures to enact
laws and impose tariffs for their advance
ment and protection, and even to secure
favorable decisions in the courts, will be
hard to fight. These great organizations
employ armies of laborers, control the
industries of the country and carry out
gigantic schemes for its development
They build railways, open ship canals,
establish manufactures and direct vast
systems of finance and commerce, and
accomplish results in building up and
developing the wealth and power of the
nation that would be impossible but for
these tremendous aggregations of muscle,
money and mind. They are so power
full and have become so thoroughly in
terwoven with the industrial, financial
and political systems of the nation that
it appears to be impossible to break them
down and root them out without disor-
ganizing the entire social fabric. A
movement honestly designed to break IN
pieces and thoroughly extirpate all the
features and influence of American
monopoly would be little less than revo-
luton, socialistic and communistic, to
the last degree 1t would be originated
in spirit of benevolence, but it would
enlist the services of the most danger
Gus and INSCRIPTIONS classes, and arouse
the very worst passions of men.
Such conflict once inaugurated would
array in opposition to each other tre-
mendous and destructive forces, and I'M
less peacefully settled by some wise COM
promise would result in financial rum
and social chaos. The monopoly system
which first fastened itself on the body
polite as parasite has now become a
part and the biggest part of the political
fabric. 1t is like that terrible tumor the
cancer, which, when not stopped in the
beginning, but is allowed to grow, fast
ems its claws in the vitals and twines its
tentacles around the very springs of life,
defying the skill of the physician and
presenting to the patient the certainty of
a more speedy death under the knife of
the surgeon than if he should abandon
himself to the natural course of his
malady.
Mr.. Cenkling has been too much asso-
cia:ed with the money power to take up
arms against monopolies. The country
Is not yet ready for the irrepresslble con-
fiict, and none of the political leaders of
to-day would probably be willing to
precipitate it. An anti-monopoly party
does not yet offer productive field to
the politician; its time has not yet come.