The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-06-04
DIR. TaIInage OH Mouono,

After the congregation in =.
Brooklyn Tabernacle, yestsr5a
morning, had sung
MY Country, It's Of Thee
DR.. Talmage announced his TO-,
from Isaiah xii, 4I-"Tbv laa9
shall be married" He said. I nra
pose to name some of the spit, r
who are claiming the hana Of n,
Republic. In the first place the.
is greedy, all-grasping mopst.,
who comes in as a sutton seekir,
the hand of this Republic, and t5,s3
monster is monopoly. His scens,
is made out of the iron of the ri
track and the iron of teiegranLv
He does everything for his own Al.
vantage and for the robbery of Il.
people. Things have gone on frcr
bad to worse, until the three Legi,
latures of New York, New Teray
and Pennsylvania for the most p,-,
monopoly decides everything. r
monopoly favors a law it is pssssi.
ii monopoly opposes law it is IL.
jected. Monopoly stands in tie
railroad depot putting into his pod,
cts in one year $eoo,ooo,ooo in fl.
cess of all reasonable charges far
service. Monopoly holds in its ore
hand the steam power of locomo
ton, and in the other the electrical
Of swift communication. Mono,.
oily has the Republican party in OF
pocket and the Democratic partv-
the other pocket. Monopoly d.
cides nominations and elections
city elections, State elections, Ne
tional elections. With brides Z
takes the votes Of Legislators, giving
them free passes, giving appoint
ments to needy relatives of LUCIA.
tive positions, employing them as
attorneys if they are lawyers, carry.
ing their goods a large per cenage
less if thev are merchants, and if Il
finds a case verv stubborn as well
as very important, puts down before
him the hard cash of bribery.
LEGISLATURE BOUGHT OUTRIGHT
But monopoly is not SO easily
caught now and captured and ar.
rested, as when, during the term Of
Mr.. Buchanan, the Legislative Gem.
mittee in one of our State, explored
and exposed the manner in which
a certain railway company had Oh,
tanned a donation of public land.
1t was found out that thirteen
of the Senators of that State re.
$4,000 among them, sixty mem
bers of the Legislature of that Stste
received between $1,000 and $1,000
each, the Governor of that State re.
ceived $4,000, his clerk received
$4,000, the Lieutenant Governor re-
ceived $4,000, all the clerks of the
Legislature received 5000 each'
while $4,000 were divided among
the lobby agents. That same thing
on larger or a smaller scale IS all
the time going on in some OF the
States of the Union, but it is not 50
laundering as it used to be, ana
therefore not so easily exposed OF
arrested. l tell you that the over
shadowing curse of the Unltea
States to day is monopoly. 1t puS
its hand on every bushel OF wheat
upon every sack of salt, upon every
ton of coal, and every man, woman
and child in the United States fees
the touch of that moneyed desPo-
tism. | rejoice that in twenty ioul
States of the Union already anu
monopoly leagues have been eS'ap.
lished. God speed them in ins
work of liberation! wish tn''
this question might be the queS'Ion
Of the next Presidential election 10
between this and that time we eau
compel the political parties to 'e1,
ogr ize it in their platforms. l nav
nothing to say against capltails,N'
A man has right to make all tnT
money he can make honestly
have nothing to say against cofPo,
ratious as such. Without them ~
great enterprise would be possiO',
but what l do saw is that the san'
principles are TO be applied 10 ~
capitalists and the CORPORATIONS tn'y
are applied to the poorest man ana
the fhaineSf Iaborer. WHAT'S Wto ~
for me is wrong fer the Nanderon'Ii
and the Goulds and the elevate
railway companies of New OH
and Brooklyn. Monopoly in Lns
land has ground hundreds OF tIiou
sands of her best people into Se'li. =.
starvation. and in Ireland has dIi'en
multitudinous tenants almost
madness, and in the United St ~,
proposes to take the wealth OF ~.
or sixty millions of people ana ~
it in a few silken wa lets. Monog
ely brazen faced, iron figured W.
ture hearted monopoly, pro.p4p,sa'
his hand, offers his hand to tins ~
public. Let the millions OF ire PeO
p'e North, 6 nth, East and WIS
.eabid the I rs of that mann ,ss
forbid Their 1T the ballot box -.
bid them by great organization ~ ~.
bid them BY the overwhelming ~ ma
timent Of an outraged nation loi D.b
them by the protest OF the ~" ~, %
OF !, forbid them by pr " :,
hi h .caven, that Herod sh'i' ~
haNs yhis Abigail.