The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1881-03-17
SHOOT ESCROW.

EDITOR JOURNAL - Please make
room for the following i'm your next
issue, which offer as an answer to
the attack made OH the bond PROPOSE
ton over the signature ~. Il. A.
Brick" and others. He says that
men of sound views and Of great in
telligenee, who haye made the bond
question study, do not hesitate to
pronounce them curse to the parties
voting them, and to this view he in
clines, as it builds up in our midst an
other corporation and that corporation
are the enemies of the masses. ]
think he must mean monoplies instead
of corporations. If 80, we are agreed,
although, as we may experience, a
corporation may assume the proper
tons Of monopoly. You know /
speak of our unhappy condition with
the X. p. railway company, which is
an incorporated monopoly and will
continue to be such until an opposition
is set up, and to this end wisely comes
the this much-discussed and some
times nisrepresented bond PROPOSE
ton, and again the old saying, "com-
petition is the life of trade" A mo-
nopoly is bloated mass of rank, un-
wieldy woe, expressing the millions
to benefit the few, and consequently
dulls the edge of hushandry; and for
myself I cannot think of any way to
remedy this, but to take up arms
against it, and by opposing, end 1t,
and drive the monster back into his
cOpOrate bounds, and snub the hire
lings who are now prowling through
the country seeking whom they may
devOur, by escrow. 1t should be nam
ed scare.crow instead. At what date
did the X. p, through its paid min
ions, begin to manifest such q lively
interest In the protection of the peO-
pie of Saline county. against escrow?
Answer-we can't fix the exact date,
but sometime before Tom Lynde ar
rived. Mr.. Brick says what Saline
county needs In place of another Of
these corporations, is legislation to
control the one we already have. /
will answer this proposition by ask
ing one. Is our prospects for this
railroad legislation any better now
than five, six or seven years ago?
submit not. Meetings of farmers,
occasional arguments and
expedients, all, all have
failed. The cry for this law comes
from where there il but one
road, and no opposition. Localities
that have opposing railroad compan-
les do not want this law, really. But
for o little lucre to satisfy the simple,
they do. To illustrate this |
more clearly, will provide Mr.. Brick |
with one Of those famous looking
glasses of LOd that reflects the mind |
as well as the body, and send him
down to Topeka among those legisla- |
tors In those legislative halls, that he |
speaks about, and in the minds Of
some of those Legislators he will dis |
cover make up Of this fashion II
will cry for railroad legislation be-
cause l want money. My constitu- |
ents do not want it. They have two |
or three railroads now and q lively OPP |
IL the natural consequence
to pass this law will be an injury in |
stead Of . benefit TO them, because ii |
will only benefit parts where there IL |
no opposition, and one railroad mo-
nopOlizes the business. But for all |
Ibis I will cry railroad legislation.
A hack handed and an annual pass !
strikes him dumb, Of course. That /
which will not injure his constituents
he h easily persuaded to door on
Dome frivolous pretense or parliament
larry trick this law IL delayed year AZ
ter year, and session alter session.
Opposition IL our only salvation and
let m up to . man and drive the mon
ter back where he belongs. All this
escrow business, coming from the
lource that Il does. Il scare-crow busi-
ness. The U. p. 10 very willing in.
iced 70 protect ~ from this airy,
phantom, fraud, sscsOW. And Why
because they want to remain our tssk
masten Let - 20 . little slow, boys;
- may have to seay aftef Tom goes
heme. Truly Y0an.