The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1881-06-09
DR.. TaImage on Monopoly.
Fran the New York Herald, May, 10, 1851.

From the New York Herald, May, 16, 1881.
After the congregation in the Brook
lyn Tabernacle, yesterday morning,
had sung, my Country, It's of Thee
DR.. Talmage announced bis text from
Isaiah xii, 4l-''Thy lan1 shall bt
married." He said: / propose to nam'
some of the suito-s who are claiming
the hand of this Republic. In the
first place there is a greedy, all-grasp
ing monster who comes in as a suitol
seeking the hand Of this Republic, ano
that monster is monopoly. HIS sceptre
is made out of the iron of the rail track
and the iron Of telegraphy. He doe:
everything for his own advantage and
for the robbery Of the people. Things
have gone OH from bad to worse, until
in ths three Legislature Of New YORK,
New jersey and Pennsylvania for the
most part monopoly decides everything.
II monopoly favors a law it is passed
if monopoly opposes a law 1t IS rejected
Monopoly stands IN the railroad depot
putting into his pockets IN one year
5000. 600, 900 in excess of all reasonable
charges for service. Monopoly holds
in its one hand the steam power OF 10
comotion, and In the other the eletrlcl
ty of swift communication. Monopoly
has the Republican party in one pockei
and the Democratic party In the other
pocket. Monopoly decides nomina-
tions and elections-city elections,
State elections. national elections.
With brides it takes the votes of legiS-
lators, giving them free passes, giving
appointments to needy relatives or lu
crative positions, employing them as
attorneys if they are lawyers, carrying
their goods a large per ccntaSe less IL
they are merchants, and II Is mas q
case very stubborn as well as very lm-
portant, puts down before hlm the
hard cash of bribery.
A LEGISLATURE BOUGHT OUTRIGHT.
But monopoly is not so easily caught
now and captured and arrested as when,
during the term of Mr.. Buchanan, the
Legislative COMMITTEE In one OF our
States explored and exposed the man
ner in which a certain railway company
had obtained a donation of public
land. 1t was found out that thirteen
of the Senators of that State received
SI75, 900 among them, sixty members
of the Legislature OF that State re-
ceived between S., 900 and SO, 900 each,
the Governor of that received $5O, 0OO,
his clerk received So, 900, the Lleuien-
ant Governor received so, 600, all the
clerks OF the Legislature received So
900 each, while $50, 600 were divided
among the lobby agents. That thing
on \ larger or smaller scale is all the
time going on in some OF the States OF
the Uuion, but it is not SO laundering
IS used to be. and therefore not SO
easily exposed or arrested. l tell you
that the OvershadowIng curse OF the
United States to-day is monopoly. 1t
puts its hand GU every bushel of wheat,
upon every sack of salt, upon every
ton of coal, and every man, woman and
child in the United States feels the
touch of that moneyed despotism.
rejoice that in t~wenty-four States OF
the Union already anti-monopoly
leagues nave been established. God
speed them in the work of liberation
L wish that this question might be the
next Presidential election, for between
this and that time we can compel the
political parties to recognize it in their
platforms. | have nothing to say
against capitalists. A man has a right
to make all the money he can make
honestly. Ihave nothing ID say against
corporations as such. Without them
NO great enterprise would be possible;
but what | do say is that the same
principles are to be applied to cap
and corporations that are
applied to the poorest man and the
p~lainest labarcr. What is wrong for i
me is wrong for the Vanderbilts and g,
the Goulds and the elevated railway :
Of New York and Brooklyn. s
Monopoly in England has ground hun
dreds of thousands of her best people !
into semi starvation, and in Ireland ,
driven multitudinous tenants al :
most to madness, and in the United
States proposes to take the wealth of
fifty or sixty millions of people and !
put it in a few silksn wallets. Mono,
poly, brazen faced, iron fingered vul- {
ture hearted monopoly, proposes his !
hand, offers his hand to this Republic. {
Let the millions of the people-North, !
South, East and West-forbid the bands :
of that marriage, forbid them at the r
ballot box, forbid them by great Or '
CARNATIONS, forbid them by the over -,
whelming sentiment of an outraged :
nation, forbid them by the protest Of !
the Church of God, forbid them by !
prayer to high heaven, that Herod 9
shall not have this Abigail. :