The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1881-06-03

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hood to so brazenly place themselves
like wall of defensa around the
wrongs which tho people are demand
ing to have redressed it seems to us
net doubtful that the upright Republi-
can who looks to his party for reform
against the monopolics will know in
time the bitterness of disappointment.
The knave is merely conjuring with the
Republican name. He pipes the old
tune and the nnsuspeotins peasant
dances. The rank and file are in this
matter not unlike the common soldiers
who, having at Napoleons command
defended the French Republic, at his
command also struck it down, suppos,
ing that inasmuch as they were obeying
Napoleon all the time they were for.
warding the purpose which was dear to
them at the beginning. Men change
and parties change, and tho .iugglery of
politics consists in making the mass of
men believe that there Is no change.
This country owes great debt to the
liberty loving, loyal men who organized
and, in its younger days, composed the
bulk of the Republican party but it
owes only antagonism TO the schemers
who now trade upon the name as the
pirates of old used to sail under decey
Gags.
Our Republican friends will, We ap
pyehend, have To make up their minds
that the evils which have grown up
under the party in power will not be
cured till it is ovorthrown. The very
fact that distinctive movement il bo,
ing fostered 10y them is of itself proof
that there is something rotten in their
political Denmark.
II ought in this relation to bc born,
in mind that there is no. war proposed
upon corporations ms such. These mer
chants who are most active in this
movement are not blind to The advan
tages which the country reaps from
corporate capital justly used. The wal
is upon abuses It's purpose is to max,
the man who handles 100000, 900 o
stock live subject TO the law made b,
the people, AS much az tho man VIII,
transacts the humblest kind of legiti
mate business. There is nothing pro
posed that will prevent the building o
railroads or construction of TELEGRAPH
lines. What is aimed ut Is L
prevent the controllers OF thes
enterprises from eniasculating al
the other enterprisins and industri''
of the country. Nobody desires To sc
impoverished railroad corporations, o
to have those who houesty invest il
them deprived OF fair return OH their
capital, or reasonable compensation
for the risk they run. Indeed, the dis
position is Ia ear on the side of eener
osity. 1t IL, hewever, a different matte
when those corporations are So manag
ed as to present the spectacle of FORTUNES
Of hundreds of millions wrung by few
men out of the industry of the country
and the political rights of the people
assailed with corrupt weapons, to th'
end that the work Of plumber may 9,
on unchecked. 10 this it is propose,
70 object. To this objection is decid d
ly made, and on this line there is goin.
To be a struggle to tbe death. il i; take
fifty summers
We observe that on the platform las
night were such old time Republican
az Messrs l.. T. Chittcudeu, +. /;
Thurber, Darwin l. James, John +
Henry and Bernard Peters. side hy sid'
with equally old Democrats like VII
liam Marshall, ex.Judse Morris az,
Thomas Kinselln. When veterans Q
hundred battles like these find tha
the time hes come for them TO MAKE
common c'ase against public enemy
it IS evident that "cgeags are in th,
saddle and ride mankind"