The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-10-22

markets cheaper than they are car.
ried to you, although the distance
may be three times greater Your
valleys, which might otherwise
TEEN with grain, and your hillsides,
Just suited for the best pasturage OF
the best cattle and sheep that feed
on Gods green earth, are covered
with weeds, shrubs and briars. These
great corporations who run their
railroads through your State would
allow your lands to grow up into a
bowling wilderness, in order to
favor certain centers of trade or to
| extend their own strength, wealth
and influence.
You are slowly but surely being
bound hand and foot. And why?
The great reason is, you are too
busy, you do not take time to look
after who you are sending TO the
Legislature. Those gentlemen who
go to Wheeling with passes in their
pockets, when they get there may
cote something IN the interest of the
railroad. And men are sent there
who have special kinds of trade.
Indeed he could not account for
some startling things that have oc
cured in any other way SO selfish
are we, so en- gaged,in making mon
ey, chat in our onward march for
wealth we are neglected. OF all these
| things. Do we ever realize the,
| a ~, o,,rf ~ our In n 10 +bo+ l. o,,o l>oa..,f
given away to these railroad cor
poratious?- Why TO one Of them
has been given : the enormous
amount of 100000 acresi as
much land as is in the six States Of
Virginia, West Virginia, North Car
Dina, South Carolina, Georgia and
Florida-258, 900 square miles! Any
one can compute what vast
amount of wealth this will be when
turned into money. Never since
the foundation Of the first govern
ment on earth has so much money
been given to compromise individu-
ais or corporations by any govern
ment, and given to grind its people
to the dust. The State of California
is bound hand and foot by one Of
these corporations. Governors are
elected, Senators, Legislators, and
down 10 sheriffs and coDstabIes. by
the power atid will of railroad mo-
nOpolies that give spiciaI rates for
their freights and other tav0rs. Are
not such men likely to vote in favor
Of the interests of the railroads? I
would not dare to open a coal mine |
along the line of this road, whose
train Of coal just now ratified pass,
or any other road. unless | had some |
special and binding rates with the |
road. By anfinerease or decrease |
of one cent a bHsheI they could ruin |
me and enrich my neighbor, their
favorite. ....4
The government loaned the Pa
eitic Railroad Ii sum of money. |
" hich will when due, in 1902. |
to over 1904 ,0G0, 600 They
are trying to avoid payment of this,
but have recently been compelled |
by Congress, although with a small
VI ~ ~ create sihKlhg Iuhd
70 graz uai'y pay OF the debt, and
against this bill, creating a sinking
fund and worked the hardest against
it is now on the Supreme bench Of
,nu IN, In's0u na 2,aeeE, rms may De a
."na ''' nasa " ,L L'''l o'-'et n'm -"no
,nn o dor a 49, "iorG statement Is
$500 :, 'o oan 60" "''"ou' t''lle 70
= 1">' oo''''uoi'
BY adding five cents freight on
~. We o onS nea the railroad can take
, ,Joo'oIo iroHl tue pockets OF the
,"oPte' "ho are the ProqnceFS, The
'."euaLu : U ~ 80 company has made a
''ouI oi @l"'Voo'ooO IN the past ten
SIMPLY because they have
'eeh favored by railroads. Every
,oor man VINO IS able, to burn an
lamp feels this by this
'FeaV monopoly. Other and smaller
ompanles have been broken down !
no tn0 Oil interests OF our State :
uooH luiheu' over 2,000 men 8
ave peen thrown Out OF employ
lent Dy me COLLISION of this oil +
win the railway companies in the +
reakihg down OF small companies. ,
DO not understand me as being :
pPosed to railroads. [ would like ;,
} see our State netted all over with | :