Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1881-07-07

an llS cApcllSeS, ana llle reception o
the same money for all its revenues
keeps up the healthy circulation of th
life-blood of commerce through tn
heart of the nation, its treasury, il
harmony with the analogies of al
nature. S. w. IIOLLADAY.
SAN FRANCISCO, CAL, Nov. ,, 1886
Their Days are Numbered.
National View,
The days of railroad corporations ar,
numbered. Notwithstanding the gi
gantic combinations of Jay Gould anC
others, these cOrmorants even now fee
their pray slipping from them. Th,
men who are interested in their gains
are forced to take up the cry against
them or loose their hold upon the coun
try politically; their opposition has
come too late and too palpably for 1
purpose now to save them. Nationals
who have fought them from the begin
ming have cause to rejoice; the question
for agitating which, they were called
madmcn and schemcrs, has thus soon jus
titled their declarations and deductions
The very man, who, three years ago
sneered and flung billingsgate at every
speaker and newspaper which boldly
placed the condition into which they
were being forced before the people,
are now lOudcst in their dCnunciations
of corporations. Unfortunately for
themselves their war cry comes from a
tower within the encmys entrcnch.
ments; they do not come out from the
corrupted camp, but by false signals
seek to hide the actions of their lead
captains. What do such politicians
think of Il people whom they seek thus
to blind-fold? They ymust think them
fools and purblind; or not 50, they
have themselves become such, blinded
by their own false glitter of success, or
they would know this movement has
come from the people, born of their
sense of justice and their strength of
protest A man who is Il mere polti-
clan, no matter to what position he
may have attained, or how kCcnly i'll
tclligcnt he may be, can no more take
in the length, breadth, and motive
Of his opposition, than the purely me.
clanical can grasp the fine essence of
vitality. 1t has its rise in something
beyond the political aspect of affairs; il
is the everlasting protest of man
against everything which tends to fet-
ter what God made to he everlasting
free. 1t is the uprising of force against
circumstance; it is the inherent uplift-
ing of an element that dciies repression,
and it is even bubbling in the very
veins of the men who would dcbase
the feeling that they might become
masters of other men.
There is not man today who does
not feel the force Of the principle
which moves the National party. Talk
to any one of our opponents, polite
ians, or others, and every one will in
candor acknoWlpdpp that thev rnrnr-
nize the existence Of gioantic evile.
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