The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1881-07-22
DIR. r.lnAex ON moxoro1Y.

After the congregation in the Brook
lyn. Tabernacle, yesterday morning, bad
sung, "My Country, 'tis Of Th9e," DIR
Talmage announced bis text from
Isaiah xii, 4l-"Tbe land shall bt
married" He said / propose q
name some OF the suitors who are
claiming the hand of this Republic
In the first place there is a greedy, all
grasping monster who comes IN as a
suitor seeking the hand Of this Repub.
lie, and that monster is monopoly.
His sceptre Is made out Of the iron Of
telegraphy. lie does everything for
bis own advantage and for the people.
Things have gone on from lad to
worse, until in the three Legislatures
of New York, New Jersey aud Penn
sylvania for the most part monopoly
decides everything. IfmoDopoly favors
law it is passed IL monopoly op.
poses law IL is rejected Monopoly
stands ia the railroad depot putting
into bis pockets in one year, 600, 600.
600 in excess Of all reasonable charges
for service. Monopoly holds ia its
one hand the steam power of locomo-
ton. and ia the other the electricity Of
swift communication. Monopoly has
tho Republican party in its pocket.
Monopoly decides nominations and
elections-city elections, State elec.
tions, national elections. With bribes
il takes the votes Of Legislators, giving
them free passes, giving appointments
70 needy relatives Of lucrative posi-
tions, employing them as attorneys If
they are lawyers, carrying their goods
a large per eentage less If they are
merchants, and If it finds a case very
stubborn az well as very important.
puts down before him the hard cash of
bribery.
But monopoly is not so easily caught
now aud captured and arrested as
when, during the term Of Dir. Bucban
an, the Legislative Committee IN one
Of our States explored and exposed the
manner in which certain railway
company had obtained q donation OF
public land. 1t was found ont that
thirteen of the Senators Of that State
received $4,000 among them, sixty
members Of the Legislature Of that
State received between $1,000 and
$4,000 each, the Governor of that
State received $4,000, his clerk re.
ceived 5000, the Lieutenant Govern
or received $4,000, all the clerks OF
the Legislature received s. 900 each.
while $4,000 were divided among
the lobby agents. That tbipg on a
larger or smaller scale is all the time
going on in some Of the States OF the
Union but IL Is not 50 laundering as
il used 20 Ice, and therefore not 80
easily exposed or arrested. I tell you
that tho overwhelming curse Of the
United States to-day Is monopoly. II
puts its hand on every bushel of
wheat, upon every sack Of salt, upon
every ton OF coal, aud every man, wo-
man and child IN the United States
feels the touch Of that moneyed despot-
ism. ] rejoice that in twenty four
States OF the Union already anti-me-
nopoly leagues have been established.
God speed them in the work Of liberia
tion | wish that this question might
be the question Of the next Presiden-
tial election, for between this and that
time We can compel the political parties
to recognize it in their platforms /
have nothing 10 say against capitalists.
A man has right 20 make all the
money he can make honestly. / have
nothing to say against corporations as
such. Without them no great enter
prise would be possible but what ]
do say is that the same principles are
to be applied to capitalists and corpora
tions that are applied to the poorest
man and the plainest laborer. What
is wrong for me is wrong for the Van
derbilts and the GouIds, aud the elevat-
ed railway companies Of New York
and Brooklyn. Monopoly In England
has ground hundreds of thousands of
her best people into semi-staryation,
and in Ireland has driven multitudin-
Gus tenants almost to madness, aud Ia
the United St4tes proposes to take the
wealth of fifty or sixty millions of peo-
Pile and put in few silken wallets. Mo-
nopDly. hrazen faced, iron fingered,
vultnre hearted monopoly, proposes his
hand, offers his hand to this Republic.
Let the millions Of the people North,
South, East and West-forbid the
bans of that marriage, forbid them at
the ballot box, forbid them by great
organizations, 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 shall
no. have this Abigail-N. T. Herald.