The Cecil Whig., 1881-06-11
DIR. TALMAGE ON MONOPOLY

WM. II. GRNcE.
DIR. TALMAGE ON MONOPOLY.
| From. the Ne,r Yo,k Herald, Nag II.
After the congregation in the Brooklyn
| Tabernacle, yesterday morning, had sung.
My Country, It's of Thee Dr. Tai
mage announced his text from Isaiah
xii, filthy land shall be married.
He said: | propose to name some Of the
suitors who are claiming the hand of this
Republic. In the first place there is 4
greedy, all-grasping monster who comes
i'll as a suitor seeking the hand of this
Republic. and that monster is monopoly.
His sceptre is made out of the iron of th-
rail track and the iron of telegraphy. lie
does everything for his own advantage
and for the robbery of the people.
| Things have gone on from bad to worse,
until in the Legislatures of New York.
New Jersey and Pennsylvania for the
most part monopoly decides everything.
If monopoly opposes law it is rejected.
| Monopoly stands in the railroad depot
| putting into his pockets i'll one year 5000
| 900. 600 in excess of all reasonable
charges for service. Monopoly holds in
its one hand the steam power of locomO-
| tiOn, and in the other the electricity of
swift communication. Monopoly has the
| Republican party in one pocket and the
| Democratic party in the other pocket.
Monopoly decides nominations. elections
city elections. State elections, national
elections. With bribes it takes the votes
of legislators, giving them free passes.
giving appointments to needy relatives
of lucrative positions, employing them as
attorneys if they are lawyers, carrying
their goods at large per centage less if
| they are merchants, and if it finds 4 case
very stubborn as we'll as very important,
puts down before him the hard cash OF
bribery.
| 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 manner
in which Il certain railway company had
obtained donation of public land. 1t
was found ont that thirteen of the Sena-
tors of that State received $4,000
among them, sixty members of the Leg
islaturc of that State received between
s.. 000 andS:10, 900 each, the Governor ol
that State received $50, 600, his clerk re-
rcived $1,000, the Lieutenant Governor
received $4,000, all the clerks of the
Legislature received $1,000 each, while
| $50. 900 were divided among the lobb.
AGENTS. That thing on a larger or small
er scale is all the time going on i'll some
of the States of the Union, but it is bot
so blundering as it used to be, and there
fore not so easily exposed OF arrested.
tell you that he overshadowing curse "l
the United States to-day is monopoly. 1t
puts its hand on 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 6f
that moneyed despotism.
Irejoice that in twcnty-four States Of
the Union already anti-monopoly leagues
have been established. God speed them
| i'll the work of liberation. wish that
this question might be the question of
the next Presidential election, for be
tween this and that time we can compel
the political parties to recognize 1t III
their platforms. l have nothing to say
against capitalists. A man has right
to make all the money he can make hon
estly. have nothing to say against cor
porations as such. Without them II"
great enterprise would be possible; hnt
what do say is that the same principles
are to be applied to capitalists and cor
| porations that are applied to the poorest
man and the plainest laborer. What Is
wrong for me is wrong for the Wander.
bits and the Goulds and the elevated
| railway companies of New York and
| Brooklyn. Monopoly in England has
ground hundreds of thousands of her
best people into semi-starvation, and III
Ireland has driven multitudinous tenants
almost to madness, and in the United
States proposes to take the woalth "l
fifty or sixty millions of people and put
it in 4 few silken wallets. Monopoly,
brazen- faced, n-tingered, ,vulture heart
ell monopoly, proposes his hand, offers
his hand to this Republic. Let the mill
ions of the people-North, South. East
and West-forbid the bans of that mar
riage; forbid them at the ballot-box, for
bid them by great organizations forbid
| them by the overwhelming sentiment OF
an outraged nation, forbid them by the
protest of the Church of God, forbid
them by prayer to high heapen, thar
lIerod shall not have this Abigail.