Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1881-07-23
THE ANTI-MONOPOLY LEAGUE.

THE ANTI-MONOPOLY LEAGUE.
There has recently been formed in Ne,
York City league known as the Amt
Monopoly League, composed of men VIII
have made study Of the abuses whic]
now exist under monopoly rule in Amer
lea. The founders of the league are person
Of brains and determination and have a
their disposal sufficient amount of none,
to enable them to conduct their fgh,
against monopoly upon broad and exten.
sive scale. They print the editorial opin.
ions Of newspapers, speeches and statistics
and spread them broadcast over the land.
issuing their documents by the million.
They circulate so much printed matter
that an extensive printing establishment is
kept running night and day. The good
seed being sown is already springing
and ripening and the time cannot be far
distant when the people will gather q rich
harvest. The facts which the League have
20 widely disseminated, have reused thous-
ands of men from their apathy and caused
affairs
prevailing in this country at the present
time. II shows how few men have been
able to tax the Industries of the people un-
til they have absorbed nearly all the profits
OF business in all its branches. In 20 years
Vanderbilt accumu' ated $50, 600 900 in a
city where people were starving to death.
Jay Gould is estimated to be worth s6O..
OOO, 600 and men on his railroads get dol
lar day on which to support their families.
On our own Coast We find the firm of
Stanford, Croker 4 Company accuml.ted
over slOO, OO0, 600 in fifteen years and still
reaching in al directions for more This
state of affairs cannot last forever. The
people will reach certain point of poverty
and distress, which will cause them not |
only to inquire into the cause Of their con.
dition but to look about for some feasible
remedy. There are plenty of intelligent
men who fully realize the tendency of
the :ime, but where one man sees the
wrongs to which the public are subjected
there are dozen others who have little
more than an animal instinct in the matter. I
The masses of people are blind and nm
'easoning upon this subject, failing to :
'ealize that the money absorbing power of
monopoly is the cause of 80 much poverty
md distress, and not comprehendine that
very year will bring additional burdens 70 4
aen who toll for their daily bread. There
re plenty OF men who do not consider
hss high railroad tariffs can effect them
avanclng as reason that they ship no
Gods. 1t is hard to make these peonle |.
% that they are paying for high freiehts
very time they purchase pair of boots.
BAT or hat or any article which is shipped =
yer railroad. They cannot be made IN
aiize that the merciless freight schedule.
lPe ont manufacturing industries, which
light, if running, furnish them with steady 7
aployment and good wages. The ques-
IN now arises, should these thick headed
rsons De left to pay the penalty of their 5,
'pldlty or educated up to q more elevated
ndard OF common sense. A man who
reason Of his poverty is compelled from
boyhood to toll for miserable pittance II
very little time to inform himself pnon liz
vital question of the day. The weak
% OF his perceptive and reasoning power
clearly more his misfortune than his
1t. and his vote cannot be counted upon
d any certainty until he is made fullv
versant with the question at issue. The
7 Monopoly Leagne is collecting all
liable information upon the subject of
nopoly and its abuses and presenting
result OF Its intelligent labors in a con.
sed form. With a continuance of the
rgy, persistence and ability which has
'acterlzed its efforts. the effect upon the
presidential campaign will most .,er.
~ be felt. We cannot at this eorlv
predict victory, but We can all hone and
for it. Snpl
dis
eIissonier and A. Dumas are, a. is well Adm
vn, fast friends. They are both en-. Bo" ono
iastic billiard-players, and it is recorded extra
that one evening the great artist cot LAU
'clted over the match that he com.
led lot course in JEST to bet the
Tres OF his own private gallery. in.
ng some ct his own Choicest works. on
ifferent games. Dumas won and won
9 had become the nominal owror :.
painting in Meissonier's possession HaV
ding the painting of The Quarrel . IT,
b belOnped RI Or.o, W.. lucy