The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-06-04
is to come the young mind which
shall build up and adorn the farm
er's caling.-Dirieo RuraI.
The Triumph Of Monopoly.

The Triumph Of Monopoly.
The confirmation of Stanley Mat
thews as Associate Justice of the
Supreme Court is simply one more
step i'll the degradation of that trib-
unal which has been in progress
several years. 1t is an indication
that a sort of moral dry-rot has ia
ken hold of public men in this coun-
try, without distinction of party,
and that the old fashioned idea of
our highest judicial body has under
gone a decided change for the
worst.
The american Dairyman claims
to have recently read a letter from
the Master of the National Grange,
TO a gentleman in New York, in
which, alluding to the confirmation
of Stanley Matthew's as Judge of
the Supreme Court of the United
States, the following words. were
used:
81 deplore deeply the result of the
Senate action in confirming Mr..
Matthews. If the President is de-
termined to ignore the interests and
expressed wishes of the people and
appeals Of the wisest and best of
his own party, and use the whole
influence of his administration in
aiding the monopolies to rivet their
fetters n5s the i1RdJnstEieS ARD bHbSi
when too late to retract, that he has
made a mistake"
1t is most unfortunate that Presi-
dent Garfield has, in his attempt to
suit all factions of the Republican
party in his distributions of patron
age, seen fit to nominate, success
ively, three such railroad men as
Hon. Stanley Matthews, to be
Judge of the Supreme Court; Elliot
F. Shepard, Mr.. Vanderbilt's SON.
in law, to be District Attorney for
the Southern District of New York,
and Hon. W. H. Robertson, to be
Collector of the port of New York.
1t is understood that President Gar
field, in doing this, has been infiu-
enced bv Mr. Reid, of the New
York Tribune, and Secretary
Blaine, who of course represent the
corporation interest, and the puz-
zling thing about it is why if the
President is not monopoly man,
has he played directly into their
hands to such an extent? tits very
evident that he has, in doing SO,
greatly disappointed many friends,
and the question from the above
letter is a significant straw, showing
which way the political wind is
likely to blow in the future. The
people will not stand calmly by and
see the monopolists fortify them
selves in all the strong positions
much longer, and if it is found that
the leading men in the existing pol
itical parties are subservient to our
railroad magnates, both parties will
be set aside and men will be found
who will protect the interests of the
masses.
The fact that Mr.. Matthews has
been a strong partisan and that he
played a prominent part in the elec-
toral complications of 1876 was ex
pected to help him with his own
party friends and create antagonism
among Democratic Senators. But
/, this seems not to have been the case,
especially with reference to the
Democrats, for the majority of his
support comes from that side OF the
chamber. 1t has been asserted IN
exclamation of this latter circum-
stances that strong representations
have beee presented to Democratic
i Senators that Mr. Matthews would
| be certain TO range himself along,
side Of Justice Field on all political
questions that might come before
the court. This seems almost IN
credible. How manlfestly improper
= would be for Mr.. Matthews, OF
his friends for him, to give any sucn
nledqes. And if they were given
and accepted as reasons tor confr'
nation. how certain it is that they
would be d;sregarded-that thos'
relving upon them would only b'
once more taken into the camp an'
DESTROYED. The fact urged by Sen
ator Edmonds in the discussion
that sentiments uttered by Mr.. Mat
: ,hews in his address at the unveil
ing Of the Thomas statue showed
dangerous tendency toward central
t ;zation. did not, strangely enough
: seem to produce any effect upo
the minds of Democratic Senator
4 Formers Friend.