Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1881-07-28
Tho True Anti Monopolists.

tracing In greater degree than ever
the attention of the people of the
United States. In the Republican
party, among the working masses of
the county who make up the majori-
ties of that party in almost every To-
cality, there is growing discomfort
with the leadership that binds them
hand and foot to the power of the cor
porate and moneyed monopolies, which
control all Legislation and all branches
of gover,s fnt in their own interests
and at the Expense of the toiling mil
lions of the land. For this condition
of affairs, AN exchange with great
force remarks, the Republican party
must be held responsible, because all
these arrogant monopolies are the
creatures of Republican legislation.
Year after year, these sons of toll have
seen the agents Of corporations dictat-
ing the legislation of Congress, They
have not failed to note the alacrity
with which every Republican Con-
gress for twenty years has complied
with the demands Of their great aud
growing power.
When the workingmen have made
complaint they have been answered
with shallow sophistrics and put off
with false promises, while the work Of
building up the rich at the cost of the
poor has gone on without intermission.
During the two years in which the
Democratic party had an alleged ma
jority in both branches of Congress,
the Republican minority in the House
fought every measure that was not
pleasing in the sight Of its old mas
ters, the monopoists, Tha minority
was well drilled aud ably led. 1t was
generally able to defeat any bill no.
approved by corporation attorneys.
And if any such measures was permit
ted to pass both houses of Congress,
the monopolists had an ally at the
other end of the Capitol who was will
ing to do their work with veto.
These are the reasons why discon.
tent prevails among the voting masses
of the dominant party, and why the
Anti.Monopoly. League Is enlisting in
its ranks many thousands of the men
who voted for Garfield and Arthur in
the campaign of 1880. The revolt
was fully ripened of by the action of
the Republican party, through its rep
resentatives in Congress and its nomi-
nal leader in the White House, in de-
feating the Funding bill last winter.
The whole country knew that the ma
tional bankers, who endeavored to
produce panic in the money market,
dictated the defeat of that measure.
And none are so ignorant as not to
know that governments are degraded
from their true purpose and proper
sphere when they become the slaves
of their own progeny.
There is, however, no need of new
party in order to give the people all
the relief that is required. The Dem
ocratic creed and the history of the
Democratic party are guarantee
that, under its control, capital will
not rob labor. No Democrat pro.
poses a destructive war on corpora.
tions. They have their rights and
their uses. The good of all classes is
best promoted when the rights of all
are respected and defended. No rea.
sonable man wants TO see the great
railroads broken down or so crippled
that they cannot pay fair dividends
on their actual cost. But they must
be prevented from ruling the country,
the farmers of the great Northwest
must be released from slavery to rail.
road combinations, and the working
millions of the East must not be made
to pay exorbitantly for food in order
to swell the dividends on hundreds of
millions of watered stocks. The banks.
too, must be taught that they are sub.
ordinate TO Congress, and that they
cannot fix the rate of interest ON pub
lie loans by threatening panic. The