The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-02-15
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THE PEOPLE on oSE sIDE-THE RISGsTEits,
TIE MoSoPoLIsTs AID THE BOSSES On
THE OTHER.
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| Raymond Gazette.
i Tie other daY prominent Washington
4 Republican paiitieian sail that the onil
/ political question Of say consequence now
is this: Which party will have the bFalh
development needed 70 ferce the issues
against monepolists7
Whether or not the prediction Of the
Washington Republican Politician will be
verified, ne are nos prepared e say; but
we can sav, and very confidently, that the
whole eoantrg seems Il Re rapidly passing
into the hands u the nonopoiists and TIE
ringsters Who rely upau politics and the
offal of political parties FIR subsistence.
The people-the great body Of the substan-
tial people of1he country-have precious lit
tie to do. nowadays, with their government,
beyond recording the edicts and viii OF the
conspirators aud riugsters, and this applies
not only to national but also to State and
county affairs. The railroad. national banks
and tariff monopolsts control the President
and both branches Of Congress, while close
corporations are found in every State which
control State Affairs, with minor corpora
tons, (which are very close.isted and quiet
but remarkably grasping in their con
spiraeies controlling county afFairs-the
substantial people all the while recording
the edicts Of these rings and ringsters I'M
der the mistaken idea that they, the people,
are the source 81 all power in this country,
The intelligent observer of passing events
has not failed to notice, we conjecture, that
the Washington Republican Politician is
not altogether alone 10 his views, but that
he has company. Unquestionably there
are Others Of his style Of thought-men
who sincerely believe that there is speedily
to b. an entire breaking mp Of the two old
parties Democratic and Repablicaa-and
because, it IS urged, there is no longer
sectional issue, and that from the old pan
ties will come two parties which viii
stand as monopolists-and anti-monopo-
lists that is to say, the manop-
olists, the close corporationists the ring
sters aud their friends, on the one hand
aud the people aud the advocates of a peo-
Piles government on the other. II Is urged
that the results Of the elections last EaIl I'M
Virginia and Tennessee, aud the present
mutterings from the Carolina's, Georgia,
Alabama, etc, all have their Inspiration in
a deep-seated feeling among the people to
dispense with monopolies, aud monopolists,
rings, bosses, close corporations, etc, and
that other issues having been settled by the
Presidential elections of 1876-l8S9, this new
question will henceforth be the question
upon which the people will divide.
We must confess that we should be very
glad to see the people Of the North start ou&
on divide on the Monopoly, Bank, Rail-
road, and other questions of like practical
character, and in such an event we venture
the opinion that the Sou thern people would |
quite unanimously drop the sectional ques-
tions which have received so much atteu- /
ton in the past and join their fortunes with I
new parties-or, We should say, with that |
party which might promise the best for the I
whole people of the whole country, and I
which might agree to relieve the country I
from the reign f monopoly, bossism, and I
ringism reign which is crushing the /
great body of The toiling people to the earth,
while it is exalting the privileged and BEN
Gifted few, enabling them to swallow up the /
entire wealth of the country aud to firmly
seat themselves as bosses and masters of the
men who are the very soal and spirit of all
our productive industries. The peopleAE
must free themselves from boss and ringN
rule, or they will lose their liberty, as well +
as everything else. 1t is high time we had
an anti MONOPOLY, anti-ring party in every
State of the Union.