Daily Los Angeles herald., 1882-05-21
One OF the Prize Comedies cf the
Age-Abuse of Hearst!

One OF the Prize Comedies cf the |
Age-Abuse of Hearst!
There are certain store houses of inn |
pacted ice, ranging from the glaciers OF
the Alps to Nova Zembla, Iceland and
the Adelia- land of the Antarctic con-
tinent that, in certain inclement seasons,
might furnish the 'frozen cheek" for
which.the press of the Republican party |
is notorious. This press has the match
less impudence to talk about the Demo
cratic party in connection with corpor-
atoms, and there are lot of open
mouthed goslings who listen to this |
vaporing. 1t is the old, old trick, in
which the Republican party give away
the rights of the people wholesale, stick
their tongues in their cheeks and their
thumbs ON their noses, with extended
fingers, and start the thief s cry of stop
thief"
If we were the owner of five year
old boy who did not know that all the
favors granted to corporations in the
United States were conceded by Re-
publican Congress and by Republican
Legislatures we should take him out and
drown him, because we know he would
grow up an idiot and death would be
preferable to such misfortune, What
is the record of the Republican party on
this head? 1t is surely not necessary to
recapitulate the history of the Credit
Mobilier, or of those donations
Of the public lands, by Repub
lican Congresses, which far exceed in ex-
tent the area of the original thirteen
States.
1t was the Democratic party which in
creased that imperial area, first by the
Louisiana Purchase, under Mr.. Jeffer-
sons administration, and afterwards by
the acquisitions of territory which were
incidents of the Mexican war, and which
comprised, amongst other things, the
States of Texas and California and the
territories of New Mexico and Arizona,
some of the latter territory being ac-
quired, later, by treaty. 1t was
entirely owing to the Democratic party
that this imperial domain was added to
the comparatively modest area of the
original thirteen colonies. 1t was en-
tirely owing to the profigate policyof the
Republican party that by far the best
part of this uneyampled domain has been
frittered away on corporations.
When was the halt called in this Sat-
urnalia of an asking which rivaled the
energy of the horse leeehs daughter;
and, in giving, the liberal palm of
Lucullus or Vitelius? 1t was when the
people of the United States, after long
interregnum, returned a majority of DEM
ocrats to the lower house of the forty
fourth Congress.
The first act of that admirable Demo
cratic House of Representatives was to
pass resolution, and place it formally
on its rolls, announcing that thereafter,
no subsidy, in money or lands, should
be granted to any corporation by the
Congress of the United States. Just a
little while before this regenerating
Democratic House of Representatives
was elected, Congress had passed a law
giving a subsidy of one million dollars to
the China steamers of the Pacific Mail
Steamship Company, as an incident of
disgcaceful stock speculation in Wall
street. A Congressional Committee of
Investigation afterwards ascertained the
fact that three-quarters of that million
Of dollars had been expended in bribing
Republican Congressman to pass that
bill.
Still little while before, the power
full Pennsylvania Railway Company had
expressed its desire to Grant, who was
then President, to evade paying its obli-
cations to its creditors in coin, which
was then at high premium, and its in
tention to pay them in greenbacks,
which were then at a big discount. As
opposed to the will of this imperious
corporation stood the Supreme Court of
the United States which, in the person
of Mr.. Chief Justice Chase, had deliv-
cred its famous decision in the case of
Bronson v. Rodes, in which the issue of
greenbacks was declared to be, though
justifable war measure, unconstitu-
tional. That bond slave of the corpora
tions, the Republican party, at once
passed bill creating two additional
judges of the Supreme Court; and
Grant, at the dictation OF the imperious
Pennsylvania Central Railway, at once
proceeded to appoint their tools, Judges
Bradley and Strong, to the newly cre-
ated positions. The decision in Bronson
Y. Rodes was of course reversed.
Probably, since the world began, no
such shameless instance of subserviency
to corporations was ever disclosed in
the history of government, whether
constitutional or despotic, as that we
have recorded.
1t is in the face of a record of such
unexampled infamy and slavishness to
corporations that the San Francisco
Chronicle has the incredible cheek to in
dits an editorial under the heading,
THE Democracy and tho Railway" all
founded upon the fact that Mr.. George
Hearst, Democrat of unimpeached |