Daily Los Angeles herald., 1882-04-20


The New York Sun publishes q
very strong letter from L. e. Chit
tenden, President Of the National
Autobiography Lsagus. He says;
"rhere is much inquiry about the
objects and purposes of the confer
ence to be held at Albany on the
10th inst., on the invitation of the
National Autobiography League.
some Of these objects are 80 appar-
emit that we take no rick IN stating
them,
Th ere is now pending before the
American people the most import
ant question that has arisen since
the adoption of the Federal COnsti-
tuition, It involves the future eX-
istence of the Republic, and its de-
cision will also determine whether
= government of the people, by the
people, shall or shall not perish
from the earth.
Shall corporations control the
people, or shall the people control
the corporations they have created?
Shall q few score Of corporation
Aristocrats, gorged with the riches
of which they have despoiled 9TH
ers, make our laws, select our
Judges, regulate our taxes, name
the prices which shall be paid for
every mans labor, for the food he
eats, the fuel he burns, and the
clothes he wears, or shall the peo-
ne govern and protect themselves?
These are the vital pending issues
to BIS decided by the votes OF the
people OF the United States.
Every voter, especially every la
boring man, has a direct Interest
In these questions. SO has every
farmer aud every citizen. The ar
istocracy of wealth was never
known, in any government to cease
it's aggressions until its power for
evil was destroyed. Left to its nat
ural growth, it goes on until it
raises the prices OF everything but
labor, and the many grow poor
while the few grow rich. The past
year has Witnessed new aggressions
by corporations upon the rights of
the people so colossal that men are
almost stupefied by their impu.
dence. Witness thu monopoly OF
the telegraph; the elevated railroad
transactions, for which the Ian.
guage has yet no name; the attempt
TO steal the water front OF Hudson
county, n. ]. But the past year
has also witnessed diffusion of in.
telligence among the people on
this subject which ia equally
marvellous. With this intel
ligence has come the strong
and steady growth of u
stern determination to stay these
nggressions and to bring their
authors under constitutional con.
troll. Judges of our highest courts
use every proper occasion to de-
clare the plain right of the people
to limit the charges of public cor.
p0rations. Corporation efforts to
control Legislatures have failed
for the first time in many years.
In every State In the Uuion there
Is a growing public opinion that
old political parties have outlived
their usefulness because they have
failed to grapple with this great
question, and that monopoly iuflu-
ence controls their leaders; that
the right of the people to control
public corporations is the right
which all honest voters must unite
in maintaining, and that the ques-
ton of corporation control is the
one great vital political question
of the day.
The final judgment Of the Am eri-
can people Is always right. They
were never known to make q wrong
or an unjust decision. They decid.
ed that there should not be taxa
ton without representation, that
no foreign power should impress
American citizens, that slavery
should no longer exist! They are
ready to decide that corporation
aristocracy shall no longer control
this country. It ia as certain that
the people will bring corporations
under proper control as that our
country has future before it-as
certain az it was when the first gun
was fred against Fort Sumter that
the people had doomed the slave
oligarchy to destruction.
The conference at Albany is to
be conference Of the people to
protect the interests of the people,
and to establish the Government
of our fathers upon firm founda-
tions against the most powerful
enemy which has ever risen
against it. It will take steps to
perfect an anti-monopoIy organi-
zatien, and give notice to existing
parties that candidates must be
nominated whose record will be a
guarantee that further agressions
upon the peoples rights will not
be tolerated, falling in which the
Anti-MonopoIists will place in
nomination candidates for whom
alover of his country can consist
emily vote.