Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1882-06-29

Chicago Express.
The following New York dispatch
to The Chicago Tribune tells its own
story as far as it goes
"NEw YORK, June lO.-The variou,
trunk lines have, it is said, agreed Il
advance the rates for freight to the west
nearly double the present rats. making
tirst class 10 instead of 45 cents per lOU
pounds, as at present, and other classes on
this basis. The date for the new rates to
take tifttt is said to be July l."
"The various trunk lines have
agreed" to do this. That is, they have
formed criminal conspiracy to ex.
tort from the people of the northwest
slS0,0OO,OOO more for the coming year.
than they received last year. The
aggregate annual tonnage of the five
great trunk roads between Chicago
and the Atlantic sea board according t.
last reports was a trile over 36,0O0,,
900 tons, or more than 720,O00,000
hEndred pounds weight. The advance
Of twenty five cents per 100 pounds
proposed by this strike of the rail
kings, would amount to $lS0,000,0O0 Il
year while the seventy cents per 100
pounds to be struck for on July l is
fifty cents per hundred more than
experts declare would pay "elormous
profits" This proposed strike then is
for an extortion of fifty cents per 100
pounds freight on an average annual
trafic of 720,000,U00 of hundred
pounds, which will amount to high,
way robbery of 1860, 100000 annually,
or about one million dollars a day,
week days and Sundays. This only
for the five great trunk roads, while
the hundreds Of local and side branches
demand and receive from five to fifty
times as much in proportion to the
distance property is transported. Our
revolutionary fathers rebelled against
the government under which they were
reared and declared and won theiI
independence at cost of seven years
of bloody war, with no other basis for
their revolt and its attendant sacrifices
than the wrong and injustice of being
taxed without consent of the privilege
of being represented in the councils
which decreed the levy. But here is
Il proposition to over tax the people of
the northwest three hundred and sixty
millions of dollars a year. not by any
state or national authority or for the
public good, but by five men represent.
ing five giant monopolies for their
own private and personal gain. 1t is
an arbitrary levy of brigands without
the authority of laws or the consent of
those upon whom the levy is to be
made.
The sum total paid by the whole peo.
pie during the year 1881 for the sup,
port Of the general government, includ-
ing direct and indirect taxation was
1856 7S3292.
This the people submit to willingly,
for it is necessary to defray the public
expenditures, and TO meet the maturing
obligations of the government. In
other words it is expended in the in
teIests of those who contribute it, al
of whom are represented in the coun-
ellis that decree the levy. 1t is taxa
tion with representation, and with the
consent of the taxed. But the taxation
under consideration is for an amount
equal to the annual revenues of the
government, not by the government
for the use and benefit Of the people
but by a band of brigands for booty,
an arbitrary levy for plunder, not as Il
means necessary to keep up and sup
port a public necessity, but an advant-
age taken Of 2 public necessity TO rob
the public. 1t is not a uniform tax
upon all the people, but forced levy
upon the productive forces of one sec.
ten of the republic. 1t IS not taxation
with representation, but an arbitrary
decree of five cOnspirators against the
general welfare aid the public good, as
well as against the just protests of the
tOiling millions. We are not a free
people if such things can he done, and
if we are not, we have the same right
to be that our fathers had, and the
means they used they did not exhaust.
But we have other means. We have
the baliot-every one of which sis u
Columbiad, and every freeman a full
armed monitor" Let us use these
weapons and emancipate the 50,000,-
600 of slaves of corporate monopoly,