Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1882-08-17

- -~1 "fc Bttc1 70 any person VINO may
fancy himself sgrieved the right to har.
rass the corporation. the right to use the
State as plaintiff to litieate his real o.
imaginary personal grievances. The
sixth section gives the injured person
three-fold damages and Judgment for
attorney fees incurred. a
The cream OF the bill is fouad In SEQ
ton seven. This provides for four new
State oficeB-three Commissioner
and . secretary-at an aggregate. expense
OF $4,000 per annum-to perform exactly
the same duties now performed BY one.
Sections 8. 0 and 10 provides Tor the
qualifications. salaries and outfit OF this
junketing board. Section eleven COM
pels railroads TO carry the menagerie
whenever it may see tit 10 move free of
charge, while section twelve requires
railroads to make to this board the same
report now required to be made to the
railroad commissioner, and the next sec
tion enables 1t to PROFOUND additional
interrogstories." The three following
sections define the powers and duties Of
this board-being the same as now en-
Joined on the railroad commissioner.
Section eighteen and the following
seven, constitute this board an inquisi-
ton empowered to enquire into all the
private business, leases, contracts, &c.,
Of corporations. which if attempted to be
exercised on private individual would
legalize the use of shot gan, and COM
pletely destroy the sacredness of private
property. Sections twenty-six and twen-
ty-seyen empowers this board to monopo-
lie the time and services of the attorney
general and all the prosecuting attorneys
OF the State. while the twenty-eighth
graciously guarantees to the citizen the
right to sue in his own right for any in
jury hemay sustain by reason of the vio
lation OF any law by corporation! The
subsequent sections are of the same
character and still enlarge the privileges
of the Commissioners to the extent OF
even employing attorneys in addition to
the attorney-general and prosecuting at.
torneys. Section thirty-two contains
the novel provision that the rules of eui-
dence in cases against corporations shall
be the same as in other cases, and section
thirty-three makes the provisions Of the
bill applicable to ''all persons, firms and
companies, Incorporated or otherwise,
that shall do business as common car
riers" upon any railroad in Ohio.
The substitute for this bill, and the
only one really before the Senate, con.
tains but six sections, is stripped of all
the Objectionable features of the patent
medicine poster. and is nothing but q
compilation Of existing laws. M
1t is certain that individuals will no
aggregass their. capital in incorporation
unless it will be guaranteed at least tn,
same protection that it receives as pri
vate and individual property. Withou
aggregating all great enterprises mus
cease and no more railroads or telegraphs
steam ships or factories will be construc
ted and progress must stay its onward
! march. IT such measure as the on,
proposed by Brigham should ever be.
come law the Northwest will look in
vain for new railroads or great improve.
ments of any kind and every energy viii
languish into sluggishnesss
| With Brigham, however, this is all
demagoguery. He is not opposed to cor
porations and his seeming fight on rail
roads is in fact intended to make the
people believe that he is opposed te
monopolies, and the fact that he does no,
make some effort to overcome the gi
gantic monopoiies, whether railroads d
what they be, is evidence that he really
does not wish to antagonize the actua
enemies Of prosperity and equal rights.
What is it that enables the steel and
iron factories to declare an annual divi
dend Of 81 to 10 per cent? It is not be
cause they are corporations, but because
by means Of the tariff laws. they have !
monopoly of the business. So with al
4 our great manufactures-iti is not theil
corporate franchise but their ability Il
monopolize which enables them to op.
press both producer and consumer.
Why does not Mr.. Brigham denounct
the tariff laws, the railroad subsidies
and the river and harbor appropriations
Is it because these are all Republican
measures and that he has been q Repub
lican all his life and approves of ever,
act of that partyf
II he is opposed to monopolies, WHY
does he not, like Mr.. Hill, advocate shil
canals and water transportation and thu
bring water into competition with rail
If the money squandered to Improve
little rivers and creel-s that should b,
macadamized was appropriated to shiI
canals which being brought into com
petition with railroads would soon as
sure cheap transportation for western
products.
We. like consistency and We admire
sincerity.
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| Heartily Recommended.
| Don't condemn good thing because
you have been deceived by worthless
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