The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1882-01-14

enormous at liberal prices, and the
farmers of the West had an enor-
nous crop to satisfy the demands
of Europe, the railroads, because
they had the power, raised the
charge from IS to IS cents per 100
pounds. Millions of money winch
properly belonged to the embar
raised farmers of the West went to
enrich the few pampered monoP-
olists.
By treaty with the Government
of the Sandwich Islands, sugar is
admitted to San Fra ,cisco free OF
duty. That trade is in the hands OF
monopolists, and that they may shut
out from California the sugars OF
the refineries Of Philadelphia and
New York and control the market,
they pay two cents per pound, or
forty dollars per ton to the racine
Railroad Company not to bring
sugar over their roads. Twenty
five thousand tons of sugar were
imported in year, and this brought
to the railroad monopolists a hun
dred thousand dollars without rem
dering any service. This is being
common carriers with vengeance.
To keep the people from compre-
hending the extent of their SWIM
ding operations, and make an eX-
hibit of only legitimate profits, they
water their stock, and make profits
on capital never invested. AT one
time the stock of the New York
Central & Hudson River Railroad
Company was watered to the eX-
tent Of forty seven millions of dol
lars, and in thirteen years this wa
tered stock has drawn dividends
amounting to seventy five millions
of dollars, and is now about 40 per
cent. above par-all drawn with
out compensation from the pockets
of Product VS.. Industry. No won
der that Vanderbilt holds in his
hands fifty millions of interest-bear-
ing Government bonds.
In the opinion of eminent states
men more wealth has been created
in the last five years than in any
other time of our previous history.
Who has this immense accum ula
ton of wealth? 1t is certainly not
in the possession of its creators.
The workers III the great hive of
human industry, like a swarm of
bees, have been gathering in the
honey and like them they have been
only filling boxes to be removed at
the pleasure of robbers. Not only
have the great arteries of commerce,
and the powers of steam which ed
ucated labor has applied and util-
lied, been wrested from the people,
but the channels of thought, the
electric wires, the telephone, and
the press have been subsidized and
made instruments of outrage, OPP
preston, and robbery. These pow
erful agencies in our modern civil
zation have been monopolized by
few men, and used for their per.
sonal ACKNOWLEDGEMENT Even the
Associated Press Dispatches are
supervised, revised, and controlled
by selfish and greedy monopolists.
They buy up the metropolitan news
papers and use them to carry out
their nefarious schemes. Even the
public lands, the common inheri-
lance Of the whole people, are now
largely owned by few men, and
the native born citizen, as we'll as
those who come from other lands
to build up family affairs and homes
under the protection of our banner
of beauty must apply to land rob-
Der for title, and pay him what
his avarice or cupidity may demand
While all these facts are known
by our people, and especially by
our public men, the work of still
further consolidation of wealth and
power goes on with rapily increas-
ing force. The question now comes,
is there any remedy? This will be
settled when another question is
solved. Are a few hundred men
with their money stronger than fifty
millions of people who are strug-
Cling to better their condition?
The National Anti Monopoly
League proposes to organize
branches of the league in every
State, in every county, township,
and school district in the United
States, embracing all men, without
regard to party, who are disposed
to demand legislation on behalf of
the people, and accord full justice
to all corporations. There is no
disposition to make war upon cor
poratlons, but to restrain and pro.
hibit them from making unjust dis
examinations against individuals and
localities, prohibiting free passes,
and to have commissioners appoint
ed, both State and National, to es-
tablish uniform rates for services
rendered; in short, to compel them
to serve the people, instead of be
ing, as now, their masters. Their
plan also contemplates a liberal
policy towards our WATERWAYS,
which are of such incalculable ad.
vantage to the whole people. Why
should not the New York Canal.
and others, be made as free as the
lakes and rivers of the country? 1t
is really national highway of COM
merce to and from the seaboard for
the great West. True, it has cost
the great State of New York an
immense sum of money, but it is