The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1882-03-03
Should CORPORATIONS AND TuR rEOPtE
GEAT VARIANCE?

AhiS 10 very pam IUCSNASha "AN W
unhesitatingly say they should not.
That they ara at variance is not d'A-
pated question. What is the cause CT
this unnatural relation between corpo-
rations and The people, stronger in
some cases than in othe-si The psSple
for wise ends create corporations, or
provide rules of coLduet at their birth
that shall govern them. Bat no soon
er than they come into existence they
aim to cripple the power that created
tAem. To do this every means is used.
Tho Court and press are courted, and,
too often, purchased. Thus it Is that the
rights of the people are outraged and to
such an extent that the severest meth
DDS of revenge arc provoked. Hence
the existence of the antimonepoly feel
ing. The people are educSted usually
to look on the press of the country as
being honest in all things that 1t will
stand by the people ana advocate their
rights. Bat when it is found that this
is all sham, and many leading presses
of the country, pretending to favor the
people, but in realit, cohdemning them,
are enemies Of the producer and wage
class, it is time that something should
be doae to correct this error. Corpo-
rate money is an arrant coward, and its
cowardice makes it corrupt. Fearing
tho people, lest they keep corporations
honest in dealing, the leading rress
through which the wants and rights of
the people should be made known, is,
too often captured in the interest of
money power. Instead of going to tie
people direct and dealing with them
frankly and fairly, the press and Judges
are boldly captured as far as possible
TO farther the ends OF these agents OF
oppression. Every dollar that is paid
to stained ermine, or the guilty knight
Of The quill, or the professional fraud,
comes out of the pockets of the victims
by the most bere faced and direct metL-
DDS Firs; control the courts if possible,
is the motto, then the leading press.
The latter does double duty. IL 1e-
fends the court and corporation aud riG-
i;ules the rights of the people. We
make these remarks as warning to all
courts against temptation, but not IS a
charge against our State courts. We
DO not want 10 be misunderstood. We
Only desire to talk as our honest yeo-
men talk-she producers aud wage-claSs
ON this subject We have in Oregon
a newspaper claiming to lie under obi
cations 20 no political party, though il
ID Republican IN body, il it is nothing
in principle. Il claims larger support
from the people than any otLer rews-
paper and fights FOR this support. Il is
owned by corporate power. 1. faunis
the iTthy evidences Of its crime daily
before an iacorruptible reading com
munity. 1. feels secure in its untlush-
ing peridv thinking the people are quieg.
cent In receiving this betrayal of trust
as the editor stealthily pockets tho earn
ings of his sin. The public have anoth-
er press, and the paper is taken By a.
most every farmer, and taken bccanss
its only claim to favor lays Ia It's pre-
tended devotion to the interests Of the
producers and wage class against mon
led power This press il no~ Owned
6y corporate power. The poor mihera-
ole editor goes about Ike the devils
apology for deall, claiming that the
right 20 take money for any purpose Is
paramount to the success Of any detei-
inmate principle fof The benefit of man
kind. Sold in both cases for pottaga
aud every reader knows the price q
it. II there is a Judge who has in his
pocket money thus cxtorted fr om the
hard earnings Of the people-corporate
purchase money no matter by what
disguise he got it, our picture for the
present is complete. We call On the
people to look into this matter from
their own stand point. Every dollar
that corporations pay to subsidize these
men, whom live and act on 4 principle
not whit above that Of petty larceny
thief, is wrssted from the hard earn
ings of our farmers and wage class. We
want our people to teach corporations
that while they may oPpress the people,
they shall not pay the Williams who aid
and abet them, whether on the bench,
Ia the editors chair, or starving at pro
f ssional tfickery.
Mr. Ben Holladay came into Oregon
with the belief that his success depended
on his ability to run courts, editors aud
T T,eoieIatl,ras He secured tho services