Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1883-04-13
VIII Jay HouId own The Country :.
Chicago Express.

p!nndering tie E,ie, ana nc HAN e""'
Iinya,ed the Union Pacific, the Wa.
basil, system, the Anthracite coal roads,
the Elevated rnad.. tho Western I'm
ion telegraph. the Texas Pacific, the
city of St. Louis, and the whole rail.
road system uf the southwest. He
has absorbed the telrgraphs of Canada.
and he has entered upon tbs CONNER
cial conquest Of Mexico. he is mon
arch of ll,7l4 miles of railroad. and
he ia the controlling spirit of corpora
tions with q capital Of seas. 500, 900
a sum equal to the value If all the
property IN tho State Of Illinois. He
is the king Of the stock market. Tho
pool Of which he was the brains. ran
gold mp from l3l to 1852 on Black Fri.
day. He 10 able to name the price,
within reason. Il any stock on the list.
| No corporation can Withstand an at
tack from him. He owns tho leading
Democratic and the leading Repnhli-
can newspaper in the country. He has
already taken hand in the ocean car.
rying trade. both on the Atlantic and
the Pacific, the Pacific Mail and The
Panama lines having succun,hed to
him. In very little time he is likely
tn control all the rontes of transporta
tinn and communication on and ont oi
this continent. His power grows
steadily, and the limits of his opera
tons widen. In his rapac;ous prog
ress he finds little difficulty interpos"d
by the law-making bodies and the
courts of the country. He has arrived
at such pitch Of power that he
scarcely needs any official aid. Our
political and industrial systems invite
conquest by Commercial car He
ia young man yet, only As. He is
Napoleon in capacity, in daring and in
ambition. lie works to crafty his
Inst OF power in modern ways, not
with army hosts. If his schemes d.
nat miscarly, he will own the country.
He will have the markets at his mer-
cy, and will be able to canse such wi:e
fluctuations ia the prices OF standard
articles as will rob The public and
bring immense profits to himself; he
will he able To make and uumakr
towns and cities, and to beat dow
every public and private interest in.
iinical to lis own. 1t is possible that
this man will snljngatc the country
AS completely within the next few
years, through the agency of his spec
nlatlons, as Napoleon conquered En-
rope. or as Alexander overrnn the east
Ills operations have progressed 50 ia,
with the precision aud uniailing sue
cess OF great general. His fall has
been long projected, hut every pruipc,
that no enters upon is successful, and
lie Is now so strongly intrenchcd as to
make failure almost impossible. He
is the most powerful man in the com
try to-day, but what he has done il
little compared with what is coming
after.
But break must come somewhere.
one man cannot own tho United States.
1t may be that the law permits it. 1t
may be that he gains possession in
virtue OF a genius that would have
done credit to Cromwell or Caesar
Nevertheless, when he come TO take
there will he an earthquake
that will swallow him up. When the
blood of the people is once stirred
they will find way or make one
And 1t will be the way of freedom
do not go for much when thew
are handled by the storming parties of
revolution. When the people eucc
realize that the towers of liberty are
topping down, that the sacred bull
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