Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1883-05-03
Let Their Legislative IIireiings be Wise
In Time.
Listen to the Leading BuO!ness journal
of America.


commercial Bulletin OF the 10th inst.
, concerning the rising spirit OF popuIa
hostility to railroad aggression all oye
the country 1t was but Il brief extract
as We supposed at the time, and ms tn
New York Commercial Bulletin is con
ccded to be the leading business jour
, nal OF the United States, we have wait
ed with considerable interest till th'
+ mails should bring us the cOmplct,
, article. IL IS here to-day and as
= uealS, from n calm ana c0nScrvatlv,
STANDPOINT, WIN the greatest nationa
problem that mas come before the peo
PIE since that OF black slavery was set
tied, we print 1t IN full. This is tn,
question Of universal slavery of The
American people No man who value'
the liberty OF Which he boasts can af
ford TO ignore it.
rh, u,iIro,d. and tho r,hIic-,su .,
IrrqcnmctInhIc Conflict,
New Yorl, Commercial Bulletin.
lie must be very careless or obtust
observer of passing events who cannot
discern an ominous but apparently ir.
rCsislibIc tendency on the part Of pow.
eriul corporations, deriving their priv.
ilcges primarily from the state, and on
the part of the people, irrespective OF
ordinary party organizations, TO take
position toward each other as hostile
forces. Ominous, we say, because it
is impossible to maintain that attitude
without ultimately entailing upon all
the Interests involved conflicts and dis.
aStcrs which no man at all solcitous
for the common welfare can cOntcm-
plate with complacency. 1t is but lit
tie to the purpose to say that there
ought to be in the nature OF things, no
conflict of interests and no antagonism
Of feeling between those forces; that
one is dependent upon the other, and
that nothing, hence, is to be gained on
either side By one taking advantage of
the other All this has to be conceded,
us matter of course; but after the
concession is made we are are still con-
/ frontcd with the portcntous fact, that,
much rs we would have it otherwise.
there is mutual antagonism, and that
| it is acquiring swift momentum, in
many forms and in many places every
day.
il is no. difficult in the liIht of what
is PASSING before orr eyrs. to mari;
with more or less diStinctress the man.
ner in which these opposing forces are.
so to speak, now Systematically mn.
neuycrinr for position. On the si,le of
the p,oplc. for ,Xample. look at thc
impnlsivc way in which + bev orc mvnl,.
inc upon the railroad cor1orations in
the neighborinr state of New Jersey,
the restraints of LEGISLATION. witbout /,
must be admitted. any nor,icnIor rn.
rarI for nIdiciol limitations nv CON.
,titutional restrictions. Desn,iring os
il were. of n rcrtilicotion of ihrir
Grievances by other processos tbnv
finally Weld To- the Impulses of possion
and in ihot mood tinid nolitininns thot
bal previously been tbr ohrjinnt srr.
wants of tbecorporations ore frightcnnd
into an acouiesrencc in mGgsnrrs
which trend nrril,usIv nnor If ,bn,, Ln
NOT nosiliyrly override tho nrincirIn
nf tho invi0lohilitv nf cnntroc,, 10
wbirh the rornnrotions and tbo y,,,os
ore suuposed to he nor,irs Tbo tonn
gnd snirit .of the dnbotns ,t Trnrtnn
nrrcrdinr fine vote ogoinst tbo nnsi,ion
If thr grr,t cornoroi1ons nm tbc o,,ns
tion nf rem,nding to ,hn rnmio;noi;
fla. ,ba rirht nf 7srhioc,irr raiinnnd
mronnrtv within city Iimits - ,aYn,inn ',"
aro "a f,ir illustration of tbis "T1U Tbar
,ycrn rnt the tono and Smirit ,r u,hioi Ivy ~,
IinarilV % v % cb,roctcri~n I,nto,m,nm ,Y m,o'' AZ IL
rn.Sin% onrstinns mcrtai"inr ta r,m @
nicinni riThtsonJ mnn,ci"ai noonnn;n, Nv @
Law, nF niam v',n n"a si'",I.in .n".'Vr''.
peoplc that have been endurinG some
great wrong 10 which they were de. |
tcrmined no longer TO submit. If was
\ tone of ANGER and the spirit Of dc. |
liqnce. A stranger. ignorant of the
nnrstion ot issuo. miSht bnvn snn- !
posed that il was some kind of life onI
death struggle between mortal enc. |
mics. On behalf of thc railroad cor.
nnrotious he would have heard de.
lamentations of what were rhnrnc,er.
iuL as communistic princinles ond
orgonizotipns. also nf
demagogic Anti-Monopoly conspira-
cies which had regard neither for the
rights of property nor the inviolability
of contracts with ACCOMMODATING prorh-
estes of the multitulinous owls which
will be precipitated upon the country
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