The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1883-05-25
CORPORATIONS.
Opinions OF the Press.

Honest railroad management is what is
needed in this country; and it is needed
badly.
From the Omaha Bee.
Railroad millioniares are already men
ace to the free institutions, and the country
will not stand it to have many more of them
created.
From the New York jorriaal iiiail Of Commerce.
Sooner or later the people will understand
their rights and will maintain them; if this
is their Government and not one of railroad
pools and rings.
From the Western Qowa) Stock Journal.
Combinations OF men who own large CAPT
tai for the purpose of controlling great and
important business interests are the over
Swallowing evil of the present time.
From the St. Joseph (Mo.) Herald.
The great danger of the day is the power
of corporations We feel it on election day,
we see it in Congress, we feel it every time
there is change in freight, fares and tele-
graph rates.
From the Portsmouth ('a Times.
Trouble, serious trouble, will just as sure
grow out of the present state of affairs, and
be precipitated by unjust railroad manage
ment an discrimination and the exercises of
the power and influence of railroad monopo-
lies in state of national elections, as that
day follows night.
From the Cleveland Leader
4 feeling prevails throughout the country
that the present management of our
railways is inimical to the best interest of
the people. This feeling has begotton dis
satisfaction which is Constantly increasing
in intensity, and may eventually provoke a
conflict which will end disastrously in more
ways than one.
From the Boston Journal of Commerce.
The tendency of rapid accumulation OF
property, or what represents property, IN
the hands of a few: is one of the greatest
measures Of subversion of sound principles
of Government. and has proved itself so in
the history of the nations, and, rs 4 few be-
come richer, the masses OF the reople be
come poorer in an inverse ratio,
From the Rochester Morning Herald:
They have been hedged in and protected
on every side by statues in their interests,
while the people who have nurished them
until they have grown to the stature Of
giants, and IN many cases the insolence and
despotism of tyrants, sre left almost wholly
at their mercy. 1t is surely time that the
people began to look after their own inter:
ests.
From the BdHalo Express.
No people in the world have Welcomed
the railroad era so joyfully as Americans;
no other people have done so much by land
grants and corporate aid to build railroads
no other people have so fully recognized the
value of railroad transportation. If railroad
managers have chilled this cordiality, and
changed it to distrust, they can blame moth
ing but their short-sightedness
From the american Dairyman.
An intelligent citizen must appreciate the
fact that tariff. transportations, telegraph,
tradeiand patent monopo1ies are fast concen-
trating the wealth of the nation in the hands
of favored few, and that if the present
system continues much longer we will have
in this country an aristocracy and peasan-
try with lines as distinctly drawn as they
are in the older countries of the world.
From the Manchester IN: H. Times.
Land to the amount of l27, 9S9, 22l acres
has been granted or given to railroad
porations within the past 20 years. This is
a territory so immense that we can only
comprehend it by comparison. 1t is more
than the States of Maine, New Hampshire,
Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut.
Rhode Island, New York, New Jersey, Del
aware, Maryland and PENNSYLVANIA. It is
more territory than the kingsdoms of Great
Britain and Ireland, Greece, Belgium. Ne
therlands, Denmark and the republic of
Switzerland combined, which sustain pop
u1ation of the United States and all it's Ter
ritories. In addition to this, S64, 623, 5l2
of the bonds of the United States were issu-
ed to railroads. Upon these bonds we have
already paid s5l, 900, ,OOointerest. Not only
was the blood bought land left us by the
fathers given them, but by the issuing of
these bonds they were enabled to lay their
lein on property not yet created. By this
device the fingers of the railroad kings were
made long enough to reach into the pockets
of prosperity and pull out the inheritance of
children yet unborn.
A white boy met colored lad the
other day and asked what he had