The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1883-04-12
The Fundamental Evil.

Among the indications Of coming
change III government and society are
two articles In the last number of the
North .imeritaa nerien. The articles
referred to arr hs Mr. George, on the
Nennlits If voters and elections, and by
Mr.. George NJ. Julian on the enormous
rapine Of the great railroads and their
Incredible injustice and cruelty.
For liz Ia follow Mr., Julian through
the carup,ioas and the cruclties perpc-
trated hs the great anaamnahlcs would
he an ugly and interminahle task. tits
not a pleasant sight To see corporation
and court and Congress playing into
one another's hands. to divide among
themselves first, the present earnings
of the people in the shape Of United
Stasds bonds. and second. the patri-
mens--,he inheritance of ourselves and
our posteritv.
The alternate sections all along the
roads from twenty to TO miles wide;
the patents issued. vacated aud Doubt
fais the settler saialv fighting for his
home reclaimed twenty years before UNI
der gran, from the United States, and
now Preserved" from him Ivy the ruiiian
railroads. the evictions--the slaughter
even Of the evicted. which last Mr..
Julian DOES not notice. the Pacific rob.
berry and Santa FL grab: the California
outrage. and all over the entire lines:
what Judge Davis and the Supreme
Court said. and what "the department"
dill in direct opposition to them; the
status al old Mexican grants; the suits
aud the disnis>aiS AMI the mdemnities
and tho lands patented before the road
commercials the numher Of harpies that
from all quarters flew down upon their
laaass the aggregating up OF 100000. :
uun af Acres the enormous swindles OF
first mortgages made into second: the
enlless ,iiilicultieS in front of the set
tlorss the Opening To cultivation"
changed into the shutting of of cultiva.
ton. eNeer, on payment or mortgage OF
~ for nnimrrossl to $40 an acre for
the improved homestead Mr.,
Julian here sticks in fact appalling.
almas, Incredible in its magnitude,
erselts and Ailsaius, "The rights Of
settlers arr leni,i, The law is openly
,ietiesl and thousands of settlers have
lost their lands and imnrovcment>"--
/ ,helr homes lest. their families scat
/ tened, This last sentence III Mr.. Julian's
cemrresses into IL all that is necessary
i for ss 10 know. and forces on Us the
question of what w are going t. do
or the republic i lest--irlSh Torla
4 Grva, Tclcyrarhic and News Monopoly
Jay Gould to,aa, is the most power,
mi human heSng On earth, He controls
absolutely the telegraph lines ON this
continent a. we'll ~ the cables which
reach ont H. other nations, Every husi.
ness and family secret il ut his mercy.
The quotations II all the markets Of
the world are in his hands, for il il his
agents who report the prices at all the
great exchanges in America, Earor,
aud Asia, A Interpretation Of any ol
| the leading products of the world mad,
hs his order would give HIM millions al
dollars, ami no oae could call him Il
account, .Aladlin's lamp VAS mere
toy compared with the marvclou>powe,
welded to-day l., this most conscience
less specala,ar, The Mutual Union
the oals independents line which af
iord,d an opposition. he has CONSOLE
dated with his Western Union monop
oily, and he has secured a ten~ycars
contract with the representatives Of tn,
Associated Press of the United States
which sllenccs all opposition to him i,
any Of the daily journals Throughout
tho country, The Great Western New
monopoly has swallowed up tn,
New York News monopoly, an,
every journal N the Unite,
States and Canada is bound b,
sly word against their master, Ia.
Gould. Ii seems Incredible that thi
should happen III the freest country o.
earth. Int 81 il i, In the Old Worl,
, the telegraphs are conducted by tn
. several Governments in the interest Q
| the community. and tie news field
open In competitors, In free Americ
one man owns the telegraphs and sui
/ stansialls the cables, and the entir
I press of the country is in his interes,
= The exact terms af the contract betwee
j the press and Jay Gould have not bee
! published. for the newspapers m
ashamed Ia LET ii he known that the
.. are in the power of this great spec,
!, la,er, Indeed, many of the eountr
) papers do not suspect it, rs the bargai
Z. was made by their representatives
\ Chicago and New York, The fac
: however, is very well known TO I'll
members of the sarions Boards Of Trad
: in the different cites, hut the latte
: cannot GIT their ease before the publi
1 as there j. conspiracy Of silence in I'll
u press. - ID moreSts Monthly.
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