Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Anacortes, Wash. Ter.) 1882-1887, 1884-03-29
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California is the last of the siaye
states, not through negro slavery
under "hite men, lut through
wh;to slavery under black monoIs
Prom the dirt up, she is cnsiaved.
Her Very land. which should be tn q
basis OF freedom under her feet, is
a milestone of slavery held about
her neck by the great railroad no.
mop and the little monops that run
about after its leavings. Her land
tratfc, which should enrich her
wnrkingmen and traders, is scraped
Down to the very quick to swell the
hgodrei millions OF one man, the
dizzy millions of a second, the fifty
millions Of third and the fifty mil
hons OF fourth, now Qf money can
caDonze) saint in heaven. Her
sea traffic, which should directly
eHr:ch her merchants and indirectly
her workingmen and farmers, is
equally seraped and skinned alive
for the advantage of the land mo-
nops and their ocean allies; for
there be land monops and water mo-
noPs." Another monop controls
the very water we drink and tthe
cleanly oDes) wash in. Another
would tain control all our gas light.
And so down to tho wages of work
ingmen and the price Of Iutchers'
meat. Still another controls the
price, and the complexion too, of
the daily news of the world, abso>
lutely feeding the public with lies
or truth as it sees fit. Tho lnteli>
gent healthier quickly adopts no.
ton SO wholly anti>Chlnese, so
thoroughly heathsn-as monopoly.
The very Chinese town in the midst
of San Francisco is heather civic
monop inside OF our own municipal
m,nop; and the hIghblnders arc
monob of extortion inside Of that.
This is not right. And just as
soon as anybody tries to put it right
the trouble begins. Sometimes it
begins before. A slave that kicks
is scourged,.and very likely he Is
scoarged in advance, gratis, that
he may not kick. A man known
to be opposed to q strong monop
is deliberately ruined on principle
if possible, and such cases can easily
be named. A free man who comes
from outside into this slave COM
munity and begins to act or walk
as.if he disapproved of the Califor>
mia kind of slavery is scourged in ad-
vance gratis. He is notified that if
he talks in that way he will be ruin
ed.
The courts afford little or no rem.
edy. The Legislature and NUM-
cipali:ies give none, for the one is
regularly operated by the monops,
and the municipalities are, or try
to be, each monop by itself. The
press gives none. for it has been
"carved down the bank" or else
wants to be, and the Associated
Press, being itself a monop Of the
worst kind, naturally helps the 9th
ers. Even the court of last and
highest resort, the Supreme Court
Of the United States, is with reason
believed to be well fixed in the in>
terest OF the monops, and that court
cannot be changed except by death,
resignation, or an amendment to the
Federal Constitution, three events
about equally improbable. j Lastly,
one of the most vigorous, truculenf
and INSCRIPTIONS monops in the
world-the Standard Oil Company,
has just launched one of Its chiefs
Mr.. Payne, as a Democratic Presi-
dental candidate. In short, from
the Atlantic to the Pacific, from the
earth beneath to The Precedent
above, monopoly of monopolies,
all is monopoly.
Well the monops Will answer, as
Bill Tweed did.
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