Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1884-07-23

NAV have been a spcc;;1i charter or a
charter conferred by = = E"ral law. 1t
was under this suprcnl . nnuucstiOna-
ble authority that the j. . stature pass
ed the law TO reduce Thu ;..ir If fare on
the elevated roads of New \ ork City.
# was ain the teeth" of that authority
that Governor Cleveland vetoed the bill
IN the ground that the Legislature had
no right to do what it WIS explicitly
empowered by the CONSTITUTION to do.
It is sin the teeth" of the Constitution
that the Post declares that The Govern
or was right.
The act of Gov. Cleveland in forging
by this veto another link in the heavy
chain which the corpora ions are load
ing on the people called forth very
properly an indignant protest from a
meeting of workingmen, III Buffalo.
| The Post turns angrily on these citizens
who have dared to express themselves
rockets and their personal liberties,
involving as it does the relations of all
the citizens of New York State with
eyery corporation by its Legislature.
II ridicules them as "so-called working
men" It declares superciliously and
specifically that "they have no more
interest i'm fiye-ccnt fares on the New
York elevated roads than in the rates
on the parliamentary trains OF Great
Britain,h And it concludes with the
dastardly remark that probably the
Buffalo Workingmen who passed this
resolution exercise their industry most
EFFECTIVELY i'm the saloons" This cruel
and deliberate insult is a good speci-
men of the feelings and methods OF the
| Cleveland men. WOrkingmen who
venture to meet to consider on broad
constitutional grounds the acts OF their
Gubernatorial servant are at once
branded as frauds and "so-called" work
ingmen. If they 60 farther and dare
| to disagree with the opinions OF the
tool of monopoly, his newspaper organ
pitches on them and stigmatiZes them
as um-guzzlers and bummers.
The nomination of Cleveland by the
Democrats brings at once to the front
of American politics the supreme ques-
ton whether this country belongs to
the corporations or the corporations be-
| long to it. The keynote of the strug-
gle to determine whether the corpora
lions or the people are supreme was
struck in that very case of the bill to
reduce the fares on the elevated roads
of New York, which the supporters of
Gov. Cleveland with hollow and sim
lister insincerity strive to make us be-
| lieye was little matter local to New
York City. Almost all the laws that
have been passed by the Western States
to regulate the railroads live only by
virtue of the power the existence, OF
which Gov. Cleveland denied in his
veto. The Supreme Court affirms that
power; has recently reaffirmed it in it's
decision sustaining the governmental
regulation of the rates charged in San
Francisco by the Spring Valley Water
Company. Gov. Cleveland denies that
power. Once the people have given
corporation a privilege or function the
corporation becomes superior to it's Gre
ator, and can never be regulated or
uppressed-not even if the written
charter of the people says they shall
always have that right. What Gov.
Cleveland has done President Cleve-
land would better. If President Cleve-
land has to make an appointment TO
the Supreme Court he will name a
Judge who will use all possible means
to reverse the previous rulings of the
court. If bill comes to him from!
Congress to regulate the railroads, the
gambling in the food of the people, the
| formation of transportation cOnSplra-
cies, President Cleveland will veto it
for the same reasons that he vetoed
the Five-Cent-F bill. This is the
kind of aReform President" which the
| Democratic Convention asks the Amer
| lean people to vote for,