The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1885-09-21
AN OPEN LETTER.
CONSTITUTIONAL DISCUSSION.
ulated-Ths Right of Congress to
Dispose of Common Proper
ty-The Money kuddie-
National Banks, Itc.

covered that the public lands belong
to the people, and that, in your ate
proclamation ordering trespassers
from tho public lands, you declare that
they should be disposed Of to actual
settlers alone.
But Is 1t not late day, Mr. Cleve-
land, TO make thin grand announce
mont. after the peoples iegis-
lators have plandered them OF near
" all of the best of this
part OF their sovereign properties, aud
bestowed them on corporations, leav-
ing them only the mountain tops,
rocky promontories, arid plains and
miasmatic swamps, AZ homesteads for
acsual settler! Do you think they
will be satisfied with these dry bones
these refuse scraps OF the monop-
oiists?
but what about tho balance of the
sovereign properties o! the people
their money aud their public high
ways? Have you no proofs nation to
make concerning these? or these,
too, tho peoples legislators have plum
dered them and bestowed them on
CuI pbIhtiOlSj ulcatihs, iuOhOpoAtoo VI
their lands, their money and public
highways. These are sovereign prop
erlies, Mr.. Cleveland, and, in Repub-
licsn governments, based upon the
equal rights and sovereignty of tho
people, are inalionable, except by dis
Lribution In equal or uniform shares
or benefits, without destroying the
basic principles OF our government
OF true Democracy and true Republic
canism. IL Ii reasonable to dispose
of them otherwise,
In monarehial governments these
properties arc recognized as sovereign
properties, belonging. to the king,
known as the kings land, tho kings
money and the kings highways, and
any set of men who might attempt to
deprive the king of the ownerahip of
thom would be regarded IS traitors
to their government aud punished for
high treason. SO in Repu Dlican goy-
ernments they ore properties belong
ing to the sovereign people. Do you
think it less reasonable in our legis-
lOtors to plumber the people OF their
sovereign properties than to plumber
q king? Ia it not undermining and
destroying the very foundation prln-
ciplos OF their government? What
greater treason could be pernetrated?
And yet We find that our Legislators,
almost from tho very inception OF tho
government, aud particularly during
tine last % years, have, with
out o shadow of constitutional author.
ity, created banking, railway, tele.
graphic aud other corporations, and
transferred TO them tho ownership and
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