The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1885-06-04
pald on that Is ail that the roads should
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their capital.
During the list twenty years the Re.
publican leaders and their Democratic
allies have created and built up two 81.
gantic monopolies-one Of money and
the other Of transportation. To one il
gave full control OF the financial ex.
change, with o Government-indorsed
money subsidy Of $500, ,OOO, 900 and an
open letter Of credit for an unlimited
amount. To the other it gave
$50, 100000 Of money and &c.,
600, 900 acres Of the public
doman, more territory than is EN-.
Traced in most Of the kingdoms and
eLlpires OF Europe. To this has been
given monopoly Of the transportation
agency of exchange.
So strong and powerful have these
monopolies become tliat they have vir-
tually taken possession Of government,
both State and national, and hold the
people in as abject subjugation q do
any Of the monarchcial governments Of
the old world.
They fix the prices Of labor and COM
modities, and dictate to every man the
share to which he is entitled Of the
products of his own labor. They, and
not the Speaker, create the committees
20 as to control the legislation of Con-
gress. They, and not the President,
I'LL the vacancies on the supreme bench.
They, and not the people, choose the
Senators Of the 'nited States. i was
not Il. B. Hayes, but the national bank
monopoly that vetoed the silver bill in
1873 and the refunding bill Of 1880. II
waO the railroad monopoly and not
Chester A. Arthur who vetoed the anti
Chinese immigration bill. 1t was Wall
street and not Grover Cleveland who
wrote the silver letter and installed
Manning in the Treasury Department.
These are the sprouts Of despotism
which have grown from the roots Of
monopoly not grubbed out by the Rev
olution. They are the ontgrowths Of
those anti-repnblican relics OF British
folly which our fathers failed to eradi-
cate from our Government.
Our borrowed banking and refund-
ing systems, and that pernicious policy
Of class LEGISLATION and the conferring
of special powers and privileges upon
Incorporated capital which has mado
Europe a continent Of imperial aristoc-
racy on one hand and pauperized labor
on the other. ave fast supplanting our
republican institutions by tho rapid up
growth OF the institutions OF monarchy.
Nominally tn, people are free, but
actually they are in bondage. It is true
they elect their lawmakers, but the
freedom with which they do SO is like
the freedom Of the engine to turn the
wheel. Men are bound by the NOMINEE
tions Of their parties as firmly as the
wheel is bouno to obey the pressure Of
steam. We have q right to political
freedom, but partyisnl has enslaved rs.
Popular sOvea eighty is sleeping
Samson and the Delilah of capital 4
shearing it of It's locks,
Railroad and 'sank monopo,ies. char.
tered ostensii.c for the public koad.
may render, ,nl under protection q
Law have rendered, produ. tion unprOl.
table, BY Destroying the copditione
upon which sn equitable distributes
depends.
They have de',ased their public fran.
chise for personal gain.
AAASy SsSv UkSOAS ssA0 IL ASAPAO VAAsO va
porate rights, powers and privileges are
beyond the control Of the law-making
power.
Under the pretense Of vested
rights" they wrongfully dominate
over individual rights.
In their greed for great wealth they
defiantly exterminate useful franchises
by exterminating private interests.
Monopoly. an irresponsible power,
has become an active, but intangible
factor in public affairs. It holds st its
mercy the channels of travel. COM
merce, thought-communication, aud
public intelligence. &.
By the tyranny Of It's concealed
power, unjust and extortionate .tsSes
are levied and labor deprived sof. ~
just compensation. 1t fixes the arieet
Of farm products at tie seaboard. by
unlawful combinations, hy xhieh it q
enabled to makc one NAH poor and his
pelghb0r q milliona.e.-ErchasaQe.