The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1885-06-04

evolution, which once begun would
nd in the triumph of brute force,
controlled by capital Money creates
md sustains armies, and the outcaSt< =
ramp who to>day curses social ine-
qualities, would to morrow, alike with
he discontinued laboreT, enlist under,
he leader who would best feed, pay,
and clothe him.
AS applied to the accumulations of
honest enterprise, the remedies of both
these writers wovld be unjust; for
what the natural man acquires by
labor, skill, or individual capital is his.
and the state which will not protect
him is recreant to one of its first du-a
ties, and deserves not to exist.
THE REMEDY.
The ultimate remedy for the evils,
threatened by the growth of corporate
power, is already at work, and will !
succeed. Its first triumph will come :
from lawful combinations of men,
acting in the exercise of reserved,
rights, never granted to govsrnment,
and ultimately in the universal educa-
ton of the people, up to standard
which will enable them to understand
and by peaceful methods to reestablish .
their rights. The present remedy is
to create healthy public sentiment,
which will demand above the demands
of any party that the law making de4
partment of the government shall be
filed with men whom corporations
cannot control; and who without
destroying values, will require every
private corporation engaged in a
strictly private business pursuit, and
created under laws which reserved
the right TO control ard abolish it,
to pay its debts, divide its
property, and close shop in defined
period.
To merely stop the granting of corr
porate charters should be no remedy.
This apparent remedy would, to
use the expression of corporation
gamblers in stocks, be simply to bull
the market" for charters now granted,
Of which there are in existence
enough to administer the world, and
| manage all its industri
Pubic sentiment once aroused, to
Intelligent action, will never slumber
until the great carrying corporations
are subjected to control, which will
make them understand that char
tered right to the exclusive use of a
road implies some rights IN the peo-
pie, for whose convenience it was
built, and will squeeze the water out
of the stock to which human labor
now pays tribute,
The man who sees danger in the
cooperation of men to work out their
own deliverance is the very one who
sees no wrong in the cooperation of
capital to gain special advantages.
If the right of the people to control
their government were restricted to
| voting, the ballot would be nothing
more than periodical selection OF
masters.
| SOVEREIGNTY OF PEOPLE A CON-
| lTROLLING FORCE AT ALL TIMES.
The sovereignty OF the people is a
controlling force at all times, and the
most effective methods of securing
reform from evil laws has always
been in voluntary organizations.
When corporations obtain control of
government, they use the law to
perpetuate their power, and concerted
action of private citizens to correct
misgovernment becomes necessity.
When private corporations, which
monopoliZe private industry, combine
the force of many against the highest
interests of society, it becomes the
duty of individuals to combine in
protection for their legal suppres-
sion by changing the organic laws
which tolerate them.
In organizing, to correct wrong, it
must be remembered that moral, and
not physical forces should be the
weapon. Men have right to organize
and refuse to perform labor for made
quate prices, but they have no legal
or moral right to intimidate others
who are content. Men have a right
to refuse their patronage to private
corporations, hut they have no right
to resort to force to suppress them
Here law and policy harmonic; for
behind the brute force of the Jacobin-
once l. omed up the shadow Of the
empire that re enslaved him.
EDUCATION OF THE MASSES.
The Only safe check in any form of
government on those who possess
themselves of its machinery to in
crease their own power, and impose
unequal burdens on the masses, is to
diffuse intelligence, activity and a
spirit of habitual self-reliance among
the governed.
Side by side with the growing evils
that threaten us, now moves giant
force that will protect. hat force
! we discover in the universal education
| of the people. Education is doing its
work with us as never before in the
worlds history. When the nine mil
lions of children now at school shall
| be lifted up, and be made to uuder'
stand that this goVernmhnt was made
| for men and not for corporations, a
change will come, if not before. 1t
will be a gloomy day for chartered
| privileges to monopoliZe private in
dustries when the people shall have
much education and little food. In
that very hour The popular mind, like
an avengiDg Nemesis, will readiust the
relations Of government to the people,
and at the same time preserve civil
liberty.
A free and fearless press has always
been the shield of civil liberty, and
| could accomplish in four years that
which would take generation from
school teachers. If the great incor'
poarted newspapers can pre-
serve their stock from the
control of corporation kings, and
after surrendering their charters,
would ntter individual convictions,
instead of corporate instructions,
the future would be rosy with hope,
and order and reform would be the
watch words everywhere.
On the mind of every American
child should be fixed tho story of the
frat revolution, and in every little
hand should be placed the constitution
of this country, for through them, If
not by us, civil liberty will be preserv-
ed as the ripe fruit OF higher idtelll~
gence and virture, candy securing the
rights of the children of labor by
peaceful methods.
GENTLEMEN OF THE LITERARY So
CIETIES:
From the hour the Son Of Mary, the
carpenters wife, preached the religion
of love, the world has felt the magnet !,
ism of new impulse, and the children
of men instructed to love one another,
havn bopn StruOOIinu from darkness