Omaha daily bee., 1885-07-06

pastures and hunting grounds. They,
With the mobiles and barons Of America,
| presume to do the same thing In this
country, shut out the poor man from
public lands thatthey may have
EMPIRES TO CRAZE
profitable herds. Fortunately congress
at It's last session passed an sot providing
for the summary removal Of such tres
pstsers aud the destruction Of fences.
The people are expecting the president
to exercise the power thus granted as
as vigorously as he would dispense a band
of gyplies who thould camp on the
grounds, or the east room of the White
house. There Is no reason why the de-
msnd of the wealthy and lordly wrong
doerJ should BIO grsclously granted
than the plaintlve appeal of the small
| offender.
The only desirable land accessible to
the worlds weary pilgrimage Is In
America, and In the western states and
territories. Let us husband IL we'll, end
rescue from corporations and trespassers
their Illegal holdings and guard 1t
| sacredly for the home.ateader-for those
who are aeeking tor daily food
and raiment from daily labor.
| We have q right to be proud
| Of the grandeur aud beneficiance of their
government, that Its ports and pubic do
main may ever be open to tho oppressed
aud toiler of other lsndE. We ask them
to como and share with us all a bountiful
soil and the largaat liberty guarantees.
And the oaly return is that they shall aid
to keep this government pure, 80 that
liberty may be perpetual.
I THIS and preceding generations saved
it on the field Of battle. Let us and those
who como utter rs preserve 1t against the
intidioua and covert designs of those
giasplng for grea. wealth; who are etfec.
tually stealing our liberties When stealing
from honest labor the fruits of its toll.
II PEOPLE ARE RESPONSIBLE
for the evils they suffer. AS q rule man.
kind enjoy being deceived, and respect
and fear the men who always batray
them. A stranger from another planet,
with q knowledge of the power
In the hands of the people,
would marvel that Their tolerate evils and
continue In rule their authors; that they
willfuily extend necks, as does the
patient OK to the yoke; that they suffer the
Gould's and Vanderbiit's and the men
whom they elect as rulers to place on
their pecks the saddle on which they ride
majestically into power, and then are ex-
pected to be as humble as the war steed
who yields to the pigmy who bcstrides
him.
Through those whom you elect you
make laws, Impose taxes. make assess-
ments, create special privileges, class leg
islatlon, organize monopolies, make 1t
possible for the few to nmass fabulous
wealth by abstracting the earnings of the
many and escaping their honest share of
taxation by oppressive charges of freight
and transportation by dividends on
fraudulent and watered ntooks and bonds.
You as meekly ask legislative control
of railroads; a registration of forfeited
lands and are as powerless as the Hin
doc In India or the serf In Russia. The
%monopolies laugh you to scorn, and the
servants whom you have chosen snap
their fingers in your faces.
And il a Representative dare do his
duty, and obey the demands of those
who elect him, the chances are that the
paople will quietly see m%onopolies grind
him to pieces, If they do not actively aid
them by crying ''crucify him! cruelty
him!"
Not a week sgo notes of exulta!ion
spread from ocean to ocean that justice
had been administered. But why this
shout of rejoicing? Is not this a country
of law as well as liberty: A wealthy
criminal. the president of q New York
City bank, had abused his trust and in
stealing tho fortunes of Others mad
wrecked his own
Compared with some not yet convicted
HIS SINS WERE SNOWY wHITENEss,
aud his bank account pure as the ''ser-
mon on the mount" Corporations,
trustees to a certein extent, violate
aacred trust, deliberately scheme to
plumber not In secret but by notorious
violation of honesty. Opprezs the hus-
bandman, extort from labor, add In
illegal and fictitious stocks and bonds an
amount greater than the national debt
which Is a mortgage upon the properly
and industry of the entire nation, on
which interest is exscted by modes as
grievious as thGt whereby taxes are
wrung firm the toilers in India and
Egypt.
Remember, the price of liberty Is
watchfulness to check tie first sggression.
THE ToLERATIoN OF N INVITES ANOTHER
and another irroad. Let us be warned
by the fate of modern republics as well
as ancient who were csjoled into sub
mission until they saw their Magma
Charts given to the winds; and above
the ruins of free institutions r:se the
conclsves CT weiltby aristocracies.
''Tis liberty alone gives tho flower of
heeting life it's lustre and perfume" No
price or labor Ia too costly for it's preser-
walton. LIST 1t pass from the hands of
this generation as tree and pure as we
receive it. Then we can indulge the
hopes that the world will continue to
point to America as "The land of the
free and the home of the brave"
"A gang of 800 Mormon emigrants from
Europe, enroute to Salt Lake, went out over
the Union Pacific yesterday.