The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1885-09-24

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sellenoy tbEt you -sAve at longth dis
covered thsf tho public lands beioua
TO tho people, and that, In your late
proclamation ordering trespAssera
from tho public lands, you declare that
they should be disposed OF 10 actual
settlers alone.
But 10 1t not lste day, Mr.. Glove
land, to mako this grand announces
ment. after tho peoples lsgls'
Iators have plundered Thorn OF near
" all OF the BEST Of this
part OF their sovereign properties, aud
bestowed them on corporations, leAV'
ing thom only the mountain tops,
rocky pTomontorlos, arid plans hnG
miahnntlo swsmps, IA homestenus Tor
actual Set,lers? DO you think they
will he satisfied with these dry bones'-
these refuse scraps OF tho monop-
olists? ,.
But what abOut the balance OF tho
sovereign properties OF tho people
their money and their public nigh
ways. Have you no proclamation to
mako concerning thesef OF thssa,
TOO, tho peoples legislators have plum
dered them and bestowed them on
corporations, creating monopollos OF
their lands, their money and public
hiohvaya. These are sovereign prop
erties, Mr.. Cleveland, and, In Repuo-
licsn governments, based upon tho
ooual rights and Sovereignty of the
people, arc inaiieneb!e, except by dis
tribution In equal or uniform shares
or benefits, without destroying the
basic principles OF our government
of true Democracy and true Republic
canism. II is treas unable to dispose
of them otherwise.
In monRrchial governments these
properties are recognised as sovereign
properties, belonging 20 tho king,
known as tho kings land, the kings
money and tho king's tighusys, and
any set of men who might attempt TO
deprive the king Of the ownership or
them would DO regarded 50 traitors
to their government and punished for
high treason. so in Republican goy-
ernments they are properties belong'
ing to the sovereign people. Do yeu
think IL less treasonablo in our legis-
lotors to plumber the people OF their
sovereign properties than TO plumber
q kingY IL IL not undermining and
destroying tho very foundation prin-
oiplos OF their government? WHIST
greater treason could b9 peroetrsted?
B And vet we find that our Legislators,
almost from the very inception of tho
government, and particularly during
the last % yoara, have, with
out 8 shadow OF constitutional author
ity, created banking, railway tele.
graphic aud other corporations, ana
transferroa TO them the ownership and
control of these sovereign properties
of the people.
claimed, mind yOu-thas Congress
has constitutional authority 20 create
oorDorstluns, and that a supreme
court of the Uhiiod StAtzs has attained
the Judicial srmiHs by endorsing tue
claim; bat ron know, sud sli intsi-
gent men know, tbss when y pcopoal-
ton was made % the convention
which framed the constitution, to del
Sgate power TO Congress- TO create cor
porations for national purposes, 1t was
overwh aimlnsly refused. This TACT
proves conc'asivoly that no such
bower vas granted, nor intended TO bs
grant. and thst the assumption
ofsuck power by Congress- is g palpa-
BILE usu p& ion.
Il j. al.o clsimcd and assumed
that the lower delegated to congress
tsto dispose of the territory
and common property Of (the people
of the Uni cd States" in Sec. III, Art.
4, of the coDstitu tion, invests Congress
with tho absolute autscrntic poTor 10
sell, give and ALLEVIATE them IS Siocre'
to-. But you ara aware, Mr.. Clovc-
isiJ. Jnns the term TO dispose OF doeg
MOI necessarily mean the power TO soil
and al lenGte, anu that in fact, the term
has no definite or fixad meaning. IL
may mean 10 sell, but most generally
used TO indicate some other acc or
purpose. Had tho States lntsnoed TO
grant power TO sell in matter OF such
vast importance they would, undoubt-
edtly, have used the term "to SELL" NO
same man will dare TO say that the
States, or the people OF the States, in
tended to delegate power to Congress
to soil and ALLEVIATE tho common prop
critics of the people to the King OF
Great Britain, tho Gear of Russia or
the Pope Of Rome; and, IL Congress has
no power delegated to sell 70 oae or
the other Of these, it has no absolute
discretionary power to sell them to
any one. Therefore tho power dele
gated to Congress TO dispose OF any OF
these common properties OF the -peo-
pie was. g. d is, q limited power. How
limited? Man1festly by the primary
or fundamental principles of the gov
ernment-the equal rights OF the poo
pie In these common properties, and
80 tLe oonsLitu ional term, "to dispose
Of" being interpreted consistent with
these principles, can be held to mean
only an authority to distribute the
territory and other common proper
ties in equal and uniform shares or
benefits TO all the people constituting
the goverunent. 1t il reasonable to
dispose of them otherwise.
Ana SO, also, 1t is assumed that the
power delegated 10 Congress, Hto coin
,Iao lao tod
power over the finances of the country
TO be exercised at It's discretion. Aud
this assum ption a truculent supreme
court has also endorsed. The truth ~,
Mr.. Cleveland, that Congress has no
supreme discretionary power over any
subject OF legislation; and especially
as touching the sovereign properties
Of the people its, power is limited by
the primary principles OF the govern
ment-the equal rights OF the people.
So the power delegated to congress to
coin money il not only thus Limited,
but ia otherwise a strictly limited
tmoneyD used in the grant Of power.
The power to coin money Is mani
fes,ly power to make or create
money, and money possesses as pre-
else and dis motive attributes as any
other creation of God or man. What
are those attributes, and what Is the
process of M sking money? IL con-
sistS In this selection of some suitable
material and properly preparing it for
use as money, and then, by law, con-
ferring on the material or materials
thus prepared, the attributes Of legal
tender for the payment of all taxes
and all debts, pubic and private. 1t Is
these legal-tendor functions, conferred
by law which creates money of any
material, and Without them no money
was ever made nor can be made. So
plain ayd simple is the process Of
making or coming money that no leg
iHlator, except wilfully and crimi-
gressmen arrogating this supreme
discretionary power, have abused,
perverted and prostituted this