Omaha daily bee., 1885-03-31
Down to the Roots,
Swinton's Paper.

1t Is because the wealth of the country
Is held and handled by q corporal's guard
of money kings that the people are har-
assed and confused. Here in New York
are a score of great capitalists and corpor'
atoms In full control of all Its interests
they have woven thor network from here
over the whole country; they are masters
of its soil, its labor, it's products, Its re-
sources, Its machinery, and it's lines of
transportation All are used for their
oxn aggraudiz sment, and all are brought
under subsection to them. Here In
New York are eight or ten men owning
half a million dollars, with all that the
term implies" and controlling five times
as much. Over there In boston, Chi
cago and San Francisco are a score of
others possessed of equal majesty. Here
in New York is a single railroad nsbob
who puts half the nation under tribute.
Here 10 a real estate nabob who takes MIL
lions of dollars of rack-rent
every year out of the toilers of the city.
Here Is a freebooter whose lines extend
from the Atlantic sesbosrd to the gulf
and the Rocky mountains, levying his
blsckmail upon tens of millions of shack
led fresmen.
Look for a moment at a single opera
tion of the freebooter last referred to. A
few weeks ago he tickled our eyes with a
list of his dividend paying stocks, run
ming up to sixty-one millions of dollars;
he then announced that wages ought to
be reduced to the European basis;" he
then jumped into his gllded yacht, sailed
III &c ~, aaa AVID tnt1phaI NJ q,
southern port, from which he telegraphed
orders for o reduction of the wages of an
army of wage-workers, including the
railroad hands of his "Southw estern sys-
tenn" Disturbance followed his orders,
from the pralrles of Kansas to the Gulf
line of Texas; labor was thrown into an
upToar; many thousands of men
were forced into the pitiful ex-
pedient of a strike; two governors
called out the militia to preserve the
peace; the blsck-hag infantry of Pinker-
ton were put in the field; vast commun!-
ties found themselves amid peril; and
the lives of many man were endandered
all because the Money King took a
whim as he lay in his gilded yacht hover
Ing neal the aun-lit shores of Cuba!
Vll1U u poMcl thiS 10 w 10 ~ ~
hands of a single money king!
What fools the people are to give any
man such tremendous power over them!
The money kings IL moneyed corpo-
with their headquarters in Wall
their bulwarks in Washington,
and their ramifcatlons everywhere, have
brought things to such a pass that prices
and markets, products and properties,
and wages, the wide country over,
are all theirs to manipulate, without the
highest regard to any public consldera-
ton.
This Is the root of the evil that Is fill
ing the country with harrassment and
confusion.
Somehow or other, this condition of
things must be changed. The power to
rule and ruin must, In some way, be taken
out Of the hands of these msdmcn and
Ireckers.
The masses are punched and peunilass,
overworked and out Of work, spiritless
md desperate, because they have allowed
:hese millionaires and corporations to alb
,orb the public wealth and the means of
to rake in other mems crops and
all mems labor and lives.
As long as we permit a few men, or a
hundreds, to act thus, there is moth
ng possible but deeper and deeper i'm
ooverishment for mankind at large.
The remedy Is obvious; the communi
y must find ways and means of recover
ng stolen goods and lost rights.