The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1886-06-03
TERRELL.
THE JUDGE AND HIS MULE
ARRIVE ATM'KINNEY,
NORTH TEXAS.
ANOTHER ABLE AND CHARACTERS
tsTIC ADDRE-S-ABUsEs OF
CORPORATE POWER.

,f,R,,,,.t-,, NAV 2q.-Juazs Terrell arrived here
a, 81, .srly nour YESTERDAY morning ana adar"--'-'l
an Immense audience Ia the evening DI''h- NJ
dav he wa visited upon hy large LAluV1l -
zeus Of the town and county aiI I'a."N W. W.
,,srLe,I rourta-v aud distinction. He address a.
a Inaat.rly arraiguMeut 81 TIE greed ~ sDiPDI4 ~
Uoygers aad won for him tine support % man W.
have heretofore violently 0pp7sed nm. 7i'.aG.,'-
Of the duty oi legislation I" pI'''''
think understand how maH.s cnuiaity ha-
been aided b. class legislation untI 7y.Ial pI".t
bas been threatened, but the man WHO nina "
destroy individual wealth, either ~ ia" OF NJ
lence h a dreamer and no friend VI NJ race. ~
same lavg which protects the farmer IN ~. Hul3I"
home rnust be- strong enough 10 MAKE SAFE an w
wealth Of the Vanderbils, or there y 10 .aify ~
any 81 us jay Gould struck the keynote ol !lilI
yersal safsty when be said y am an A'is'a. ai
citizen The true friend Of me IaDolsi ~ ~ "
isg,ps him how % 20 vote a. ~ protect u5 an
AGAINST future localized rob cry ahH AZ ths ra,l.
time uphold property rights a2ainst violence. Du.
there Il one sort Of apparen. wealth. WHpH y NJ
real. Il IL abadOwy, fictitious ana frahduI"hL !
,efsr Ia the watered stock Of public cOfporauoh-.
The courts have decided that one VINO ~nys tall
road stock must be- held ~ notice ct ne chaIIfi
Two Thousand millions OF dollars oI tns aai,,r a.
stnrk Of the United States represents imaginary
values of which no dollar was ever paul tI.a"5u
by a stroke Of the pen, and 70 pay interest " t
which, Ia freight charges, over my mmiiohs ".
ruen M nat toll IL IL right 10 collect tolls OF th-
people on the great highways OF commerce ~ pa!
Interest on that Watered stock , 81,
On the first day Of June, les', ] sald IN an uI
dress al the university OF Missouri: I,, sen
tlment once aroused TO Intelligent artlon wiz never
sIumber until the great carrying CORPORATIONS are
subjected % a control which viii make them uhheI
stand that chartered night 70 the exclusive uss VI
a road lmp plies some rights In the people, lOf "hO5f
cnnvenience II waa built, and will Hqueele the
water out Of the stock 10 which human IAoof ~"
pays tribute -ut.., I .,id Il, q sn.ecb
in tie opera house at Austin: "squeeze the wafer
nut Of their stocks and bonds 10 permit tolls 70 D.
collected on them longer IL 70 continue rpDDeIy.
1 never doubted but that In the tnlihesH OF uine
the true democracy Of tbs land would wage war
againat this great wrong, and az lefah h.''
pr0ud that tho frat signal gun against u IN tb'
American senate was fired by lexah senator
Only nine days ago senator Coke, III "Ufus Oh eIo
ouence denounced this great wrong. lie demon
strated that this waterpd stock, representing no
hour of labor no dollar OF value, nothing on earth
except the unbiushing fraud that created ~ I'M
tosea A mortgage on the tDilin2 millions OF our
people greater than the national debt "hen az it-
HIGHEST npure. lie denounced II a. syHtehnhLC
robbery. aud rising In the inll dignity Oh an hIh'I
lean senator demanded that the Government
shOud protect the people against thr eAtofuoh III
ouure-sipn which collects tolls ON that npph-hlhe
stock Texns now looks to Washington az heI
other sons and whispers next .,-.
However others may feel, tnahk you tnht
Texas has at least one man In high place VINO
does not fear the cry Of demagOgue winch u Missed
al every one who uphOlds the rights oi Tue people
against corporate power. We nave one seha'1
hear the baying Of the corporate PACK WhIch VIII
hound him. Their bowling will be IN vain
The day Il breaking. Our people are thinking
upon economic questions a. never Deloie, ln'
genius Of rational reform will with one hand up.
holds property rights whether great or small hh9
with the other will check the ways OF legall]ed
plumber and rebuke the pmps Oi corporate power
who have impeded reform. Bank monopoly pat
emf mOnOpOly, land monopoly, gambling In iu-
lures and plundering freight charges 10 lee,l
whtered stock must each In itn turn ieel the touCh
" reform By government designed Tor the PEG
pie and made by them, but now directed ana con
trOlled by corporations
have said that the man who, when entrusted a.
an officer Of public corporation, Hpeculates IN lt
securities, should be rewarded by law WIN
striped iAcket: and now ] 90 further ana say thh'
no measure of reform will AFFORD full relief To az
riculture unless gambling In the future values OF
earth products shall be checked by law. Now our
crops are sold by spectators among themselves
before they are planted, and price lXed Tor each
month after they matu Capital, with all It's con
centrated power, thus fix inneXbly the price Oh
crop before II II planted ..
The laws Of supply and demand are 10 great
measure dehed and all the labor Of agriculture,
the great mother Of all other Industries, In made
denendeut ON the caprice Of those who gamble IN
millions,
Inat reforms are needed To check the deepening
of this yawning gulf between capitalists and the
people all cCnCedc. Reform should be hrm ana
lust, hu inheXlble. Not COnyusiye and r"yOlu
tiOnary, hut calm and conservative. SOClallsuc
forces and communism should be rehulcd and
crushed IA the twin devils Of dsc0td and anarchy.
Yet the combined forces of capital, which have
perverted government, must he met by the combined
organizations Of labor, whose great mission must
he 10 restore government TO constitutional meth.
DDS. | know nothing of your labor guides, bat II
they are designed 10 promote loitier manhood, to
uphold the majesty of law aud reform political
evils by legal means and not by force or terrorism,
/ say God speed you in the righteous work. II they
are inspired by the genius Of true democracy love
of order and patriotism, they may yet prove to be
the forces that will regcnerate civil freedom In
America, and dlsenthral II from the bondage of
corporate power 800.
II there Is q knight Of Labor or Farmers Ali
ance man here who dreams that either violence
or intimidation can ever do anything but bring di'
grace on American citizenship, let him undcceiye
himself YOu proclaim II different gospel, and !
no more hold you responsible for the acts of the
red anarchists who have invaded your ranks than
do Peter and Paul for the rascality Of Judae. Let
your orders be the school In which to learn tue
duties of American citizenship, the power of the
ballot and how 10 use II for reform; and then you
20 forth and align yourself "a citizen, and in the
daylight, with that great national party which can
alone secure reform, the party of strict construc'
ton, the party Of Jefferson and JscksOn.