Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1886-06-25
DIR. TALMAGE'S SERMON.
@M0N0POLY AND COMMUNISM
STRUGGLING FOR THE POS
SESSION OF THIS COUNTRY"

the circle of future joy around our entire
world include the epicycle of our own repub.
lie Bold, ezhilarant, unique, divine i'm
agery of the text. So many are depressed
by the labor agitation and think everything
in this country is going to pieces, preach
this morning a sermon of good cheer and
anticipate the time when the Prince of Pea
and the Heir of Universal Dominion snail
take possession OF this nation and "thy land
shall be married.
In discussing the final destiny of this ma
ton it makes all the difference in the world
whether we are ON the way to a funeral or a
wedding. The Bible leaves no doubt on this
subject. In pplpits and on platforms and in
places of public concourSe hear so manyof
the muiiied drums of evil prorhesy sounded,
as though we were on the way to national
interment, and beside Thebes, and Babylon
and Tyre in the cemetery of dead nations
our republic was to be entombed, that wish
you to understand it is not to be obse1uies, but
nuptials; not mausoleum, but carpeted altar;
not cypress, but orange blossoms; not re-
QUEEN, but wedding march, for ''thy land
shall be married. propose to name some
OF the suitors who are claiming the hand of
this republic. This land is so fair, so beauti-
full, so affluent, that it has many suitors and
it will depend much upon your advice
whether this or that shall be accepted or re-
jected.
In the first place I remark: There is q
greedy, all-graSping monster who comes in
as sutton seeking the hand of this republic,
and That monster is known by the name of
monopoly. His sceptre is made out of the iron
of the rail ira and the wire of telegraphy.
lie does everything for his own advantage
and for the robbery of the people Things
have gone on from bal to worse until in the
three Legislatures of New York, New Jersey
and Pennsylvania, for the most part,
monopoly decides everything. If monopoly
favors law it passes: if monopoly opposes
law it is rejected.
Monopoly stands in the railroad depot put
ting into his pockets in one year two hundred
mlllicns OF dollars in excess of all reasonable
charges for service. Monopoly holds in this
one hand the ste I'm power of loco notion, and
IN the other The electricity of swift commu-
nication. Mon p ly decides nominations
cleo ion city elections State elections,
national elections. With brides he secures
the votes OF legislators; giving them free
passes, giving appointments to needy rela-
tlves to lucrative positions, employing the N
as attorneys IL they are lawyers, carving
their goods titte7n per cent. less if they are
merchants, aud if he finds a case very stub
born, as well as very important, puts
down before him the hard cash of bribery.
But monopoly is not so easily caught now
as when, dun ing the term of Mr.. Buchanan,
the Legislative Committee in one of our
States exp ored and exposed the manner in
which certain railway company procured
a donation of public land. 1t was found out
Ulletu Uull UGH vi JHe senators from tn1t State
received Sll5,OOO among them. Sixty men,
hers OF the lower house of that State re-
ceived 5000 and $4,000 each. The Gov
ernor of the State received $4,000, his clerk
received 5000. the Lieutenant-Governor re-
ceived $4,000, all the clerks of the Legisla-
lure received 5000 each, $4,000
We're divided amid the lobby agents.
scale is all the time going on ia
some of the States of the Union, but it ism It
so laundering as it used to be- and therefore
not so easily exposed or arrested. 1 tell You
that the overShadowing curse of the United
States to-day is Monopoly. He puts his
hand upon every bushel of wheat. upon
every sack OF salt, upon every ton of cal,
and very man, woman and child in the Uni
ted States feels the touch of that moneyed
desnotism. | rejoice that in twenty-four
States OF the Union already anti-monopoly
leagues have been established God speed
them in the work of liberation. | wish that
THIS ueStlon might be the question of cur
Tresld ntial elections, and that we compel
the political parties to recognize it on their
plato ms.
I have nothing to say arainst CAPITALISTS.
A man has a right to all the money he can
make honestly. There is not laborer in the
land that would not be worth a million dol
lars II he could. have nothing to- say again st
corporations as such; with out them, no great
enterprise would be possible. But what | do
say IS that the same principles should be ap-
pl ed to capitalists and to corporations that
are applied to the poorest man and the plain.
est laborer. What is wrong for me is wrong
Tor great corporations. If / take from Won
your property without any adequate COM
pen alton am a thief, and if a railway
damages the property of the people without
making any adequate compensation. that is
gigantic thief What is wrong on asma'l
scale is wrong on large scale. Monopoly in
ENGLAND has ground hundreds of thousands
of her best people into semi-starvaton, and
in Ireland has driven multitudinous tenants
almost to madness
Five hundred acres in this country make
an immense farm. When you read that in
Dakota Territory Mr. Cass has a farm of
$4,000 ares and Mr.. Grandon 250OO acres
and Mr.. Darymple 10000 acres, your eve,
diata, even though these farms are in great
regions thinly inhabited. But what do Won
think of this which I take from the Dooms-
day 9ook showing what monopoly is on the
other side the ca. | give il as warning of
what it would do on this side the sea if in
Sone lawful way the tendency is not re-
sisted. In Scotland J. G. NJ Heddle owns
$1,000 acres; Earl % Wemyss, $1,000 acres;
tir P j. Rid d IL, 54,5Oo acres; Sir G; W.
t9,7O0 acres Mr.. J. Raird, 10000 acres;
Cir j. Ramsden, 10000 acres: Earl of
Dunmore, 10000 acres: Duke of Roxburgbe.
10000 acres: Earl of Moray 81, ZOO acres;
Countess Of Home, 62,0)O acres; Lord Mid.
d,eton, 63,0l0 acres; Earl of Aberdeen, g..
5O) acres; Mackenzie of Dundonnell, g., COO
9c'e' Mr.. }. J. H. Johnston, G3,0O0 acres
Ea"l OF Airlie 5000 acres; Sir j. Colquhoun,
$1,000 acres: G. Morrison, g., 900 acres: Duke
OF NJ trosc, GS, 900 acres; Meyrick Bankes,
O,OJO acres; Grant of Glenmorriston. "a GOO
acres; Marquis Of Ailsa, 10000 acres; Bar
4ness w lllougby d Eresby, 10000 acres; Mr.
J. Nal ,olm $4,000 acres; Marquis of Huntly
$1,000 res Balfour of Whittinghame. 81 :.
coo acres; Sir J. o. Orde, 81 900 acres: Mar
gus OF Bute, $500 acres The Chisholm
W,5Oo acres: Mr. e. Ellice, 99,50C
ares; Sir G.: NJ. Grant, 100000 acres
Cameron of Lochiel, 100.5Ol acres
Sir G. w: Ross, 400 acres; Earl of Fife
113,' 90: The Ma kintosh, 1874 900 acres: LORD
Macdonald, 10000 acres: Earl of Dalhousie
$4,000 acres; Macleod, of Macleod, 141 .7O(
acres; Sir X. Mackenzie. of Garlock, 1854,
$50 acres; Duke of Argyle, 10000 acres
Duke of Hamilton, $4,000 acres: Duke q
Athoe, $4,000 ares; Duke of Richmond
255,00J acres Earl of Stair, 27O, 90 acres
Mr.. Evan Baille, So 900 acres; Earl Of Sea
field, BOZ 900 acres; Duke of Buccleugh, 432,
lS3 arcs: Earl OF Brea1albane, 437, 6iG acres
Mr.. A Mathe5on, 22O, 433 acres, and Sir J
MatEe'on 1861 1O acres; Duchess of Suther
land 149, $40 acres and Duke of Sutherland
1,1,6 353 acres.
Such monopolieS imply an infinite acreag
Of wret heGnoss. There is no poverty in tn
Unitsd States like that in England, IRELAND
and Scotland for the simple reason that il
those lands monopoly has had longer AM
Ia ger sway Last summer in Edinburgh
Scotland, after preaching in Synod Hall,
stood on a char in front of the hall AM
prea he'd to al audience of 10000 people
standing in one of the mo t prosperous rart
oil the city, and reaching out toward the cas-
tie as fine an array of strength and health
and leauty as one ever sees. Three hour
after preached to the wretched inhabitant
of the Cowgate and Cannongate,t The audien