Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1886-06-05

acres; Mr.. J. J. H. Johnstone, Ga. 0c0 acres:
Earl OF Airiie, 65, 900 acres: Sir ). Colour
houn, $1,000 acres; G. Morrison, ~ 900 acres;
Dnks of No trose, 9S 900 acre; Meyrick
Bankes, 10 900 acres; Grant, OF Genmor-
riston, 1860 acres: Marquis OF Ai'sa
10000 acres; Baroness Willoughby d.
Eresby, 10 600 acres; Mr.. J. Malcolm. $1,000
acres; Maiqu of Huntly, 5000 acres;
Bafour WHIT inghame $1,000 acres;
Sir j. O. orde, $1,000 acres; Marquis OF
Butte, $4,000 acres; the Chisholm, ~, 800
acres: NJ u Elice. 30 500 acre: ST. g NJ.
Grant, 1903 000 acres; Duke Of Portland. 106,-
600 acres; Cameron of Lochiel, 100, 500 acres;
Sir c. w. Ross 10, 400 acres; Earl Of Fife,
liz, 900 acres; the Macintosh, 124, 900 acres;
Lord Macdonald, 100, 900 acr os; Earl CO Dali
housie, $4,000 acres; Macleod Of Macleod,
141, 700 acres; Sir K. Mackenzie, Of Gairlock,
1854, $50 acres; Duke Of Argyle, 175, 900 acres;
Duke of Hamilton, 1873, 900 acres: Duke of
Athole, 1914, 900 acres; Duke of Richmond,
255, 900 acres Earl of Stair, go coo acres;
Mr.. Evan Baillie, 100000 acres; Earl of
Seafield. 306, 900 acres; Duke of Buccleugh,
49,, 1873 acres; Earl of Breadalbane, 49, 696
acres; Mr.. A. Mathesou. go, 433 acres, and
Sir j. Matheson, 406, 070 acres; Duchess OF
Sutherland, l49 $40 acres, and Duke OF
Sutherland, l, 176. 343 acres.
Such monopoles imply an infinite acreage
OF wretchedness There is no poverty in tie
United States like that in Eng and, Ireland
and Scotland. for the simple reason that in
those lands Monopoly has longer and larger
sway. Las I summer In Edinburgh, Scot
land, after preat hing IN Synod hall, l stood
on a chair in front..of the hall and preached
to an audience of 20, 600 people, standing in
one of the most prosper Gus parts of the city,
and reaching out tow ard the castle-as fine
an array of strength and health and beauty
as one ever sees. Three hours after |
preached in the Grass market and to the
wretched inhabitants of the Cowgate and
Conongate the audience exhibiting the
squalor and sickness and despair that re-
mains in ones mind like one of the visions
of Dante's Inferno
Great monopolies in any land imply great
privation. The time will come when our
government will have to limit the amount of
accumulation Of property. Unconstitution-
al, do you say? Then constitutions will have
to be changed until they allow such limita-
ton. Otherwise the work of absorption will
go on, and the large fishes will eat up the
small fishes, and the shad will swallow the min
nows, and the porpose swallow the shad. and
the whale swallow the porpoises, and thou
sand greedy men will own all the world, and
500 of these will eat up the other 500, and 100
eat up the other AGO, and finally there will be
only so left, and then 40, and then 80, and
then 20, and then 10, and then 2, and then l.
But would law of limitation of wealth
be unrighteous' If | dig SO near my neigh
bors foundations, in order to build my house,
that endanger his the law grabs me. If l
have tannery or n chemical factory, the NAL
odors of which injure residents in the neigh
borhood, the law says, "Stop that" If
drain off q river from its bed and divert 1t
to turn my mill wheel, leaving the bed of the
river breeding place for malaria, the law
says Quit that outrage" And has not
good government right to say that a few
men shall not gorge themselves on the COM
fort and health and life of generationsi
Your rights end where my rights begin.
Monopoly-brazen-fa faced and iron fingered,
authenticated monopoly-offers his hand
to this republic He stretches it out over
the lakes, and up the Pennsylvania, and the.
Erie, and the New York Central railroads,
and over the telegraph poles of the conti-
nent, and says: Here is my heart and hand;
be mine forever" Let the millions of the
people, north, south, east and west, forbid
the banns of that marriage--for them at
the ballot box, forbid them on the pla form,
forbid them by great organizations, forbid
them by the overwhelming sentiments of an
outraged nation, forbid them by the protest
of the Church of God, forbid them by PRAYER
to high hea ven. That Herod shall not have
this Abigail It shall not be to all-de-
vouring Monopoly that this land is to be
married.
Another suitor claiming the hand of this
republic is Nihilism. He owns nothing but a
knife for universal blood letting, and nitro
glycerine bomb for universal explosion. He
believes in no God, no government, no
heaven and no hell, except what he can make
on earth He slew the car Of Russia, keeps
Emperor William of Germany practically
imprisoned, killed Abraham Lincoln, would
put to death every king and president on
earth. and, il he had the power, would climb
up until he could drive the God of heaven
from His throne and take it himself-the
universal butcher. In France it is called
Communism; in tho United States it is
called Socialism; in Russia it is called Mill
ism. That last is the most graphic and de-
scriptive term. II means complete and
eternal smash-up. 1t would make the hold.
ing of property a crime, and it would drive
a dagger through your heart and apply
torch to your dwelling. and turn over this
whole land into the possession of theft and
lust and rapine and murder
Where does this monster live2 In ST.
Louis, in Chicago, in Brooklyn, in New
York and in all the villages and cities of this
land. The devil of destruction is an old
devil, and he is to be seen at every great fire
whore there is anything to steal, and at
every shpwreck whore there is anything
valuable floating ASHORE, and at every rail
road accident where there are overcoats and
watches to b. purloined. On small scale
/ saw it in my college days. VIII en- in our
literary society in New York university, we
had an exquisite and costly bust of Shakes
peare, and one morning we found hole
bored into the lips OF the mar BILE and a cigar
inserted. There has not for the last century
been a fine picture in your art gal.
lery or graceful statue in your