Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-06-19

L Tell you tnat the OVcTSnauOWlng
curse Of the United States to-day is mo-
nopoly. He puts his hand upon every
bushel Of wheat, upon every sack OF
salt, upon every ton of coal; and every
man, woman and child in the United
States feels the touch of that moneyed
despotism
l rejoice that in twcnty-four states Of
the Union already anti-monOpoly
leagues have been established. God
| speed them in the work of liberation! /
wish that this question might be the
| question of our presidential elections,
| and that we compel the political par
ties to recognize it in their platforms.
l have nothing to say against capi-
:a.;s:s. A man has p right to all the
money he can make honestly. There
is not n laborer in the land that would
not be worth a million dollars if he
could. / have nothing to say against
| corporations as such-without them no
great enterprise would be possible; but
what ! do say is that the same prin-
ciples are to be applied to capitalists
aid to corporations that are applied to
the poorest man and the plainest Ia
borer. What is wrong for me is wrong
for great corporations. If | take from
you your property without adequate
compensation | am a thief, and If a
railway damage the property of the
people without any adequate compcn-
sation that is a gigantic theft. What
is wrong on a small scale is wrong on
a large scale. Monopoly in England
has ground hundreds and thousands of
her best people into semi-starvatiOn,
and in Ireland has driven multitudin-
u tenants almost to madness.
Five hundred acres in this country
make an immense farm. When you
read that in Dakota territory MIR. Cass
has II farm of fifteen thousand acres,
and MI. Grandon twenty-five thousand
acres, and Mr.. Dalrymple forty thOus-
and acres, your eyes dilatc, even
though these farms are in great regions
thinly inhabited. But what do you
think of this which | take from the
doop1sday book, showing what mon
opo,y is on the other side of the seap
| give it rs a warning OF what it would
de- o. Ibis side the sea il in some law
full "ay the tendency is not resisted.
In Scotland, j. G.. Nj. Heddlc owns
50,400 acres; Earl OF Wcmyss, 81, 000
acres; Sir j. Riddell, $4,000 acres; Sir
&. w. A. Ross, $4,000 acres; +. Ii.
Scott, $1,000 acres; Mr.. S. Baird, Co.
900 acres; Earl of Dunmore, 10000
acres; Duke of Roxburgh, 10000 acres;
Earl of Moray, 100 acres; Countess
of Home, g. 1000 acres; Lord Middleton.
g. 5000 acres; Earl of Aberdeen, $500
acres; Mackenzie of Dundonnell, Ca.
900 acres; Mr.. j. j. II. tombstone, Ca.
600 acres; Earl of Airlie, IS, ZOO
acres; Sir j. Colquhoun, $1,000
acres; G.. Morrison, $1,000 acres;
Duke of Montrose, $4,000 acres;
Meyrick Bankes, seventy thousand
acres; Grant of Glenmorriston, seventy
four thousand six hundred acres; Mar
quis Of Ailsa. seventy-six thousand
acres; Baroness Willoughby d'Eresby,
seventy-six thousand acres; Mr.. j.
Malcolm, eighty thousand acres; Mar
quis of Huntly. eighty thousand acres;
Balfour, of Whittinghame, eighty-one
thousand acres; Sir j. o. Orde, eighty.
one thousand acres; Marquis Of Butte,
ninety-three thousand acres; The CHS
holm, ninety-four thousand five hun
dred acres; Mr.. +. Ellice, 90, 800 acres;
Sir G.. M. Grant, 1913 900 acres; Duke
of Portland, 1906 600 acres; Cameron
Of Lochiel, 100, 500 acres; Sir G. w.
Ross, 10000 acres; Earl of Fife, 49,
900 acres; The Macintosh, l24, OOO
acres; Lord Macdonald, $50, ZOO acres;
Earl of Dalhousie, 1876, 900 acres; Mac
leod of Macleod, al, 700 acres; Sir X.
Mackenzie, of Gairloch, 1884, $50 acres;
Duke of Argyle, 10000 acres; Duke
of Hamilton, $4,000; Duke of Athole.
t94, 900 acres; Duke of Richmond,
255, 600 acres; Ear! of Stair, 100000
acres; Mr.. Evan Baltic, 300,0 600 acres;
Earl of Seafield, 500, 900 acres; Duke
of Buccleugh, 1872, 1873 acres; Earl OF
Breadalbane, 437 .696 acres; Mr.. A.
Matheson, 220, 433 acres, and Sir j.
Matheson, 406,070 acres; Duchess OF
Sutherland, 1889 acres, and Duke OF
Sutherland, 1,176,343 acres.
Such monopolies imply an infinite
! acreage of Indebtedness. There is nc
poverty in the United States like that in
England, Ireland and Scotland, for the
simple reason that in those lands
Monopoly has had longer and larger
sway. Last summer in Edinburgh,
Scotland, after preaching in Synod hall,
/ stood on a chair in front Of the hal
and preached to an audience of twenty
thousand people, standing in one OF
the most prosperous parts of the city,
and reaching out toward the castle; as
fine an array of strength and health
and beauty as one eve sees. Three
hours after / preached in the Grass
Market and to the wretched inhabi-
tants Of the Cowgate and the Conon-
gate, the audience exhibiting the squat
or and sickness and despair that re-
mains in ones mind like one of the Wis
ions of DaEte'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 proper
ty. Unconstitutional, do you sayP
Then constitutions will have to be
changed until they allow such limita-
ton. Otherwise the work of absorp-
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