The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1889-08-10
Deluded Farmers.

palgn are concerned the present adj
ministration is delusion and a
snare. We asked for bread and are
receiving stone. The label on the
bottle was deception. 1t reminds
us of the man who knew the pleas
ing effects of good whiskey but could
neither taste nor smell. He drank
from a bottle labeled "Old Rye" ex-
pecting to realize the pleasing effect
but soon felt the deadly pangs of the
vile poison which he took in so much
delusive ignorance. The campaign
bottle was labeled protection to
American Labor" and with pleasant
anticipations we took the medicine,
and instead of better prices and bet
ter wages we are feeling the pains
and gripes of disappointment and the
"trusty" coils of syndicates and
monopolies are winding their deadly,
Shiny coils about the industrial life
of this Nation and the "largely pri-
vate concerns" with which neither
the President nor Congress has any
thing to do, continue to grow more
numerous and more impudent. AS
farmers and laboring men, we have
only to look about us and see how
these institutions grow, develop and
flourish. We care but little for the
political bias of our readers, as we
as a class, have more at stake than
the success of this or that party, or
this or that candidate. Our very
life as a nation depends largely upon
the destruction of the hydra-headed
which is an invention of the
devil that no one else can afford to
"trust." ats purpose is to wreck
combine to place ficti-
tious price upon every article of val
ne, to crowd out competitors by
driving all but those engaged in the
conspiracy out of the trade, and then
fix prices to suit the greed of the
principals" The trust is, in fact,
conspiracy to illegally and outra-
geously tax every purchase of the
goods or commodities it represents.
With pools, syndicates, trusts ~,
whatever they may call themselves,
whether the commodity be coal, iron,
salt, sugar, or what not, the aim is to
put fictitious and outrageous profits
into the gaping and capacious peck
cts of the INSCRIPTIONS organizers
The minions of trusts, syndicates
and pools, and even some of the
themselves, are found in
the Senate and House of Represen-
tatives of the United States, and in
State Legislatures. Are such people
safe to "trust?' Being interested
are they fit lawmakers? Is not the
creative power greater than the crea-
ted? Most assuredly. Why then
this twaddle that the law cannot
touch them? They are conspirators,
robbers, enemies of the public wei
fare, and the man or the legislator
who assumes or argues that the law
cannot reach them, is no less dan
gerous than the hydra headed crust
itself. Our country is drifting into
the hands of the millionaires, and in
the eloquent language of Patrick
Henry, 1--WE can only judge the. fu-
ture" When ancient Egypt in all
her glory went down three per cent
of her population owned ninety-seven
per cent. of the wealth. The people
were starved to death. Babylon top
pied and fell with all the property
in the hands of two per cent of the
Persia persisted when
one per cent. of the population owned
the land. When Rome, the magnifi-
cent mistress of the world, declined
and fell eighteen hundred Of her
owned the whole world.
The United States is fast following
in the footsteps ofthese old nations.
In 1850 capitalists owned 81 per
cent. of the Nations wealth. In
1860 so per cent. of our wealth was
in the hands of capitalists. In 1870
60 per cent of the wealth had been
gathered from the people. In 1880
rs per cent. had been absorbed by
the avaricious NAV of the millionaire
and soulless corporation, and in 1889
the people of this country will own
but small per cent of wealth of
the country, and in many cases they
will not even own what they seem to
own, as a reference to the mortgage"
book at the clerks office will show.
And yet deluded people clamor for
Protection to American Labor"
and hug the delusion, while the only
men who are really protected are the
men who continue, vampire-like, to
suck the life blood out of this Ma
ton and pile up their boarded mil
lions, and while they protect Ameri-
can labor and slave the American
laborer. God save'the poor man in
this county,. C. Atkeson IN Put
nam Democrat.
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fesses Democracy, while slavishly
supporting monopoly and the money