Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1890-06-07
COLONEL BoB LIsDsAY's MEMO
RIAL SPEECH.

peared IN full IN tne heno 1VutN~"
reads ike the utterances Of an old-time
Democrat and we are told that the Col
opel's remarks created something OF .
autssr among the braiuless p~lutocrats Of
the capital city and vicinity. We con-
oratulass the Colonel on his able effort
and also that il struck home among the
p~;unies of wealth. II is an encouraging
sign when sensible Republicans like Col
onsI Bob Lindsay begin to condemn re-
suits and conditions which are directly
tracesble to Republican party policies.
II shows that hope may still be enter.
tanned that our Government will not be
allowed TO drift from its present form
into an empire based mainly on an aris-
socracy Of wealth. w do not remem-
Der to have read before . memorial ad-
dress that had anything in it. except
maudlin sentiment, which would have
been better unsaid. Colonel Lindsay's
Carson effort is full Of meat for refee-
ton. We regret that we cannot publish
il as = whole. The following extracts
will serve to show that the Colonel is
one Of the best thinkers Of our State.
Before the war slavery was the
ruler Of American politics, and the reign
OF the money bags had not begun.
Twenty-Five years before the war you
could count all the great millionaires
upon your finger-tips, and the nan who
was possessed Of q hundred thousand
dollars was accounted rich. Twenty.
five years before the great railroad lines
were not built, the great cities not con-
structed, the telegraph and electric
light, and even petroleum unknown, and
the web Of complex industries with
which the land is now laced was then
unspun. In those days money bad not
lost its modesty, and it deferred to in
tellect and high character. Astor's
poet bookkeeper (Fitz-Green Halleckl
was received in houses to which Astor
himself was not invited, and New York
capitalists waited upon penniless Ag-
gals and insolvent Webster. Corpora.
tons begged of Legislatures neither
lands nor bonds, but were content with
the privilege Of life. Men did not seek
trusts in order to violate them. Embez-
Element by stock expansion was In
known. The legislator who sold his
vote made arrangements to depart from
the country, and bank defalcation and
bank burglary kept step Of fellow con-
yicts. War was an educator, but the
tree oil knowledge with its crimson
leaves yielded evil fruit as well as good.
In our land to-day the owner OF fifty
millions wields more power than the
President Of the United States, and the
owner OF ten millions can control the
Legislature and choose the officers of q
State. Nor is such power exercised only
in feeble and frontier States; Nevada is
not the only common wealth disgraced
by the souoriquet Of rotten borough. To
do the bidding OF the powerful because
of wealth, older, more sober, more cul.
tured, more seeming v~irtuous sisters per.
init the haggard harlots Of the caucus
and the lobby to ply their nasty voca.
tion unchecked, and unwhipped by jus
tice.
A fortune OF five million dollars rep.
~resents the blood and sweat OF thousands
OF artisans, mechanics and laborers; the
tears OF women and children, aud nc
single life can legitimately accumulate il
without wrong to his fellow.man. II
the esource Of the country are so pro-
life as to make the accumulations oil
such fortunes as fifty and one hundred
millions . possibility. then indeed ID il
time that Msy.day demonstrations be
made. and that the laborer keep some
little share of these immense profits by
increased pay and shorter hours of labor.
The power of capital in this land is
immeasurab.e and practically has un.
bounded license. 1t demands of every
man in America who lives out Of reach
Of Q gas factory, or an electric plant, tC
pay treble prices for the poor privilegt
Of light. The occult current that bear.
the tidings. joyous or sad. to your home,
is made subservient to the power Of cap.
ital, and you are compelled to pay a
treble tribute to Croesus; deny yourself
. gift from heaven to man which will YET
be as free a. the air we breathe.
The growth of decay of cities, and
the fortune of bankruptcy Of individu.
ais are promoted by corporate managers.
Laws against trusts are their playthings.
Monopolies in transportation, monopo-
lies in light, monopolies in fuel, monopo.
lies in land, monopolies in water, monop.
olies in mines. monoplies in sugar, beef
and -four, these are. the corporate YAM
pires who sit upon the Republic which
our soldiers fought to preserve and suck
its life.blood whilst they fan it to coz
tin1ed slumber with their ebon wings,
laden with the odors of bride and men
ace. These are the powerful despots
who enter the temple and tear the ban.
dage from the eyes Of American justice,
who attempt to rule this land with a rod
OF iron, and whose arrogance has become
so open that they no longer take pains
TO conceal it. Do / strike wide Of the
mark when I assert that this shame.
faced arrogance is used in many instances
to hurl from place honest and capable
judges. who, in e~ndeavoring to uphold
the majesty and dignity Of the law, dare
to render opinions inimical to the grasp.
ing interests of these rspacious wealth
gatherers! The threadbare coat and
raveled sleeve Of honest poverty walks
your streets to-day. the victim of cor
porate wealth, whose honest demands he
is denied
Here let us draw the curtain, the
truth will not bear the telling. "Oh,
for . new Savior to walk in this grand
that our legions freed from
repaired with their toll and
cemented with their life blood, and
scourge the scoundrels who defile il,
as Of old, MY house is . house
Of prayer. but ye have made it q den Of
"vice is . monster of such hideous
mein,
That, TO oe hated. needs but to be seen;
Yet seen too oft, familiar with its face,