Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1890-01-04
DRIFTING TOWARD SOCIALISM
Canal Boatmen Declare for state Grain
Elevators,

EitNatolA'
AT meeting held under the auspices
of the Canal and Harbor Protection
Union of the State of New York, at
Kingston Hall, No, 10 South street, "A
few days ago, the following preambles
and resolutions, as introduced by Capts.
w, c, Clark and NJ. De Puy, were
unanimously adopted, to wit:
INTRODUCED BY CAPT. w. c. CLARK.
Whereas, Under the blghting curse
of POLLUTED machine politics." most
outrageous spectacle presents itself to
the six million people of this, the boosted
Empire State of the Union that is, the
election of Jake Fassett for President
pro tenn of the Senate, and Bald Eagle
Hustled for speaker of the Assembly,
months before the new Legislature of
1890 convenes for the first time; and
Whereas, The Guardian Angels of
the people, the unmuzzed pulpit and the
public press, appear to be paralyze
by the enormity of the outrage about to
be again perpetrated against the com
monwealth by the Railroad Standard
Oil bandits, headed by Or" Chauncey
M. Depew, Boss" Tom Plat, the Re
publican Nestor, j. S. 7. Stranahan, 81
Monopoly R. NJ, Galloway, Shed Shook,
BOSS" Frank Hscock, BOSS" John II.
Camp, John D. Rockefeller, Ham. Har-
ris, |. V. Baker, Jr., j. j. Belden, Austin
Corbin, BOSS" Frank Woodruff, Will
Lloyd, ed" Lauterbach, deacon"
William Richardson, John w. McNam-
ara, c. ?, Huntington, "Col." Bliss,
A. D. Barber, ed" Phelps, public
plunderer" Jay Gould, and other en-
emies of New York's beneticent canal
system; therefore, be it
Resolved, That we, the partners of the
State in the transportation business in
mass meeting assembled, do vehemently
protest against the ratification in the
incoming legislature, of this device of
the Railroad STANDARD Oil bandits to
pack the canal committees of Senate
and Assembly against the erection of
State grain elevators, liberal appro'
priations for canal improvements and
adequate wharf accommodations; also to
continue the piratical wharfage abuses,
Quarantine dues, compulsory pilotage,
tees with their own railroad attorneys
and their secret special rate henchmen.
Finally, in short, to pack all the COM
mittees against the peoples best interest,
that the said Rallroad-Standard Oil
stand and.deliver plunderers may con-
tinue their whitening clutches upon the
Threats of the toiling millions; and be it
further
Resolved, That we, the bone and sinew
of the States canal carrying trade, do
call upon all law abiding and justice
loving citizens to enter their solemn pro-
test against the said scheme: for it is
high time to call halt to these high
waymen's plundering of the peoples
means of communication and enslaving
of the masses by their polluted usurp-
alton of the legislative functions Of gov
eminent, in order to build up ill-gotten
Millionaire fortunes of the Robber Bar
ons of the nineteenth century, at the
cost of demolished Republic.
INTRODUCED BY CAPT. NJ. DE PUY.
Whereas Railroad companies, under
the guise of individual elevator owners,
have appealed from the decision of
the Court Of Appeals on the McEvoy
grain elevator case and taken the mat
ter to the United States Supreme Court,
thus carrying out their avowed determi-
nation to destroy the Erie canal; and,
Whereas, The charge that railroad
companies control the grain elevators
in the ports of Buffalo and New York is
sustained by infallible evidence, also by
conspicuous signs exhibited on several
office doors in the New York Produce
Exchange; and,
Whereas, The tolls levied for direct
transfer of canal grain, previous to the
enactment of the law herein referred to,
and the rates which said railroad COM
panies seek to perpetuate, were VIA 80
per 1000 bushels in Buffalo, and $lS per
1000 bushels in the port of New York,
aggregating
81 CENTS A BUsHEL.
While the cost to the dtl-raH routes to
deliver grain from cars to ocean crafts
at any seal port on the Atlantic coast Gn-
Guiding trimmers' charges) does not
exceed one half of one cent buShel
therefore,
Resolved, that to put the Erie canal on
an equal footing with its many competi-
tors for the grain carrying trade, there
is no alternative but for the State to
construct a few elevators at the ports
named, and transfer grain at reason
able cost.