The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1891-10-23
me Impending CRISIS.

The wlIes oil monopoly are many anu
varied, aud we'll calculatedto deceive the
very elect. Among those is the establish
ment OF labor journals. One of these which
we find on orr table is the National Fedora
tionist. This monthly is published at the
great railroad centre, Indianapolis, lind. !
and purports to champion the several unions
and orders Of railroad employees. The pail
pable object of the publications. being is TO
prevent, If possible, the federation and CO.
operation of all labor organizations. The
Federationist takes sides with the monopo-
| listic organs against the Farmers Alliance,
and Indignantly opposes every hint looking
toward union in any shape or form Of rail-
road employees with any other organizations
Of labor. Keep the railroads from under
all manner of interference or government
control and in the hands of monopoly, and
the railroad employees IS logical conse-
quence under the railroad management.
Although the Federationist processes to be
combating the latter condition its policy, il
crrried out, could have no other possible re-
suit. This paper is one Of the recent outpost
defences constructed BY the railroad aristoc
racy. This is well laid scheme of the
corporations. Iftheir employees can be pre-
vented from uniting with other labor organ
izations, and each division of railroad
laborers confined TO itself, the corporations
will in short time be able NOT only 10 lay
down rules for their guidance, but enforce
them too. There is now an army of 700,-
600 men employed by the railroad COM
tpanies of the country. II this large body
of employees can he detached completely
from all other labor organizasions, and
sufficient Inducements held out to them TO
unite into distinct railroad guilds until a class
peculiar to itself is formed, with pensions
and benefits over which the companies exer-
else guiding control, the corporations will
have advanced far on the road 10 having
organized an army that could be put into
the field on the occasion of a possible con-
vulsion of society that is far from improb-
able when the world wide unrest among
the laboring classes Is considered. In any
event theSe corporations will have secured
a compact disciplined and Differed body Of
voters which have power to place in con-
gress controlling influence. With corps
of the best engineers in the world, and of
ficers well fitted to handle battalions in The
field. with the best and most amply equipped
machine shops and skilled mechanics 10 the
world, with every means and avenue Of
transportation and telegraph lines in their
power, what is there to prevent the railroad
baron from seizing the government and
holding the people in an openly proclaimed
feudalism, as they are already doing In
some sections Of the country in ihinly dis
guised manner?
With the crushing out competition which
is steadily going on in the war against
each other the day is not distant when the
different systems will all be brought into
probably not more than half dozen, with
an alliance among them for mutual protec-
ton and defense against the people. This
is no imaginary danger. These great trans
portalion corporations already defy the
authority and laws of the States, and the
Interstate Commerce Commission appointed
by the United States acknowledges itself
powerless to curb the strength and agrees
sions of the railroads upon the rights of the
people. If these constantly growing cor
porations are SLOWED few years more 10
complete their consultations, manipulate
and discipline the large army of men in
their employ. they will be in position to
defy the govern nent, when all the higher
government offices are filed with their
chosen agents. They have at this time some
of the highest officers in the Cabinet and ON
the Supreme bench, men selected BY them
from the midst of this corporation arisioc-
racy, and they are steadily but silently moy-
ing to the consummation of this object. The
slave atistocracy which thirty years ego
attempted 10 capture the government was
but weakling to the aristocracy of monop-
which is silently weaving its chains about
the liberties of the nation. II Is backed
and prompted by the Jewish banking sys-
tenn Of the Bank of England. which has been
transferred to the soil of America and
quietly fastened upon the vitals of the peo-
pie Of the United States in modified form
under the National banking systems. The
English financial oIigarchy and the trans
portation and telegraph monopoly are
steadily undermining the republican goy-
ernment of the people by filling the higher
Offices Of government, the U. 8. Senate and
the supreme bench, with their chosen agents
The people who produce all are sysie-
matically robbed 10 the verge of poverty
Every year the volume of money decreases,
the list of bankrupts grows longer, prices
fall steadily and thousands Of ignorant
brutalized foreigners swarm to our shores,
brought here in defiance of The laws, in the
steamships Of these corporations and are
taken into the employ Of factory, mine and
railroad company. 1t will require bur a
comparatively short time 10 consolidate an
army Of this material with the Pinkerton
battalions forming neucleus. Are there
any simple enough to suppose that this i'm
mense aggregation Of power and wealth will
tamely submit to a system oil just laws
which would resiore 10 the neonte thar