People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1892-07-15

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again.
To-day you know these men in
law, these corporate men, that live
not by inalienable rights, but live by
mathematical and legal structures
and governm entail process. They to-
day are already sending out over the
United States orders declaring thar
these corporations will not employ
men who belong to labor organ
cations. What does thac mean =
1t means you have got to renounce.
the capacity to organize for self-pro-
lection and become manual slaves
become the plant tool, reduce your
self to the humble action of the.
machine, or you cannot get employ
ment by these people. What does,
that portend? That foreshadows the
condition of the peon, of serfs..
When our forefathers created this,
government they declared against
the laws of entail, they declared
against monopoly, they declared
against perpetuity. They had seen
by the laws of Great Britain that the
wealth aggregating in any place and
never dismembered and distributed
became menace to the great masses
of mankind they could see their
purpose and tendency In derogation
of the rights of the people. Under
that system in England they have
within two hundred and sixty years,
In that country, founded a series of
vast estates that belong to the dukes,
and lords of that country, and under
the laws of entail and perpetuity re-
main undivided and a taunt and
menace to the people. But ia
America, where we have no laws of
entail, excepting a chartered system
in open violation Of the spirit of our
constitution, and under the laws Of
perpetuity in this country, we today
have sixty men in America that car,
buy out the richest lord or duke in.
Europe and pay cash for all he has.
And our American lords or dukes
have made their wealth in the last
twenty-five years. How did they
get it? (Man in gallery: "They
stole it - My friend over there saws.
they stole it-and what is worse, they
stole it by law
Robbery by law is the most terri
bic robbery ever known to any age
When | meet q man on the highway.
knock him down and rob him, I am
under the condemnation of the whole,
civilized world. But if I manipulate.
the Legislature or Congress Of the
United States, to pass law to hold.
him still and another one to get my
hand in his pocket, and get what is
his, [ am considered first class bus
mess man. They make me president
of bank, elect me manager Of a.
traffic association, the big daily pa
pers insist that am a genius, and the.
first thing | know they will run me
for Congress. You have heard it
said that little over thirty years ago
the agricultural people represented
something over so per cent, but to-
day you represent less than twenty
per cent of the wealth of this nation.
Has it been because you are lazy ?,
Has it been because you are trifing?'
Has it been because you have lived
too extravagantly? No; you have
better machinery to work with, you
produced more and got less from year
to year. If thirty years will take You
from sixty per cent to twenty per
cent, how many years will it take to
get the remaining twenty per cent =
You can figure yourself out bank
rupt in the morning before breakfast.
On the other hand, while you have
been going down hill, look at these.
men in law. These corporations.
that were created by law, not by
God, never had any inalienable rights,
in this country, none except the rights.
granted by the granter and vastor..
They have the taxing power, in open
violation of the sacred principles Oh
the constitution and, you cant help
yourself. In my State they pay the
governor four thousand dollars 3
year; because we govern that State
we say how much he shall get, but
the governor of a railroad com pany in
my State gets eleven thousand dol
lars year. How does that happen !?
Because he sets his own salary with
out our consent, although his corpo-
ration is but the creature of the peo-
pie of Texas and could not live five,
minutes without our consent. And
when we gave our consent we never
wanted him to be bigger man than.
our governor of Texas. Yet he is
drawing as much in one year as our
governor draws in three, out of the
pockets of our people, and we can't
help ourselves because the Democrat
ic party says it is undemocratic to
bother him. 1t is the same way in