The advocate., 1892-02-24

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all the stock to their partner, and then,
las in the Oregon Short Line), they will
gobble up the bonds, and vote as direct
ors that their partner shall guarantee the
payment of interest from the earnings OF
the old Union Pacific. They receive
money into one hand as a private corpo-
ration, and pay 1t into the other as q con-
tractor with their silly old partner. Thus
the whole thing seems to be a species OF
thimble-rigging, with this difference
from the old style-the "little joker" is
always round under the thimble. 1t
makes no difference which thlmble you
lift up, It Is there. Butyou may say that
this canal company will have govern
ment directors to look after our interests.
Why bless your innocent souls, we have
had five directors in the Union Pacific
board for over twenty-seven years, say
about seventy-flve in all. Have you ever
heard Of them? Can you name a dozen?
Can you name as many as God required
to save sodom from destruction? We oc-
casionally hear Of one who did not like
to report "all right" But you will soon
hear that he was persuaded" to sign.
There was one honest man on that board;
his name was G. H. Snow, and he made a
report March 5th, 1889, but he was 80
lonely that he was "bOunced" the first
opportunity. The partnership in the
Central Pacific was more infamOusi if pos
sible. A committee appointed to investi-
gate its affairs, reports 1t rotten to the
core. The Pattlson committee reported
that if the road had been honestly con-
Quoted they could have paid of the gov
ernment debt Of about $70,0O0,OOO, and
received dividend Of six per cent upon
the capital invested, and reduced the
freights and fare $1400OOO00 in the last
twenty years. If this is 80, and proba-
bly, it is, that corporation has robbed the
producers of this state Of $l4O,OO0,0OO,
and their partner of as much more. But
have no time to follow up this matter
at present, and in conclusion will say
that the record of our partnership with
these companies, constitutes the blsckest
history ever written in any country, not
excepting Warren Hastings in India. In
that case he robbed an alien race, In this
1t was our own people. If the people OF
this state want more light on thissubject
I stand ready to give 1t. The time has
arrived when the great industrial classes
are tired of their allegiance to clique
who is ever ready to boom any legis-
lation in the interests of the rich and
against the common good. Already their
mutterings Of dlscontent are heard upon
the plains of Kansas, and the wheat fields
of the Dakotas and Minnesota, from the
cornfelds of Illinois. Indiana and Iowa,
as well as from the Pacific coast. The
stability and prosperity Of this nation de-
pend upon the honesty Of the masses.
You would not look to the ward poll
ticians, or the boodlers of the last legiS-
lature, or the courts who turn them loose
after they are In the clutches OF the law,
to maintain the purity of this govern
ment. You would not 60 to the gilded
palaces of those who revel In their Ill
gotten wealth, but to the farm labOrers,
the manly workman at the forge, the
lathe, and the bench, and the great middle
classes to maintain the power and purity
Of this great government
Now say to this canal committee