The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1893-05-26
Paragraphs Clipped from the Mo-
nopoly Press.

"The legislature, (of Pennsylvania), now
in the last few weeks of the session, is pay
ing the penalty for dilatory action at the
beginning. 1t has begun 10 rush through
bills in way that would not have beer
necessary had the real work begun earlier
as it might we'll have done"
This bad practice will never be cured till
we adopt the Swiss system of turning over
to the people to sanction or disapprove all
important laws. This is called the Refer.
endum, referring to the people. This is
thoroughly popular government and weeds
legislation of its vicious practices and
DESTROYS the corrupt lobby which haunts
every law making body in the country,
tempting it with corrup,ing influences and
direct brides.
"Reading needs many things but it needs
nothing so much as a clear, impartial,
dispassionate report of its condition. This
does not to-day exist. There is no possible
doubt that when President Corbin and
President Mcleod were declaring that it
had no floating debt that it was carrying
one of from $4,000, goo 10 $S,0O0,OOo, which
has more than doubled in the past three
wears. No one knows its exact lndebt-
edness."
What a revelation is disclosed in this
glimpse ofth corruption that is fostering in
our CORPORATION ridden railroad system
Could anything be more rotten and blasting
10 the morals of business than this hidden
canker which testers in these great corpora
tons, calling for public service and control
with a statement of all their business in the
form of department report to every con-
gress? The manifest rottenness OF these
great corporations calls in thunder tones for
reform and publicity of all their acts made
by government officers who could have no
motive for concealment. By being kept In
The dark the'people are robbed.
"Poor profits are really responsible for
the heavy increase in fire losses this year.
They we've So, 900, 900 or q per cent greater
than last year for April and SIS 100000 or
SO per cent greater for the first four months
of the year. As every insurance man knows,
10 a time of falling prices and decreasing
profits there are enough men who feel the
best way to realize on their goods is to
burn them to greatly increase the moral
hazard which is pleasant term for incen'
diary fires"
Thus it is our financial system is a crime
breeder. 1t is an engine invented to crush
prices of labor and its products down to the
Lowest leyel possible, in order that a class
into whose hands the control of the finances
of the world haye been allowed 10 drift,
may gradually absorb the property created
by industry, by the process of reducing the
price below actual cost. People in desper-
alton, seeing ruin closing round them and
threatening to oyerwhelm and eDgulf them
like the waves Of the sea, grasp at every
straw which promises escape from impend-
ing destruction. Thus it is that our sys-
TENS attack justice, morality, honesty, and
everything of good report. 1t is the gospel
Of greed, of avarice and heartless cruelty
and crime they are promnlgating. That
power has corrupted the daily press which
fears to rebuke it while publishing the list
of crimes that flow from the poisoned source.
1t has cowed the Preacher in the pulpit,
corrupted the Senator in his seat and made
the President suppliant at Its feet. The
people alone have power to cast 1t down.