The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1893-03-10
QUESTIONS OF THE DAY.
The Corporations.

dicted that if the people of this country
ever came to understand the injustice
of the present financial system there
would be the greatest revolu jon the
world has seen since the CTusades.
In the tremendous oppressivcness
Of the system, the chief factor of
cruelty, greed, corruption and robbery
is the Cooperation.
Judge Blandford, late of the
Supreme Court of Georgia, said that
whenever half a dozen men made up
their minds to swindle somebody they
always went and incorporated them
selves.
The Corporation is a convenient cloak
for the rascality of the individual. 1t
is also his protection. His share in the
profits has no limits save the amount OF
the profits; while his share of the
lUsSeS 10 CObHHeu W tuS BLUM Hc eup-
scribed for. Besides. he escapes in
dividual odium. When Jones steals a
horse, Jones must face the music. But
when corporation composed Of Jones
and thirty nine other thieves steals a
Railroad, the Corporation gets the
money. Cussing the Corporations
doesn't hurt Jones. 1t is like fighting
a mans coat while the man is a mile off.
These Corporations are the Feudal
Barons Of this Century. Their Direc-
tors live in lordly palaces and castles.
Their yachts are on the sea; their
paror cars on the rails. They sprend
feasts that would feed starving factory
town. They throw away on the deco
rations of Ball Room enough to clothe
the children of city. They keep
bands of militia to do their fighting. 10
Pennsylvania it is called the Goal and
Iron Police Ia New York and Hi
nois it is called The Pinkerton Detec-
tive Agency" At the word of
command these hreling assassns shoot
down men, women and children. Time
and again they have made the streets
run red with the blood of innocent
people. The murderers are never pun
ished, They are spirited away on the
trains.
Not only do the Corporations keep
armed Retainers; they keep oily and
servile Courtiers to do their bidding in
other walks of life. Their paid Lobby
brides the voter. Their paid editor
feeds the public with lies. Their
corrupt lawyers and Judges peddle out
justice to the highest bidder. Their
Attorneys 90 on the Bench or into
Senates to vote the will OF their Masters.
Tho amb tious young men fear them:
their power is SO terribly great. The
pulpit fears them for the plush COW
cred pew is the seat of the millionaire.
The pew overawes the sacred desk.
They can close up magnificent
natural harbor like Port Royal on the
Carolina Coast and keep it closed. They
can compel Congress to give them mil
lions of the taxes of the people to pre-
pare them an inferior harbor at another
place a few miles distant-like Savau-
nah. They can destroy a city by a
change of freight rates. They can steal
my land under the law of 'eminen,
domain They can violate the law
without fear, as they do every hour in
every State in this Union. They are
kings: more cruel than the Caesars
Marauder, more rapacious than the
Spanish Pzarros and Alvorados
Conspirators, NOR subtle in their
designs than the Borgias, or Catalines
Corruptionists, more systematic, cold
blooded and inscriptions than the
Siinions of the basest Monarchs that
ever set on throne.
Combinations among them have
locked up for gambling purposes the
treasurers OF the immense coal fields
mineral deposits, timber lands, oil!
wells. gas wells and kept the benef
away from the public at large. The
markets of the world have been
ciutched by the throat (in violation OF
Iaw) and the price of every commodity
taken away from competition and given
to the trust Small dealers everywhere
IN everything, exist at the pleasure OF
the large dealer The individual sink $
before the Corporation. The man goes
down under the blows of the "Ring"
Money combined money, unprin-
cipled, law protected money,--domi-
mates the street, the market. the Court,
the Church, the Legislature, the Ed
torial Room, the State, the School, the
Home!