People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1893-07-07

SA OAosh oil VIC OtAACA "a dAACuSS VI
business combined.
We have no farmer millionaires--
fact that may be worth digesting at
your leisure.
We have few merchant Millionaires.
We have scores of manufacturing
Milhonaires.
We have many among the Nation
al Bankers.
But it is in the Corporate Monopoly
in it's worst form, that we have indi-
vidual fortunes climbing up into the
hundreds of millions.
Consider the half dozen men who
have grown so fabulously rich from
the Standard Oil Monopoly--a cor
poration which in It's march to power
has committed almost every crime
Known to the Code
1t has subsidized newspapers, cor
rupted the ballot bax, bribed judges,
used Rail Roads as accomp!ices IN
felony, driven individual property
owners to beggary and ruins and
today has It's Attorneys in the United
States Senate to guard its interests.
Go read the record of the methods
by which Jay Gould, and Stanford
and Huntingdon, and Vanderbilt
made their fortunes. The story is
ever the same Monopoly.
And in nine cases out OF ten 1t Is
Rail Road Monopoly.
No nation ever allowed such mag
nifcent robbery as we have permitted
to the railroad managers since the
war.
Of the public land, which was paid
for IN the money Of our tax payers
and in the blood Of our soldies, cor
rupt legislators have given these cor
porations an empire of 224,000, 900
acres, besides such aids in money as
almost beggar surprise and Supply
indignation!
Special privileges, worth millions
of dollars, have been granted by ser
vile legislatures at the instance Of
we'll paid Hobbies Exemption from
taxation, have been voted with cruel
disregard of the rights Of other prop
erty owners.
ItsoIent in the strength of such
wealth, such privileges and such con-
seriousness Of what it can do with our
law makers, the Rail Road Monopoly
de6es the Government, Expresses the
laborer, plumbers the shipper, dis
troys a market, ruins city With dis
eliminating rates, and utterly bank
rupts the small business If paid to do
SO by the large one.
Not satisfied with their stapendous
power as Rail Road Monopohes, they
are reaching out their octopus arms
to take in other tributaries. They
are partners now with the Standard
Oil Trust, they are the controlling
spirits in the Coal Combine; they are
taking in the mines and the qualries
and the timber supply. How on
earth is the Government to deal with
corporations so much richer, SO much
stronger, so much shrewder, so much
greedier than itself.
No law against them can pass the
Senate-for their tools have seats in
that highest of legislative chambers.
No Federal decision will ever be
against them-for they either keep
the sons of the judges employed as
their lawyers Gas for instance the son
of Judge Jackson of TENNESSEE or
they secure the appointment of their
Attorneys to the Bench-as for in
stance Stanley Mathews, late of the
Supreme Court. He was Jay Gould's
lawyer.
But not only do they guard their
interests in these directions, but they
make terms with party managers,
previous to elections, and it is upon
these terms that the campaign Doodle
is supplied.
THE DREADFUL FUTURE.
Who does not shrink from future
dominated by such inf uences?
What remedy shall we apply?
The plain simple treatment which
was applied by our fathers to so
many other agencies which were too
dangerous to be trusted to private
ndividuals-Na Naturalization
Let the Government take charge
of these highways of commerce and
operate them for the benefit of all the
people.
In no other way under Gods skies
will you ever do it!
Either you must trust the Govern
ment to operate your Railways, as it
does your Post office, or you must
submit to the financial despotism of
uncomfortable corporations.
And what is true of Rail Road is
likewise true of those iniquitous mo-
nopolies, the Express, Telegraph and
Telephone service.
GOVERNMENT OWNERSHIP.
To all reflective men, the rail roads
themselves are making out our case
for US.
G. P. Huntingdon, Jay Gould and
all the other magnates have urged
the benefits of consolidation. They
say that all the vast rail road in
tersts should be managed from one
central point, under one central au-