The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1896-01-03
The People VS.. the Corporation.

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European nations all appear to be get
ting ahead of the United States in useful
government reforms. The telegraph and
railroads are largely under government
control or ownership in the old world
countries, and municipal ownership of
gas, water and other public franchises are
being taken out of the hands of private
corporations. The liquor business, too, is
being taken charge of by the government
and the manufacture and sale managed
by the State In Russia the government
is taking charge, and is driving out the
saloon keepers who are almost entirely
Jews, and have bankrupted and ruined
the Russian pesants, who are represented
as the most simple, confding class of peo-
pie in the world. In all these important
reforms this country lags in the rear most
wofully. The United States are bound in
the iron handed grasp of monopoly and
class privilege more than any other uation
on earth. The people seem to be abso-
lutely powerless to lift hand for their
own relief notwithstanding their boast of
freedom at the ballot box to make and
unmake laws at their will and pleasure
All know who have taken the trouble to
study the condition of affairs this is the
reverse of true. The people have almost
no voice in law making in this country,
and monopoly has entire control in State
and nation. In public affairs the people
are as simple and easily fooled as the
Russian pesants. Every body must admit
this to be fact who will consider and
observe for themselves.
There is but one State, South Carolina,
that has attempted to take the manage
ment of alcoholic liquors out of the hands
of the worst class ofpeople in the country,
and it has required the most determined
efforts on the part of few of the ablest
men i'll the country to battle against mo-
nopoly with subsidized newspapers, SER
vile courts, creature judges and venal
political parties run by rings composed of
class of men little, if any, better than
thieves and robbers This is the condi-
ton of this country to-day and we chal
lenge successful denial of these facts.
The Prohibition party with we'll mean
ing efforts has Numbered in blind way
for upwards of twenty years, to shut up
the saloons, but the abuse is far worse
than when that party began its battle.
State or municipal control is the only
method that can conquer monopoly.
There is not sufficient concentrated power
anywhere else to meet and master nonop-
oily, compacted and solidifed by incor-
porated charters.
The benefciaries of these abused priv
ileges which they enjoy have invented
the cry of socialism" and placed it i'll the
mouth of their claquers, as the slave
power invented and used the epithet, do
you want your daughter to marry mig
ger ?" as their stock argument against
all who dared to condemn slavery and its
debauching influence on both slave and
owner class.
1t is impossible to prevent wrong doing
and leave the power to do wrong in the
hands of the wrong doors. with all the
temptation of gain to spur them on.
The people will have to choose between
those monopolized franchises remaining
in the hands of bands or rings composed
of the most cunning and inscriptions
class of men who grind them down, rob
and impose upon them, inspired by the
Unsuitable hunger of greed, and taking
control themselves by municipal and
state power, which is but the concentra-
ton and vitalizing of their own power
The outcry of socialism against the peo-
pie taking possession of their own, is a
delusion and cheat, invented by the
rogues and put into the mouth of fools
Their purpose is to mislead and blind the
people in order to prey upon them. There
can be no monopoly without a privilege
or charter g anted by the State, which is
grant from the people. If the people
possess q Po"Sl which Az liSA Soi Poid lS
capacity they can grant to select COM
pany of slick spectators to use, they can
retain that right and use it in their own
corporate capacity and for their own
profit.
A corporation is an artificial person
created by the State and the State should
hold supervising control over all of those
artificial persons, exacting strict account
of all their transactions by published
statement monthly or quarterly. This is
the only safeguard the natural person can
have to protect him from this State Gre
ated corporate person.