Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-10-28


hands at sacrifice to the government
of many millions of dollars, the Union
/ Pacific and Central Pacific properties.
This will place within Mr.. Morgan's
hands more than 80. 900 miles of rail-
road. traversing the country from the
Atlantic to the Pacific seaboards. This
will enable him to control all impor-
tant water and rail routes that parallel
or intersect his colossal system as COM
pletely as if he owed and operated
them. He will fix the rates on all ar
| tlcles of commerce in the entire coun-
try, and as the Tribune pointed ont,
can build up or ruin cities, can make
or unmake States or communities by
| exercising this rate-making power fa-
vorably or unfavorably to their respec-
| tive interests.
A Republican contemporary has in
! timated that the Tribune in its arraign-
meut of Morgan has been instigated by
the age-Gould interests, who are after
the Union Pacific themselves. No
matter what its inspiration and mo-
tives, its facts can not be denied, and
the deductions based upon them are
equally undeniable.
Morgan and his associates, grown
drunk with success of their gigantic
ano1ie;tiop ono rI.,ori1r baa6Iopn IN
a greedy race after every vestige of
value in sight. They have long con-
trolled the money of the country. reg
ulated its quality and supply. They
control the national government in all
its branches but the half of one of them.
and that faction of one has been car
ried on more than single occasion
ere now by the assaults of a skillful
lobby, reinforced by large reserves of
cash.
Let US call these cormorants Nor
ganites. 1t is matter of a few weeks
or a few months until they will have
control of the transportation lines of
the country, and through them will
make the cost of whatever is produced
in field, factory, mine or elsewhere in
every part of this country what they
please, and fix the rate of wages at
whatever figures they choose. The
government, national and State, they
reckon with as with a purchasable
chattel. Their newspapers, which
they have at work IN every large city,
will industriously mold public opin-
ion, distort and invent facts and befool
the people as to the true state of affairs
in every way the brains of their ingeni- |
Gus editors can invent. Their agents
will manipulate conventions and see
that the tools of the Morganlies are
nominated for the offices. Their can
didates will be supplied with all need
full funds to assist in their election. |
Should they be defeated their success
full opponents. when they reach the
legislative halls, will be taken in hand |
by the organized lobby of the Morgan
ties and tempted by every species Of
bribery to break the promises through |
which they secured the votes of their !
trusting constituents. Thus will they |
do in the future because thus have they |
done in the past.
But they viii go too far. Glutted |
power has gone too far in years gone |
by. Human nature is the same in the
kings who rule through money, through |
corruption and through bribery, and
those who rule through combination
of superstitions and ignorant subjects |
and the brute force of armed hirelings. |
In both there is a disposition, born of
a blindness that comes from glut of
power, to push aggression beyond the
limit of human endurance. Morgan |
and his pals should beware of this ten
deucy.
They must not think because they |
have corrupted the springs and pois-
oned the streams of official life that |
they can thereby bid the ocean of pop
ular thought and will to remain stag
nant and untroubled. Sufferance has
long been the badge of the American |
people. Their patience ought not to
be taken for cowardice or acquiesceuce.
Legalized robbery can be pushed to a |
point where it will fall upon the pro-
curers and benefciaries of it, with the
eruptive destruction of q thousand
vomiting volcanoes. The Morganites
appear to be pushing toward that goal
with perilous velocity. When they
reach it they will be brought face to
face with an aroused, indignant, de-
termined and united people. The sub
sequent proceedings will not be con-
Quoted in the interest or for the pleas
ure of the Morganites.-K. C. Times.
There are Others"