The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-08-21
GOV. RUSSELL SPOKE.
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Inv and you can not get one, and the ON!
MACE where you can be heard is at the
hallot box. One thing you can do. Wheh
Won send a man to discharge a pupLc
frpst then YOU command him that ne
shall discharge it or you will make IL TOO
hot for him to stay at home. (Applause.)
Now there is nothing without organlza-
t;on Won can accomplish nothing with
ont it. The Farmers Alliance has accom-
plished much simply because 1t was an
organization. it has been felt all over
the country for this reason. Two thou
sand organized men out ON these hills
would have more power than one hun
bred thousand unorgaHized men. You
take a handful Of worthless sand upon
the shore and work it into a telescope and
with it explore the starry depths of the
heavens. That's organization. Organiza-
ton has power and il you men who pay
the taxes and plough the fields, If you
are not organized you amount to no
more in force and power than so many
serfs and peasants under foreign mon
archs. iel
POWER OF CORPORATIONS.
Organization is essential. Why look
and see what has been done in your State
commissioners have passed an order de-
claring that telegraph rates shall be re-
>duced from 25 cents to 15 cents for every
ten words. There never was anything
more inst than that. 9shes State has a
right 10 say that their rates shall be
.reasona bic, according to them fair in
come on the amount they have invested.
They have been charging 25 cents
for every ten words, and cents
fer every additional word. They are
taxing the people of this country for;
everything sent by telegraph. Il You are
gouged and plundered by that scrowd.
They say to you, "Stand and deliver
every time you want to send message.
You give them seventy-fiye cents or, a
dollar to send a telegrafh to, New York,
when you can send One all over Eng
land, Scotland and Wales for about
fourteen cents.
FEDERAL INJUNCTIONS..
One Of your Senators, Marion Butler,
has introduced a bill to .gsta blish 5pestal
telegraphs for this country and has it
before committee and thinks he will
get it passed by the Senate, but when
the agents of the money power swarm
around the halls of the eapitoloyou will
find that it will drop into the tomb. The
people of this country can't be, strong
enough TO send representatives to es--
fablish postal telegraph until they. are
organized. There is no reason for , it
except that it is decreed by the; money
power that it shall not be done. II you
were organized you might be .ir1 a posi-
tion to say that it should be done. Ii
the men who pay the ataxes-n they
could get together and sorganize-they
could stand up and say, "tWe have been
plundered enough by YOU Here; the
Railroad Commissioners have done this,
but why have they not cut railroad rates?
1t cannot be explained.
The Western Union TeIegra phi Com
pany appeal, get it into the courts, and
in the meantime get an Injunction from
a Federal judge to prevent the Commits
sion from carrying its order into effect
all of which amounts to their walking up
to a Federal judge and saying: "Stop
this" and he stops it.
Away they go to get their ihtunctions
and big lawyers, ex-Governors, and sec
retaries and ex-judges and all before
these Federal courts to show that this
Western Union Telegraph Company is
too poor TO stand the cut Who repre-
sents you? Where is your organization
for this purpose? This Western Union
has got it all except there is in their
case one piece OF furniture they need
and need bad, and that is a. Governor.
fApplause.)I will try to see to it that your
side is heard. This is. one time they have
not got the Governor.
GOVERNOR FOR LIFE.
like the office of Governor very we'll
,-id Of no 7 cIof
Sometimes I think better get Peirpont
Morgan to appoint me Governor for life.
If they are to command us and if they
are going TO run into the Federal court
everytime we pass law they don't like,
why they might as well appoint a re-
ceiver for the State and be done with it.
And then, it ought to be me. I'm the
fellow Piegpont Morgan knows he needs.
'(Applause and great laughter)
You know about Pierpont Morgan. He
has quit buying railroads. He buys
systems of railroads. He doesn't deal
with small matters like single railroads,
but he takes the whole system at one
gobble; and il this goes on it will be
only a short time, a very short time. be-
fore Morgan will own every mile of
railroad from the Potomac to the Gulf
of Mexico. and when that comes it is a
question for Morgan & co., to determine
how much tribute they will levy upon
you, and l can tell you how much. They
will levy about what they think the
traffic will stand
You talk about making big crops. They
are glad to see you make big crops-the
bigger the crops, the more revenue for
them. And so it will CO. The price of
your products will be determined not by
the national laws of supply and demand
but by the small clique of big money
holders in the great centres. They will
say. How much shall we take on corn.
wheat, tobacco" and make their tariff
accordingly.
Do you know what they did in the
Federal courts on this question Of ra+ac2