The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-12-08

rake the railways, the highways of
the people, away from these corpora
tons, make them public property, let
the government own and run them,
make them what they should be, pub
lie highways for the people, over which
every man can go to market just as
cheap as any other man. Do this, and
these great trust monopolies that now
Cypress us, will lose their power for
evil, as they meet the honest COMPETE
ton which will arise from every hand
Make these highways highways indeed,
declare to every man that no Standard
Oil company, that no sugar trust, no
meat combine, no coal combine, shall
have any advantage that is not open
to the poorest man in the land. Re-
establish the equality of our people
over the highways Of the republic.
When you have done this the people
will do the rest
with absolute equality over the
butcher could ship a car Of cattle just
as cheap as the Big Four beef COM
bine, the Big -Four beef combine could
not hold monopoly of the meat bust
ness Of America for twenty-four hours.
Today, under government manage
ment, the letter Of an oil producer,
miner, or butcher goes to its destina-
ton with the same speed, at the same
cost, and with the same precision as
the letter of an Armour or a Rookie
Teller. Send their oil, their coal, their
meat to market upon these same terms
of equality, and these great trust COM
blnatlons will soon be getting rid OF
their $25,000-a-year lawyers an. their
s25, 00O-a-year managers, upon the
proposition that their business will not
stand such high-priced men.
1T is because these eleven billions OF
railway capital, together with all of
the men which it controls, are in poll
tics clear up to their armpits, and it is
because this capital and these men are
in politics for corrupt and selfish pur-
poses. irrespective of the public well
fare. 1t is because these eleven bill
lions of capital, together with all Of
the capital Of the trust, are corrupt
Ing our public affairs and debauching
our public men, that constitutes the
important reason why these railways
must be taken away from these corpo-
rations. The record of the last twenty
five years has demonstrated that the
government must own and control the
railways, or the railways will control
and run the government"
In referring to the matter Mr., Lock-
wood stated that he was going to fight
the thing out and see what rights a
witness had before this commission.
DO you call this 'non-partisan'
commission" said he. "Why, it's
nothing more than shield for the
trusts, and 1t has shown it in this
case. Senator Hanna has promised
that the Republican party would see to
the trusts if that party wins in Ohio.
Here is one instance Of caring for the
combinations
Chairman Philips of the industrial
commission ruled on each occasion
that my testimony should remain as
1t stood and be printed And then
what? Well. you see what my testi-
mony looks like after the censors have
gotten through with it.
II am going to New York, and | will
see whether l can get my testimony
printed when l return. will first de-
mand 1t gracefully, but If am not rec
ognized there will be more campaign
material in what will say then than
there was In my testimony
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