The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1899-06-03

OF the legislature received 5000 each.
while $1,000 was divided among the
lobby agents. That thing on 9 larger
or smaller scale is all the time going on
in some Of the states Of the union, but
it Is not 50 laundering as il used to be,
and therefore not so easily exposed or
arrested. l tell you that the overshad-
owing curse OF the United States to-
day is monopoly. He puts his hand
upon every bushel OF wheat, upon every
sack Of salt, upon every ton Of coal, and
every man, woman and child In the
United States feels the touch OF that
moneyed deSpotism. / rejoice that in
"a states Of the union already anti-mo-
nopoly leagues have been established.
God speed them In the work Of liberia
ton
i have nothing to say against capt.
talists: . man has a right 10 all the
money he can make honestly. l have
nothing TO say against corporations as
such; without them no great enter
prise would be possible, but what l do
say is that the same principles are to
be applied 10 capitalists and TO cor
P~orations that are applied to the poor
est man and the plainest laborer. What
is wrong for me is wrong for great cor
porstions. II l take from you your
property without any adequate COM
pensation l am u thief. and II a railway
damages the property Of the people
without making any adequate compen-
sation that is a gigantic theft What
Is wrong on o small scale is wrong on
e large scale. Monopoly in England
has ground hundreds Of thousands Of
her best people into semistaryation, and
in Ireland has driven multitudinous
tenants almost to madness, and In the
United States proposes to take the
wealth Of 60, o0o. 900 or 1000. 900 Of peo-
pie and put it in q few silken wallets.
Monopoly, b~razen-faced, iron-fn-
gered, vulture-hearted monopoly, Of
fers his hand to this republic. He
stretches it out over the lakes and up
the great railroads and over the tele-
graph poles Of the continent and says:
Here are nv heart and hand. Be mine
forever" Let the millions of the people
north, south. EAST and west forbid the
hams Of that marriage. forbid them at
the ballot hox forbid them ON the Mat
form forbid them bv great orRaniza-
ions forbid them NV the overwhelmin1
sentiment ~ an OUTRAGED nation forbid
,ham nv ,hs nro,est ~ the church Of
Cod forbid them bv urayer 10 high
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