Crittenden press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1879-1907, 1900-01-25

mas also Deen maze law lh lenneh-
see, and the same idea has been intio
duced in the Legislature o. New York,
I'd in that it should be felony for
any corporation to contribute to the
campaign fund in any party, 10 any
contest. Corporations are organized
for business purposes, and if you look
at the charters you will find that the
powers of the corporations are enun-
Grated the rights of the corporations
ret forth, and nowhere will you find
J that one Of the rights of the corpora
ton ia 20 control the Representative
from the district in which the corppr-
alton has headquarters, or any other
Representative.
believe that when an individual
I has an interest-a general interest in
the result of legislation, or in the
triumph of a principle, or a party,
that he has right tn contribute from
his own means to campaign fund TO
he used for educational purposes, but
do not believe that cOpol alton
ougbt to be permitted to contribute
rut of lts treasury to any campaign
fund at any time or under any ciIcum
stances.
THE CORPORATION QUESTION.
You have to deal with the corpora
ton question. The corporation ques-
ton is a growing question, and want
tn impress upon your minds the fact
thst we sre today giving to these cor
porste persons, created by man, rights
denied to the individual man. have
as say, no hostility to a cooperation.
80 long as it keeps within the lines
laid out for IT. and does not injure the
people; but can not conceive OF the
people desiring to create thing which
they can not atterward control, and ]
believe that when we create corpora
tions we should at all times reserve
the right to control the corporation.
The individual never gets beyond the
reach of the law. The Government
can effect the rights of the individual.
and his interest, day by day and
month by m onth, and year by year
The individual ia never given a right
that subst queut Legislature NAV not
effect, and vet W. create corporations
that do not labor under the limita
tons of the neutrality-suspicious.
that are not subject to the uncertain,
ties OF life-cOrporatlons far greater
in their power for good or harm. and
then we give to these corporations
rights and immunities which We deny
IN the God-made man, and l believe
that it is time that the American ! eO
pie, in every State in this Union,
were awakening to the fact that We
are creating giants nv act OF legisla- |
tions, and then turning them out to
trespses upon the rights of the hum
BILE individuals OF fl sh and blood cree
ated by God, and placed upon this
footstoOl for the ctrrying out of his
own purposes. (Applause.)
Now, in the Sts'e of Texas, they
have Jaw that provides that no rail-
road can Issue stocks or bond in excess
Of the value OF the road, and they can
not issue stocks Dr. bonds in behalf of
railroads until the State Railway Com
mission has examined and permitted
issue of the stocks and bond. In other
words they have made it impossible
for railroad to organize, and then
float lot of stock and bonds not re-
presented by actual investment, and
have never heard person attempt
to defend against such law as that,
and / hope to see the time in every
when it will not be possible for a rail
road to issue one dollar O. stock or
bonds until it has received permission.
You can put the rates upon rea-
sonable basic, because | have never
yet found man who wasn't willing
that railroads should have fair re-
turn upon the actual value of their
But what do we fiud? We
ind that because they have a monopoly
because there is no rival, as in the
case of farmers, or merchants, they
IAN initiate the value of their capital,
hey Can float bonds not represented
~ money invested, and then because