The Dolores star., 1901-04-12
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OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
EVENTS CAST
THEIR SHADOWS BEpoRE,

THEIR SHADOWS BEPoRE
We, as II people and as u nation, are
lnOw standing on the eve of great
changes. 1t has been the destiny OF
all former nations to rise to a certain
point and then crumble and fall into
decay. The Roman Empire had been
in its tomb more than fourteen hundred
wears when our nation was begun, but
it must be remembered that man can
not get away from his own type and
that like causes will produce like effects
in all ages and among all peoples.
Does our young, but great republic
hold out any hope to mankind' Are
we still holding out u beacon light to
the oppressed of all other nations" Are
we not expressing the poor Of our land
to such an extent that every semblance
Of independence is being crushed out Of
the working class" And the same
cause that destroyed the Roman En-
pire is undermining our government
and that cause is center in the wealth
of our government into the hands Of
the few We are but an infant among
the nations; but we have men in our ma
ton who can control "A greater amount
of wealth than crown heads of the old
nations. The trusts that are forming
are greater evils to bc confronted than
the saloon question, and l hope kind
providence will turn loose n Sister Ma
ton to demolish them. And while she
| is wrestling with them she will get a
few licks into the whiskey trust where
she ought I've working now.
Cannot the people see the hand writ.
ing on the wall" Can they not see the
dangers that menace our government?
Are they so befogged with their Repub-
lican ideas that they cannot see the dan
ger of the big trusts that are formed,
such as the late Union Pacific and
Southern Pacific combination, who can
dictate terms to our government and
wreck 1t II they see fit?
Here are some of the things you can
not do since the trusts have formed:
You cannot travel by rail from New
York to any western city in the United
States, or western city to the east with
out buying ticket or otherwise obtain-
ing the permission of the combination.
You cannot ship pound of freight to
the East or West without accepting
the rates they may give you. If you
were worth 500, 900 you could not
build railroad and obtain terminal
facilities in New York, Boston, Phila-
delphia, Chicago, San Francisco, Port
land, Puget Sound, Galveston, st. Paul,
Minneapolis, or Omaha without first
obtaining permission of the Big Six.
These are the coming events that east
their shadows before.
And now comes the big steel trust to
over shadow all other trusts yet formed.
Think of 1t, not q man in the United
States but comes into their clutches.
Just think where we are. II our gov
ernnent wants to build battle ships or
any vessel for commerce we will first
have to obtain all our steel plate from
the combine. Ifa city wants to put in
water works their piping must come
from the vast steel trust. II poor
man wants to build house he gets
prices quoted from the trust. No com-
petition any more 1t is one man
rule, or rather few men. There IL no
letting the contract for carrying the
mails for the government, as the thing
stands now. The government let's the
combine carry it and they charge just
what they please. i want to ask, in
solemn earnestness, can our present
form of government stand under these
conditions? Our members of Congress
and Of the Senate see the hand writing
on the wall. Other nations have been
wrecked on the same shoals that our
Ship of State Is now drifting toward.
When the money and the facilities for
making it have been centered in the
hands Of the few, has it ever been
known where the troops have been
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robbery? No, it was always to suppress
the poor wretches who had spirit
enough left to dare ask for better pay
for their services. Where are the vot-
ing soverigns today? How much free
dom do you enjoy? The old solid party,
that has hat0hed all these trusts, has
just had You rounded up and driven
you to the polls, and as you have done
pretty well they have turned you loose
| to rustic for yourselves and starye un-
til the next presidential election, when
they will round you up, like our stock
men do when they want to make a
shipment Of beef. And must say that
some Of these voting soverigns do not
seem to use as much sense as some OF
: the cattle.
Our grand old Congress has just made
, an appropriation of X11S OOO OOO fnr MI,