The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-10-10

giants. Their revenues are grea tel
than those of the government Their
power to tax fa@e not only upon the
public, but upon the government it.-lf
In the late conflict with Spain, the
manner in which they preyed upon the
government was something frightfuI in
its rapacity, and the constant practice
they have of charging the government
Tor the annual use of a postal car a
greater sum than the cost of the car is
put one evidence of the undisputed fact
that the government dareS not DENY
them anything. They almost openly
openly use the frank of members of
congress to add to the weight of mail
matter during that annual period when
the mail is weighed to adjust the
average" Hundreds of tons of Junk
is thus handled during these few DAVIS;
and upon this fraudulent mail matter
the average for the entire year is bas-
ed The taxpayers have to pay
Paid in Passes
The congressman who lend them
selves to this Swindle get free passes,
and other good things. In express
charges, freight rates, telephone and
telegraph tariffs the public is plumber
ed every day in the year; and the man
ner IN which they submit to it is one
of the marvels of the age No other
people among civilized nations are so
cursed with corporation tyranny as
ourselves; and we never seem to think
that any remedy is possible. Half a
dozen corporation kings can meet in
the office of J. p. Morgan, and can tax
the life out of any town or city in the
United States BY a squirt of the pen
they can add hundreds of millions of
dollars to the burdens of the people,
They enable the trusts to Stay its riv-
ais by granting rebates, or special
rates, which make competition impos-
sible. They debauch public morals by
their methods of gaining what they
want from governors, legislatures,
judges, editors, politicians and mem
bers of congress.
Napoleon once rose from a study of
tables with the remark when
consider the deadly principle which
lies hidden in these tables, 1 marvel
that it has not deVoured the human
race That deadly principle is precise
ly what has deVOured so great a part
of the human race. That deadly prin-
ciple does devour a portion of the hui
man race every year. The big fortune, |
by the law of its nature tends to grow
bigger Each colossal accumulation
what one victor gained and
10000 victims lost. For in a fortune of !
a hundred million, there can be no |
such thing as fair reward for produc-
tive labor. Such a fortune, or anything |
like 1t, represents, as a rule the spoil |
Of the successful marauder in the fields |
where others had toiled. Such a man is |
I freebooter; and his hoard often costs |
he losers more lives, more tears, more |
broken hearts and ruined homes than
ire to be found in the track of actual |
var. When those Standard Oil knaves
'obbed the people of $50, 900 900 in one I
lay, they felt entitled to the admira-
ion of the business world. On the same
lay, perhaps, hungry women stole
bread for hungry children, and went to
prison for it.
Captains of Industry
J. p. Morgan, Andrew Carnegie,
Charles Schwab. and other conspic-
lous captains of industry, increased
heir unwieldy fortunes by pocketing
50O,0O0,00 which other less con-
picuous persons confided to the steel
rust. No one was punished. and at
ne of these libraries which Carnegie
las been establishing all over the
ountry, admission was denied to one
f the best books of one of the best
russian authors because it gave
ivid description of the condition of
he peasantry in Russia. Himself a
avoritism and protection no book
Fhich exposes and denounces class
agislation can be satisfactory to this
IAN who has in his Golfers so many
lillions which should have been left
1 the pockets of those whose honest
ldustry produced them.
With a Standard Oil accumulation. a
arnegie accumulation, and other
milar accumulations represented by
UGH men as J. ?. Morgan. August Bel
lOnt and Arthur German. what is to
revent the deadly principle of COM Z
ound interest from operating with i
ppalling results in this country? Rv
lie law of their nature, those monster {
)rtuneS will grow larger and larger | !
s the owners of this huge wealth {
ave taken more than their share of =
lie common stock of the nations
ealth, so there must be increasing