Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1904-12-06

cultural industry under the dras-
tic system of railway extortion.
When chartered corporations
are able to rule this nation We
shall have to come to the end of
our commercial greatness. The
finest regions of this republic will
become as unfruitfui and desolate
as the fairest fields of Italy under
the rule of Roman aristocracy.
The absolute control of our Tu-
dicial, Legislative, and Admins
trative department By the collosal
railway com binations OF the Unit
ed States will inaueurate reign
of commercial despotism more
intolerable than the administra-
ton OF our governmen under the
naked power Of the swofd-more
terrible than the vivid ruin in-
f1icted upon the commerce of the
world by the successive invasions
of the Goths, Huns, and other
vaudal hordes OF Evrope.
The tactics applied to one of
the late national political con-
ventions will be attempted in the
couventions-of the leading polit-
ical parties of the United States
tour years hence, and the only
remedy for the insolent, proud,
ambitious and donineering rail-
road Oligarchy is the speedy con-
struction of a double track rail-
road across this continent from
ocean to ocean, owned and oper-
ated by and for the people of the
United States.
The construction of our great
Panama canal by the people of
the United States, under the ad-
ministration of President Roose-
welt is a monument to the sp1en
dor of our civilization, the glory
of our arms, our commerce, and
our power. A work more en-
during than the pyramids of
Egypt, contribution to the COM
merce of the world by the people
of the United States and a dem
onstration that our people can
build, own and operate tn egreat-
est enterprise on earth. The
construction of this canal makes
the construction ola double track
railroad from ocean to ocean
through the commercial heart of
this Republic an absolute neces-
sity.
. The railway corporations OF
the United States are now laying
the foundation for a combination
upon the high-seas that will
overshadow all other trusts and
combinations in the world. The
commercial corporations Of all
Europe are to be taken into this
gigantic pool to be operated to
control the carrying trade of the
commerce ef the whole world,
fixing freight rates by water at
the exact figures for transporta-
ton by railway carriage No
government under heaven can
prevent this commercial and
financial combination upon the
high-seas, nor can any govern
ment deliver any nation from the
commercial slavery to the corpor-
ations of the world by any sys-
tenn of international commercial
law This colossal pool will re-
vive all the rigor of the piracy of
the middle ages less the savagerv
of barbarisn OF death and total
confscation, every dollar that
the traffic will bear. will be the
minimum rate of freight by ships
sailing TO every port in the world
under the flags of every nation on
earth.
The princes of commercial
wealth in Europe will compel
passivity on the part of their
governments while the railway
millionaires of the United States
will attempt to control our Gov
ernment, State and National,
preventing any legislation hos
tile to this conspiracy to rob and
plumber and lay every CONNER
cial nation under tribute to the