THE ALLlAflOE-lflDEPENDEflT.
NOVEMBERS, 1893
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TEE LAW AHD GOSPEL MADE VOID-
Twas"the Just One" whom the atrong re
jected, Be wbo fearlessly uneaaked the ruling elans ,
Be who loved and labored fer the unprotected ,
For the poor, eppreHS A, downtrodden maaa.
Gracious words he spoke to all the lowly.
And 'the common people gladly flocked to
bear;'
0 But to rulers. Pharisees and piiea unholy,
Justice Aimed in language most severe
Bo they slew him, to preserve the classes
Which his law, accepted, needs must sweep
awav,
And the anxious, overburdened, wealth-robbed
masses
Groan today beneath their selfish sway.
Thou sbalt leva thyself, and leave thy neigh
ber To a single-banded struggle with the strong;
Thou shall seek and gather gain from others'
labor:
This Is now the accepted law of wrong .
This self-seeking is the world's transgression,
Strangling love for gain, aad spreading
want and woe;
This, the present hell at hatred and oppres
sion, Greed and strife, the word of truth must
show,
Preaching Christ bnbodikd cannot save us ;
Sunday words and surplus gifts few men
will g. ek;
Leva la more than charity; the love that Jesus
gave us
Made the strong a brother to the weak.
Men cannot be saved alone; salvation
Is the union real of former felflsb. hearts:
Love, true love that binds them, levels wealth
and station,
And they stand as brothers In the marts.
Evil's greatest work was glossing over
Both the law and gospel, that the word
Divine,
Flashing light and life to in n, none might
dii-ovr,
None might turn from seeking "mine" and
"thine,"
Bad we Just ones now to face oppressors,
For the love they bare their brethren robbed
and poor,
Had we Christian actors to dlsnlace pro
feasors, Millions new would crowd love's entrance
door.
tiaoHoi Howard Gibson.
Three railroad judges on the supreme
bench, tod placed there by a plurality
of vote. Not two, now, but three
judge whom we uiay expect will dc
fond the guilty and stand by tho rob
bers and oppressors. Well, 'When
the wicked are In power the peeplo
mourn", but when poverty pinches us
hard we shall begin to think for our
selves. ft J 1- - Ji!
The prices of steel rails has dropped
from 139 and 130 a ton lo 22 In the lat
two weeks. It Is stakd In financial re
poru that "this Is the b'atthln that
could have happened to the Iron truie,
(or business was almost at a s'andatill."
Uut this method o( start'nf up business
r.ecl tales, the capitalists will Ml us,
a reduction of 33 per evnt In the wafts
of Iron workers.
i - 1 111 111 s
Ttil nurohvr ot places wi'hla the
elalnYd elf II stvtc subject to t
provisions of the elvl s'rvlc law (
11 has ! Increased from about II.
WW, Ucn the l w piJ, to Ui
wards of 4i t0. Tl acmN r if em
p!ut tf the gotrrntvl t are 'Ui j tl
to ti e old ,! ! y 'tit, but trot,li and
nUia tbv.r (ikitUiu iu v -rdttu
lertl. The IVpuluhe piHiKa U
tl the tuTli ajswrn al etty at the
. Um t ml !. tunUtn 1 1 g
raout li lt!!ui..j the awve.iry ih.
AuiiX ol aattirel atd prNcud utuavMH
lUs.
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A GREAT BTATE 00SFERES0E
la our next week's paper we expect
19 print a call, inning from our state
executive committee, for a great con
ference of the PopnlisU of the state
The conference will be held at the eante
place and week to meet tbedelegates of
the State Farmers Alliance. The
Nebraska Independent Trese Associa
tion will also be called together at the
same time, and the Nebraska Knights
of Labor. At this meeting of the lead-
ers and representatives plans ill be
formulated to thoroughly organize our
people and prepare for a year of agf res
sire educational work. Org mlzs,
Agitate, Educate, these are to to our
watchwords. We are equal to tb work
of routing the official plunderer e-id
corporation kings, If we bring our for. ?s
Into action to eyerywbere pun ttie
circulation of our best papers and ka s,
and draw the people together. The
getting up of dubn, the largest possible.
for the state organ of the Allianco and
the Independents, getting up such clubs
everywhere, should be the woik bow
pressed and perseveringly continued
The truth must reach the people. It is
the part of our readers wbo have the
cause of liberty and juatlce at heart and
who appreciate the value of this paper
to get it Into the hands of their neigh
bors.
SETTLING 1 0 WABD A LOWES LEVEL
The) financial Journals, all of which re
present the money loaning interests and
worked for contraction from bl metal-
Hem to a one metal btteis, are having an
extrem- ly hard time tr)lng to explain
the business situation from week to week
since the coinage of silver was outlawed.
Tho prophecies of the other fellows
have come true, and in order for the
goldbujfg to retain any reputation for
wisdom and cor sleU ncy they are com
pelled to invent reaious therefor and
turn and twist to boat even the pro
fessional contortionist. They tell us
now that the long fight of the silver
advocates in the sennte delayed relief
(the goldbug, Sbylock vlc'ry!)too long,
that it came when the season was too
far advauced for trade to revive. And
tbey brlnjc forward another great rea
son for the failure of their prophecies,
explaining it by the deposition of the
people to economize. That is the only
gospel the poor have preached to them,
but when the entire producing class go
to economizing H Is bad f -r business.
The "abstinen e" which political ecoao
mists te.ll us should firnlsii an income
for the rich, or the abstainer, don't
have any lnoomn producing power when
all men or the great majority, begin to
practice it and have to depend on It to
live.
But all the same these enforced econo
mies are likely to be practiced through
out the country for a year or two, the
Cnlcago Economist adwl',8. And the
baiikers uttd gold holders of this country
and England knpw what a deluge of
poverty, misery and suffering they were
bringing upon this cuotry when they
planned t lock up their money, ship
away gold at a temporary loan, and fill
the business ciicles with their Infernal
hlarms, which iu connection with their
refusal to lend capiat, have brought all
this destruction upon us And right
here we want to say that one, can't be
lieve In Infinite Justice and doubt that
there will be a future hell of poverty
for the Dives class. And it will be as
hopeless as are the earthly hells thoy
are hero muking nnd crowding.
Our readers, we doubt not, have been
Interested iu the weekly financial lee
sou we have been explaining. Here
follows ano'her week's ranrket quota
tions from The Ecooomlst:
The markets for agricultural products
are. still wean, wheat having been s tld
this week at about the lowest p-lee. It
r
is of little us to tala statistics, for the
market rail! s but feebly In n sponge to
giKHi new., and the export buoluees has
leooutiy fallen off.
The quick capital of the cuotry 1'
behaviutt unsatisfactorily. The banks
have too much; ihegove nm nt has too
lit Je; n-edy borrowers can not get it and
good borroweis do not want It Ihe
surplus reserv of the New York banks
te close to Ktt.OO LOoO and the Utle
prlnU-d eleesher4 lu thl lsue shows
that the tUte b-ioks of Chicago have
wore moiic than ttiey ran use.
"More money than they can use,"
tnetne more money than they can lend.
Capitalists who can reduce or stop their
business nfrala from borrowing, be
cause the prlets of products are failing,
and the weaker on-a whi must needs
borrower go W the wall, because of their
p-u lo-d pree atd N eurit ea, loaaee end
bualnets dt-pMtaiou caun! Indu e the
bvaks to lend them money. The Nnki
have the money aat ll not ue It; the
borrower -o4 wot here have the debt
and fteeJe, autl have aontreutut fcvlp g
Ihertteelve
lh K ont tnUt rrptuts the lav rs
l'aiile tas sought of the Nxw Vvnk
uk. t l i tun a little sod tu Uv
l'H4 Mr tee tra-urj ) thett y es
t l n) that l Is I tt a ta H ry
iUI- at, and tl at " I h r lttle d ttt
that the atervUiy Ut re- tuu.e(,d io
eoB(r'a t uutb that ki e iva
author! y U leu te tJa foi lm mr,e
vt rt'l'tett htag thw go d uipi "
A r'.'lpriHatoe t , msf We
tKtituue to )woie:
ItUr'rkl hyU4llirf New Yik
houses that Europeans are taking more
and more of our bonos. and there will
inevita ly be a great increase in the
trade, which etiouia reacn pr-uy large
proportions befors the Oret of May.
Of course this country is not yet so
heavily mortgaged and bonded that
more good security cannot be given,
and we can continue to issue bonds and
buy gold, which means that those who
have the gold will sooner or later force
us into bankruptcy, and "this lend of
the free" will be transferred to and our
people ens'aved by the accursed usurers.
We cIlo from the last weekly market
report the following:
DepreMon without relief is the feat
ure of the wheat market. Llqu'dation
has b en and is still the ord-r of the
day, and ihescive deliveries yesterday
made a new low record. The shrinkage
f r the week i three cents a bushel
Corn and otts suffer in sympathy, and
provisions nave recently developed at
cided weakness In sharp contrast to the
steady markets of the previous sixty
oav-. liuii spirit, tanguisnes
Corn is 5 to7l ca bushel cheaper than
It was a year atro I'be crop of 1843 is
slieblly larger than that of 1892, accord
ing 1 1 the last government report, and
It is considerably below an average.
The 1892 crop followed the two largest
crops on recrd, wnereas trie isuj crop
follows a abort crop. Yet the market
ruVs heavy.
Provisions are settling toward a lower
level and iaeker are n a fair way to
realize their desire for cieap hogs the
early part of the winter season.
Yes, labor and labor products are set
tling toward "a lower level," the level
which corresponds to the ever rising
value of gold, an ever decrcaxtng level
if gold Is iO be the standard of measure
and the absorber of all other values.
Panics at i periods of business de
pression are evils inherent in the capi
talistic or net profit system of produc
tion. Net profits taken from the wages
of the producTH, and dividends in ex
cess of cost aoded into the price obtain
ed for goods or services rendered (made
possible by monopoly), divert from the
hands of the prod ucing cla'-s the moans,
the money, needed to empty the mark
ets. Tbey cannot buy back as much as
tbey annually pour Into the market,
henoe it must be periodically glutted
while net profit fortunes go on accu inu
la' lng. If tho rich expended their entire
incomes it. would prevent periodic busi
ness depressions, bat the injustice re
presented by thoso incomes would still
remain.
THE ONWARD MARCH OF CAPITAL.
Most of tho monopolies which we are
lighting are limited monarchies, their
control of the neoei-sarles of life is not
complete or absolute. Take for in
stancn the history of the anthracite coal
monopoly. The anthracite coil ot the
country is located in a few counties in
Pdnnsylvanla, and two thirds of all
these anthracite coal fields two years
ago were owned by seven companies,
viz., the Philadelphia and R-ading II.
R., the New Jersey Central R It , the
Lehigh Valley R R, the D-leware,
Ltckawanna & Western R. R., the
Ddlaware & Hudson Ctnal Co., the
Pennsylvania R It. and the New York,
Lake Erie fc Western R. R. No other
railroads or transportation companies
enter the anthracite coal region, and
having power to dictate freight rates
to the private companies who mine
anthracite it has been eaey to keep the
price of coal far a'rove the cost of min
ing and delivering it But the high
price stimulated the outputof the mines
owned by private companies, and so
lessened the profit of th carrj insr com
panies which owned and worked the
principal mines, and constantly tended
to prevent the raising of prices.
S a scheme to unite the rftiiroal coal
interests more perfectly, that their
power ts raise priced anil rob tho poople
might b increased, was perfect d in
February 1892, In direct viola Ion of
the constitutional law of Pennsylvania
the Reading road leased the Lehigh
Valley and the Jersey Central railroads,
aod so obtained control of sevt-nty-Qve
per cent, of the competitive trafllj. On
the day that the deal wan consummated,
Teh. 11, such a rush was made for the
s'ock of the new comblutlon In the
New York Stock Exchmgo a made
what the dally papers call d pandemo
nium. When the gravel f--H "A wilder
shouting, stnignUnr and shifting oc
curred than In times of pa Uc. It was a
day of tumult and exclU ment that' ap
palled the oldest men lu the street,"
says the New York Tribune, (t was, as
we bave once before r marked, a Bo roe,
furious, heartless scramble of selfish
devils, each trying to get the Urgest
possible share of unearned wealth, a
strife for power to )lau an a tUuional
tax upon every fire and evry working
horn maker la this great I d. It was
not property that was made and sold,
ba(titicfur. Eight nt llion dollars
worth ot raouuuoly power, texuig p w r,
was dltpoe4 of by the hold re of (load
ing stock la the New York mrUt In
that en day, speculator paylug that
tnouh snore for what they Uiugot tha i
the saute stck tw quoW d Hxt day be
I re Aed that money was taxed o tt
ef the American people In th. h gN r,
ir tne wUIU the otituhhe foro d every
family Uk pay tor coel twit aad
wi r,
Tt' votttblna'loa was at ' hnk,
'hit the pi U'e tf cl dll a t Jrop a (te
f,.rw r lvel, and ue rt i buy
eutl are aware th' tlt pr h
thrvti or lour week mt i ti
rUd, a4 thla I tha , i.o.uon,
W, K. Va terhiit. hv4 I Van
JjiMU f Jj, it M uU putt k a e
weeks ago, has purchased 40,00") mere
shares of the Delaware Lncltawacoa and
Weetorn EL IL stock, making the total
of hu recent purchases 80 000 to 109 000
shares. Aad his financial co-operator!
the Standard Oil magnates, Frank
Work and the Jersey Ontral officials,
bold with him enough shares to secure
with him control of the road and bring
it into closest accord with the interest
of tbe Vanderbilt system, the Lake
Shore, N ickel Plate, and Jersey Central,
together wi h the Lehigh road, owned
by the samj capitalists. And this
means, as the Western Rural has point
ed out, that the Vanderbilt gang is now
possessed of advantages enabling them
to easily cripple capture and control the
entire Erie system, and that they will
have only the Pennsylvania company
and Delaware and Hudson to make
secret agreements with. The coal and
railroad kings have run up prices
when everything not monopolized is
falling in price, and tbey are apparently
even now moving to reduoe the pay of
their miners still lower, to force them
outon a starvation strike, and make it a
means and excuse to raise tho price of
coal still higher.
The anthracite coal business is vir
tually under one head, the head of an
almost absolute monarch, a dark-ages
despot, to whom and to whose legally
Intrenched robber gang we must pay
tribute without receiving even the form
or shadow of a kingly or governmental
service In return. Thil is not -'calami
ty howling,'' or "silver lunacy," or office
soeklng demagoguery, but 40,000,000
tons of cold facts. What are you going
to do about it? '
THE FEARFUL OOSTPF IGNORANCE
From tho report of the chief of the
bureau of staistics, iust issued we learn
that for tho four years ending Sept. 1,
1893, our merchandise exports exceeded
our imports $311,610,132. And our ex
ports of coin and bullion exceeded our
imports $204,175,532. These Bums ad
ded together, amounting to 9515 785,-
664, have been taken out of the country
In f..ur years (about $130,000,000, a year)
and represent a total loss to us. But they
fall far short of the entiro tribute we
pay to the foreign money power. There
has been an enormous amount of foreign
capital sent hero for Investment in the
last few years. -The daily press has re
ported the sale to English syndicates of
vat blocks of brewery stocks, mining
stocks, railroad stocks and bonds, and
municipal bonds; and the loaning of
m'Jny millions of English capital on
farm mortgage securities; which, all
together, make an aggregate invest
ment In American securities certainly
hundreds of millions of dollars in excess
of the small amount of foreign capital
that ha been in four years withdrawn.
And this excess of borrowed capital
hides, covers up, just so much more
balance against us. Ia other words,
we have not paid for what seems to be
to our credit on the side of imports, but
have given Interest-bearing securities
to, in appearance, help out our side of
the balance sheet.
The United States has furnished the
great investment field for the accumu
lated capital of the rich men of Europe,
So wonderful were our natural resours? s
that our people have found It possible
to pay higher rates of interest and live
than any nation in the world. Capital
once here has been content to stay,
therefore, and the increasing inflow ef
it has kept our people hard at work
paying interest and dividends until
with such net profits the capitalists and
money loners here and In Europe have
been enabled to buy up fully half of all
the wealth and natural resources of
this vast country.
Now consider for a moment the
monumental folly of borrowing money
of a foreign uatlon or individuals to de
velop our resources, to keep our people
empl yed, when it is the function of
government, our own government, to
coin money and regulate Its value.
Whatever credit our people need they
can give adequate security for, and the
government can as safely loan them
money direct, and kick out the blood
sucking Shylock class, as to lend it as
they do now to the bankers for nothing,
and allow them to eat up and make
slaves of the borrowers.
When we wake up to comprehend
that the people always do furnish se
curity for the money they borrow, and
that they can Just a easily deposit
their security with the government for
government paper, a with private cor
Deration for bank paper, and thereby
save to tttemtIm all the great Interest
drain, they will they know how to pre
serve their faat-vanlshlng freedom,
p J
Tun RK are about 40,0tO railroad stt
t!on la the Unltrd States, and 0ly
ft,(MW of these are Junction point, fjn
le law Interfere the railroads, having
an unjtstuibed monopoly- aake
rate m hUh as ran be endured at slue
tiithof tetr shipping and rwlvln
point, anl by traffl awHHilatlon and
prltat agreemeat they eae combine
at the other lailuU Hut don't dare to
form a polltUal party to protect the
pvopt ajint thm, unlet ynu are
dewruthud o hatg together and fiifht
till you are tro g enough U thrash the
aryi with tne lUpaUWaa-lVmoirali
iUUrmd tiUUy, I'tunJef U the tl
U et bud the U. rH grat rasehtee
toguUier aad the trnkh -f all three
o,ut mot at taw but ot b at4
VvUl, If tftf pMipi wuul 1 6ot bw rvh'H!
et4 shaUe slave (ureter,
THE RAILROAD QUESTION.
Ex-Go vern?r La-rabee of Iowa has
rendered a great service to the public
in the preparation of his iew work on
" The Railroad Q iestion. An Histori
cal and Practical Treatise on IUUroads
and Remedies for Their Abases." The
headiogs of the fourteen chapters will
give our readers a "better idea of the
Fcopeand subject matter of the book.
They are as follows:
History of Transportation; the His
tory ef Railroads; History of Riilroad
In the United States; Monopoly in
Transportation; Railroad Abuses; Stock
and Bond Inflation; Combinations;
Railroads In Politics; Railroad Litera
ture; Railroad Literature continued;
Railroad and Railroad Legislation in
Iowa; the Inter-State Commerce Act;
the Rate Question, and Remedies
There is an appendix also of tables and
satieties.
TtiJ author, with pains-taking thor
oughness, has gathered a vast amount
of information from the extensive
American and European literature
which discusses or throws light on tbe
railroad problem, aad nam's ninety
eight important publications, official
documents in part, which he has con
suited and from many of which he
quotes. The matter presented in the
459 pages of the book is matter of fact,
drawn from sources perfectly rt liable,
and it provides the reader about all he
needs to know to understand the nature
and extent of the railway managers
schemes and robberies. Their con
struction and stock-watering methods
are explained; their over-capitallzatien
to conceal enormous profits or surplus
receipts, which the carrying monopoly
gives them power to force from the
people, is measured; the vast private
fortunes they have fraudulently piled
up are shown; the consolidation of
companies and their swift-grown
greatness above that of the states
which chartered them is told; their
control of legislatures and corruption
of congress and the courts, tbelr
presence every where in politics and
the vast, fast-gr jwlng perfectly organ
ized power which is absorbing tho re
sources and ilbirtles of the people, is
all made alarmingly clear and plain.
It is a book every populist should
either buy or borrow. Stnd orders
for the book with purchase price, $1 50,
to this office, The Alliance Pub
Co. We have made arrangements
with the publishers to supply it to
our subscribers.
THE editor of this paper is a Christian,
but one who reads the law of justice and
love in new light, with clarified vision. He
wishes very much lo get the ear of the moral
teachers and preachers of each community
to Tiason with them regarding moral and
social questions and lints of individual duty
which not many of them are considering,
and ais interested subscribers to male an
ffort to get the paper each week into their
hands. In each Usue, we shall in at least
one editorial discuss the truth with the
teachers, and perhaps preach to the
preachers. Papers paid for to be sent to
ministers can be had at half regular ' sub'
scription price.
THE LAW OF BIGHrE0U8NESS.
The first law given to man, to the hu
man family, was, virtually, thou shalt
not steal, thou shalt not take without
permission that which belongs to its
creator (Gen. 2:7). A sufficient sup
ply of everything man needed was given
him, and he was directed to multiply
and replenish the earth and subdue it,
and have dominion over it: tame its
animals, harness its forces, make use of
its energies and resources to supply
his individual wants in other words,
woric. Create wealth and enjoy it.
Again, in pocitive form, that law of
justice, which U "the harmony of the
world," was voiced in the words "In
the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat
bread till thou return unto the ground."
In the sweat of thy face," not in the
sweat ot thy neighbor's face.
The practices of men today are with
God lawful or sinful as they rt gard or
disregard this changeless law of life.
But in several ways men have evaded
honest work and obtain the reward of
otbsrt' labor; by secrtt theft; by open
robbery; by seizing the person and com
manding the service of their fellow; by
obtaining through seizure or Inequitable
exchange a monopoly of natural resour
ce (equally given to all), and requiring
tribute for their use; by obtaining con
trol of the highway ot commerce aod
dictating Inequitable price for trans
portatloa services; by making money,
the medium of exchange, a monopoly,
and forcing the worker to pay tne Idle
for IU ue; by selfish bargaining, Using
advantage ot the Ignoranoe or neve sal
lies ot other, of particular individual
or olaes; and by dlvl llng the common
product tf labor unjustly, nit ltrlbul
leg toeat-h the fractloual share com
ponding to the labor he furnlahed.
Every one of these wy of ohulalng
the fruit of utter' labor, eieept the
thrve first enumerated, are Mat con
sidered rp table, reputable way of
t raining property. Toe church, the
profeUual to-M-hrr a t preacher of
the Uw, allow a.td Individually employ
lh.we uoju.t melhodi ol gre,4 g hai
the teeatuf otht rtha produ l II M,
lntort and lprifJitoibe noa work
leg Cp tail are e lderd, luroutfh
long oueiota ptrfvlf r-sp uhl- a -t
Moral UMtheUot gaining wealth wlih
vm worklag lor It; aad ft tkurxk h
sanctioning these methods ins permit ted tk$
fundamental lam of God to be covered up
and forgotten.
W. W A s tor has been a useless drone
all his life, yet by the rent which hi
agents collect for him he draws not leas
than n no million dollars yearly from
the sweat of others. And h is a mem
oes of the Episcopal church in good,
regular standing. And there is no rea
son why he should not be, If it is morally
right for anyone to derive an income
from rent, from others' labor. Accord
ing to God's law it Is not right, aad n
sophistry can male it right.
John D. Rockefeller used to earn his
living at productive labor. But hi la
bor for twenty years has been a labor of
scheming and conspiracy chi fly, and
by means of the growth of a slave-labor
made monopoly property he has secured
possession of power to sit back on his,
throne and tax the workers nine million
dollars a year fortter. And of course
this give him and his heirs a growing
power over labor. Yet he remains a
very acceptable and honored member
of the Baptlstchurch. And there 1 bo
reason why he should not so remain if
the church I to practice
"The simple rule, tbe good old plan.
That he shall take who has tbe power
And he shall keep woo can."
And is not this the rule of action in
tbe business world, governlogall cbureh
members as well as non-professors?
And It Is a law that unorganized indivi
duals must be governed by in self de
fense, if salvation is not brought to
them.
Salvation is possible only by the or
lanization of individuals into an unsel
fish body whose ruling spirit is the
spirit of Christ. The church today is
not such an organization. Its spirit on
week days Is Indistinguishable from tbe
spirit of the struggling individual
whom its members mingle with, It
preaches so-called salvation, and doe
not first show the law and the un
righteousness men must be saved from.
It has rej. cied and lost the know
ledge of God's standard of rlgh'eous
MAaa a V. A U I J ... .
hcdo, ouu uoo iu every uay me aapiea
the selfish moral standard of the world.
It considers worldly wisdom the necess
ary, practical thing in business. It i
not teaching the truth regarding equity,
perfect honesty and the business re
quirements of love.
The writer is a Christian, twenty-two
years a member of one of the evangelical
churches, and he speaks only for truth'
sake, for humanity' sake Are the
preachers and teachers ready to hear
the truth?
OF INTEREST TO THE UHUR0HE8,
John D. R xikefeller, the Standard
Oil magnate, has just agreed to give
another half million dollars to tbe Chi
cago Baptist Uuiverslty. This make
between three and four million of
stolen g ods he has found the church
willing to accept from him.
Now, brother 8mith or Jones, keep
calm till we prove that it was plunder.
Tbe Cullom senatorial committee
which a few years ago made an Investi
gation of alleged railroad abuse dis
covered and repor'ed that
"The Standard Oil Cmpay. in one
instance at least, boldly demanded from
a certain railroad that its shipments
should be carried for 10 cent a burrel;
that all other shippers should be
charged 35 cen's a barrel on the same
article, and tnat 25 cents of the 35
ptld by such other shippers should be
hande'l over by the railroad to the
Standard Oil Company, and the penalty
threatened for non-compliance with
this impudent extortion wan a with
drawal of its entire business."
It was secret conspl-acips with the
tallroHds which enabled Rockefeller
and his fellow brigands to rob and ruin
all competitors and obtain a monopoly
of he whole kerosene oil business of
America and the world, a monopoly
which has filled the oil kind's treasure
vaults with at least $150 000.000 in
twenty years. Tim income of King
Rockefeller amounts to about $25,000 a
day. And the mot of this nforoed
tribute, from the workers, he Is using
to carry forward railroad consolidation,
to perfect the anthracite and o'.her
coal monopolies, and help buy up com
peting mines and es'ablUh a now Iron
trust. These monopoly extensions aad
his church investment are aou of the
last few week. "Uj taxes the world
a he will, and piously pone a id trie
to think ii 4 Is pleased wltl him 111
because he give a portion of hi
spoil to the churohl Tho church1--
eagerly ao ep' It. o aad keep rouu
about monopoly , The political econ
omy taught la IU university, of course,
I lb tort thttault rloh mo, the kind
that defends unrv and net profit.
W do not fl o these foot at the
church as enrmU s, hut hold them up
to show the churche one rwou why
the working oiee as fast a irtey be
come thoughtfully Intelligent o faith
la tbe cloth, the prof, tonal moral
Uachrr And It d n't take a high,
degre of latelltae In tht
lo caab e them to see that rich i J
ride with a'l their wealth through the
door ef the o urvj'iea, and that the rloh
all tho rich, o,i,-..t them
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Jane tat Hi Mov iuvr lt, . o.t lu,,
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