Show appos ED TO SOUND POLICY THERE appears to of bem a grow growing lug inclination to IB favor of the government assuming control of certain lines of business in which tile te public is largely interest interested ed because of being widely affected by them mr powderly appears to be anted with views in ID that direction I 1 ie ae sees no reason why way the telegraph system should not be under the tram imm control of the go government ot aers aiters go further than ae in this mis line an I 1 would it had the power indue le ie in this direct ROV gov ern mental ia 1 toe the railroad system ol 01 tile nation casioa tile chief ae ac in sup orr of hit hippos pool tion it that the public is subjected to antea aole al abuses uses at 1 ie e hands of 1 namino a corporations ario are im aued w ith the senti indents of the la id te mr I 1 vanderbilt rander bilt who when tm ills altet iliou was drawn to the act the p tope wot woi id frown upon one ot of his bis I 1 large trai factions exclaimed conte come tte toe people bed ki 11 that similar st adment of the late mr kr tweed ol of the same cul or only pel naps a trifle inore defiant anat are you going to jo do about a bout it I 1 here is ij denying the fact that the p public ablia are a jaue more or less the victims of the i corl cori orations anu money king a of te cound y T ane e P peola a 0 alu are pr actually act cally powei less to odla themselves lu iu tae lae way ot ol ret e et I 1 exact occasionally when anen they raise a auw sl ji n about the es ea rs of the perpetrators petra tors of tile the wrongs that brings to V air senses bu ba t it to Is be el arto erto V tw bo tf r those chwe have than fly t to 0 othey other a that we know not of 11 the diews bews of mr powder ly leand and those w no val tji uk as lie he does are opposed to abe he gerjus of genuine they lre 49 it alast the docta ne of A baica aboul d never be lost of in a republic otherwise it is ld idda daeger of becoming but little less lesa despotic and dan danger cereas eua to popular lar irek irwim flom than it a mo monarchy chy it if t the he telegraph system and other institutions alf tue public convent rince euce were in the hand H s of the govern no beut t there won id A be within he grasp of LUY iny prevailing an immense place a cronage that w open so an dor door for Ioli political corrip too ion aud so far at as it extended it A would be a bar in the way of a practical expression exo of the public bublic will thus d pary enose e molls ideas iad real numer ical strength be in the majority over those of the piny in power ower might ov mai weans means bed be d had and denieff deneef I 1 its rights it might fy t e practically y possible tor for tf te ie rule in republics tot to b a everaid reversed eve raed and iri nr it loetitia lon titia 10 remain rema inta in and perpetu perpetuate sAe their control of public affairs any clear headed I 1 publicist sho UI I 1 be awe able to perceive the noce necessity of jim j ire serving us as tar as sin apil of the affa affairs jirs of state tuat would read render er them pondo irons and cumbersome a bo aid be bously avoided ot they are all eady on account of the natural grow th tb of luo country bacon diug more and more tut lutrichie lutri neati caie aad on wic fieldly wield idly ly to render then them unnecessarily un so by undertaking to tran fact busness bubines s that can be done by eriv ate in dividu sis or corporations boulo lead to inevitable con confusion falion and dasas ter it la it not nat only necessary nece abary to take into consideration on thus subject the political abases that mii ht grow arrow out of the adoption of the policy favored oy ay mr powderly and the wi encumbering cambering of toe government with a load thatis that it would aad it difficult to earry ea rry but also the effect suca buch a course coarse would would nave have on private enterprise jit JA Is the genius of tree free government for wie people to immediately media Lely transact their own business so far as practicable for othera reasons than the mere relief of the political rules it is fact tast people alao have everything everything done for them and are thus relieved relieve from immediate responsibility are lessen fer ter than taase who have an open and unobstructed field for toe activity of hands an I 1 brains rains tuat la Is one reason why th tb e enterprise and basia bailais bai laes ess ingenuity of the american people are an preeminent pre eminent as compared with wita those qualities as exhibited by any other nation the scope they have had bad under unde our system baa as contributed tri teci more tona than any other cause to produce this result forsbe for the government to anderca undertake 0 to invade the field of private enterprise would mess ura oly stultify this marvelous marv elpus popular energy this truth ean can be realized by a a comparison of the people of this country with those of such nations as austria where they are relieved to a large extent by she government from performing public service popular business activity is necessarily stagnated and the people are comparatively non p regressive progressive roe principle involved in this idea is perfectly natural it is a tact in physical nature and mental philosophy that when work that might be performed by any aning person or nation is isi performed formed d outs outside tat is of itself the door is closed to toe the operation aeration pe ration of its own po powers aers and the natural energy not only lies dormant but faila to enlarge b legitimate aoi use on this prime principle ale a person who is helped aling in the world from childhood to age is deprived of the opportunity to te exert the energies of his own nature or at least he generally falls fails to put them forta and is in consequence a practical fail are jn the battle of life he enters it with their aid if in su an 1 advanced stage of bis big career those props are removed he beta Is helpless there is me BO such thing now in a practical sense as democracy pure and ii mple as that consists of the people eople directly making mailing and administering their own laws and transacting their own public business in an extensive nation it is impracticable th the a depre tentative senta tive system having to bi be resorted to there is ho however a marked and growing disposition to de depart part not on from the letter but bat the spirit of et democracy this should not be the ship of state should as closely as possible hug the shore of treo tree popular gov er eminent ament the tendency should be toward the lino line ol of decentralization unhappily it seems to be in the direction of its opposite thus v white bile tt tk t tendency of the monarchial and df dc a g botic nations is in the direction 01 ia ol popular government that of cepul igi seems to be toward the abe genius of monarchy of course coarse in the latter t V jre i if some ome inclination to a condition a thou althou sand fold worse this thai is toe ard an archy the great effort of at t 8 ship ip should be toward the maintenance of popular equaw orium iti ili which the assumption 0 oy government of et the transaction of cirinesi jiri nesi 3 that cap can be done coneby by the is would make an irreparable breach however it is w i III wind that blows nobody gey d 11 agitations agitation which are intrinsic ay I 1 iy y in 10 the wrong direction have ahw effect of placing interested parties on their good be hallor the CB iet corporation in evolved in the pre sent issue is the W U telegram Tele grag 11 of mcany it is not lot fo us to say t toaty at V has faas been influenced 05 the dim clity of the business being ww i by the government we are free to w v ate however that there has hasi been late in our judgment a material W tr provement pro in its service |