Show FACTS AND FIGURES the responsible able foi for the nasio of nall railroad road karael ty S F examiner complex as the railroad and monopoly question has bee become orne thia this one feature of it has not escaped the detection of the humblest voter who has watched the creation of these corporations corpora tiona and their constant increase in power at the ital that tho the republican party is the party arty of primo prime responsibility A etc republican I p u alican congress voted the first six land grant bills a republican president approved them these were faced by the fraudulent pretense that they were war measures though it was known to all that not ono one of tha the roads could beau be put t in operation before the war was ended and not one was till four years after the war other bills followed fullow cd the original six abc until over two hundred millions of acres of the public domain had bad been given away and eo so locke dout against the settlers as to be no longer available for homes tb these ese lands belonged to the people itis it is but a fiction of law that they belonged to tho the government the government is u a popular creation its highest duty is to represent the people which it did not da do in giving ing away the peoples land to great and grasping corporations the aggregate of abe tho grants made from ju july T 1862 to variously stated from a round io to it covers the most valuable timber in the united att states or in the world the enormity of tho the s squander uander will be better appreciated coated a when we state that it covers an area nine times as great as that of kentucky ix times the size of illinois or equal to that of the thirteen original states these grants were all made when the republicans had bad the presidency and when they ruled in most of the states no democratic D emo cratic president ever approved a grant of land to a railway company but one and that for no more than three thousand two hundred acres per mile of road that was made to the illinois central a pet scheme of stephen A douglas and it only became a law after such prudent reservations of corporation power as insured a very large revenue to the state from the corporation it is a maxim as old os property inland in land that those who own the land of any countr country y rule the country ry ap the republicans were not ig ignorant of this truth they gave away the peoples land to these corporations po rations with a liberality and recklessness that implies a deliberate design that the grantees granlees gran tees should rule the country and they have as constantly held tot to this I is purpose b by y refusing to restore the forfeited grants rants back to the people not less ess than of the tho entire number of acres granted have been BO so forfeited by the acts of the corporations po rations in all these years the government has been in tho the hands bands tf f republican presidents and yet not one of these presidents has ever in a message to C congress angress remembered the restoration of these fot feinted grants to tho the public dobill domain such a recommendation put with anything like the force and courage of president jacksons message against ast the rotten old united states bank must have resulted in a prompt confiscation of the corporation grants but no lucli presidential message ever came dents allin all in sympathy with the corporations and cureless coreless of the rights of tho the people the investigation odthe of the infamies amies of the credit Mo bilier ended in scandal and enly only that it led to tothill nothing f for r the better protection of the public the republican executive knew that the central pacific had secured all of its land and grants that remained unsold three years after the completion of their road by a fraud it sold the land in a lump to a S syndicate I formed of its own directors and stockholders when the plain meaning ined of ol the he grant gant was that all the la land n r remaining I unsold to actual settlers was to be restored to the public domain no N re republican publican president has ever calleT called the attention of congress to this vile fraud and steal la in has to this day gone unchallenged V save in ill the newspaper press and land laud which the settlers should have been allowed to purchase from the government at not more than two and a half dollars an acre or to take M homesteads at a nominal price they are now by this fraud compelled to buy at five ten twenty and as high as fifty dollars an acre in the state of california alone there are millions of acres of the best agricultural land locked out against the settlers bett bersand and cultivation which the state and the counties cannot tax and this is the principal cause of our high tax rates which ansome in of the counties average three per percent cent it is not a stretch of the truth to gay say that but for thia this fraud to which the republican national executive departments have been assenting for many years california would now have six hundred thousand more population than it does contain and a tax roll greater than this years total assessment why should tho the small far z mer spend a little fortune in getting his family to this state where he be must buy his land from froin a railroad company at 10 to 40 per acre when he can get as good land in dakota or texas or kansas or nebraska for one dollar and a quarter to two and find a half an acre thise This clasa of emig emigration rution ceased to come here bere as soon as the situation of our land became known they will not chae come as long as the situation exists we ive charge that the republican party is responsible for it that party made the enormous grants of land it has refused to declare them forfeited for years after they have clearly lapsed it has refused to investigate the fraudulent transfer odthe of the central pacific grant to a syndicate of central pacific stockholding directors it has deliberately left the grants in a condition condid on that bars the state from taxing them it is responsible for handing the government overn ment of this state over to t the i hands of the corporation it created it lias has called into into existence and by its committees of congress its executive departments its courts it maintains a corporation aristocrat y representing a monopoly of the land and transportation P por of the state more insolent let heartless and grinding than any ny aristocracy added or otherwise in in the known word world the land aristocracy of england or r ireland is a pigmy in poz power and political aggression compared with that of the combined central and southern pacific in california the irish landlords at least pay taxes for the support of the government on a fair I valuation of their land if they refuse their property can bo seized and sold but our landed aristocrats pay no taxes on their cd grants and tho the laws of the united states shaped and upheld by the republican party are made to overcome the state law by the federal courts and the neglect ofine federal government the corpora corporation tiou is a preferred power in in the S state tate all other land but its land is taxed to support the local government on which all corporations arid alid citizens rely for protection there can be no healthy state government under conditions which exempt on elu quarter arter cfall of all the land from taxes and compel all others to maintain the government machinery for the exempt class all the more enormous is is the oppression that the exempt class clam docs does not include a dozen fi families milles if the nob nobility lity of england would setup getup such privileges and immunities and ift if the e law should protect them therein not five years on not two years would pass till a revolution would sweep away the last vestige of the insolent landed aristocracy we eay say the republican party is responsible for the creation of the most dangerous aristocracy in america which practically rules the country and tyrannizes ever some of the states in a way that directly challenges revolution and will force it unless the lt party ro ansi me for the situation is is soon driven out of power |