Спрут: Калифорнийская история

           What!apitchedbattlebetweenFarmerandRailroad,abattlethatcostthelivesofsevenmen?Impossible,itcouldnothavehappened.Yourstoryisfiction—isexaggerated.

           “YetitisLexington—Godhelpus,Godenlightenus,Godrouseusfromourlethargy—itisLexington;farmerswithgunsintheirhandsfightingforLiberty.IsourStateofCaliforniatheonlyonethathasitsancientandhereditaryfoe?AretherenootherTrustsbetweentheoceansthanthisofthePacificandSouthwesternRailroad?Askyourselves,youoftheMiddleWest,askyourselves,youoftheNorth,askyourselves,youoftheEast,askyourselves,youoftheSouth—askyourselves,everycitizenofeveryStatefromMainetoMexico,fromtheDakotastotheCarolinas,haveyounotthemonsterinyourboundaries?IfitisnotaTrustoftransportation,itisonlyanotherheadofthesameHydra.Isnotourdeathstruggletypical?Isitnotoneofmany,isitnotsymbolicalofthegreatandterribleconflictthatisgoingoneverywhereintheseUnitedStates?Ah,youpeople,blind,bound,tricked,betrayed,canyounotseeit?Canyounotseehowthemonstershaveplunderedyourtreasuresandholdingtheminthegripoftheirironclaws,dolethemouttoyouonlyatthepriceofyourblood,atthepriceofthelivesofyourwivesandyourlittlechildren?YougiveyourbabiestoMolochfortheloafofbreadyouhavekneadedyourselves.YouofferyourstarvedwivestoJuggernautfortheironnailyouhaveyourselvescompounded.