MISCELLANEOUS ADDRESSES. 
MONOPOLIES IN THEIR RELATION TO THE INDUS¬ 
TRIAL INTERESTS OF THE COUNTRY. 
BY HON. GEO. B. SMITH. MADISON. 
[An address delivered at Janesville, Wis., October 2, 1874, before the Southern Wis¬ 
consin Agricultural Society.] 
Mr. President and Fellow-Citizens: 
In accepting the invitation of your committee to deliver an ad¬ 
dress on this occasion, I named as my subject, “ Monopolies in their 
relation to the industrial interests of the country/’ That subject I 
will now discuss as well as I can within the narrow limits to which 
I am circumscribed on an occasion like this. I did not choose this sub¬ 
ject because I felt fully competent to master it, nor did I seek this 
time of public excitement in relation to some of its phases, in order 
to pronounce what might be regarded as a popular address. In what 
I have to say, therefore, I shall give } 7 ou the result of the best re¬ 
flection I have been able to give the subject, without any reference 
to popular prejudice. 
Civil government is to be considered “ in no other light than as 
an association of men for the protection and preservation of good 
order; a good order which is to be purchased by yielding up in some 
degree the liberty of self-control, but which yields or should yield 
in return the advantages of secured liberty and propert} 7 , and of the 
tranquil discharge of all acts and purposes essential or convenient 
to human happiness. Viewed in this light, civil government is an 
institution established for the happiness and advancement of the 
governed, and not in any degree for the advantage and aggrandize- 
