The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1888-10-11
THE DEMOCRATS AND THE TRUSTS,
President CleveIand's Aid to the
Great Sugar Combination.
Democrats Managing the Big Com
blnes In This Country.
Mr.. Blaine Speaks Of Trusts at Home
and Abroad.


and Abroad.
GOSHEN, Ind, Oct. 10.-Mr. Blaine left
Grand Rapids last night and reached here
early this morning. Not less than $1,000 cit
liens OF Indiana walked or rode on wagons,
trains and horseback to meet him in Goshen,
and participate In the Republican demon
stration. 1t was the biggest crowd Northern
Indiana has ever seen, and was so unwieldy
that two speakers stands had to be erected,
and another meeting organized in the opera
house. The town was profusely decorated
with flags and bunting. In the large square
surrounding the City Hal, speeches were
delivered by Gen. King, Gen. Murray, Of
Massachusetts,, Gen. Hoyey, Col. Bridgland,
and Mr.. Blaine, whose introduction was the
signal for such an outburst of applause that
he could not speak for several minutes. Mr..
Blaine said:
In President Cleveland's famous free trade
message last December. he warned the coun-
try OF the dangers Of trusts and argued that
they were the offspring and result Of the
protective system established by the Repub-
ilcan party. AT the same Time, while assail-
Ing In the wide sweep OF his accusation, al
most every industrial interest in the North,
the President was particularly careful to be
silent respecting the enormous tariff on su-
gar. Out of S212, 900 collected on I'M
portations Of every kind last year, over $685.
OOO,0OO came from sugar alone, which Is
equivalent to more than one fourth of the
customs revenue for the year. When Presi-
dent Cleveland penned his message he knew
that one OF the largest trusts ever organized
IN the world, the sugar trust, was in full op-
Grafton, and that, II a protective tariff was
helpful to that trust, he was giving it all the
aid, both official and personal, in his power
III the words OF his message are true,
HE is HIMSELF RESPONSIBLE
for levying these countless millions upon the
pockets Of all the consumers of this country
for an article Of universal use among the
families of the land. [Cheers and cries Of
''thats so."]
Nor was President Cleveland's silence the
only boom which the Sugar Trust received.
When the Mills bill was under consideration
the President Of the Sugar Trust (Mr. Have.
meyer, well known and active Democrat
OF New York, appeared before the ways and
means committee, and according to a state
ment made in the open Senate by Senator
rangement Of duty. as was equivalent to
S6,0O0,000 in the pockets of the trust. IAp-
plause.l III, therefore, the price OF sugar
mad been unduly advanced to the consumer,
the reprehensible parties, according to the
residents doctrine, are the President him
self, and the ways and means committee,
who concocted the bill in the interests OF
that trust.
| think, moreover, whenever you find one
Oh the necessities OF life cornered and con-
trolled by an association of men for the pur-
pose OF reaping undue profit, you will find
the supporters of President Cleveland at the
mead OF the movement. Sugar may, indeed,
De accounted a luxury, for we can exist
without without! IT. PIT salt Is one OF the primal me-
cessities OF life We all know that a salt
rust exists in this country and the man now
az the head OF 1t, openly ana avowedly con-
Quoting Its affairs, Is Wellington X. Burt
the present Democratic candidate for gov
ern0r Of Michigan. Burt earnestly advocates
the removal Of all duties from salt. This
would be another form Of
CONTRADICTION OF THE PRESIDENTS
THEORY,
that protection is the first cause of all
trusts, and it likewise fully justified the
ground taken during this canvass that trusts
exist more freely in free trade country
than in protective country, more freely in
England that in the United States.
am Tort unately able to give you a piece
think, on Burts salt trust. | hold in my
hand copy OF the London Times, of Sept.
9TH, from which | learn they are forming
salt trust" in England. The statement in
the Times, quoted from two English papers
locally interested, is this 1.-The efforts to
form great salt trust have succeeded be-
y0nd most sanguine expectations All the
Cheshire salt works have been Professionally
acquired by London syndicate represented
py Messrs. Fowler q Co., solicitors, West
minister and negotiations are proceeding
1ayorably to purchase all the extensive
works In Worcestershire and Durham.
The capital required is fixed at three million
pounds sterling and has been subscribed In
aavsnce many times over. In consequence
OF tne monopoly thus created, 1t Is expected
the price Of common salt. now sold at S6
ton, will rise to 10 shillings." Let me ask
now II any man in Indiana believes Yelling
ton X Burt's salt trust in the United States
and this great salt trust in England are like
" 70 prove rivals to each other. Do you
think they will cut down prices and deprive
each other Of their respective profits when
the English trust points out way to
INCREASE THE PRICE OF SALT
four fold at at single jump? Do you think
Wellington r. Butt is too modest man to
say no to proposition to unite the two
trusts? All are stockholders on the ground
floor and both united In an agreement to ad-
vance salt 800 per cent to the consumer in
Great Britain and the United States. Thus
you see the danger. apparently without rem
edy, that will follow an International trust
organized on the basis of free trade.
well, gentlemen, these are not the only
TWO Democratic trusts. There Is another
trust, welding more political influence, per-
haps, than both Of those mentioned. refer
to the whiskey trust, which has absolutely
changed the politics and policy of the Demo
cratic party. For years after the war closed,
one demand OF the Democracy, especially in
the South, was for the destruction of the
internal revenue system and, first and last,
the outrageous taxes on whiskey and tobac-
CO.. They denounced them as war taxes to
which no Tree people should submit in time
OF peace. Free traders, both North and
South, soon saw that If the internal revenue
system was abolished, the country would
necessarily rely for revenue upon customs,
as 1t had done for more than generation
preceding. the war, and that, if that were
the case, it would be difficult, If not impossi-
BILE, to destroy the doctrine Of protection,
and so, under President Cleveland. thew
have completely changed ground, and are
for keeping up the internal revenue system
and breaking down the protection features
Of the tariff.
THE wHIsKEY TRUST HAS THUS RISEN
financially and politically to national import
ance. l state nothing of its internal work
ings and its political manipulations from my
own knowledge, but l know Democrats who
declare that Mr.. Randall, the able. upright
and experienced speaker of the House of
Representatives was driven from his chair
and John G. Carlisle made his successor by
Democratic caucus controlled by the whis-
key trust, and acting under the whip and
spur Of its agents. RandalPs alleged offence
was that he would not and in suspending the
tax laws and postponing the payment Of the
tax on whiskey in bond when it seemed in
the interest of the trust to secure postpone
ment. Mr.. Randall did not believe that the
laws Of the United States should he admins
lstered In such way as to promote huge
speculation in whiskey, and wish some in
quisitive reporter would interview Mr.. Ran
dalPs political friends on the subject and
then ask, also, how much money
the whiskey trust is contributing
to the Democratic canvass this year
And, at the same time time, he might extend
his inquiry into the amount contributed by
the sugar trust, and also by the salt trust, In
cluding its fellow trust in business beyond
the sea. lApplauseJ
Nor have / exhausted the list Of trusts in
which the Democratic party has large in
terest unless every newspaper statement Is
at fault. The Democratic party have re-
caived large
FROM THE sTOCKHOI DERs