The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1888-10-18
THE FIVE GREAT TRUSTS.
Mr. Blaine Says They are Controlled by
Dem OcrasS.

THE SALT SUGAR, CoTToN-SEED STANDARD OIL
AND Whisky MoNoPoLiES.
Mr. Blaine spoke on the subject of trusts at
Goshen, Ind. last week. 1t is estimated that
| 10000 people were assembled to meet him. He
said:
".stop thief! stop theft is the cry. not en-
tirely confined to the criminal Glasses. The
counterpart of the trick is known III political
circies and is especially noticeable i'll the pres
eut course OF the Democratic party respecting
trusts. In President Cleveiand's famous free
trade message OF last December, lie warned the
country OF LIE dangers OF trusts. and argued
that they were the offspring AMI result of the
protective system established by the Repubii-
can party at the same time, while aSsalllng IN
the wide sweep OF his accusation almost every
Industrial interest in the NORTH the President
was particularly careful to be silent TaEpec ug
| the enormous tariff on sugar. OuI OF s2i2 .ooe-
900 collected on importaJions OF every Kind last
year. over SOS, OOO, go came from sugar alone,
which is equivalent to more than one-Iour.h Of
Cleveland penned his massage he knew that
ONE osrHE LARG EST TRUSTS EVER ORGANIZED
| in the world-the sugar trust-wsts in full Cper-
alton, and that, il protective tall was eipful
10 that I'll ust, he was giving il all me aid Lotn
official and personal III his pow ef. II the
words of h message are tru - he Is hlh.sell re
sponsibie tor levy1ng these countless miilons
upon The pockets Gil all consumers OF this coun-
try for an article of universal use among ne
| families of the land. LChteIs, Nor was Mr..
Cleveland 5 silence the only boon which the
sugar trust received. " men the Ailils pll v ''s
under consideration the president oi tle sugar
trust (Mr. HaEeluHyef) 4 well KNOWN AcbtVS
Democrat of New YorA. appeared beioie the
ways and means committee ahd, according 10
the statement made il open senate hy N.Y.
Allison, OF iowa, obtained such an err" nsement
OF tne duty equlvaIenL 10 s0.UJU.O9J ~ the
pockets OF the trust. II therefore, the price o.
sugar has been unduIy advanced 10 The con-
sumner The reprehe nslble parties, according -
the Presidents dOctrlne, are TIE PRESIDENT NM
self and the ways and means committee Who
concocted The bill ia Tue Interests oI t0at trust
| think, moreover, that whenever You hnd one
of The necessities oil lie coihe ana con
trolled by All association of mel ior NE pur-
poses oil reaplug undue proht, "a VIII nho the
supporters OF MIR. Cieveianu at the nead OF ihe
| move ment. sugar may. indeed, be accounted
luxury, tor We can exist without IL, ouI salt is
| one oi The primal necessities ct lie we All
SALT TRUST
| exists in this country, and The man who is now
| d, the head OF it, openly and avoWedly con
ductipg its affairs is Wellington IL. Burt. the
present Deinocrstic canddate ior dovvfnof OF
| the removal of ali uuties for salt inns Won'd
| seem another form OF contradiction ot TIE
| Presidents theory, that protection Is me nrsC
cause of all trusts and IL likewise luiy Justl11eS
| the ground taken during lhe CANVASS, that
| Trusts exist more freely a free Trade country
| than in a protective country; more nicely in
| England IMAM id the tinted Sta es. l am for
tunately able To give youa piece OF 1hiofihation
that has strong bearing l lux, on MI. Wei
llugtun K. Burt Salt trust. hoiu III MY hand a
copy of the London Z ines on sept. 5. from which
| learn that they are DINING - salt trust IN
England. The statement i'll the Times, quoted
| from two Eli glish papers locally Interested In
| this. the efforts 10 IJIln the great S%lI trust
| pectations All the hesii SAT-
| works have been provis onaily acquired by q
| London syndicate represented py Messrs. FoW-
| Ter e Co solicitors, Westminster, and nego-
| ii ,tions are proceeding favoraniy To purchase
| All the extensive WORKS in Worceshite and
| Durham. The capital required is nXed at
$4,000, QUO sterIlng auu Las been subscri oed IN
| advance many Times over. In consequence OF
| the monopoly thus created IL is expected that
| the price of common salt, now sold al Is. ID. q
ton, VIII rise to los. Let us ask, now, II any
| K, Burts salt trust in the United States ana
this great salt trust in England are likely to
! prove rivals 10 each other y EGt mere
| is another TRUST welding more political lhllu
ence, perhaps, than both OF them, refer to
THE WHISKY TRUST,
| which has absolutely changed the politics and
| policy OF the Democratic party. The WHISKY
| trust has thus risen financially ana politically
| to national Importance. / slate nothing OF its
| internal workings and lis political man1puia-
tions from my own knowledge, but l know
| Democrats who declare that MIR. Randall, the
able, upright, and experie Speaker of the
!! House of Representatives, wss driven from the
euaif an4 Mr.. John Il. Carlisle, OF Kentucky.
was made his shecessor43y nenloeralic caucus
| controlled by the whisky trust, and selling
under the whip and spur OF It's agents. ! wish
some inquisilive reporter would interview MI,
Randall political friends on that subject and
then ask, ALSO how much money the whisky
| trust il contributing to the democratic canvass
| this year, and at the same time he might eX-
! tend the inqnify into the amount contributed
by ihe sugal TRUST, an also by the SAT- trust
in cin{r itaifeIloW trust III tnB DIfslne SIS lhe-
| yond The sea- : q IL q - -~
THE sTANpARD-oIL AND CoTtoN-sEED 1RUsTs.
He said further that the Democratic party
had Ieee wed large contributions from the
stockholders in the standard oil trust. IN
| addition to what he had named. he said, was
| the cotton-seed oil trust, which was IN the
hands of South bern Democrats. Fellow otti-
zens" he said, ~ have named five trusts in
which all the evil that can come from trusts,
ana gil tae va1tous ahades OF The evils that
might. eRne tEom tlnstG &3e 9onepipnously
PROMINENT pause l4oW, and If tnere. be q
f'sainerat in THIS asse Mage ask hin TO ten
me one great u ust III tha 6ogntIy controlled
by Republicans, with any political connection
| or able to exert any power of the kind have
named"
No reply came from the great throug.
fREstHEgT 1LEyrIsAND AND GEN. HARRISON ON
/ i *Ii' / II TRUSTS.
III conclusion. Mr.. Blaine said that MIR. CieYe-
land h ad mi Used the point speakin gof trusts.
| '.You will find that described in language as
clear amber in the letter of acceptance by
benjamin Harrison, our candidate for presi-
dent, in which he neither Wlthholds nor eX-
aggerates, nor sets down aqght in Iaaloe, PCT
Yihdieates With peculiar power ana peculiar
dipeetness the position which the Republican
party has II uniformly held On the whole subject"