Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-10-11
THE GREAT TRUSTS.
BLAiNE EXPLAINS HOW THEY APE
MAINTAINED.
Cfeveland's High-Tariff Trust Argu.
ment Turned Upon Himself
Sngar, Salt and Whisky.
ESPECIAL DISPATCHES TO THE REcoRD-umoN.

GOSHEN Qnd), October 1Oth.-About 5000
people assembled here to-day to listen to an adj
dress by James g. Blaine When he was intro
dueed there was an outburst of applause which
lasted for several minutes Mr. Blaine spoke as
follows:
lhr. Chairman and Ftllolc- Citizens of E7dinna-
stop thief r IS a cry not entirely confined to
the criminal classes counterpart of the trick
is known in political circles and is especially
noticeable IN the present course of the Demo-
cratic party respecting trusts. In President
Cleveland's famous free trade message of last
December he warned the country of the dangers
OF trusts and argued that they were the off
spring and result of the protective system estab-
hsheo oy the republican party
SUGAR EXCEPTED. OF COURSE.
At the same time while asserting in the wide
sweep of his accusation almost every industrial
interest in the North, the President was partic-
uiarly careful to be silent respecting the enor-
nous tariff on sugar. Out of S2l2 900 OOO coll
lected on importations of every kind last wear.
| Soo,0OO 900 came from sugar alone which is
equivalent to more than one-faprth of the Gus
toms revenue for the year. When Mr. CIeye-
! land penned his message he knew that one of
| the largest trusts ever organized in the world
the sugar trust-was in iull operation, and that
If the protective tariff was helpful to that trust
he was giving 1t all the aid, both official and
| personal, in his power. If the words of his
message are true, he hinsef is responsible for
| leyying these countless millions upon the pOcl-
| cts OF all the consumers of this country for an
article of universal use among the families of
the land. Nor was Cleveland's silence the only
boon which the sugar trusts received.
HAvEsIEYER GETS IN HIS WORK
| When the Mi Is bill was under consideration
| the President of the sugar trust (Havemeyer) Il
| well known and active Democrat of New York
| appeared before the Ways and Means Commit
tee, and-aceording to the statement made in
| open Senate by Allison of Iowa-obtained such
| an arrangement of the duty as was equivalent
10 s6,Oo0Oo0 IN the pockets of the trust IT,
| therefore, the price of sugar has been unduly
| advanced 10 the consumer, the responsible
| parties, according to the Presidents doctrine
| are the President himself and the Ways and
Means Committee, which concocted the Mills
| bill in the interest of that trust. l think more
| over, that wherever you find one Of the neces-
Saries of life cornered ard controlled by an as
socianon CT men 1or the purpose of reaping un-
due profit, you will find the supporters of Cleye-
| land at the head ef The movement.
DEMOCRATIC SALT TRUST, ALSO.
Sugar may indeed be accounted a luxury for
] we can exist without it, but salt is one of the
primal necessaries of life. We all know that
| salt trust exists in this country and the man
| who is now at the head of it, openly and
avowedly conducting its affairs, is Wellington
| K Burt, the present Democratic candidate for
! Governor of Michigan. Mr Burt is earnestly
| advocating the removal of all duties from salt.
| This would seem another form OF contradiction
| OF the Presidents theor! that protection is the
| first cause of all trusts, and it likewise fully
lustifies the ground taken during this canvass
that trusts exists more freely in tree trade coun-
| tries than in protective countries.
REAL BOURBON TRUST.
| Well, these, gentlemen, are not the only two
Democratic trusts, There is another trust,
| welding more political influence perhaps than
| both of them. | refer to the whisky trust,
| which has absolutely changed the politics and
| policy OF the Democratic party. For years after
| the war closed, the one demand of the Demo-
Gratis especially in the South, was for the de-
| struction of the internal revenue system ard
| first and last the outrageous taxes on whisky
! how NJ fl,,
| taxes to which DO free people should submit in
| time of peace The free traders, both North
| ard South soon saw if the internal revenue
| system was abolished the country would neceS-
| sarlly rely for its revenue upon customs as it
| had done for more than a generation preceding
the war, aud that if thai were the case, it would
! doctrine of protection. They have completely
changed their ground. and are for keeping up
| the internal revenue system and breaking down
the protection feature of the tariff. The whisky
| trust has thus risen, financially and POLITICALLY
| to National importance. / know Democrats
| who declare that Mr. Randall, the upright able
| and experienced Speaker Cf the House of Per-
resenta ives, was driven from the Chair. and
| John C. Carlisle, of Ke- lucky, made his sue
| (essOr by Democratic caucus
CONTROLLED BY THE WHISKY TRUST,
And acting under the whip and spur of its.
agents. wish some inquisitive reporter would
/ interview Randalls political friends on thSS
| subject, and then ask how much money the
| whisky trust is contributing to the Democratic
canvass this year. And at the same time he
might extend has inquiry into the amount con
! trbuteo by the sugar trust, and also by the salt
| trust.
THEIR sTANDlRD OIL ALLY.
| Nor have / e. hausted the list OF trusts in
which the Democratic party has large inter-
| est Unless every newspaper statement is at
fault, the Democratic party have re ceived large
| contributions from the stockholders in The
| Standard OIL trust at every critical election
| within the last five years and are
now relying upon. the gracious continu-
ance of that aid in the tending national
crisis; So notorious was this interpoSition that
| the Ohio egisature memorialiZed the Senste of
| the United states to cause an inquiry to bemade
into the alleged corruption in the election OF the
| last Democratic senator from that State (Ohio)
| Then was the time for the Democratic senators
| to make an eXamins ton into the trusts One of
| the largest OF them was before the Senate, and
] before 1t legltlmately, and you know how pre-
| elpitately the democratic Senators fed from the
| task
| If President Cleveland had been as eager tn
| examine into the great trusts as he was to de-
nounee them all in his message, his opportunity
| was there. But unless all runor be at fault,
the servi!e Establishments of the Administration
| were laYlShed on Republican Senators to secure
| enough of them to Join the Democrats to take
| OIL the curse of a unanimous Democratic resist
ence to the investigation of the trust.
AsO YET ANOTHER.
| In addition o these trusts have named comes
| the cot on-seed oil trust, which is in the hands
| of the Southern Democrats, and its power is
used to aid the democratic campaign They do
j not apply their money in aid of the Southern
| Democratic party for the Southern Democrats
| are too high-toned to use money in elections
| they have found more excellent way in the
| South. They reserve their pecuniary cOntI ibu-
| tons wholly tor the Northern field
| Finally on the subject of trusts, let me say
that with all Clevelands denunciation of them,
and all the support which his party gives them
| he failed and utterly faIled-to strike the point
! OF objection to them. You will find that de-
scrib-d in language as clear as amber, in his
| letter of acceptance, by Benjamin Harrison our
| candidate for President, in which he neither
| withholds nor exaggeEates facts. Tremendous
! aud long continued cheering, during which
| Blaine passed from the platform
The train bearing Blaine and party left for
| Indianapolis at P. NJ.
! A Lucky Trial.