Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1888-09-01

mr. Blaine has made another speech
up h Maine, In which be took occasion
- eoEofully deliver bis views upon trusts;
reading them from manuscript, 20, as he
eaAs that he might mot be misunderstood.
He essms 10 have devoted himself to
\ MhoWipg that trusts substantially exist
~ xngland under other names, and that
{ nEefore they were not the product Of
- protective policy Of this country.
~ = not question of very great inter.
ope0ple Of the country, who ere
DoW Wore solicitous - to how to get rid
|0k ttusss than a. TO how they got them.
Z - origin OF trusts Is doubtless an inter.
onelng subject to the political student,
tut - far Is trusts are an issue In the
eeoont political campaign It is more prof.
table 70 inquire Into their cure than to
study out their cause.
IT. Blaine, however, made his chief
point In declaring that trusts were not an
1espe IN this national canvass. "Trusts
have no place in . national campaign"
~ declared with great emphasis adding
With special emphasis upon the |" if,n
q there b evils connected with these
Qustes tho states must regulate them"
IN taking this stand the man of Maine
ehinks himself able, as the Republican
national leader, to sst himself squarely
against the position Of his party taken In
rational convention. The Chicago plat
Horm treats trusts as q national issue,
and condemns them. Mr.. Blaine con-
etdsrs himself stronger than his party,
. emphatically deny what it emphati-
eally declares ; he hardly aims to put him.
seR ont OF It; he rather thinks that he is
he party and delights to show he can lay
down its doctrine despite Its platform.
Ecaslbly he has this power but 1t can
hardly be comfortable TO the Republican
candidate for president TO concede it to
MIN. In truth Mr.. Harrison can hardly
have had q comfortable moment since
Ar. Biatno's return who has not made
epeech 10 which 1t was not evident that
- cared little for tho success Of the Re.
publican ticket and was solely thought.
fnl Of Blaine.
surely 1t cannot be thought to be wise
a 2 political sense for Republican
leader TO spit upon a Republican plat
foFm, particularly when he takes stand
tor IN undoubtedly unpopular cause. 1t
/ doubeless is fact that the declaration
against trusts Of the Republican plat.
form was hypocritical, but it is not for
NJ. Blsine to 80 publish his belief to the
world, II he wants to help the Republi-
can cause. That he does not propose to
80 this at any cost to himself Is clear,
j Harrison and Morton may go to political
perdition at railway speed for all that
Blaine proposes to do to prevent It; and
ne VIII even shove them along.
The position he takes that trusts have
40 place In national campaign can
y hardly be his sincere BELIEF, II he is wise
- no u esteemed. They certainly oper-
ase over the nation and its welfare is af-
1ecsed by them. That they are chartered
~ states does not exclude them from
national legislation. Mr.. Blaine might
. well argue that only the states which
echntered them could control them.
That would he certainly absurd. Every
stafe that they enter can put its
hand upon them, and as they en-.
eer all the states, the national leg.
hiature can deal with them most efli-
ciently; and certainly has the power to
90 20. But even though It did not have
such power, a question that is of interest
" every state must be a national cues.
lion, unavoidably entering into ma.
tlonal campaign. Mr.. Blaine effec-
tually admits that 1t Is In, by declaring,
With such care thath commits his words
g writing, that it is not in. II it was
not In to stay Mr.. Blaine would not be
prompted to deny its presence. He can.
NOT thus get rid of this great issue. 1t
VII not down at his bidding. He can.
not avoid taking position upon the ques-
tions Of trusts In any such stupid way.
He shows that he is not against them
and may fairly be ranked for them. And
~ position, as the undoubted Republican
leader, signifies that of his party and de.
stroys any little chance 1t may have had
Of the success Of Its ticket.