The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1888-10-10
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rhe Republican Leaders Falsehoods
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Tho Republican Leaders Falsehoods
About Trusts ThoroughIy Exposed
When james G. Blaine, at Portland. de-
dared that neither President Cleveland
ror any private citizen had any particu-
lar business to interfere with trusts, ho
went on to say. lying steadily and with
his famous enthusiasm:
"a protective tariff no more breeds
what the president calls the pestilence of
trusts than does the veriest free trade
country. which is England. for England
is literally plastered over. under her sys-
tenn of FREQ trade, with trusts"
The bald and mendacious statement that
England is plastered all over with trusts,
where capitalists arc piling up sudden
fortunes like the nabob of Tunis. or He
merlingo in Dludet's Imagination. has
created sensation on the other side of
the water. Not a Britisher can be found
who does not resent the Insulting 6llega-
tion.
The private secretary of the chancellor
of the English exchequer. in reply. cxhib-
its the figures of the income tax for the
last decade The Incomes OF from 500
to $4,000 increased in number 10 per cent
The number of incomes over 50. COO de-
creased over 9 per cent. Newspaper men
in London. before they could elicit uni
versal denial of Blnine's speech, were com
PEELED to tell the English1nen what
trusts are. The nearest to trust"
that has yet been reached In England is a
men knew what kind of lilo Blaine was
telling, there was no one who had not q
denunciation of the liar. :,
Tho Mckinley press will allege that
England is aiding tho campaign for lower
taxes and u lower Chinese wall Even
that assertion is untrue, if tho selfish in
terests on England be considered. Those
Englishmcn who know that the greatest
amount of industry makes tho happiest
world want free trade tho world over.
But those friends of England who look
only to the present primacy of Great
Britain among nations dread to SEQ Amer
lea throw down the restrictions which
have ineloscdller
If we take Mr. Blainc's lie by itself we
shall see that it has no legs and cannot
stand. America has trusts because ether
nations cannot deal with us. Tho par
ticulsr article Incaocoiized might be free,
as oil is free, yet the fact that foreign
goods cannot enter our ports except to
meet bare necessities keeps our homo fore
stallers secure i'll all their conspiracies
Surprising the su gar refiners of England
We're to combine, then tho sugar of
Europe Cnba and the Philippine islands
would pour in faster than any combina-
ton of buyers could receive and pay for
British free list Besides, in England
When d person disobcys the law he be-
comes a scoundrcl. not q millionaire.
The nudacious declaration of james g.
Blaine that neither President Cleveland
nor any private citizen has any particular
right tointerfere with conspfracies of en-
grossers and forestallerS-with robbers
and villains like tho hard coal rinsr-re-
Teals Blaine as the enemy of the tax
payer. just as The Herald has branded
him. The mendacions declaration that
England. n free trade country. is plastcrcd
all over with trusts. reveals Blaine as q
shameless liar, who repeats his faIsehoods
in the face of immediate contradiction.
Thus, his feet arc at last i'll the stocks of
American reprobation. His neck is in the
pillory of English contempt 1t is a spec
tacle for two nations-a scandal for ex-
port as well as home Chicago Her.
aid.