The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-10-11
BLAINE ON TRUSTS.
He Tries to Blame Them on
to the Democrats.
He is ON DANGEROUS GROUND.
He Takes q Stand Inconsistent with
His Record on the Sub
ject
Blaine on Trusts.

GOSHEN, Ind, October 10,-About
45 900 people assembled here to-day to
listen to an address by James G. Blaine.
When he was introduced there was an
outburst of applause which last ed
several minutes.
Mr.. Blaine spoke as follows: "Mr.
Chairman, and Fellow Citizens of In
diana: Stop thief is cry not entirely
confined to the criminal classes. The
counterpart of the trick is known in
political circles and is especially notice
able in the present course of the Demo-
cratic party respecting trusts In
President Cleveland's free trade mes
sage of last December he warned
the country of the dangers of
trusts and argued that they were
the offspring and result of the protective
system established by the Republican
party. At the same time, while as
sailing in the wide sweep of his accusa-
tions almost every industrial interestin
the North, the President was partic-
ularly careful to be silent respecting
the enormous tariff on sugar. Out of
$212 100000 collected on importations
of every kind, $5S,000,000 came from
sugar alone. which is equivalent to
more than one-fourth of the customs
revenue for the year. When Mr..
Cleveland penned his messages, he
knew that one of the largest trusts ever
organized in the world,
TIE SUGAR TRUST,
was in full operation and that if the
protective tariff was helpful to that
trust, he was giving it all the aid, both
official and personal, in his power.
II the words of his message are
true to himself, he IS respons-
ible for levying this countless
millions the pockets of all consumer
in this country, of an article OF un.ver-
sal use among the families of the land.
Nor was Cleveland's silence the only
boon which the sugar trust received.
When the Mills bill was under con-
sideration the President of the sugar
trust (HaVemeyer) and well-known,
active Democrat of New York appeared
and according to the statement made
in open Senate by Allison, of Iowa,
obtained such arrangement of the
duty as was equivalent to $4,000. 0C0 in
the pockets of the trust. If, therefore,
the price OF sugar has been unduly
advanced to the consumer. the
responsible parties, according to
the Presidents doctrine, are the Presi-
dent himself and the ways
and means committee, which concocted
the Mills bill in the interest of that
trust. l think moreover, that wher-
ever you find one of the necessities Of
life cornered and controlled by an as
ISOLATION of men for the purpose of
reaping undue profit, you will find the
supporters OF
CLEVELAND AT THE HEAD
of the movement. Sugar may indeed
be accounted luxury, for we can
exist without it, but salt is one of the
primal necessities OF life. We all know
that !. salt trust exists in this country,
and the man is now at the head of it,
who is openly and avowedly conducting
it's affairs, is W. r. Burt, the present
Democratic candidate for Governor of
Michigan. Mr.. Burt is earnestly
advocating the removal of all
8 'em another form of contradiction
VI tu6 ICSlQCAI GAO u budb pIObSC-
ton is the first cause of all trusts, and
during this canvass, that trusts exist
more in free trade countries than in
protected countries.
Well, gentlemen, there are only two
Democratic trusts. There is another
trust, welding more political influence,
perhaps, than both of them. l refer to |
2 Inr hict| frf1c VIII hoc oh Inf
changed the politics and policy of the |
war closed the one demand of the |
Democrats, especially in the south,
was for the destruction of the in
ternal revenue system, and first and |
last the outrageous tax on whisky and
tobacco. They deounced them as
war tax s, to which no free
people should submit in time
of peace. The free traders both of
the north and south saw that if the in
ternal revenue system was INSTRUCTED
the country would necessarily rely for
it's revenue upon the customs, as it had !
done for more than generation pre-
Gee ing the war, and that if that were
the case, it would be difficult, if not i'm
possible to destroy protection.
They have
COMPLETELY CHANGED THEIR GROUND,
And are for the keeping up of the in
ternal revenue system and the break
ing down of the protection feature OF
the tariff. The whisky trust has thus
arisen, financially and politically, to
National Importance. 1 know that
Mr.. Randall, that upright, able |
and experienced speaker of the House
of Representatives, was driven from
the chair and j. G.. Carlisle from Ken
lucky, made his successor by Demo-
cratic caucuses controlled by the |
whisky trust and acting under the whip
and spur of its agents. wish some in
auisitive reporters would interview
Randall S friends on that subject, and |
then ask how much money is contri-
buted to the Democratic canvass this |
year. and at the same time be might (
extend the inquiry into the amount |
contributed by the sugar trust and also
by the salt trust.
slNor have / exhausted the list of
trusts in which the Democratic
party has q large interest. I'm
less every news statersent is at fault, the