Morning journal and courier., 1888-10-11
News by Telegraph
 FROM ALL QUARTERS. MR. BLAINE HITS BACK. The Democratic Party Con-
 trolIed By Trusts. A SHAM REFORMER'S RECORD. The Presidents Corruption
 Of The Civil Service. A FRIeHTFUL ACCIDENT. Many EXcursiOnists Killed
 On The Lehigh Road.
HoNHYoomBnD WITH TRUSTS.

HONHYOOMBHO WITH TRUSTS.
 MT. Blaine Reviews the Connection
 of the Democratic Party With she
 Great monOpolies of This Country How she President Aided she Sugar
 Trust and Toyed With the WhIskey
 and Standard oil Trusts-Fallary of Free Trade tn Steel Rafls-FInaIly,
 Free Trade is the Mother ef Trusts.
 GOSHEN, Ind, Oct.z 10.-Mr. Blaine left Grand Rapids last night and reached here this morning and not less than five thousand citizens of Indiana walked or rode on wagons, trains and horseback to meet him in Goshen and participate in the demonstration. It was the biggest crowd northern Indiana has ever seen and it was so unwieldy that two speakers stands had to be erected and anoth- CT meeting organized in the opera house. The speeches were delivered by General King, General Murray of Massachusetts, General Hovey and Colonel Bridgeland and MT. Blaine, whose introduction was the signal for such an outburst of applause that he could not speak for several minutes. MT. Blaine said
 MIR. CLEvELAND's AID TO THE SUGAR TRUST.
 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 offspring and result of the protective system established by the Repub- lican party. At the same time, while assail- ing in the wide sweep of his accusation al most every industrial interest in the north, the President was particularly careful to be silent respecting the enormous tariff on sugar. Out of $217, 900, 900 collected on importations of every kind last year over $58, ,000, 900 came from sugar alone, which is equivalent to more than one fourth of the customs revenue for the year. When MT. Cleveland penned his message he knew that one of the largest trusts ever organized in the world, the sugar trust, was in full operation and that if pro tective tariff was helpful to that trust he was giving it all the aid both official and personal in his power. If the words of his message are true he is responsible for levying these countless millions upon the people of all the consumers of this country for an article of universal use among the families of the land. Cheers and cries of "That's sop
 DEMOCRATIC DEAL wITH HAvEMEYER.
 Nor was MT. Cleveland's silence the only boon which the sugar trust received when the Mills bill was under consideration. The president of the sugar trust (Havemeyer), 8 we'll known and active Democrat of New York, apPeared before the ways and means committee and according to the statement in open Senate by MT. Allison, obtained such an arrangement of duty as was equivalent to SC, ,O00, 900 in the pockets of the trust-(sen- sation). If therefore the price of sugar has been unduly advanced to the consumer the responsible parties, according to the Presi- dents doctrine, are the President himself and the ways and means committee who eoneoct- ed the bill in the interest of the trust. I think, moreover, that wher- ever you find one of the necessities of life cornered and controlled by an associa- ton of men for the purpose of reaping undue profit you will find the supporters of Mr. Cleveland at the head of the movement. Sugar may indeed be counted luxury, for we can exist without it; but salt is one of the principal necessities. 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 it's affairs, is Well candidate for governor of Michigan. MT. Burt is earnestly advycating the removal of all duties on salt. This would seem another form of contradiction of the Presidents the- ory that protection is the first cause of all trusts: and it likewise duly justifes the ground taken during the canvass that trusts exist more freely in free trade countries than I in . protective country.
 MT. Blaine then read clipping from the London Times of September 5 describing the recent formation of a mammoth salt trust 1 with capital of 93,000, ,000. The gigantic monopoly is created to control the whole out put in England, which will raise the price of l common salt HOW sold at two shllings six | pence to ten shillings. Was there any doubt, he asked, that the United States salt trust \ would combine with this English syndicate, which thrives in free trade Englandi