Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1888-10-11
The Daily lntelligencer.
LANCASTER, OCTOBER IL. ISIS.
Blaine and Trusts.

With an effrontery that would he re-
markable In any man less notorious for
impudence Mr.. Blaine has again ven
tured 10 talk about trusts. OF course he
made no reference to his famous declara'
ton that trusts are private affairs that
no one has right to inter fere with, but
he took pains to call attention to what
General Harrison has said about them.
As he finds his own views about trusts
unpopular he would liketo have the public
attention diverted from them to the views
Of his man Harrison.
1t Is plain that this method of running
for president by proxy has its advan.
tages to tricky dodger. Mr.. Blaine
manages TO be quite as untruthful in his
references to events of ten months ago
as he was in his tariff history. He began
his address with the following remsrka-
BILE slander of President Cleveland. He
says that in his message Of last Decem-
ber the president 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 assailing in the wide sweep of his
accusation almost every industrial inter-
est in the North, the president was par
ticularly careful to be silent respecting
the enormous tariff on sugar." Now as
every one ought to know the president
made no mention of special trusts, but
manfully condemned them all. These
were his words in the message to which
Mr.. Blaine refers, and we fail to note any
of the particular care to be silent re-
specting the sugar trust.
But it is notorious that this competi.
tion is too often strangled by combina-
tions quite prevalent at this time, and
frequently called trusts, which have for
their object the regulation of the supply
and price of commodities made and sold
by members of the combination. The
people can hardly hope for any consider
alton in the operation of these selfish
schemer."
The president in "his sweeping con-
demnation" included the trusts, sugar
and all, and the Democratic House, act
ing on his suggestion, reduced the tariff
on sugar 1913 per cent. The manufac.
ture Of sugar from sorghum has just
begun to succeed, and improved methods
in the South promise great results, but
the Republican Senate cared nothing for
the protective principle; it was after
votes, and did not expect any from the
sugar states. For that reason the Senate
was very bold about sugar. There was
no fat in the shape Of campaign contribu.
tions to be fried out of the sugar-growers
and as they had to deal gently with the
Northern manufacturers and their trusts
they tried to make it up by cutting sugar
numerically and in direct defiance oi
the platform Of their party which pre-
ferred free whisky to the sacrifice of any
part of the protective system. Republi
cans should now apply the argument 81
often unreasonably used by them agains
the Mills bill, that small TART
tax means large imports and ;
large income. Republicans hav
lowered sugar SO as to take protection
fiOe., a..d the Democrats have left /
fair protection while legislating agains
the trust that has grown up under tn
Republican rule, and the direction O
Claus Spreckles, the sugar king. Th
false statements of Mr.. Blaine are s.
many that they can only be answered b.
a selection of samples, and this suga
argument is about his best specimen.
One fact he can not twist or disguise
he is the avowed friend and champion c
trusts-President Cleveland their mos
bitter enemy.