Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1888-10-24
THEORY OF STOP THIEF!
MR. ELAINE'S EXPOSE OF DEMO
CRATIC HYPOCRISY.

HE Shows That the Sugar, Salt, Whisky,
Standard Oil, and Other Trusts Are Fos-
tered aud Controlled by Bourbon Infiu
,ences-A Scathing Arrangement of Cleve-
land and His Free Trade Fallacies.
speech delivered at Goshen, Ind.l
Mr.. Chairman and fellow-citizens of Indiana,
stop THE y is a cry not entirely confined TO tn
criminal classes. The counterpart of the trick
Hg known in political circles, and is especially
noticeable in the presanC courss of the Demo-
cratic ,rty respecting trusts. In President
GIoyea d famous free trade message or last
December he warned the country Of the dangers
of trus s. an argued TINT they were the offspring
and result Of the protective system established
10y tho Republican party; at the same time,
w1iie ailing i'll the wide sweep of his accusa-
ton aim every industrial interest in the
NORTH. [ President was particularly careful to
be quiet lcct'ng the enormous tariff on sugar.
Out Ct -i2.oJ10oJ collected en- impor, atoms of
every kind last year over SIS, l000 came from
suga, alone, W itch is equivalent to more than
one-fo1ita OF the c':stolns revenue for the year.
When C.uvc' mnd pennel his message he
knew ha5 OF the largest trusts ever organ
lied in the woild-the sugar trust-was in full
ope n, ION. an that if protective tariff
Ielpfyl t h ,t trust he giving it all the
aid. bit Fl ;ial and personal, in his power.
If the w lis Of his message are true he is him.
sell resp Il sble for lowing these countless mill
ions III on h pockets of all the consumers of
this country for an ar,icle of universal use
eands Silence the Only aa Boon %h Mas sn
Sutsar Trust received When the Mills bill was
under cons liberation the President of the Sugar
Trust Mr. Havemeyer wel-known active
Democrat of New York, appeared before the
Ways and Means Committee, and, according to
the statement made in open Senate by Mr.. Ali
of Iowa, obtained such an arrangemen Mt of
duty was equivalent to S6,OO0,000 in the pock-
cts of the trust IT, therefore, the price of sugar
has been unduly advanced to the consumer, the
responsible parties, according to the Presidents
6octrne are the PRESIDENT himself and the
Ways and Means Committee, who concocted the
Mills bill in the interest of that trust. I think,
moreover, that whenever you find one of the
necessities of life cOrnered and controlled by an
roaming
undue profit you will find the supporters of Mr..
Cleveland at the head of the movement
Sugar may, indeed, be accounted a. luxury, for
Te exist without it +; but salt is one of the
primal necessities of life. We all know that
who is now at the head of it, openly and avow-
ecly conducting its affairs is Wellington r.
Burt, the present Democratic candidate for
Governor of Michigan. Mr.. Burt is earnestly
advocating the removal of all duties salt.
This would seem another form of contradiction
OF tho Presidents theory that protection is the
6rsG cause of all trusts; and it likewise fully
Nnstifes the ground taken during the canvass:
that trusts exist more freely in a free-trade
country than in a protective country; moro
Freely in England than in the United States I
ann fortunately able to give you piece of in
-aGTIa ton that has strong bearing, / think on
-Azz- Wellington r. Burt's salt trust. I hold in
nny hand copy of the London Times of Sept. 5,
from which l learn that they are forming "a
salt trust" in England. The statement in the
TssseS, quoted from two English papers locally
interested, is this:
~The efforts to form the great salt trust have
succeeded beyond the most sanguine expecta-
lions. All the Cheshire salt-works have
been professionally acquired by London syndi-
.GAte represented by Messrs. Fowler & Co. So
Ecitors, Westminster, and negotiations are pro-
ceeding favorably to purchase all the less extern
SIve works in Worcestershire and Durham The
capital required is fixed at e3, DOC, 900 sterIing
and has been subscribed in advance many times
over. In consequence of the monopoly thus
<reat ed it is expected that the price of common
aaIt, now sold at Is cd a ton, will rise to los"
LET me ask you now ii in Indiana
believes that Mr.. Wellington R. Burt's salt trust
States sal tr1 St
England are likely to prove rivals to each other?
DO you think they will cut down prices and de-
Drive each other of their respective profits when
the English trust points out the way to increase
tie price of salt fourfold at a single jump? Do
YOU think Wellington r. Burt is the modest man
TO say no to a proposition to unite the two
trusts, all stockholders the ground floor and
both united in an agreement to advance salt 300
per cant TO the consumer in Great Britain and
the United ates.
Thus you see the danger apparently without
remedy that will follow an international trust
organized on the basis of free trade. AIexander
Hamilton laid it down in the greatest financial
Paper submitted by him to Congress that behind
protective tariff domestic competition would
sllwa insure reasonable prices to the consum-
81. And i ask you If our experience does not
justify the wisdom of first and greatest
Secrc, airy of the Treasury in all the years that
fayo elapsed <ince he wrote these significant
worjs. But if we should reach the basis of free
trastc, the tresidents great goal of prosperity,
and the manufacturers and holders of any do
M1estic article and the manufacturers and hold
ers OF an article of the same kind III any foreign
country unite, where is your relief-where is
your defense?
Well, gentlemen these are not the only two
Democratic trusts. We have spoken of one
necessary luxury and one absolute necessity
but there is another rust welding more politi-
cal influence perhaps than both of them. 1
Ger to the whisky trust, which has absolutely
changed the politics and policy of the Demo-
cratic party. For years after the war closed the
one demand of @ Democracy especially in the
South, was for the destruction of the internal
revenue system, and, first and last, the out
rageo is taxes on whisky and tobacco They de-
a.. her wa fQVn 70 IUhi
people should submit in time of peace. Well,
gentlemen, the free-traders, both North and
South, soon saw that if the internalrevenue
system " ere abolished the country would neces-
sarily rely for its revenue upon customs, as it
had done Tor more than generation preceding
the war, and that, If that were the case it
would be difficult if not impossible to destroy
the doctrine of protection; and so, under Mr..
Cleveland, they have completely changed
their g.ound, and are for keeping up the in
Gernai-reEenue system and breaking down
whisky trust has thus risen financially and DO
Htically TO nationally Importance l state moth
ing of its internal workings and its political
manipu atoms from my own knowledge. but L
know Democrats who declare that Mr.. Randall,
the able upright, and experienced Speaker of
tho House OF Representatives, was driven from
ito chair, and Mr.. John q. Carlisle, OF Ken
4 cky II 3de nis successor by a Democratic eau;
controlled by the whisky trust, and acting
nler the whip and spur OF its agents, Mr. RAN
dali alleged offense being that he would not aid
IN suspen5ing he tax laws and postponing the
payment OF he tax whisky in bond when it
d.
yooslponement. Mr.. Randall did not believe that
the lsv Of the United States should be admin
Istered in such a way to promote huge spec
Hlation IL whisky; and I wish some inquisitive
reno. ould interview Mr.. Randal's political
friend OF hat subject AMI then ask also how
much money the whisky trust ia contributing to
tn enocratic canvass this year-and at the
same time he might extend the inquiry into the
amount contributed by the sugar trust; and also
by the salt trust, including its fellowtrust IN the
business beyond the sea.
Nor have / exhausted the list of trusts in
which the Democratic party has large interest.
Unless every newspaper is at fault the Demo-
cratic party has received large contributions
from st ockholderS in the Standard Oil Trust at
oT5rE critical election within the last five years,
and is RELYING upon the gracious continu-
anc of that aid in he pending national crisis.
So notorious this i terposition that the
Ohio J legislature memorialized the Senate OF the
United st ties inquiry to be made
into aies corruption in the election of the last
Demo rietic elator from that State. | do not
undt I .lle to say that there was corruption, for
j In ro5hing pers naliy Ct it; but do say
tina the memorial OF state Legislature was
presented by Senetor Sherman. and A rightful,
a Lee l. aud proper o2por unity was given
to through and through Tor the
4ru-l Il .:1,1 for no nDh