The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-10-18

| think that wherever you find one Of the
necessities of life cornered and con-
trolled by an association OF men for the
purpose of reaping undue profit, you
will find the supporter Cleveland at
/ the head OF the movement. Sugar may.
can exist without it, but salt is one Of
the prime necessities of life. We all
know that a salt trust exists in this
country and the man who is at the head
of it openly and avowedly conducting
its affairs, is Wellington B. Burt, the
present democratic candidate for gov
ernor of Michigan. Mr.. Burt is earn
duties from salt and this
would seem another form
of contradiction of the presidents
| theory that protection is the first cause
of ali trusts, and it likewise fully JUS
titles the ground taken during this can
yaSs that trusts exist more freely in q
free trade country than in protective
country and more freely in England
than in the United States.
/ am fortunately able to give you
piece of information that has a strong
bearing. think, on Mr.. Wellington r.
/ Burt's trusts. I hold in my hands a
copy of the London Times of Septem-
Der 5th, and from 1t learn that they
are forming ''salt trusts in England.
The statement in the Times is quoted
from two English papers locally inter-
trusts and have succeeded beyond the
most sanguine expectations.
All Cheshire salt works have
been Professionally acquired by a
London syndicate. represented by
Messrs. Fowler s. Co., solicitors of
Westminster. and negotiations are
proceeding favorably to purchase all
the less extensive works in Worcester
shire and Durham. The capital re-
| and has been subscribed in advance
many times over. In consequence of
the monopoly thus created, it is ex-
pected that the price of common salt
now sold at two Shillings six pence a
ton, will rise to ten shillings. Let me
ask now if any man in Indiana believes
that Mr.. Wellington r. Burt's salt
trust in the United States and this
great salt trust in England are likely
to prove rivals to each other? Do you
think they will cut down prices and
deprive each other of their respective
profits when the English trust
points out the way to in
crease the price of salt four fold at
a single jump. Do you think Yelling
ton r. Burt is the modest man to say
no to a proposition to unite the two
/ SIu6Oo anu Illo bLlo
], ground floor and both united in an
agreement to advance salt three hum
dred per cent to the consumer in Great
Britain and the United States. zap
plause and laughter.) Thus you see
the danger is apparently without a
remedy. and that will follow the inter-
national trust organized on the basis of
free trade.
Well gentlemen, these are not the only
two democratic trusts We have now
spoken of one necessary luxury and one
absolute necessity, but there is another
trust welding more political influence
perhaps than both of them. 1 re-
fer to the whisky trust
which has absolutely changed
the politics and policy of the demo-
cratic party. For years after the war
closed one demand of the democracy,
especially in the south, was for the de-
struction of the internal revenue svs-
tenn and first and last the outrageous
taxes on whiskey and tobacco. They
denounced them as war taxes, to which
no free people should submit in time of
peace. Well, gentlemen. the free
traders both north and south, soon saw
that if the internal revenue system
were abolished the country would ne
cesSarilY rely for its revenue upon Gus
toms as it has done for more than a
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 un-
der MIR. Cleveland they have complete
~ cfRnged their ground and are for
keO lg up the internal rev.
emf system and breaking down
tn lection feature of the tariff and
th6ElA1sky trust has thus risen finaD-
cially and politically to IL national I'M
portance. l state nothing of the inter
nal workings and its political manipu-
lation from my own knowledge. but
know democrats who declare that Mr..
fenced speaker of the house of repre-
sentatiVes was driven from the chair
and Mr.. John G. Carlisle, of Kentucky,
was made his successor by the demo
cratic caucus controlled by the whisky
trust and acting under the whips and
spur of its agents. Mr.. Randall'S al
legged ofense was that he would not aid
in suspending the tax laws and post
poning the payment of the tax on
whisky in bond when it seemed of in
terest TO the trust to secure its post
ponement. Mr.. Randall did not believe
that the law of the United Ssates
should be administered in such
a way as to promote huge speculation
in whiSkey, and | wish some inquiSi-
tive reporter would interview Mr.. Ram
dall's political friends on that subject
and then ask also how much money the
whiSkey trust is contributing TO the
democratic canvass this year and at
the same time he might extend the in
Quiry into the amount contributed by
the sugar trust and also by the salt
trust, including its fellow trust in bust
ness beyond the sea. Applause.] Nor
have exhausted the list of trusts in
which the democratic party has large
interest unless every newspaper state
ment is at fault. The democratic party
have received large contributions from
the stockholders in the Standard Oil
trust, at every critical election within
the last five years and are now relying
upon the gracious inncOuance of
that aid in the pending national crisis.
So notorious was this interpretation
that the Ohio legislature memorialized
the senate of the United States to
cause inquiry to be made into the al
legged corruption in the election of the
last democratic senator from that state.
l do not undertake to say that there
was corruption, for l know nothing
personally of it, but do say that the
memorial of the state legislature was
presented by Senator Sherman and the
r1ghtful, legal and proper opportunity
was given to q search through and
through for the truth and for thor
ough examination into one of the larg
est trusts in the who'd world, then
was the time for the democratic sena-
tors to make an examination of trusts,
and one of the largest of them was he
fore the senate and before it legiti-
mately. and yet. you know, how pre-
cipitately the democratic senators fed
from the task. You could not lead
the democratic senator up to that in
1vestigatiOn any more than you could
induce balky colt to face a wLis-
ting locomotive Laughter and
cheers.I Nor was the rumor quiet as
to suppress the investigation. If Pres
ident Cleveland had been as eager to
examine into the great trust as he was
to denounce them all in his message,
his opportunity was there, but unless
all the rumor be at fault the social
Establishments to the administration
were lavished on republican senators