Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-10-11
GOSCHEN'S GATHERING
The Largest and Most EnthuSi-
aStiC Ever Held in North
ern Indiana,
Listens to Mf. Blaine'S CauStic Review
Of the Administration.
What it Does with Trusts and What It
Says About Them.

GoscHEN, Ind. Oct. 10.
| Blaine left Grand Rapids last night an,
reached here early this morning and not les
than 45 900 citizens of Indiana walked O
rode in trains, wagons or on horseback L
meet him in Goschen and participate in th,
republican demonstration. Ii was the big
gest crowd northern Indiana has ever seei
and was SO unwieldy that two speakers stand
had to be erected and another meeting organ
lied at the Opera House. The town wa
profusely decorated with flags and bunting
and in the squares surrounding City Hal
speeches were delivered by Gen. King, Gen
Murray, of Mass, Gen. Hovey, Col. Bridg
land and Blaine whose Introduction was the
signal for such an outburst of applause that
he could not speak for several minutes.
Mr.. Blaine's Speech.
In President Cleveland's free trade mes
sage last December he warned the people OF
the dangers of trusts, and argued that they
were the offspring and result of the protec
tive system and established by the republi
can party. At the same time while assailing
in the wide sweep of his accusation almost
every industrial interest in the North, the
President is particularly careful to be silent
respecting the enormous tariff on sugar
Out of S2l2 900 900 collected ON importation
of every kind last year over S5S zoo, ,000
came from sugar alone, which is equivalent
to more than one-fourth of the customs rev
enue for the year. When Clev eland penned
his address he knew that one of the largest
trusts ever organized in the world, the sugar
trust was in full operation, and that if the
protective tariff was hel pful TO that trust, he
was giving it all the aid both officially and
personal in his power. If the words of his
message are true, he himself is responsible
for levying these countless millions upon the
pockets of all consumers of this country
for an article of universal use among the
farmers of the land. CHEERS and cries of
That's so.") Nor was Cleveland's silence
the only boom the sugar trust received. When
the Mills bill was under consideration,
the Presdentof the sugar trust, (Havemeyer)
well known and active democrat of New
York, appeared before the ways aud means
committee, and, according to the statement
made in open Senate by Allison, obtained
such arrangement of duty as was equivalent
to S6,0OO,O0O in the pockets of the trust.
Sensation. If, therefore, the price of
sugar has been unduly advanced to the con-
sumner the reprehensible parties, according
W tit IltslhtHt tlS tIc L ItsiutAt
himself and the ways and means committee,
who concocted the bill in the interests of
that trust. think, moreover, that whenever
you find one of the necessities of life cor
nered and controlled by an association of
men for the purpose of reapng undue profit
you will find that supporters of Cleveland
are al the head of the movement. Sugar
may indeed be accounted as 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
at the head of it who is openly and avowedly
conducting its affairs is Wellington X. Burt,
present democratic candidate for governor of
Michigan. Burt is earnestly advocating the
removal of all duties from salt This would
seem another form of contradiction of the
Presidents theory that protection is the first
cause of all trusts and it likewise fully justi-
ties the ground taken during this canvass
that trusts exist more freely in free trade
country than in a protective country, 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 Burts salt trust. | hold in my hand a
copy of the London Times of Sept. 9TH, from
which learn that they are forming ''salt
trust" in England. This statement in the
Times is quoted from two English papers
locally interested in this, "the efforts to form
great: trust have succeeded beyond
yond the most sanguine expectations. All
of the Cheshire salt works have
been Professionally acquired by a London
syndicate represented by Messrs. Fowler &
Co., solicitors of Westminster, and negotia-
tions are proceeding favorably to purchase
all the extensive works in Worcestershire
and Durham. The capital required is fixed
at f3 900 200 sterling, and has been sub
scribed in advance many times over. In
consequence of the monopoly thus created
it is expected that the price of common salt
now sold at shillings pence a ton will
rise to 10 shiilings. Let me ask now if any
man in Indiana believes that w. K. 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 cut
down the prices and deprive each other of
their respective profits when the English
trust points ont that it may increase the price
of salt four-fold at a single jump! Do you
think that W. X. Burt is a modest man to
say no to a proposition to unite the two
trusts? All are stockholders on the ground
floor and both united in agreement would
advance the price of salt 800 per cent. to the
consumer in the United States and Great
Britain. This, you see. is danger apparently
without remedy that will follow an interna-
tional trust organized on the basis of free
trade. Well, gentlemen, these are not the
only two democratic trusts; another trust
is welding more political influence perhaps
than both of those mentioned. | refer 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 w.s for the destruction of the in
ternal revenue system and first and last the
outrageous taxes on whisky and tobacco.
They denounced them as war taxes, to
which no free people should be subjected in
time of peace. Free traders both north and
south soon saw that if the rev.
enue system was abolished the country
would necessarily rely for revenue upon the
customs, as it had done more than genera
ton preceding the war, and that if tnat were
the case it would be difficult if not impossi-
BILE to destroy the doctrine of protection, and
SO under Cleveland they have changed the
ground and are for keeping up the internal
revenue system and breaking down the pro-
lection features of the tariff. The whiskey
trust has thus risen financially and politically
10 udtlOndi linpuIIaHce. L state nothing OF
its internal workings and its political manip-
ulations from my own knowledge, but
know of democrats who declare that Randall
the able, upright and experienced speaker
of the House of Representatives, was drixen
from the chair and John G. Carlisle of Ken.
lucky, made his successor by democratic
caucus controlled by whiskey trust, and
acting under the whip and spur of its agents
Rsndalls alleged offense was that he would
not aid in suspending the tax laws and post.
poning the payment of a tax on whiskey il
bond when it seemed in the interest of the
trust to secure postponement. Randall didn't
believe the laws of the United States should
be administered in such way as to promote
speculation in whiskey, and l wish somt
inquisitive reporter would interview Randalri
political friends on the subject and then ash
how much money the whiskey trust is con
tributing to the democratic canvass this year
and at the same time might extend the in
Quiry into the amount contributed by the su
gar trust and also the salt trust, including it
fellow trust in the business beysnd the sea
Applause. Nor have | exhausted the list
of trusts in which the democratic party has 4
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