St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-10-11
TREATISE ON TRUSTS
Names Magnetic Man Again
Directs Attention to Com
binations Of Capital.
Not Long Since He Said Trusts
We're Private At
fairs.
Now He Believes They Are the
Offspring Of De-
mocracy.
AS Such They Should Be Con-
trolled With an Iron
Hand.
Special to the Globe

| Special to the Globe.
GOSHEN, Ind. Oct. 10.-This city is in
whirl of excitement to-day over the
Republican demonstration and the visit
of Mr.. Blaine. Thousands of people
have thronged in from the country. and
the crowd is unprecedented in numbers.
Bunting and decorations give the place
holiday aspect, and immense arches,
reSplendent with the national cOlorS,
span the streets. A mammoth industrial
parade, in which were exhibits of the
furniture, wooden pumps and other city
manufacturing establishments, and the
wool and lumber products of the adjOin-
ing townships was a special feature.
In the line were log cabius and tableauX
illustrating practical free trade and the
advantages of protection. Three meet
ings, two in the open air and one
at the opera house, were held
simultaneously. General King, of
Maryland, and Colonel Bridgeland,
of Indiana, were among the speakers
Mr.. Blaine was escorted to the court
| house square in the afternoon, and
| spoke to 10000 people, amid frequent
applause. He said:
Mr.. Chairman and fellow citizens of
| Indiana: "StOp thief" is cry not EN-
| tirely confined to the criminal classes.
The counterpart of the trick is known in
| political circles, and is especially notice
! able in the present course of the Demo-
cratic party respecting trusts" In
| President Cleveland's famous free trade
message of last December, he warned
the country of
THE DANGER OF TRUSTS,
and argued that they were the offspring
and result of the protective system eS-
| tablished by the Republican party. At
the same time, while aSSailing in the
| wide sweep of his accusation almost
| every industrial interest in the North,
| the president was particularly careful
| to be silent respecting the enormous
tariff on sugar. Out of $2l2, 100000 col
| lected on importationS of every kind
| last year over SOS, 100000 came from
sugar alone, which is equiva-
| lent to more than One-fourth of
| the customs revenue for the year.
| When Mr. Cleveland penned his mes
sage, he knew that one of the largest
trusts ever organized in the world, the
sugar trust, was in full operation, and
| that if a protective 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 himself responsible for levying
| these countless millions upon the
pockets of all the consumers of this
country for an article of universal use
among all the families in the land. Nor
was Mr.. Cleveland'S silence the only
boon which the sugar trust received.
| When the Mills bill was under consider
| alton, the president of the
sugar trust, Mr.. Havemeyer.
well known, active Democrat,
| of New York appeared before the ways
| and means committee and, according
| to the statement made in open senate
by Mr.. Allison, of Iowa, obtained such
| an arrangement of duty as was equiva-
lent to S6,O0O,O00 in the pockets of the
| trust. If, therefore, the price of sugar
has been unduly advanced to the con-
sumner, the responsible parties, accord
| ing to the presidents doctrine. are the
president himself and the ways and
means committee who cOncocted the
Mills bill in the interest of that trust.
l think, moreover, that wherever you
| find one of the neceSSarieS of life
| CORNERED AND CONTROLLED
by an association of men for the pur-
pose of reaping undue profit you will
| find the supporters of Mr.. Cleveland at
the head of the movement. Sugar may
| indeed be accounted a luxury, for we
can exist without it, but salt is one of
the primal necessaries of life. We all
know that salt trust exists in this
country, and the man who is now at the
head of it, openly and avowedly con-
Quoting its affairs, is Wellington r.
| Burt, the present Democratic candidate
for governor of Michigan. Mr.. 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 justifies the ground
taken during this canvass that trusts
exist more freely in free trade coun-
try-mOre freely in England than in the
United States. | am fortunately able
to give you a piece of information that
has strong bearing, think, on Well
ington r. Burt's salt trust. l hold in
my hands copy of the London Times
of Sept. 5, from which learn that they
are favOring salt trust in England.
The statement in the Times, quoted
tereSted, is this: 1.-The efforts
10 form the great salt trusts
have succeeded beyond the most
sanguine expectations. All the
Cheshire salt works have been prOvis-
iOnally acquired bYa London syndicate,
represented by MeSSrS. Fowler & Co.,
solicitors, Westminster, and negotia-
lions are proceeding favOrably to pur-
chase all the less extensive works in
Worcestershire. The capital required
is fixed at e3.000,000 sterling, and has
been subscribed in advance many times
over. In consequence of the monopoly
thus created it is expected that the price
of common salt, now sold at IS and Cd a
ton, will rise to los. Let me ask now if
any man in Indiana believes that Well
ingtOn r. Burt'S salt in the United
States and the great salt trust in En-
gland 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 increase the
price of salt fourfold at a single Jump.
do you think Wellington r. Burt is
the modest man to say no to a PROPOSE
ton to unite the three trusts. all stock
holders on the ground floor, and both
united in an agreement to advance salt
800 per cent to the consumer, both in
Great Britain and the United States?
Thus you see the danger "a
| QdilSCI dppdiCHtlg WllllOub d I6lutuN
- that will allow an inter
national trust to be organized on the
basis of free trade. Alexander Hamil-
ton laid it down in the greatest financial
paper submitted by him to congress
that beneath protective tariff domestic
competition would always insure rea-
Sonable prices to the consumer. And /
ask you if our experience does not
justify the wisdom of our first and
greatest Secretary of the Treasury in
all the years that have elapsed since he
wrote these significant words. But if
we should reach the basis of free trade,
| the Presidents