St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-10-11

submit in time of peace. Well, gentle
men, the free traders, both North and
South. soon saw that if the internal rev.
enue system were abolished the coun-
try would necessarily rely for its rev.
enue upon customs. as 1t had done for
more than generation preceding the
war, and that if that were the case 1t
would be difficult, if not impossible, to
destroy the doctrine of protection, and
so, under Mr.. Cleveland, they have
completely changed their ground and
are for keeping up the internal revenue
system and breaking down the protective
features of the tariff. The whisky trust
has thus risen financially and politi-
cally to national Importance. l state
nothing of its internal workings from
my OWL knowledge, but will produce
your Democrats who say that Mr.. Ran
dali, the able, upright and experienced
speaker of the house of representatives,
was driven from the chair and John Il.
Carlisle, of Kentucky, was made his
successor by Democratic caucus con-
trolled by the whisky trust and acting
under the whip and spur of its agents.
Mr.. RandalPs alleged OffenSe was that
he would not aid in
SUPENDING THE TAX LAWS,
postpone payment of the tax on whisky
in bond when it seemed to be 10 the in
tereSt eff the trust to secure a postpone
ment. Mr.. Randall did not believe that
the laws of the United States should be
administered in such a way as to pro-
mote huge speculation in whisky; and
L wish some inquisitive reporter would
interview Mr.. RandalfS political
friends on that subject, and then ask
also how much money the whisky trust
ic mi Init tn nQmnRr1fIn H.
vass 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
fellow trusts in the same business
beyond the sea. Nor have l exhausted
the list of trusts in which the Demo
cratic party has large interest. Unless
every newspaper statement is at fault
the Democratic party has received
large contributions from stockholders
in the Standard oil trusts at every crltl-
cal election within the last five years,
and are now relying upon the gracious
continuance of that aid in. the pending
national crisis. So notorious was this
interpoSitiOn that the Ohio legislature
memOrialiZed the senate of the United
States to cause an inquiry to be made
into alleged corruption in the election
of the last Democratic senator from
that state. l do not undertake to say
there was corruption, for L know moth
ing personally of it, but | do say that
the memorial of the state legislature
was presented by Senator Sherman, and
a rightful, legal, and proper opportun-
ity was given to search through and
through for the truth, and for a
thorough examination into one of the
10 tvt1S re in world
the time fer the Democratic senators to
make an examination into trusts. One
of the largest of them was before the
senate, and before it legitimately and yet
you know how precipitately the Demo-
cratic senators fled from the task. You
could not lead Democratic senator up
to it any more than you could induce a
breachy colt to face WhiStllng locOmO-
tive. If President Cleveland had been
as eager to examine into a great trust
as he was to denOunce them all in his
message his opportunity was there; but
unless all rumOr be at fault the blan-
dishments of the administration were
lavished upon Republican senators to
secure enough of them to join the
Democrats to
TAKE OFF THE CURSE
of the unanimous Democratic resistance
to the investigation of trust. In addl-
ton to these trusts have named comes
the cottonseed oil trust, which is i'll the
hands of Southern Democrats. and Its
power used to aid the Democratic party.
They do not apply their money III AID OF
the Southern Democratic party. They
are too high toned to use money i'll cleo
tiOns: they have found more excellent
way in the South, and they reserve
pecuniary contributions wholly for the
Northern field. Fellow citizens, |
have named five trusts in which all
the evil that can come from trusts
and all the various shares of the evils
that might come from trusts are con-
spicuously prominent. l pause now,
and if there is Democrat in this assem-
biy | ask him to tell me one great trust
in this country controlled by Repub-
licans with any political connection. or
able to exert any power of the kind l
have described as in the trusts | have
named. Some one may, perhaps, say
THE STEEL RAIL TRUSTS
Well, if there be steel rail trust, it
must be privately known to the Demo
Gratis who made the accusation, for 1t
has certainly never been known to the
public, and as matter of fact, believe,
only exists in Democratic imagination,
or more probably will III Democratic in
yention. But | avail myself of the OPP
portunitv that the mention of steel
rails gives me, to clinch an argument
that was made in reference to the salt
trust. Steel rails, in this country, under
the influence of high protective tariff,
have dropped, in twenty years, from
S115 down to S31 or S32, and have, in
fact, sold as low as $3.50 per ton. All
this result has come about, of
course. by way of Illustrating the
presidents doctrine, that tariff
duty has invariably added to the cost of
the article upon which it was made.
This fall in price has been steady and
continuous, and if there is steel rail
trust it certainly has been one that
worked not to keep up prices but to
steadily lower them. But the Demo
Gratis are clamOring for free trade in
steel rails, or for such low duty
as will permit free impOrta-
tions of rails from England. Well!
suppose they should attain it. The
men engaged in the steel rail business
have Just as sharp an eye to their inter-
est as Wellington r. Burt has to the
salt interest in Michigan. What, then,
would happen? Would it not be the
easiest thing in the world for the four
teen steel rail manufacturing establish
ments in this country to unite with
about the same number that exists in
Great Britain, and thus make the price
of rails what they choose, selling them
all the time at the very highest
price that the purchaser could bear?
Thus illustrating anew and afresh that
it is free trade, and not protection. that
gives the wide and limitless field for
operation through the system of trusts,
for l repeat, as intimated before, that
international trusts on the basis of free
trade cannot be dealt with and con-
trolled as domestic trusts that may
grow up under the protective system.
Finally, gentlemen, while
ON THE SUBJECT OF TRUSTS,
let me say, with all Mr.. Cleveland's
of fbam and oil tho Cun-