Wichita eagle., 1888-10-11

GOSHEN, Ind, Oct 10-Mr. Blaine left
Grand Rapids last night and reached here
early this morning and not less than 10,
O00 citizens of Indiana met him in Goshen
today 1t was the largest crowd northern
Indiana has ever seen.
Mr. Blaine addressed the great gather
ing as follows:
Mr.. chairman and fellow-citizens Of
Indiana Stop thief is a cry not entirely
confined to criminal classes; counterpart
of the trick is known in political circles
and is especially noticeable in the present
course of the Democratic party re-
specting trusts" In President
Cleveland's famous free trade
message of last December he warned the
country against the dangerous trusts and
argued that they were the offspring and
result of the protective system established
by the Republican party. At the same
time, while assailing in the wide sweep OF
his accusation almost every industrial in
tereSt in the north, the president was par
ticularly careful to be silent respecting
the enormous tariff on sugar. Out OF
1912, 100000 collected on importations of
every kind last year, over SOS, 100000 came
from sugar alone, which is equivalent to
more than one-fOurth of the customs rev.
enue for the year. When Cleveland penned
his message he knew that one OF the largest
trusts ever organized III the world-the
sugar trust-was in full operation, and
that if the protective tariff was helpful
to that trust he was giving it all the aid,
both official and personal, IN his power.
Ii the words of his message are true, he
himself is responsible for levying these
countless millions upon the pockets OF the
consumers of this country on articles OF
universal use among the families of the
land Cheers and cries of that's so. !
Nor was Mr.. Cleveland's silence the only
boon which the sugar trust received
When TIE Mills bill was under consldera-
ton the president of the sugar trust (Mr.
Havemeyer), a well known, active Demo
crat of New York, appeared before the
ways and means committee, and accord
ing to a statement made in open senate by
Mr.. Allison. of Iowa, obtained snch an ar
rangement of duty as was equivalent to
e6,oU0,0O0 in the pockets of the trust LII,
therefore, the price of sugar has been m
duly advanced to the consumer, the respon-
sible parties, according to the presidents
doctrine, are the president himself and the
ways and means committee, who con-
cocted the Mills bill in the interest of that
trust. l think that wherever you find one
Of the necessities of life cornered and con-
trolled by an association of men for the
purpose of reaplng undue profit you will
lind supporters of Cleveland at the head
of the movement. Sugar may, indeed, be
accounted a luxury, for we can exist with
out it. but salt is one of the prime ne
cessities 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 K. Burt, the present Demo-
cratic candidate for governor of Michigan.
Mr.. Burt is earnestly advocating the re-
moval 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 likewise fully
iustifies the ground taken during this can
yass that trusts exist more freely In free
trade country than in protective country
more freely in England than in
the United States. | am fortunately
able to give you piece information that
has a strong bearing. | think, on Mir.
Wellington F. Burt's trust. l hold in my
hands copy of the London Times of Sep
TENDER ). From it, / learn they are form
ing salt trust" in England. The state
ment in the Times, quoted from two
English papers locally interested, is this:
THE efforts TO form a great salt trust
have succeeded beyond the most
sanguine expectations. All Cheshire
salt works have been Professionally
acquired by London syndicate repre-
sented by Messrs. Fowler & Co. solicitors,
ceeding favorably to purchase all the less
extensive works in Worcestershire and
Durham. The capital required is fixed at
ES,000,000 and has been subscribed in adj
vance, many times over. In consequence
Of the monopoly thus created it is expected
the price of common salt, now sold at IS
I'd ton, will rise to los"
Let me ask 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 de-
prive each other of their respective profits,
when English trust points out the way to
Increase the price of salt four-fold at IA
Single jump? Do you think Wellington
r. Burt is too modest man to say no to a
proposition to unite two trusts, all stock
holders on the ground floor and both
nnited in an agreement to ad-
vance salt 500 per cent to consumer
In Great Britain and the United
States? Applause and laughterl. Thus
gou see the danger apparently without
remedy that will follow an international
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 lHdu uolu Ol luSIli. l. re-
Ter to the whisky trust, which has
ABSOLUTELY changed the politics and
policy of the Democratic party. For a
year after the war closed; one demand of
the Democracy, especially in the south,
was for the sdestruction of the internal
revenue system and first and last the out
rageous taxes on whisky and tobacco
They denounced them as war taxes. TO
which no free people should submit in
time of peace. Well, gentlemen. free ira
ders. both north and south. soon saw that
IL the internal revenue system were abol-
ished the country would necessarily rely
for its revenue upon customs as IL
has done for more than generation
preceding the war;aud that If that were the
rase, it would be difficult, if not impossi-
ble to destroy the doctrine of protection
md so under MIR. Cleveland they have
completely changed their ground and are
FOR keeping up the internal revenue sys-
tenn and breaking down the protection
features of the tariff. The whisky trust
has thus risen financially and politically
to national Importance. l state nothing
of the internal working and its political
manipulation from my own knowledge,
but i know Democrats who declare
that Mr.. Randall, the able, upright
and experienced speaker Of the house of
representatives, was driven from the chair
and Mr.. John G. Carlisle, of Kentucky,
was made his successor by Democratic
caucus controlled bv the whisky trust and
acting under the whip and spur of its
agents Mr.. Randall's alleged offense
was that he would not aid in suspending
the tax on whisky in bond when it seemed