The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-04-18
= BOURBON HYPOCRISY.
Why Voorhees,, Vest Co. Fight the
Sherman Antitrust Rill.

Sherman Antitrust Bill.
Senators Dan Voorhees,, Vest Eustis
and other Democratic leaders in Con-
gress, who when on the stump bawl so
loudly about tho oppression of the poor
by monopolies, are now doing every
thing they can do to break down the
Sherman ANTITRUST bill and prevent its
passage. This bill. while it does not 60
as far as might be desired, is q practic-
able measure and might be soon enacted
into a law il the alleged Democratic
enemies OF trustism were not deter
mined to play into the hands of the open
defenders of trust monopoly. Having
wholly failed to adopt any antitrust
legislation during all the years the
House was under Democratic control
the Bourbons are now determined Re-
publican Congress shall not be per-
mitted to improve on their record.
They persist in piling Gripping and de-
structive amendments on the Sherman
BILL They claim trusts can be de-
stroyed only by radical reductions Of
the tariff when in fact some of the worst
monopoliess get. no benefit from pro-
tariff legislation. The Democratic Sem
ators who have walled loudest and long
est on the stump and to interviewers over
trust monopolies are now cooperating
with the corporation Senator'S on
both sides, and if antitrust legislation
is defeated it will be owing to their
efforts to secure that result Voor-
hees, Vest, ct al. could not be serving
the trusts better IL in their pay.
Demagogues like Vest and Voorhees,
don't want the trusts abolished or their
extortions stopped, but would save them
for campaign material in the Con-
gressional contests this fall and in the
next Presidential election, and, in fact,
as long as they would last and serve
as the pretext for an outcry against the
Republican party. These hardened
need some pretext for the tears they
exude and the lamentations they utter
every campaign over the ''poor man.,
They have wept over the National
banks, the tariff, and the gold stand
ard, but owing to recent results in Ohio
and Iowa they seem to think uncon-
trolled trust monopoly is the abuse that
can be worked" to bring them most
votes. On no account would they have
the trusts abolished or compelled to
moderate their demands. The greater
the number Of trusts and the worse the
exactions and extorticns made by them,
the more political capital these DEM
ocratic demagogues expect to make.
They would like to see the trustees
pecially Havemeyer's Democratic Sugar
Trust and the Standard Oil Trust
grow richer and the people poorer, since
they expect their clamor to be effective
i proportion to the poverty and distress
" Itch monopolistic combines may in
fict on the voters.
They desire heavier mortgages. more
men out of employment, and higher
prices and harder living, at least until
after the next Presidential election.
Crop failures and insect plaques they
think would help them also. but one Of
their greatest disappointments and de-
feats would be in the adoption of whole
some antitrust legislation by Repub-
lican Congress. But they need not |
think their treachery and base partisan
ship will remain masked. The people |
want the trust mOnopolies depressed !
and practicable legislation enacted for
this purpose ut once irrespective of
party. They are not willing that
abuses and extortions should be pro-
longed merely that Voorhees,, Vest, ct
al, may trade in them and use them as
available political capital These
demagogues may learn that q great
many voters prefer the public good to
mere partisan advantage. Some SEN
ators will defend the trusts because
they are pecuniarily interested in and
derive profit from these combines, but
such men are no more enemies of the
public interest than demagogues who
would preserve the trusts as party cap
Ital and use them IS a means to deceive
IS well as injure voters and acquire
,ffce and e,nolument for themselves by
alse pretenses.-ChicagoT Tribune.