The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1892-07-22
THE CURE FOR THE TRUST EVIL

The answer made by the Mckinley organs
to the undeniable fact that the tariff has bred
trusts by the hundred is that there are few
trusts whose existence is not due 10 the tariff.
This statement Is quite true, but what bear
ing has 1t on the main questionable trust
breeding effect of the tariff Poisonous toad
stools grow wild, but is that . reason why
they should be cultivated in cellars like edible
mushrooms The Standard Oil Trust is the
favorite instance offered of an unprotected
trust. II is good one. There is no duty
on petroleum, but the Standard Company
has nevertheless secured the practical owner
ship Of the American product. BY means Of
combination with railroad companies this i'm
mensely wealthy trust is enabled to surround
itself with conditions of monopoly which give
it the control of the market. But because
we have one disease does it follow that we
should seek to afflict ourselves with myriad
Of othersf Does the existence of the unpro-
tected Standard Oil Trust justify the republi-
can party in inventing and maintaining pro
tective tariff which does for hundreds Of. rusts
what the Standard Oil Company has been
able todo fct itselfi If the removal of duties
would break the oil monopoly would it not be
wise 10 remove them?
For every trust that is created and kept
alive by the tariff the republican party is re-
ponsible. That is self-evident proposition,
! and it is not disputed BY the more intelligent
republican newspapers whose concern for the
thieving privileges Of tarii-protected capital j
less than their sol,itude for the interest Of the
masses efthe people. A few such newspa-
pers, which are clearheaded enough 10 SET
that the public viii not long tolerate the tow
ering Mckinley duties, advocate the remova
of the tariff which protects manufacturing
trusts that are able to undeisell the unpro
tectsd manufacturers of England in Englan,
ITSELF Garfield foresaw what the resul
would be Of the tendency to pile up custom
house taxes. He favored protective duiie
for the benefit of our manufacturers
"But not so high as to enable them to driv
ont the foreign article, enjoy monopoly G
the trade aud regulate prices as they please.
That is precisely what the Mckinley dutie
now enable the trusts to do.
The organs urge that the proper way to at
tack the trusts is to procure legislation 70
their suppression How much is to be ex
pected from republican administration
bat direction has been exempli6ed in ia
feeble and pitiful pretended efforts Of NJ
Harrison and his Attoney-gereral to prose
cute the Whisky and Bobbin trusts. Besides
what sense is there in deliberately GROWN
things that ought TO be cut DOWN. Proven
ton is not only better than cure, it is in6nitel
easier in the case Of the tariff created trusts
Close down the MeKenley irrigating ditc
and the trusts viii perish of themselves The
It will be proper TO try what aggressive les'
action can do toward the suppression Of Il
Standard Oil and the few other trusts like
for which the tariff is not to blame.
The trusts have no rights, as trusts, tn
: any patriotic American j, bound to respec
The Mckinley tariff has raised crop Of the
: that covers the continent, and every good ci
! izen's vote should be cas-: against the polite
E party which has imposed thst tariff, Is NO
willfully defending it in the lace Of its e'
: fruits, and which looks 10 every ,rus, 10 ii
republic to contribute lavishly to its eampaiI
E fund.-ExamiHer.