The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-08-26
TRUSTS, CORPORATIONS, STEALS.

TRUSTS, CORPORATIONS, STEALS.
+ Some of our country contemporaries
of the Republican persuasion-that is
they try to persuade themselves into
the notion that they are advocating
Republicanism, and to persuade peo-
pie who do not know much that Re-
pubhcanism is the one thing needful
are exhibiting their ignorance and
Inconsistency by foolish attacks on the
new tariff bill. They are holding up,
to horrify their readers. the fact that
the Senate amendments to the tariff
bill have been accepted-awfully stale
news by the by-and that those amend
ments were dictated by the trusts and
corporations!
1t is as well that the truth may be
made plain to everybody who cares to
understand it. From that class we ex-
cept those Republicans who do not
want the truth but only to attack the
Democrats. There are others, how
ever. who neither wish to be deceived
themselves nor to deceive other peo-
pie This is written for their benefit.
The amendments to the Wilson bill
made by the Senate, are notifications
in the amount of duties upon a num-
Der of articles which Senators thought
were made too low in the original bill.
AS the bill stands, the duties of the
Mckinley tariff are reduced from so to
So per cent. on a very large number Of
imports. Now what is the matter?
Are those rates too low or too high for
Republican critics?
If they are too high, which is the
Democratic objection, how can the Re
publicans swallow the Mckinley law
the duties in which are so much high
er? If they are too low, why should
they berate the Democrats for accept
ing them instead of the still lower
rates of the original Wilson bill?
Now as to the trusts and corpora
tions. They dictated the reduction of
the rates that were in the Mckinley
law, did. they? What for? So that
they would have a smaller chance to
fill their Golfers at the eXpense-of the
people? That is very reasonable
notion, is it not? Or is it not rather
Republican rhodomontade? Who die
tated the higher rates of duty in the
special interest and for the protection
of the trusts and corporations in the
Mckinley law? What is the reason
able inference? If those trusts and
corporations managed to get a modifi-
cation of. the low rates in the Wilson
bill, is it not a logical conclusion that
they dictated the exorbitant duties of
the Mckinley bill?
Republicans do not stop to think of
how a rule often works two ways.
And, talking of trusts and corpora
tons, how were they created? Was
it not by the very theory and practice
of protection in their special favor?
How is it that there are any trusts and
fatted corporations influencing legisla-
ton? Were they not born and
brought up and trained in the habits
and ways of procuring legislation in
their own interest. under Republican
protection for third of a century?
OH by all means draw attention to
the work OF trusts and corporations in
Congress. The Democratic speakers
in this campaign ought to be exceed
ingly happy when the Republicans talk
of gorged trusts and obese corpora
lions, which are the petted children of
Republicanism. And if they have
been able TO bring about the modifica-
items in tariff rates embodied in the
present bill, theg' must have obtained
the power to do so by Republican legis-
latien, encouragement and submission,
by which alone they have become abe
to dictate to any extent the policy OF
this country in regard to the tariff.
s1is to the gains which the Sugar trust
may make under the new tariff. what
about the greater gains it would have
made if the Mckinley law had re-
manned intact? If there is a steal
for the Sugar trust in the Democratic
tariff to the horror of Republicans, how
much were they Mortified at the still
greater "steal" under the Mckinley
law? Was a big steal all right be-
cause the law was Republican. and a
little steal all wrong because it is Dem
ocratic2 Observe, we do not say there
- " " ally SlSNi' We Simply euAi eAS
steal on to its originators under whose
legislation the trust was created and
given the sugar teat which it is SO re-
luctant to let loose. Trusts and cor
porations! How did they spring up and
how did they accumulate their pluto
cratic power il not under Republican
laws and policy framed for their par
ticular benefit? Talk some more about
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