The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-10-25

H.
What a field is drawn up in this bat
tie OF politics The people on one side,
Hanna and the trusts ON the other
What is a trust? 1t is a crime, thing
without the pale of law. Not robber
of them all but is a proclaimed VOLTS
head and OUTLAW by the terms OF
solemn statute. Why do they exist?
Because a supple Attorney
will not prosecute; because q court
more supple still opens a back door OF
the law for their escape.
sHow is this?" cry the Tories and
the toadies of money. You must not
speak iii OF the courts.
Must one not? Tt shall go hard, but
these same courts shall be made to
listen to something beyond mere talk
before all is done. They shall yet lis
ten to the Constitution and the law Of
the land; enforce them or take the
Consequences.
Must not speak evil of courst?
The shout is loud and the lackey-
ish horror as real as when those other
Tories and money toadieFs and turn
spits of tyranny raised the same cry to
defend the red ,Iefferys when in the
"Bloody Assizes" he killed and quarter
ed four hundred Taunton men in a
week and sent as many thousand to
plantation slavery. Honesty is the
ermine of a court, and when it lays
it off, a court is no court.
A TRUSTS OCEAN PROTOTYPE.
To-day the trusts tear at our insti-
buttons. And men are asked to side
and sympathize with these outlaws and
defend them. One might as well be in
vited to the rescue of a rattlesnake. No
ravening wolf raises his lone yell on
the midnight hills, no panther skulk-
ing in the canyons of the Rockies to
tear the throat Of the foal by the
frightened side of its mother, but has a
softer, tenderer heart.
To the trust the sea furnishes its
only prototype. Down in the caverns
of the unsearched ocean there crawis
a cold creature; thing of slime. Its
heart does not tthrob nor beat; there
is no pulse to it's chill blood From
the shapeless bulk of this thing start
out long twisting tentacles, strong as
strap iron. each on it's under side
rank of mouths merciless to suck
blood The one impulse of this Great
ure is yoracity; the one motive blood.
With these fiend-invented tentacles,
it clasps and binds its prey; while
with beak buried in its bosom, it
sucks the victim dry like an orange.
This fearful sea thing of beal1 and
tentacle is called the devil fish. Those
trusts of to-day, making the backbone
of Mckinley Hanna battle, are it's
twin brethren of the land.
LET HANNA's RECORD SPEAK.
And Hanna, too! I've had my say
of him ere this. If he be of that tender
excellence toward working folks
which he declares and sycophants
paint, let his deeds defend him, and
his record speak. Hanna is worth
$4,000 900; He controls $200,0O0,OO0
more. ROBBED in this wealth Of power,
what good has he done? To what door
of want has he appointed relief? What
stricken one has he uplifted; what
orphan upheld? To what famine-bitten
face has he brought the hue and round
ed line of health?
Let the starved ones of Springs VAL
lev say. Owner of a hundred coal
mines, TO what cold hearth has he fur
n.shed the freight Of comfort? With
navy Of his own, has he saved liyes2
ASK OF those skulls and skeletons OF
former sailor folk down deep ON the
bottoms, with the Great Lakes piled
above. They were Hanna's Sailors
swept over board to drown like dogs.
Why mani when these poor sailor
people asked at the hands of Congress
law to paint load line on these
ships, line which years ago English
law and Plimsoll gave to English sea-
men, it was Hanna who headed a
prompt lobby against 1t. and Hanna's
noa1y struck the measure down. To-