The herald., 1897-06-01

barrier that now stands between thu
people and the exactions OF the plutoc.
racy. The house takes its policy from
Reed: Reed takes all his orders from
Mckinley; Mckinley receives his daily
instructions from Hanna, and Hanna Is
the representative Of all the combine
tions that created the administration.
Let US see how the affairs of the trust
interest have been considered in the
house of its friends. In the Dingley
bill as 1t went to the senate the sugar
schedule was written by Solon Humph-
reys. Pierce Smith, John Farr, Charles
Armstrong and J. E. Searles of the
American Sugar Refining company
The chemical schedule was written by
Thomas Harrison Of the Manufacturing
Chemists association. In like manner
the presidents OF the National Associa-
ton of Fire Brick Manufacturers and
of the Green Glass Manufacturers and
Of the association for the manufacture
of spectacles, glasses. ETC., pre-
pared and furnished the schedules af-
fecting their several industries. All
these were adopted without the change
of a figure The same is true of the
schedules demanded by the cotton spin
ners and the manufacturers Of woolen
goods.
These facts were not officially known
until they were brought out as the re-
suit of friction in the senate committee
on ways and means. The senate amend
ments to many Of these schedules have
materially modified the figures Of the
manufacturers, but these latter are still.
the bases upon which rest the schedules
of the bill as it is now presented in the
senate. The woods, hides, fruits and
other products which had not passed
under trust domination were practically
unprotected by the Dingley schedules
and obtained their first substantial rec
ognition in the senate committee.
The next important step taken by
the trust interest was to send the ad-
to the assistance of one
of it's members who had just been COM
PEELED to desist from an attempt to filch
50, 900, 900 from the treasury by which to
build for itself a private breakwater
at the public expense. The administra-
ton duly responded to the instruction
of its master, and has loaned one Of its
officers and passed him over, body and
breeches, to the service Of railroad
with instructions to adopt
and make official whatsoever act, in
point, that shall be required Of him by
his master ad interim.
Encouraged by this example, repre-
sentative Of the trust is now before
with a bill to legalize the pool
ing Of the earnings between distinct
transportation companies. This is the
system that was defeated by the trans
decision in the supreme court
some three months ago. as being virtu-
ally a trust in the business of the trans
portation of freight and passengers.
The senate committee has agreed to
favorably report the Foraker bill. which
will wipe out the last vestige of compe-
tition and confirm the trust principle
in this matter of transportation. OF
course the proposed bill is hedged
around with the usual provisions by
which is intended to disguise the real
intent of the measure as an evasion of
the rule laid down by the decision re-
ferred to-
But from all this it will be seen that
the administration is very faithful in
the matter of discharging its political
obligations and very careful that the |
burden shall not rest upon its liege.
Four years Of legislation and admins
tration upon the lines indicated by the
developments of three months will pro-
duce some more millionaires, perhaps,
but they will not fail to multiply the
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