The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1897-07-03
The Shark and the D~ogishers..

iyely to the treatment or temale dls-
eases, written by DIR. Hartman.
The Shark and the D~Ogfishers..
From the Kansas City Times.
John Sherman's anathemas against
trusts the other day must surely have
been pronounced in a PickwicKiah
sense, unless we are willing to concede,
which we are not, what many OF johns
political friends are saying about him,
that he is losing his mind. Johns
warrant for talking recently on the
subiect of trusts is the fact that the
antitrust law, which has proven as
effective in restraining these rapacious
combines as the Keely motor has IN
solving the problem of perpetual
motion, bears the name of Hon. John
Sherman as the author of Its being on
its baptismal register.
In an interview in Mr.. Pulitzer's New
York paper, the distinguished republi-
can. who occupies at present the m
portant post of secretary OF state,
admits the parentage OF the antitrust
law. but attributes the inefficiency OF
the measure TO the wet-nursing 1t got
from other eminent republicans who
took q hand in bringing it up after he
had given it a start. He has the nerve
at this late day, after he and his party
have temporarily wrested the power 10
govern from the people and put 1t INTO
he hands of the trusts, to say that
.sthe present antitrust law is not strong
enouoh" and he favors ssmaking un-
lawful In the most direct manner all
combinations in restraint of trade"
Was ever ~unspeakable hypocricy so
thinly yelled! Were it not for the
Hon. John Sherman's extreme age. n
for the reasonable certainty that it can
not be long before he pays the penalty
of his deeds done in flesh by being
nlaoed in the hands of the Subterran-
can Heat Trust, unlimited, the tempta-
tation to utter harsh and derogatory
words. indicative of his shameless
parade of the qualities of a political
Uriah Heap, would prove irresistible.
We're we not restrained by these con-
siderations, it would be as easy as it Is
true 10 say that there never was a man
in public life who eve used politics as
a lever, whereby to effect, and a ven
wherewith to conceal, ~high-handed vii
lainy. perpetrated against the interests
and the liberties of the American peo-
pie SO successfully in the former case
and so transparently in the latter us
Hon. John Sherman.
He was in the senate al the uniteu
States nearly a third of a century ana
in all that time there is not recorded
To his credit one measure that has ben
Gifted the great body OF the people
During most of the time he has been
in the body from which he was driven
by a political combine, consisting oil
William Mckinley and Mark Hanna,
he has been devoting himself assidu'
ously to the occupation OF ~featherlng
his own nest in a financial way.
During nearly all the years that rave
in their passage witnessed the trans
formation of Washington from an un'
slightly, hilly, ragged town, wherein
g1llies, taverns and unsavory bar
rooms alterpated, into the most bean
tiful oity in America, Hon. John Sher'
man has been at the head of the com
mittee on public improvements for thu
district of Columbia. The knowledge
which this position afforded OF wher'
streets were I be opened, pavement
laid and buildings erected gave nm
excellent opportunities for known
where the best places were to inves
his salary, and the money so Influential
a person as a United States senator cal
always borrow from wealthy friends
OF course Mr.. Sherman did not tax
advantage of these opportunities an
others and equally deserving the nam
of .'sure thing" because he was avar
icious. He only did it TO keep th
lobes of his colossal brain from becom
ing CONCEALED during those period
when he was not deyoting himself t
the business of the people.
Returning to John Sherman's dc
clared antipathy for trusts, as mad
manifest in the sham and inoperatlV
law he introduced against them, an
in the attitude of the party which h
has followed during his half century {
public life, in It's fostering a tariff pc
, lev that has been first the incubator {
trusts, afterward their nourlsher an
is now their purchased and willing Sc
vitor, it is opposite to repeat wis
more than half the voters OF the Unite
States already know, that he is til
main instrument in the organization
the most gigantic trust OF them al
He is the grizzled Mephisto who engiI
eered the scheme by which tho d.
, thronement, the disinheritance and II
: ~enslayement of silver was surrept
{ tiOusly accomplished.
. John Sherman is the political Judi
. V.o. ,,hA hatroUah will q KISS II
: people of this country into the han
of the goldOcracy of London and Ne
York. His traitor hand strucS dow
silver and erected in this land the gol
trust, the insatiate vampire that hi
q been sucking the life blood of OF
= farms, U workshops, our shippin
o and all the other ministers TO the di
fusion of wealth among the people IL
4 so many years. John Sherman, IL
i chief architect of the gold trust, hi
: had the hypocrIay to stand in u publ
! plape, to roll his eyes, to elevate b
? VOICE, to raise his hands and to anath
matlze The tobacco trust, the nail trns
the wool trust and all the rest of IL
! Z brood when these are, in compariso
> with the gigantic one for winch l
stood sponsor in "a, as insignificant
; are the greedy, spIny dogtishes tn
! swim IN the wake of the man-eatin
3 sharks i the qualities of activity, vo
aoity and destructive power when con
. pared to the remorseless monster thu
= follow.
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