Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1899-10-27
But the Republican press attack


you so sharply that it would seem you
had attacked Republican doctrine in
attacking the trusts"
Don't Represent the Party.
Then those papers do not represent
the Republican party any more than
do some of the leaders who are iden-
titled with trust interests. They at
tack me because said that protection
should be taken off trust-made arti-
cies | repeat it The Republican
party does not need the men who are
in support of the trusts. They are
serving their private interests, neither
the interests of their party nor of
their country. The people can not be
made to believe that they need the
trusts, and the people will prevail in
the end in spite of party leaders or
party press.
How would you remedy the evils
that have grown up with the trusts?'
by legislation of the most drastic
character. There should be no hesi-
fancy in applying the AK to the root of
the evil. and if protection of the trust
industries is responsible for the trusts,
then protection must go, and mind you.
/ am a firm believer in the theory and
practice of protection. 1t has bred
trusts in some degree.
1T must be so far repealed. And
insist that l am Republican and a
good one. State legislatures should
take the matter up earnestly and in
conjunction with the national govern
ment should enact laws making COM
binations of capital impossible. How
is that to be done? ! don't know
am simply pointing out the evil. The
lawmakers must find the remedy. And
they will find it.
"INDIvIDUALISM, AS AGAINST
COMBINATIONS, MUST SURVIVE
OR THE REPUBLIC WILL HAVE
LOST ITS MEANING AND IT'S MIS-
SION. NO MEN SHOULD BE PUT
IN OFFICE WHO ARE IN SYMPA-
THY WITH TRUSTS OR TRUST
MAKERS. THE PEOPLE CAN EAS.
lily IDENTIFY THESE MEN. AND
IF THE VOTERS ARE PROPERLY
AROUSED THERE WILL BE NO
DOUBT OF WHAT THEY WILL DO"
"Do you believe that the question
of the trusts will be the foremost in
the next national campaign"
Trust Issue to Be Obscured.
dnn'f ,, ond he
II believe that the Democrats could
have made it the issue and the Repub-
licans would have had to meet it Now
the trust press and the trust mission
aries have so far done their work tina,
the question of trusts may be made
secondary to that other far less i'm
portant matter of expansion.
'It looks to me-" he continued, 'as
though the Republican party man
ayers, having good political sense, will
push the expansion question to the
front and let the trusts take second
place. That is good politics, il the
party is dominated by men who are in
sympathy with the trusts. l believs
that the national temper is such that
the administration will be Endorsed ON
its foreign policy, whether you call it
imperialism or expansion, if that pol
icy is made the issue. And 1t looks as
though it were to be made the issue.
The Democrats will have to meet the
issue If it is made that way, and the
whole country will be with the admin
istration on broad and not very care
fully Investigated lines. 1t will sim
ply be a matter of stirring up patriotic
feeling, and If they can keep the eyes
of the people on the Philippines and
off the trusts. so much the better for
a party that is led, or dominated in any
measure, by trust advocates. But those
Republicans who have the real well
fare of the country at heart will not
suffer the odium of trusts and trust
building to be thrust upon their party.
The need of an Endorsement for the
foreign policy is in my estimation un-
fortunate, if it is to have the effect
of delaying fight to finish on trusts.
The Republican national convention of
next year should deal with that ques-
ton and deal with it conclusively.
Il do not believe that party pro-
Tossing to represent the people could
do anything but protest against the
domination of trusts and the sooner
the question is settled in convention
the better.
But suppose the Democrats take the
Initiative in convention. Will not the
Republican party then be forced to
take position on the trust question? ?"
Yes, if the Democrats should do
that, but they won't They will pro-
test against Imperialism. They may
have something to say about trusts,
hut they will not put the question 20
far forward as to make it the real
issue"
But will not the people see that the
question is being dodged?"
Missionary Work For Trusts.
81 don't know. You see these trust
conventions are doing good deal OF
missionary work for the trusts in the
oav of putting them before the public
in the best possible light.
1T MAY BE THAT THE FALLA-
CIES THATARE BEING PREACHED
BY SOME OF THE PARTY LEAD
ERS TO THE EFFECT THAT LABOR
WILL PROSPER BY REASON OF
THE FORMATION OF TRUSTS WILL
HAVE THE EFFECT OF BLINDING
THE PUBLIC TO THE DANGRR
THAT MENACES THE UNITED