Mexico weekly ledger., 1899-07-27

the whole tribe Of pap suckers. They
are wing with each other in saying
bitter things about him; but one thing
eocksure, Havemeyer bit the bulls
eye in his testimony before the indus
trial commission, and, what's more,
his evidence cannot be Obliterated
from the minds Of men or In any man
ner explained away. What made him
DO il, | know not, but he did it In jam
MP good style, and what be said he
said in a way to aus it to stick TO the
memory like a bur. In the meantime,
Republican tax eaters viii dash their
eloquence in vain against the great
truth that "the tarin is the mother OF
trusts"
The Party of Bluffs.
The esteemed GlObe-D Democrat Of St.
Louis, a thick and thin Republican or
gan, recently made this sage editorial
~utteranee: Democrats are vocfferous
on the subjects Of trusts as IL they had
Just made a new discovery. The Re
publican party has not waited until
the present time to speak out and to
act on the matter. OF course the best
time to deal with an evil is at the out
set. This is precisely what the Repub-
Icans hare done" Then The CD.
proceeds TO quote a Republican plat
form and to glorify the Republican
party for squelching trusts. in face Of
the fact that just in proportion as Re
publicals have control, do the trusts
wax, multiply and grow fat. THE
best time to deal with an evil Is at the
outset" Very true-very true. Solo
mon in all his glory never stated a
more potent truth, and that's precise
ly where the Republican party fell
down-it failed utterly. neglected
completely to deal with the trust evil
at the outset, The GID. TO the contrary
Notwithstanding. In fact. II has never
dealt with that evil at all In reality.
II has made a bluff or two merely and
clearly for the purpose Of catching
gudgeons and. truth TO tell, 1t caught
them. IL passed a lava himsy thing
las a tub to the whale, which law has
been a dead letter ever since. Repub-
iicans appear TO be In favor OF an anti
trust law and against its enforce
ment. Whited ~sepulchersl II the
trusts are never squelched till Repub-
licans do II, they viii still be robbing
people when Gabriel blows his
trumpet. Everybody with two ideas
above a mud turtle knows this, and
that knowledge is precisely what viii
smash the Republican party to smith
Greens in 1900.
Hanna ns n Trust Killer.
Democrats are vOciferous on the
subject Of trusts-are they? It's a
Gods blessing that somebody Is vocif-
erous on that subject; but / would like
to have The GID. answer one ques-
ton, honor bright, and that's this: II
the Republicans are such great trust
killers, how does it happen that they
permitted trusts in America to multi
ply like rabbits in Australia or frogs in
Egypt and witnessed that frightful
multiplication with that silence which
is said to be goldeni Why didn't
some Of these palpitating a~ntitrusters
lift up their m%elliiuous voices against
the trusts before Bryan and other
Democrats inaugurated their crusade?
1t would be a great relief to a long
suffering world to have direct and
categorical answers to these simple
questions. In its assumed role Of
trust destroyers Republicans are, amid
the jeers Of men, re-enacting the futile
performance OF the thief who Justify
yells stop THEIR In order to dis
tract attention from himself.
When a child, / was wont to look
upon the picture Of 81. George killing |
the dragon with admiration and
amazement. That picture wasn't a
marker to the one Of Mark Hanna
mounted upon the broken legged.
stump tailed elephant known as the
Republican party engaged In killing
the new trust dragon. The trouble is
that Marks spear has no point; his
rapier has a button on it, his car
tridges are blank. his blows are love
taps. The whole performance Is a
fake pure and %simple-a roaring farce
"A sort OF deathbed repentance-aa
good enough Morgan for the election"
People in Noah's time wouldn't be-
lieye In the coming of the nood and
went down. Republicans do not be-
iieve in the antitrust food that Is ris-
Ing everywhere. and they will 20 the
same way as did Noah's Incredulous
contemporaries.
The wisest Republican that ever
lived said. "You can fool part OF the
people all the time and all the people
part Of the time. but you cant fool an
the people all the time" Mark Hanna
and The Globe Democrat would do wen
.-excellently well-tO take those words
Of Abraham Lincoln seriously to heart
and fee from the wrath to come-the
all consuming wrath of a long suffer-
ing and outraged people.
That eminent goldbug pictorial pa
per. Puck, is rather inclined to join Is
u with Mr.. Havemeyer on the prop
osition that ''the tariff is the mother
Of trusts" thinks It is only a cold
hearted "stepmother" and winds I'D
by declaring that the trust movement
is evolution" never was much OF
an eyolutionist and have always pre-
ferred Moses TO Darwin, but If the
trust is a sample Of what evolution
can do ! am less IN e%yolutionist than
ever-much less. But it is passing
strange how Puck, a free trade jour
nal, with Its evolution idea, dOvetaIls
In with Governor voorhees, Of New
Jersey, who recently declared that the
trust is all o. X. and that while some
persons win get hurt II is zone Of the
inevitable results OF modern progress"
But evolution or no evolution, the
trusts must go; go at once, without
standing on the order Of their going.