Mexico weekly ledger., 1899-06-08


shire Senator Hsw Trusts sRe-
aaes- Prices.
Especial wAshiaEtsn Letter.
IN the sp-ing a fuller crimson con,es upoa
the rcttn's hrsast;
In the spstnE tue wantoR ispwtng gets
himself 1ne<ner crest:
In the sIEtng 4 hysliar IRIS cAangss On the
In the sprinr a young mAn's fancy lightly
turns g thoSghts q
-~Locksiey Han" Tennyson
II the last Of the great Engiish poets
were still alive and II he took any in
terest in American politiz he c0uld
fttingly add 10 the foregoing lines this
statement. ''IE the spring Republican
statesmen and editors begin to be an
easy on account Of the popular uprising
against the trusts"
Last week I cited the trip Of Con-
gresham Lsndis Of Indiana 10 Wash
ington and an editorial in the Chicago
Evening Post as evidences that Repub-
lieans in the middle west are DISTURBED
about the crusade against trusts
The Cleveland Leader. b. q great
many person9 regarded IS President Nc
Kinley's home organ. gives this hair
raising shrek.
"Al trusts are created in order that
the people may be robbed in one way or
another. The only course open 10 the
several states and % the United States
is 70 destroy the trusts Tbs Republican
party leads in reformA The Republican
party should make immediate and re-
lentless war upon trusts The Repub-
hcan platform in Ohio this year should
be built upon this idea. The Republic
an mares which viii meet next De-
eember should take up the trust CUES
ton at once. Nj. Mckinley should be
renominAtsd and reelected on the dec
lzrstion that all trusts are dangerous,
dishonest and must be destroyed The
fight should be hard and fierce. Down
with the trustsi"
Leads In Referm.S
Commenting upon this. the Washing
ton Post independent says:
The Post is not an organ, nor Is 1t
gifted with prophetic lore. bat ii incurs
no risk in predicting that the Republic
an platform win not make the declara-
tion that all trusts are dangerous, dis
honest and mnst be destroyed To do
that would be to make as conspicuous 81
display Of demagogical folly as could be
given by. national mass convention Of
crAnks brought together under the Sc
duetive Influence Of free passes and free
board. If the Republican platform in
Ohio this year should be built on that
idea lis fate win be even more pathst-
lie than was that Of the notorious etrad-
die Of 1926"
! have no sort Of doubt that The
Post is entirely correct when Il predicts
''thst the Republican platform win not
make the declaration that all trusts
are dangerous, dishonest and must BE-
destroyed OF course It won't The
Post not bsing a Republican organ. Is
not under the dire and constant neces-
sity Of lying. Republican organs in
Weigh against the trusts now because
they are scared into IL. But when the
campaign opens they win quietly peck
ct Marks slush squeezed cut Of the
trusts and find other themes to write
about.
In my Judgment. the discovery Of The
Leader that ''the Republican party
leads in reforms entities IL to rank as
the first Of American newspapers. II
ought in justice 10 itself have that idea
patented Il also owes IL TO a long suf-
iering public TO inform us Just how the
Fifty-6fth congress demonstrated that
1.-THE Republican party leads in reform. !"
If appropriating nearly 81. 500. 600. 900
il reform, the less they have Of it the
better people win be satisfied with it.
II need not try to wriggle out Of 1t
by harping on the expenses incurred BY
reason Of the Spanish war, for, after
these are deducted, the Fifty-ffth con
gress exceeded the appropriations Of any
otber-even the Fifty-frst-by several
millions Of dollars. Leads In reformsr'
Tell that TO the marinesl
Truth Davns Late.
But, If it be true-and 1t Is true-as
The Leader asserts, ''all trusts are Gre
ated in order that the people may be
robbed in one way or another" how
does it happen that that great truth
never dawned on The Leader until
Democrats in general. and Bryan in par
t%ieular, began hammering the trusts
good and hardf
"The Republican party should make
immediate and relentless war upon
trusts, :" says The Leader. Of course II
should. Bat win It do sol Aye, there's
the rub. The Republican majority in
the senate should unseat Mark Hanna
for purchasing his toga and his curule
chair. But viii it perform that merito-
rious and patriotic aetf Not on your
life. No; IL is ''sot in its ways" and 1t
will go on to the end stealing and buy
ing senatorships. pampering the trusts
and then frying the fat out Of them for
election purposes
There are other cases-"sporadic
as doctors would denominate
them-of antitrust statesmen in the
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