The representative., 1899-08-03
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Bryan told the Democrats in the Au-
ditorium at Chicago, two weeks ago,
that all that was needed to control the
trusts was for Mckinley to appoint an
encouragement who will execute the
law McKinley's paper, the Minneap-
oils Tribune, replies as follows:
while the Democrats are preparing
to make an antitrust campaign, it
might be we'll for the party leaders to
read up bit regarding recent history
of the party. If they have the courage
to do this fairly, they will discover that
but for Democratic action in congress a
stronger antitrust law would now be
upon the statute books of the nation.
1.-The Mckinley tariff law of 1890 con-
tanned the following section:
Every contract, combination in the
form of trust or, otherwise, or conspir-
acy In restraint of trade or commerce
among the several states, or with for
eign nations, is hereby declared to be
illegal. rr,a,-s-,,-sr ..s-
This law was passed by vote of 1854
to 142 in the house of representatives.
Every vote for it was Republican, and
all but two of the negative votes were
cast by Democrats. The senate passed
it by a party vote of 40 to 20. Thus the
only sweeping antitrust law ever
passed by congress received unanimous
Democratic disapproval.
1.-The Democrats controlled the next
congress, and passed the Wilson tariff
act of 1894. In that act the following
was substituted for the Republican re-
straint Of trusts:
Every combination, conspiracy,
trust, agreement or contract is hereby
declared to be contrary to public policy,
illegal and void, when the same is made
by or between two or more persons or
corporations, either of whom is engaged
in importing any article from any for
eign country into the United States
THUS it will be seen that the Demo-
cratic idea was to prohibit trusts when
composed of importers alone, while the
Republican idea was to prohibit all
trusts. incidentally it may be added
that Mr.. Bryan was an ardent supporter
of the Wilson tariff act"
There you have it, farmers! The
two old parties still getting up false
Issue to fool the people. They will offer
two different remedies for the trusts,
the object of either of which, like fran
chises for regulating city monopolies, is
not to relieve an enslaved people, but to
give the politicians clubs to extort
money from the trusts. AS the people
are learning. that the only way to con-
troll city monopolies is to own them,
so they are quickly learning that these
industrial trusts must one by one grad
ually be absorbed by the people for their
own use, after the piutocrats themselves
organize them up to the socialistic
point. With Joe Parker we believe that
"a Democratic promise is no more trust
worthy than Republican promise, and
that Republican promise is as trust
worthy as one made by the devil" The
Representative for July quotes Will
IN OF hot q
trust is as legitimate in principle as any
other form Of competition. 1t is moth
ing but the ultimatum of competition. y
Bryan's remarks. Therefore, show he
spirit seeking emancipation through the
evolutionary laws of the politico-eco-
nomic World; or else those words of his
quoted above, are used by him as a man
up stump in a Democratic swamp
fishing for suckers.
The trust must come. The trust is the
greatest of blessings in that it can de-
velop and own the most approved ma
chinery, thive on small profits by large
sales, obtain discounts and special
terms, transfer middlemen who only
add to the cost of articles and useless
lying advertisers who contribute nc
wealth to the community, who simply
cut each others throats, to useful work
The fiercer competition is, the faster
the trust must form The trust saves
unnecessary rent, extra light and heat
superf1uous management, and stops the
foolishness of six men trying to do what
one man alone can accomplish. The
trust is perfectly organized machine
working without loss or friction. II
stands for peace and harmony. 1t is
not hampered by the vicissitudes o1
trade, changes of climate, a shifting
population or lack of capital. It is un-
conscious of panics. 1t is the greatest
teacher of socialism. AS the president
of Iowa college says, ''the trust is the
great American Brotherhood, Limited
All we need to do is to strike out The
limited" We should make the head O
the trust not Rockefeller, but the