Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1899-05-25
CHAMP CLARK 5 LETTER
Trusts Sapping the Re-
public's Vitals.
REDUCING PEOPLE TO SERFs.
Republican Party the Mother of
the Serpent Brood.
BOTH SHOULD BE ExTERMINATED.

BOTH SHOULD BE DIFFERENTIATED.
Great Popular Awakening to the
Dangers of Trusts-A Lone Repub-
Iicnn Voice Crying In the wilder
ness-Congressman Landis and PHI
Ianthropist Gage Signs of the
Times.
Especial Washington letter.
That the Republican party is the
mother Of the great brood of trusts now
sapping the vitals Of this republic is
matter of common knowledge. Until
the Republican party came into power
no such thing as trust was known in
America. During 3S years of nearly
unbroken supremacy in the federal gov
ernment the Republican party has
propagated trusts to such an extent that
they are plentiful as berries in June.
At last the people are beginning to
wake up to the fact that unless they
intend to permit themselves and their
children to be reduced to the pitiable
condition of Russian serfs or Mexican
poems they must exterminate the trusts,
and in order to exterminate the trusts
they must go to the root of the matter
and externinate the Republican party,
without which there would never have
been and would not now be any such
monstrosities az trusts.
1t has taken them long time to
wake up to these facts, but better late
than never.
The fact of this great popular awak-
ening is beginning to percolate slowly
through the brains of certain Republic
an statesmen Some of them who can
read the signs of the times are endeav-
oring to save themselves and their party
from irretrievabIe ruin by joining in
the cry against trua IS.
For instance, there is Hon. Charles
B. Landis of Delphi, Ind, one of the
very brightest among the new Repub-
lican members He is country editor,
smart as whip, possessing much ia
cility Of speech and very little of this
worlds goods Withal be is genial,
companionable Republican, who, hav-
ing tasted the sweets of congressional
life, would like some more. He repre-
sents close rural district and conse-
quently keeps his optics peeled watch
ing for danger signals and his ear close
to the ground to hear what's going on.
Consequently, with his environments,
Hon. Charles B. Landis Of Delphi is in
good situation to know what s what
He has discovered that the people are
fearing that when they begin the great
skull cracking his own noggin may be
battered in, he hies him to Washington
and sounds the alarm But his is
voice crying in the wilderness Re-
publican wilderness veritable jungle
of trusts
Trust Magnates Amazed.
The Republican trust fed leaders
must have looked at Landis in amaze
ment as he preached a crusade against
trusts IF he doesn't look little out,
they will swear out writ de lunatico
inquirendo and clap him into strait
waistcoat and padded cell. A Wash
ington press dispatch runs as follows;
Congressman Landis of Indiana secs great
| danger to the Republican party unless there
is an official denunciation of the trusts from
the present administration. Mr.. Landis is in
the city and is urging upon Representatives
of the administration the desrability of hav
ing some authoritative utteranees made public
declaring the antagonsm of the administra-
tion to monopolies. He had talk today with
Secretary Gage and others, arguing very
earnestly that the Republican party, through
some responsible medium, disavow any respon-
sibility for or sympathy with the trusts. He
said that the people in the middle west were
aroused, that small interests were being sacri-
feed and that if the administration did not in
some way not TO be misunderstood ayow its
opposition to trusts the question would be-
come very prominent in the next campaign
and dangerous to the Republican party in that
section of the country. Mr. Landis said that
the trust question promises to make even
more exciting issue in Indiana than was the
money question in the last presidential elee
tion.
Now, Mr.. Landis is not d lawyer, but
being man of intelligence he knows
that matricide is capital offense, and
by advising this Republican admins
tration to kill off the trusts he is really
advising it to murder its own mother
a most unreasonable proposition-a
case of what Mr.. Mckinley would de-
nominate criminal aggression. But
upon careful rereading of the above
dispatch ] find that / used the wrong
word in defining Mr.. Landis' acticn;
that is the word s'advise = That's too
mild to express his performance. He
urged. You bet, he urged and
"there are others with environments
like those of Lands who will urge and
urge the administration in vain to make
q war upon trusts.
Gage, the PhfIanthropist.
And upon whom did Hon. Charles B.
Landis urge this patriotic service? o
my prophetic soul, upon Hon. Lyman
j. Gage, secretary of the treasury The
wonderful statesman and astounding
philanthropist who has discovered that
Christianity and per cent are as insep-
arabic as the Siamese twinsl The only
mistake that Lyman made was in not
raising it to 10 per cent. | admire the
gall Of Mr.. Landis in urging Lyman to
announce Il crusade against trusts; but
| cannot--I write it regretfnHy / can
not commend his Judgment. 1t appears
to me to partake too much of the UNI
wise courage Of the bull which under-
sook to s,sts a stealn eE sine off the rail-
road track The engine WASH injured
to any anrreciable degree. but the bull,
OH whel. vas he? Lyman owes all he
has in This world to the worst of all
trusts the money trust from whom
Ill blessings flow. according to Ly
man s philosophy. A careful reading of
the foregoing dispatch will show that
the substance of what Mr. Lands said
Is set forth clearly and with sufficient
fullness. but by strange omission no
intimation is given Of what Ly man said
in reply which is BY far the more inn
portant.
Without Lyman s answer to the urg
ing Of Mr.. Landis the dispatch resem-
bles in marked degree the play OF
Hamlet with the Prince Of Denmark
left cut on Mckinley . administration
with Marcus A. Hanna missing. But
imagination may be able to supply Lys
ms, n 81 rnf1v TnrhaYts and fssfaei l;keiv /