The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-12-10
The Cameron Statesman Opens His Cam
paign for Congress in Seventh District.
El.ABoRArEs HIS VIEWS ON PUBLIC QUESTIONS
And Tells the Attitude He Will Assume IN case he
Be Sent to Westinghouse Very Able Pre-
sentation of Current Issues.


utmost docility to Mark Hanna's fat fry
ing" process. For them the struggle was
one OF life or death and as soon as Nc
Kinley was elected they claimed with
shameless insolence that they had elected
him and demanded In return the favor
and protection of his administration and
they received it. The American people
were stunned and stupehed by the an
nouncement OF Attorney General Griggs
Of McKinleys cabinet that monopolies and
trusts were matters OF State concern Only
and that the States must protect them
selves and could not call on the Federal
government. This Jerseymau became
suddei. convert to the doctrine of Sia7e 3
rights and he invoked 1t as an excuse for
refusing TO put In operation the Federal
anti-trust law against these new citizens
OF New Jersey-the modern incorporated
trust Il Is passing strange that the OILY
recognition of the doctrine of States rights
by the republican party should be to pro-
test these unlawful monopolies from the
punishnent Of the law Thank God they
have not been able 10 point to any article
In the constitution which owes its life TO
democratic hands as authority FOR this
hypocritical pre;ense. The distinguished
attorney general could rely alone upon
the doubtful authority OF that bastard
amendment known as article XIV pro-
pcsed in reconstruction times and pro-
mulgated without having been adopted as
required by the constitution This declar-
alton by the highest law officer OF the
J government took the bride orr OF the
trust and gave ii tree range among the
States of the Union New Jersey once the
proud mother Of Withersroon OF Hop
kinson and az Dayton; New Jersey, whose
soil was made sacred By the blood OF
revolutionary heroes; New Jersey, whose
history IN the past has been ennobled by
loyalty TO democratic principles, is now
lei f-s,gt at,1 ~. ~ hnr ie
now the home of Attorney General Griggs
is ROW classed as republican beyond re-
demption, II is said chat the chick in
dustry OF the state is the organization of
trusts, her citizens earn their livelihood
by holding the corporate Offices of cor
I porations who 40 no business in Neg
4 Jersey, like a predatory order Of knight
hood, which survived the crusades and
established itself In the rocky island of
a Malta in the Mediterranean sea, from
A which safe retreat ii carried on its pira-
a cies throughout all the neighboring coasts;
a her State government is sustained by the
:. franchise taxes assessed on these corpora
- lions, and her people corrupted by the
"a fruitc of her lust have practically para
~ phrased the Lords Prayer into give us
- this day our daily trust" Come away
~ from New Jersey Let her alone she Is
- Joined TO the republican party ana the
democratic party does not wish 10 soil It's
Something of the magnitude of the bust
y ness now controlled by the trusts may be
y comprehended when we consider the
- statement OF President Arthur T. Haley
D of Yale university high authority on
economies that. in the year 1895 the new
companies formed in the United States
y for purposes Of Industrial consolidation
i had capital of over 5000. 900 900 When
l. this fact first transpired it was regarded
lie as surprising. Now ii has become common
20 place. For in the earlier half of lNll, ac-
cording to the careful estimate of the FL
d nancial Chronicle, the capital Of the new
l. companies of this character was three
'- thousand million dollars, or more than
'- three times that OF the preceding year.
Il And we may safely supplement President
&, Hadleys statement with the further state
Is ment that the latter hale Of the year ss99
n has added more than six thousand million
g. do,lars To the capital stock OF these COM
-e paiiies. These figures can gcarcely be
Is comprehended and Il ! We're to wrin th'lt
rs out on the blackboard they would re-
> semble q populistc balance sheet 81 the
Of monetary question. But they are -hc
<t moro appalling when IL Is remembered
st that these capitali2ations in their re-
* spective lines, represent the consolidation
of of the heretofore numberless individual
ar companies and establishments into great
IA general bureaus chat they Indicate that
ar every higlroad md bypath Of industry
le and OF business has been Invaded and eS'
h. plotted by this mcrciloss boa constructor
a. of commerc whose distcndod sides sig
~, nify that he mas swallowed up all the game
tr Ia the forest, This spirit OF consoida-
I'll tion has so run riot over the land that
ha no individual can safely enter upon any
~, business Of magnitude without first secur-
~ ing a charter OF Incorporation and next
Nv absorbing all rival concerns and thus stile
80 competition, Willing or unwilling. men
"a who intn btSiuag9 C0n1Dpllp1 n
sH sue this plan or else yield the held 10
se some less scrupulous dealer. II this Wild
nc license Is TO be encouraged and continued
!. ~ the result will be tho recognition of con-
vi solidation ms the fixed and permanent
an method OF business, to be followed either
by government ownership and administers
or ION OF all the business OF the country re-
n sulting in Bellamys communism or else
nix the interpretation of government in general
We business by means OF inquisition, inspec-
n ton and price and wage fixing. Either
ly result would call into play the dangerous
DIS doctrine OF paternalism in government
es which can never be conceded by democrats
es We must look then to other means OF deal
W. Ing with the situation / am not unni,nd-
a full OF the difficulties attending tho SO.
ks luton OF problem complicated by this
e. fact that our Union is composed OF forty
he five independent sovereigns. each having
k! a distinct internal policy and law. II the
u this probl am after the plan OF General
Griggs. by letting each State deal with
nd the question singly and after ,ss ow;
re fashion. depending for uniformity upor
n voluntary concert of action. We hal a.
nd well surrender at once and run foot rae,
he with rotten bororghs like New Jerse,
and DelaSGre TO got hrst under the wheels
OF this modern Juggernaut. Our gov
les lernor, inspired by the highest motives
Ia, put this suggestion 10 test when b,
:, called his consultation OF governors at ST
~ Louis think three democratic governor
list attended, but they were all brok,l up b,
BILE the sudden appariton OF the repibiicai
n governor OF Iowa. Who made a "wlld ma,
a.. from Borneo" dash through the room
no Mark Hanna. the Jupiter Tonans OF the re
his publican party, In the Ohio cali oaign IN
la Apunced the position OF his parry to b
les favorable 10 trusts, and on that eeclara
Ia ton his party carried the State. SO thu
20 issue is fairly drawn between the repub-
md licans and the democrats and no platform
at evasion by the republicans can change II :
To- they stand as the friend and champion .