The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1899-08-22


proved .nccJive to crush me opera
tons OF the trusts Ia this state. In
both the house Of representatives and
the senate every Republican vote was
cast against this bill. II failed of pas
sage in the senate solely because there
two members elected as Democrats,
Joined with the entire Republican
membership of that body in voting
against it. Notwithstanding this rec
ord of the Republican party in both
nation and state. the Republican plat
form in Kentucky declares We pledge
the Republican party to the enactment
of all such laws as may be necessary
to prevent trusts. pools, etc, etc.
"And Mark Hanna, the real head of
the Republican party in this nation,
the gatherer and disburser of the i'm
mense corruption fund used to make
Mckinley president, which included
$1,000,000 contributed by the sugar
trust; Hanna, the agent through
whom the powers of government were
by the Republican rarty bartered to
the contributors of this fund, in order
that they might not only reimburse
but rmagnificently compensate them
selves by levying tribute through un-
equal laws, upon the people; Hanna
himself one of the foremost manipu-
ally had the recent Republican state
convention IN Ohio to denounce the
trusts.
1.-THE Republican party has become
merely the political agent Of the
money power ard the trusts. 1t holds
power now, and hopes to hold power
in the future, solely as the result of
the use Of immepse corruption funds
contributed by the money power and
the trusts, and ii uses the powers of
government chiefly to repay the con-
tributors Of those corruption funds. 1t
exalts money the servant; it debases
man, the master. Applause
Lincoln's Warning.
1.-THE growth of trusts and the poll
cies of the Republican party forcibly
recall the language of one of the great
men of that party. In message to
congress in 1861 Abraham Lincoln said
this:
Monarchy itself is sometimes hint
ed at as q possible refuge from the
power of the people. In my present
position / could scarcely be justified
were ! to omit raising a warning voice
against this approach of returning des-
potism. 1t is not needed or fitting here
that a general argument should be
made in favor Of popular institutions,
but there is ore point with it's connec-
ton not so hackpeyed as most others
to which ] ask brief attention. 1t
is to the effort to place capital on an
equal footing with, il not above, labor
in the structure of government. 1t is
assumed that labor is available only
in connection with capital, that no.
body labors unless somebody else own
ing capital somehow, by the use of it,
induces him to labor. Labor is prior
to and Independent OF capital. Capital
is only the fruit of labor, and could
never have existed If labor had not
first existed. Labor is the superior of
capital, ard deserves much the higher
consideration.
1T is only through the party of JEFF
ferson ard Jackson that this nation
can be saved from complete subjec-
ton to the money power and the
trusts. [Cheersl
THE Democratic platform approves
of, and the Republican platform de-
mands the repeal of the statute amend
ing the election law enacted by the
last general assembly. The gist of
that statute is that ii takes from the
county judges and confers upon three
in each county the
power to appoint each year the pre-
cinct election officers that are to con-
duct elections, the county commission
ers being appointed by a state board
Of three commissioners chosen by the
general assembly