Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1899-05-25

you DE 50 -oollsb as TO iced crap apples
TO the Republican milk COW and there
| by dry up the sources Of our supply Of
tactical fuidl Would you be so rash as
to rutblessly cut off all 1ecruitmenfs of
cash from Marks camp chest in the
days that are to come? Would You be
so heartless, O Hoosier statesman, as 10
take away the means Of re-electing
President Mckinley, thereby depriying
me of this fat job, to secure which / rat
ted from the Democrats in 1862 You
IRE asking entirely too much young
man-entiiely too much Don you
know, 0 Delphi oracle. that our new
attorney general, Ex-Governor Griggs
IF New Jersey, has lately rendered a
decision to the effect that trusts are To-
cal institutions, that the federal gov
ernment has no control over them and
that they must be regulated or squelch-
ed by the state governments if they are
ever regulated or squelched at all? Your
preposterous proposition that this Re-
publican administration should, might,
eoald or would inaugurate a crusade
against trusts smacks of sacrilege, sir
of sacrilege This and much more of
the same sort perhaps Lyman poured
:lto the ear Of Congressman Landis.
A K'aIpaBIe Truth.
have no doubt that Lands was in
earnest. He knows full well-none bet
er-that the trusts are absolutely ruin
oas to rural constituencies such as his,
and in urging the administration to
turn the Republican party from the
error of its ways he was trying to save
himself and was acting under the ire
sistible impulse of self preservation
the very same impulse under which his
district and the whole state Of Indiana
will swing back into the ranks Of De-
mocracy, the great antitrust party.
Mr.. Lands stated palpable truth
when be said that the people in the
middle west were aroused, that small in
terests were being sacrificed and that if
the administration did not in some
way, not TO be misunderstood. avow its
opposition to trusts the question would
become very prominent in the next
campaign and dangerous to the Repub-
lican party in that section of the coun-
try. He might have gone further and
said with perfect truth that it would be
dangerous to the Republican party not
only in ''the middle west, but from
the center all round to the sea. But
while Mr.. Lands has made a correct
diagnosis of the disease he has made a
monumental mistake in calling in ply
sicians to supply the remedy. Going to
Lyman ]. Gage ct id genus omne for
aid in crushing the trusts is like the old
and condemned performance of going to
goats house for wool For this Re-
publican administration to issue man
ifesto against trusts would be repeti
tion Of the preposterous and impudent
caper of the devil rebnking sin. If Mr..
Lands wants trusts killed, there is but
one thing for him to do-cut loose from
the mother of trusts, the Republican
party. and join the Democratic party.
where his efforts will avail somewhat.
"sIodern Progress"
While I have no plenary power to
forgive Republicans their sins, | think
can safely promise him rousing re-
ception among Democrats. Snch men
as he moutbing about trusts have no
lot or part with Republicanism. It is
fairly and truly represented by such
men as Governor Voorhees, of New Jer-
sey, who openly defends trusts, as is
shown by the following interview,
which is herein reproduced verbatim ct
literatim from the Washington Post:
Governor Voorhees, laughed good naturedly
when asked what he thought Of the roast Of
New Jersey by Hon. Hazen S. Pingree of
Michigan because of the liberal treatment OF
corporations by that commonwealth.
81 ought not, probably, to criticise a brother
executive, - he responded. ''but, as Governor
Pingree has pitched into Jersey, may be par
doned for saving that this camor is largely
demagogical. 1t is true that our state has acted
literally in the treatment accorded corpora
tiens, but the highest English legal authority
has commended our law, and three sister states
have passed an identical statute. But let it be
distinctly understood that no charters for
fake or fraudulent concerns are granted with
us. Our law is stringent on this point, and
only bona ide corporations can get recogni-
source alone our state treasury will get in the
neighborhood Of 81 10000 this year
ssThe combinatio ions Of capital which lately
attracted so much public notice are hardly to
he considered as trusts in the obnoxious sense
of that terni. The old style trust, which was
in reality monopoly, sought 10 enhance the
price of the commodity it handled. In this
selfish purpc Sc it failed oftener than it sue
ceeded. as witness the fate of the cordage
trust, he pottery trust ard scores Of others.
'.In the concentration Of interests now go
ing ON the chief purpose seems to be to bring
about economy in production. aud II cannot
be contended that even such gigantic combina-
tions as the Standard Oil and sugar trusts
have caused The public TO pay higher prices
for their commodities. The low prices at
which Gil and sugar sell are pretty good evi-
dences that TIE public does not suffer. In the
modern evolution Of busint s. the individual
is of but little consequence, and associated
sapital acting on large scale now does what
was formerly left 10 men in their single capac-
ity. In this changed order of things a few will
get hurt, but it is an inevitable result of mod
srn progress.
A Few VIII Get Hurt.
Let Mr.. Lands read that utterance
Of Jerseys governor, coupled with the
opinion of Attorney General Griggs,
and then, to borrow phrase from
Charlie Hartmann Of Montana, ''use
his thinker for a few moments. and
be will see how the wind is blowing
among Republicans. SO long as New
Jersey can get 81 600. 600 per annum
out of the trusts as license fees. what
difference does it make about kiekers in
isthe middle west a. Governor Voorhees,
and statesmen of his ilk evidently be-
lieve that the plain people have no
rights which the trusts are bound to re-
spect To Mr. Lands especially COM
mend the last sentence of the governor 5
interview. which runs in this wise In
this changed order of things a few viii
get hurt, but it is an inevitable result
Of modern progress. Now, Brother
Landis, there you arel Who are the
few who will get hurt ''as an inev-
liable result of this modern progress
by which the governor means the prog
ress of the trusts-while New Jersey
secures rake off Of a cool million dol
lars annually Why, bless your soul, the
few who will get hurt are 175. 600
Hoosiers in your district, 175, 600 Mis-