Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1899-06-23
STILL MORE WORRY.
HOW TO SUGAR-COAT THE I'M
PERIALISTIC PILL.

to Be Met Without PubIicity-Some Fur
ther Expressions of Havemsyer on Trusts
The Henderson Bunco .Game-New Idea
Regarding Russia.
From our Regular Correspondent.
WASHINGTON, June 16, 1899.
Having sanctioned a policy for The
sending of soldiers to the Philippine.
that is clear case OF what used to bt
called whipping the devil around The
stump" Mr.. Mckinley has gone off or
a ten-day pleasure trip, with the very
important object of seeing his niece
graduate from a Massachusetts female
college. Meanwhile private advice.
from Manila say that instead of end.
ing the war Gen. Otis is likely to find
himself and his army confined to Ma
Mia and its outskirts, before the rainy
season is over, unless he is heavily re.
inioiced. Mr.. Mckinley fears the pc.
litical effect of issuing the call for vol.
unteers, although he has several
times decided to do 80. and adopted
the plan of sending a sufficient num-
Der OF regulars to Otis to give him q
total of $4,000 men. This is to be
done in way to bamboozle the public
Portions of regiments are to be sent
and portions retained in barracks
And to the latter all the men enlisted
at the recruiting Offices are to be sent
to be broke in, and nobody outside oil
the War Department will be able to
know whether the regular army il
over-enlisted or not. As early as last
week every U. S. recruiting Office was
ordered to hustle and to keep it up un.
til further notice.
The boldest witness who has tssti.
fed since the Industrial Commission
began the investigation of trusts was
Henry 0. Havemeyer, the president OF
the sugar trust, who was heard this
week. After reading carefully pre-
pared essay, in which he claimed that
trusts, and especially the sugar trust,
were public benefactors. he said
ave are not in the business for phil
anthropic purposes. 1t is policy,
sometimes. to divide Our profits with
the public, and we conduct our bust
ness on business lines. We have tried
to sell so low as to shut out all compe.
tition, but up to the present time we
are in it up to our necks. Trusts are
natural growth. They are regulated
by the laws of trade, and neither you,
nor the Federal Government, nor any
other power, can alter these laws, and
the sooner you find it out and cease
these useless investigations, the better
for the country" Now that is q fine
picture, isn't it? The head of one OF
the most notorious of the trusts which
are driving individual enterprise TO the
wall and slowly but surely getting
possession of the whole country,
standing up and boldly telling the
representatives of the United States
Government that they are engaged in
a useless investigation OF trusts, and
that neither the Federal Government,
nor any other power, is strong enough
to stop the growth of trusts. Mr..
Havemeyer was mistaken. There is q
power strong enough to stop the
growth OF the trusts, and sooner or
later it will do it. That power is
welded by the people, who pay the
enormous profits of the trusts.
Representative Sherman's friends
try hard to conceal their soreness over
the Henderson bunco that be ran up
against, but they do not succeed very
we'll. For instance, read the following
remarks made by ex.Represent ative
Southwick, Of New York, and it is
easy to sec that he does not believe
Sherman was given y square deal :
D." Mr.. Sherman accepts his defeat for
the Speakership with the utmost phil.
osophy, and isn't in the least sore over
Henderson's record-breaking victory.
He never knew in advance of Others
that Mr.. Reed contemplated retiring
from the House, and his declination
of the Customs appraisership was not
made prior to his knowledge of Mr..
Reeds intentions" That sounds very
much like pleading the baby act, % il
was generally believed that Mr.. Sher.
man did know in advance, and that he
was Mr.. Reeds choice for the Speaker
ship. In fact, it was Mr.. Sherman's
declination of an Office tina. he had
sought which gave the public the first
intimation OF Mr.. Reeds intention to
retire. Again, Mr.. Southwick indicat.
ed his belief in bunco practices by the
Henderson men when he said
when the Illinois people put up
Hopkins instead of Cannon, who
would have had q large following out
side his own State, they picked FORE
doomed non.winner. Had Joe Can.
non been their candidate the result
would never have been settled in ad.
vance OF the meeting OF Congress. 4"
When the Committee chairman ships
are announced the Sherman men will
understand still better how they were
knocked out.
Ex-Gov. Bookwalter, of Ohio. who
has lately returned from Q three years
trip through Russia and its dependen-
cies, has some new ideas of the Cars
country. He said: IL enjoyed the
trip to Russia thoroughly, and arrived
ct the conclusion that Russia is a wo.
fully misjudged country. Nowhere
have l seen a more pronounced ten
dency on the part of . government to
promote the interests Of its poor peo-
pie. I think the prevailing delusion
in America concerning the alleged
tyranny of the Russian Govern ment
arises from tho fact that il will not
tolerate crime. Justice there il swift
and severe, but are we in a position to
say that it is too swift and severe?"
Mr.. Bookwalter says that Russia ia
bound to be the dominant power in
Asia, and that if this administration
carries out laundering it has, unless
he reads the signs wrong, to get into
the Asiatic mix.up, the people OF the
United States will deeply regret it.