The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-04-04
A Day OF Wrath is Coming.

The daily of the rustswith their extoron upon
producers and consumers destruction Of opportunity for nd
vdual effort and their corrupt control of poeshave
aroused those conservative citizens who are slow
wrath From all quarters the expressions of determine
ton enforce the penal against these outlaws of
commerce.
Even the Republican leaders, Notwithstanding their party
the father trusts coming be alarmed the
ing condemnation which beginning to reach their ears The
Chicago Tmeserald which is closest Of all papers to the
President has heard the rmbng of the gathering storm and
in doubleleaded editorial calls upon the Republican lead
the coming Congress do something to loosen the hold
the have the troas of the people 1t declares that
the first thing do is repeal all the protection enjoyed
upon those articles that are controlled by trusts The Times
Herald suggests the ideal and best legislative remedy
to throttle many trusts though it would not reach
them ALL Mr. Mcmillan, of Tennessee offered
amendment the Digley tariff providing that whenever
any article upon which protective tariff imposed
manufactured bv trust that article should be henceorward
admitted free of duty The Democrats supported the amend
ment TO man. and if we are mistaken the Popuss join
tNeh
decent burial but its grave in ghoulis gee by the
agents the trusts had elected to Congress
Just before sailing for Europe, Senator Fairbanks the
new doodle from Indiana who succeeds the lament
ed Voorhees, asked if he did not think the Democrats
would make inroad the Republican party by their promise
to enforce the laws against the trusts He made answer
we will take sails Of tile Democratic ship before the
Democratic Convention assemblies, for the Republican Ma
tona platform will promise the people suppress the trusts
He then argued that both parties would be on record
against trusts would not be made prominent issue in the
campaign That very pleasant programme winch Senator
Fairbanks has marked out to rid his party Of the odum OF IN
c1eang by favortism There thing the Indiana
Senator forgot to-w the fact that his party in power
and the people will Judge and hold it responsible for its
Torrance rather than for its promises Fair promises but
ter no parsnps When in 1900 the people ask for the
the against trusts and the Republicans say
Eve promise to enforce them if you will let stay in power
the people will reply: "You have been in power What
your record The record then will show that in the Mcn
ley administration have been organized than in
twenty years before. The people not fools They know
that the trusts are organized by shrewd business who
know their friends and that unless the Mckinley admnistra
ton had been very friendly, the would have
cmites put on the market 81, 100000,
cordng the figures of the Financial Chronicle That facT
will make the people have contempt and deron for the
paign promises made by party that has foered trusts until
the people will stand it longer The people will sayand
say truythat party that draws its campaign fund from
trusts that dominated by trusts and that has done more for
in four years than all the other administrations have
done the party enforce the laws against them You
might well expect father mprson his own son as Tor
the Republican party deal severely with the trusts which
the offspring of that party.
Below give quotations from leading North Carolina
papers showing the sentiment of the people in this State
The Southern Tobacco Journal says:
Stock gamblers call them 'Industrials." The odor OF
embamed beef cng them nevertheless Trust used to be
very decent word but evil association these latter days has
made it dsreputabe "Industrials will go with the
who will continue apply the trust to the mo-