The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-06-04

point them to Santiago ard the Philip
pines, and say to them that che national
guardsman and the American volunteer
are good enough soldiers for us. The
people will understand that a large
standing army is in the interest of trusts.
With the right kind of a man Oh the
right kind of an antitrust platform
we will carry every State in this Union,
and we will carry the country by three
million popular majority, for at least
three millions of patriotic Republicans
will vote with us
And. provided we at home nominate
the right kind of men on our State and
legislative tickets we will carry the
grand old Democratic State of Missouri
by an unprecedented majority, which, in
my opinion, will reach 100000.
But We cannot and we must not Oc-
cupy any equivocai grounds on the
trust question, and we must make the
lobby-which is the tool of the trusts
understand that they must stay away
from Jefferson City when the Legisla-
ture is in session making laws for the
people of the State We must elect as
Governor a man who will have the
moral courage to say to the members of
the lobby: 'You must stay away from
the State Capitol while the Legislature
is in session." and he must have the
physical courage to stand, if necessary,
at the door of the State Capitol with a
double -barreled shotgun in his hand and
see that they do stay away.
There is no question as to how the
people of Missouri. and of the whole
country. feel ON this trust and lobby
question. The time for action has come.
We have our friends, the enemy, up
against the proposition, and the national
administration, consisting of the trusts
Senator Hanna and the President, can
not get away from it,
Now You may read longer. more eah
crate and more learned orations. but
| do not believe anybody can compress
more sound sense in Il shorter space.
When Col. Watmore Withdrew from
the business. declining to remain in any
way connected with a trust, the en-
poyes focked around him and he made
them a short speech. for there is no
employer in st. Louis so highly esteemed
by the men employed by him rs Col.
Wetmore Last night at the banquet.
when Col. Wetmore was introduced, he
was received with general applause, but
the most enthusiastic greeting came
from company Of young women sitting
in one Of the highest galleries They
were a company OF young women who
had been employed by Col WetmOres
concern. 1t was the finest sight saw
az the banquet There is nowhere ~
scene fuller of pleasure than when there
suhsists a genuine regard between en-
poyer and employee. 1t is Il relation
ship that you find strong wherever %ne
lust employer comes in personal contact
with the men and women 10 whom he
gives employment. AS trusts rise ana
flourish, this relationship comes u an
end. And that is one Of the evils of trusts.
Next to the fact that trusts deny far
chance to individual success upon ln-
dependent lines, the death blow given to
the kindly relations that subsisted be-
tween employer and employe when they
worked together, is the great and over
shadowing curse of the modern trust.
1t is a hopeful sign when rich man.
who could increase his private fortune
by helping further to strengthen the
trusts, stands ont against them. 1T
shows that wealth does not cause all
men to lose sight of the rights OF the
humble. and that a man who has MADE
his money honestly is the first to cry ont
against those outlaws of commerce VINO
seek to add million TO million by illegal
combinations.
More than that. 1t is gratifying to
hear a rich man cry out against the
lobby. 1t is the tool OF the trusts,
and There is as great need IN every state
for an honest Governor to take whip
cords and drive them out OF the leglsla-
tive halls as there was for tine Master
in his day thus TO drive out the money
| changers who pulluted the temple at
| Jerusalem. The sentiment is so strong
| in this country against the operations OF
| the lobbyists that many would APP
plaud Il Governor who would stand. II
necessary. at the door of the State Capl-
| to with a -barrecd shot gun III
| his hand and see that they do stay
away" 1t is an evil that is not de-
nounced in severe enough language 1t
| is the fountain of corruption III more
| States than one. and in almost every
| instance. as Col. Wetmore apply said,
| they are "the tool of the trust
As a matter of fact. Down with the
| Trusts" as a campaign shibboleth repre-
| Semts the whole sum OF Democracy
duty. The money trust ana til" INDUS
trial trusts largely perpetuate them
| selves through corrupting legislators. and
/ the instrument they largely use is the
| lobby the tool of the trust" Col Wet
| more has supreme confidence that the
voters will put an end to trust domina-
| ton in 1900 if the campaign IS Wag4i
| against all the trusts, from the money
| trust to the peanut trust.
j. ID.
| xvrr,r A MINISTER SHOULD