The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-03-29
Trusts==Sham Suits Against Them==There
Is Remedy.

when he felt its fiery fortunes raging III his breast!
Thus writes Hawthorne of Mr. Smooth-itaway while
smoke wreath issued from his mouth and nostrils while
d flame darted of either eye proving Individually that
his heart all Ola red blaze
In line with Mr. Smoothtsaways denial of what was APP
parent Governor Voorhees, of New jersey the State in which
of the incorporated recently declared tfe
working hardship" In letter dated March
20t Attorney General Grggs, also of New Jersey declares
that the danger from rustsony he does call them trusts
but large combinations of capital )'' much to the
community it is the people who induced put their
money into the purchase of the stock He also said that f
amenabe any law they amenabe the laws of the
spectve States and again adds ths entirely matter Of
State control. / would be superofficiolls to attempt a
crusade against affairs with which have business" These
fairly the true position of this admnisr
ton upon the trust question.
1t the Goth of March that the Attorney General
the from which the above quotations are made
Within six days he in interview in the Pttsburg
Dispatch claiming that he had enforced the law and
that illegal combinations have been broken up Hear this At
torney General in his interview: eve have instituted suits
and have and been beaten Others yet one
has heard going about blowing horns about the
ries have won The interviewer adds le is disposed
rest upon his laurels regarding the He APP
parenty we'll pleased with his in this direction.
he gave the impression that he we'll satisfied If he is
and the hundred under the suits" which have instituted
There year old boy in America yho believes that
trusts would multiply they do if the law officers of the gov
alert enforce the laws and drive them of
existence is thing institute suits which the trusts
VIM it another thing vigorous persecution of
the monopoles and that exist only outlaws and
nails
On the goth of March, the Attorney General said lie would
be 'superoficious attempt crusade the Goth of
March he claimed that he had enforced the law without
blowing horns about the victories have won" Why
this change of 'front.' The correspondent of the Dispatch fur
nshes the
"Rumor has it that the President is becoming mbued with
the idea that his administration do something with refer
trusts and that suits will be instituted which WILL
NOT BE PRESSED TO 4 CONCLUSION BEFORE THE
ELECTION"
Look for sham fight against trusts Just before the cam
pagn of 1900 Suits thus instituted will be pressed to
conclusion before the election while law officers will be
commencing sham suits Mark Hannas agents will be calling
the offices of the for big campaign contributions to
reeect the administration that has done for the trusts in
years than all the other administrations have done
quarter of century "The mpudent end deny the
of Tophet when he felt fiery torture raging in
breast
Let how the fostering of McKinleys amnistra-
ton has secured the formation of trusts speak of
having given the protection which the old bought and
paid for by big campaign contributions in 1896 The Fnan
ca Chronicle estimates that the total authorized output IF
DOLLARS In the first two months Of this year the total
capitalization OF trusts 81 1906 300 900, against total
of $91676O00 for the entire twelve months of 1865 These
figures stand complete proof that the trusts dominate this
administration Last weeks London Speaker states hum-
ang truth when it says the trusts control American poll
ties and shows knows the of doctrine OF
expansion when it Americans of "he dangers into
which the likely force America by insisting upon
an indefinite policy of expansion
One of the weathes citizens of Raleigh, who voted for
Mckinley said few days that the trusts had the country
by the throat and would destroy the individual prosperity and
independence of its people. He that the
had inspired all the cry for imperialism in order to blind the
people the growth and expansion and Imperialism of the
If" said he, the attention of the good of the
house turned exclusively to hunting and fishing thieves
loot his smokehoue and ramps rob his granary So if the
attention of the American people engossed about and
schemes of colonization in the PHILIPPINE islands, the trusts
can put their hands down into pockets of the people and
rob them with mpunty When they quit their dreams OF en-
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