The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-02-23

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| ton of this memorable law of competis
| ton? AS well might we ioin with the
free silver orator of Colorado and de-
mand the repeal of the law of s,ipply
and demand, as to deceive ourselves by
any device or Invention to repeal the
law of competition.
Trusts, monopolies, pools, perpetual
and exclusive franchises have been
granted in the past and will be asked
for in the future Governmental func-
tons nave been granted and bestowed
upon common carriers Nor public pur-
poses, and we behold these favored crea-
lures. holding the truncheon of power
prostituting their powers and fran
chises to private gains and eXtortions.
Our duty to the whole people of our re-
spectlve states as ito these special priv
lleges in cities. counties and states is the
burning question of the hour
A Duty at Home.
Take up the white mans burden In
Michigan and Ohio and New York as
well as in Luzon. Not only take up the
burden of the corporations that are le-
gally operated and maintained, but also
take up the burden of the victims Ct
the corporations that have abused their
privileges and franchises. The boys we
sent across the seas to the Philippines
have done and are doing their work
periodically and well. But let not the
roar of the cannons at Caloocan or
the thunder of our navy at Manila
drown the cries for help of the small
manufacturer, of the struggling young
business man, or the laborer who is
willing to become a capitalist and an
employer but finds himself crushed by
the projectile hurled from an illegal
monopoly in our very midst.
European monarchy belching forth
dynamite projectiles is not as danger
Gus as American democracy, corrupted,
greedy for spoils, lobby-ridden, indiffer-
emit to the cry and oppression Of the
producer or the toiler in the forest. the
laborer upon the farm, and Indifferent
to the inhabitant of our inland villages
and towns.
imperialism and imperial splendor
on the smoking ruins of a MORO castle
is inspiring, is glorious, but there is
also an imperialism vested in the state
that it can exercise over the artificial
creatures as well as the natural citizen,
and that must be exercised with firm
hand in the very near future.
TT needs no more national platforms
or national campaigns against trusts,
pools or monopolies; it does not re-
quire that tons of literature should
emanate from political headquarters tel
ling what the party will do; it is no
but, let it BE enacted Artisans, labor
ers, mine owners. farmers and small
merchants are growing impatient, yea,
almost sick al heart in reading state
and national platforms and seeing INDUS
trial commissions appointed from year
to year to examine into the evils eX-
listing in the economical world
THE state has all the powers that it
has not granted to the union. II is
sovereign in the legislative halls, i'm
perial in the executive and omnipo-
tent in the judicial to protect the COM
mon man in the general welfare of the
people, and to right these evils and to
protect all from oppression or against
discrimination. The weakness of our
government has been that we have not
asserted these powers when oppression
became manifest The state officials as
representatives of the people have al
lowed their powers to remain dormant
until the rumblings of the masses and
the red flames of anarchy have almost
threatened our destruction in times of
financial distress. Victor Hugo says:
You can do everything with bayonet
except sit upon it..
IF others of our fellow citizens have
endured sun and rain and decimating
fevers and enervating malarias. have
suffered wounds and death under trop-
ical sun for love of country, for a
wn-trodden and foreign people, is
it asking too much of state officials to
stand firm, remain sacred to their
trust, lift up the ensign of true de-
mocracy, in order to establish justice,
insure domestic tranquility, provide for
the common defense, promote the gen.
eral welfare and secure the blessings of
liberty to ourselves and to our pos
terity.'"
President Mckinley sent regrets, as
did Hon. John S. Wise and several
others.