The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-09-23
Strongly Endorses Imperialism and
Defends the Trusts.
SUPPORTS THE PRESIDENT
ADDRESS AT EMANCIPATION
CELEBRATION IN OHIO.
Says That Trusts and Tariff Are
Preferable to Free Trade With
Idleness, Ruin, Want, Hunger,
Etc.-Natural Result Of Natural
Conditions-Speaks of the War.

Hamilton, O., Sept 22.-Senator J. b
Foraker today delivered an ADDRESS
here at the emancipation celebration on
the Butler county fair grounds. The
features of his address were his deciar-
atoms for expansion and his argument
on trusts. He said, in part:
I'VE hear it said that the tariff is the
mother of trusts and that they are the
cause of all sorts of evils. We do nave
trusts, and some of them as bad as they
are reported, but they are not the pro-
duct of the tariff, and If they were. the
tariff, with its attendant prosperity
and trusts, is better than free trade and
idleneSS, ruin, want, munger, soup
houses and rags.
THAT the tariff is not responsible for
trusts is shown by the fact that while
they have free trade in England, yet
they have more trusts in that country
than in any other They had thelI
origin there and there they have had
their most complete development.
Not ALI Combines Are Trusts.
But we should distinguish. Not all
combinations of capital and business
are trusts: not all of them have ille-
Ultimate purposes and not all are at
tended with disadvantageous conse-
Quences. On the contrary, the great
majority of business combinations are
legitimate and beneficial. But whether
they are of one kind or another, they
are not partisan in character.
Trusts are not a Republican inStitu-
ton, enjoyed by Republicans alone, nor
a Democratic institution enjoyed by
Democrats alone, but they are COM
posed of Democrats and Republicans
alike; men of both parties are engaged
in them and interested in their promo
ton and their protection under the law.
They are simply feature of our mod
ern conditions, with respect to (which
party lines cannot be drawn.
These trusts, while restricting conn
petition, are yet the result of that same
competition, and the natural result OF
natural conditions. They first started
in England because we were pressing
the manufacturers of that country with
our competition in the markets of the
world to such an extent that they were
compelled to economic in every way
possible to hold their own against us
in the marts of trade. The same cause
that led to the formation of trusts in
England afterward led to them in Am
erica.
Cause Loss of Employment.
These consultations mean loss of
position and loss of employment to set
classes and some individuals. So did
the Introduction of the sewing machine
and other labor saving devices that
have been invented but the fact re-
mains that but for these consolida-
tionS thousands would lose occupa-
tions who are now employed in the
producing of the surplus manufactures
for. which we find markets outside of
our own country.
But for the advantages we acquire
by these consultations of capital and
industry we could not be supplying, as
We are today, locomotives to the rail-
roads of England or building bridges
in the Soudan for the British army, in
successful competition with the bridge
builders of Great Britain. We could
not be sending our myriads OF products
to South Africa, China, Japan an6
Australia.
I'VE have come to the place where we
must sell abroad or restrict produc-
ton. To sell abroadswe must compete
to compete we must economize, and to
economize we must lower wages OF
combine. Lower wages we do not want
and will not have. and therefore we ac-
cept the alternative and combine.
Endorses the President.
IAN unhappy war is now in prog
ress. 1t is costing us many lives and
many millions but President Mckinley
has announced that he has no purpose
in prosecuting it except only to restore
order and prepare the way for the es-
adjustment in due time of such civil
givernment as the congress may pro-
vide. When congress convenes all can
be heard, and l have no doubt but
that wise and just results will be
reached. In the meantime so long as
the war continues there can be but two
sides to it, and only ono is the Ameri-
can side. Where our flag and our SOL
diers are, there must stand the whole
American people.
When the end of the strife comes
if not sooner, it will be made manifest
that our purposes are altogether benefi-
Gent. We do not want to Cypress any
body or deprive anybody of self-gov-
eminent who is capable of it. On the
contrary, to the fullest extent consist
ent. with the maintenance of law and
order and the discharge of our inter-
national obligations, and as rapidly as
possible, the Tagalees and Vicolls. the
Visayas, the Moros, the Negrites and
all the peoples and tribes of that arch
ipelago win be advanced in the enjoy
raent of freedom. liberty, independence
and self government under the protec-
ton of the American flag"