Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1899-06-01
CHAMP QARK'S LETTER
Crusade Against Trusts
Alarms Republicans.
MAKING A SHALLOW BLUFF.
McKinIey's Organ Howls, "They
Must Be Destroyed"
NEXT YEAR WILL COME A CHANGE.

NEXT YEAR WILL COME A CHANGE.
When Mr.. Hanna Begins TO PeddIe
ONT the Results of His Fat Frying,
Trusts Won't Be Mentioned-Chan-
dIer's SLY Thrust at Depew-signif-
cant Statement by the New Hamp-
shire Senator - How Trusts "Re-
duee" Prices.
Especial Washington Letter.I
In the spring fuller crimson comes upon
the robins breast;
In the spring the Wanton lapWing gets
himself another crest;
In the spring livelier iris changes on the
FURNISHED dove:
In the spring a young mans fancy lightly
turns to thoughts of love.
-'tLocksley Hail. Tennyson.
If the last of the great English poets
were still alive and if he took any in
terest in American politics he could
6ttingly add TO the foregoing lines this
tatement In the spring Republican
atesnen and editors begin to be un-
asy ON account of the popular uprising
against the trusts. .
Last week cited the trip of Con
gresham Lands of Indiana to Wash
ington and an editorial in the Chicago
Evening Post as evidences that Repub-
licans in the middle west are disturbed
about the crusade against trusts
The Cleveland Leader, by a great
many persons regarded as President Nc
Kinley's home organ, gives this hair
raising shrek:
t'All trusts are created in order that
the people may be robbed in one way or
another. The only course open to the
several states and to the United States
is to destroy the trusts. The Republican
party leads in reforms. The Republican
party should make immediate and re-
lentless war upon trusts. The Repub-
lican platform in Ohio this year should
be built upon this idea The Republic
an congress which will meet next De-
cember should take up the trust ques-
tion at once Mr. Mckinley should be
renominated and reelected on the dec
laration that all trusts are dangerous
dishonest and must be destroyed The
fight should Ee hard and fierce Down
with the trustsl''
'Leads In Reform"
Commenting upon this. the Washing
ton Post, independent, says
'.The Post is not an organ. nor is it
gifted with prophetic lore, but it incurs
no risk in predicting that the Republic
an platform viii not make sthe declara-
tion that all trusts are dangerous, dis
honest and must be destroyed To do
that would be to make as conspicuous
display of demagogical folly as could be
given by a national mass convention Of
cranks brought together under the Sc
ductive influence of free passes and free
board. If the Republican platform in
Ohio this year should be built en- that
idea, its fate will be even more pathet-
ic than was that of the notorious strad-
die of 1896. :
have no sort Of doubt that The
Post is entirely correct when it predicts
''that the Republican platform viii not
make the declaration that all trusts
are dangerous, dishonest and must be
destroyed. !" Of course it won't. The
Post, not being a Republican organ, is
not under the dire and constant neces-
sity of lying Republican organs in
weigh against the trusts now because
they are scared into ii. But when the
campaign opens they will quietly pock-
ct Marks slush squeezed out of the
trusts and find other themes to write
about.
In my judgment the discovery of The
Leader that ''the Republican party
leads in reforms entities it 10 rank as
the first of American newspapers. Il
ought in justice to itself have that idea
patented 1t also owes it to long suf-
fering public to inform us just how the
Fifty fifth congress demonstrated that
1.-The Republican party leads in reform. =
If appropriating nearly 81, 500, 600, GOO
is reform. the less they have of il the
better people will be satisfied with it.
1t need not try to wriggle out of it
by harping on the expenses incnrred by
reason of the Spanish war, for, after
these are deducted. the Fifty fifth COR
gress exceeded the appropriations of any
other-even the Fifty first by several
millions of dollars. Leads in reforms =
Tell that to the marinesl
Truth Dawns Late.
But. if it be true-and it is true--as
The Leader asserts, ''all trusts are ere
ated in order that the people may be
robbed in one way or another, how
does it happen that that great truth
never dawned on The Leader until
Democrats il general and Bryan in par
ticular, began hammering the trusts
good and hard
s'The Republican party should make
immediate and relentless war upon
trusts, says The Leader. OF course it
should. But will it do sog Aye, there's
the rub. The Republican majority in
the senate should unseat Mark Hanna
for purchasing his toga and his curuie
chair. But viii it perform that merito-
rious and patriotic actg Not on your
life. No; it is 'sot in its ways, and it
win 60 ON to the end stealing and buy
ing senatorships, pampering the trusts
and then frying the fat ont Of them for
election purposes.
There are other cases sporadic
cases, as doctors would denominate
them of antitrust statesmen in the
Reunhlican Darty For example. there
Is Hon. William E. Chandler. senator
from New Hampshire. in whose palpi
tating breast the hope of being presi-
dent himself springs eternal and who
is forever looking about for some new
planks, peculiarly his own, which he
can force into the Republican platform,
and thereby force himself into the
White House. As an indicator of which
way the breeze is setting in, Chandler
is not to be sneezed at, Not very long
ago be urged the Republican party to
renounce goldbuggery and re-embrace
bimetallism in order to be saved In
that instance his words of wisdom fell
on what Joseph ". Bailey aptly de-
scribes as s.the leaden ears OF Repub-
licans. But presidential candidate is
never discouraged of cast down, so
Senator Chandler more recently deliver
ed himself Of strong antitrust inter
view. The fact that he will be com
PEELED shortly 10 eat his own words OF
to leave the Republican party does not
prevent his talking.