Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1899-06-13
OUR CANDIDATE IN 1900
Democrats at ST. Louis.

cratic national committeeman, there
was an ANTITRUST meeting and dinner
by the democratic state committee
and an overflow meeting at both OF
which many grand, eloquent and
strong speeches were made all breath
ing the same spirit. AT this meeting
twenty three states were represented,
Col. Bryan was present and made a
brief speech. Champ Clark in his
speech outlined the democratic plat
form for 1900 which we gave in the
PLAIN DEALER, June 6, and now we
give the speech of Congressman David
DeArmond, of Missouri, who selected
for his subject,
THE TRUST AND ITS PARENTS.
Speaking thereon as follows:
The incubator may or may not have
ended the dispute as to whe ther the
hen that lays the egg or the hen that
matches it is the mother of the chick
en-, but when one and the same hen
both lays and matches the eggs, the
chickens maternity cannot be in
doubt.
The republican party, in its legisla-
ton, laid the trust eggs, and in two
years of McKinley's administration
more trusts have been Matched that
in all the years and centuries and ages
before March 4, 1897.
Avarice is as old as original sin, but
it is in these latter days that it has
manifested itself with a brazenness
that startles and power that appals.
Often has greed wrought manifold
woes, but it was left for the closing
days of the Nineteenth century to
witness the colossal outrages against
liberty and popular rights which
crown its infamy. Mountain is piled
upon mountain, leviathan is harnessed
with leviathan, and men quake and
fortunes crumble-hopes vanish as
the trust monster advances.
Whatever its form or field, at the
core the trust is monopoly. A mo-
nopoly, whether great or small, is a
tyranny, and tyranny always and
everywhere seeks to promote the
interests of the few at the expense OF
the many. And the interests of the
few are promoted at the expense OF
the many whenever the opportunities
of the many are restricted and the
power of the few over them is en-.
larged.
A potent agency in bringing the re,
suit which is summed up in one word
The high tariff called protection, but
which is prohibitive rather than pro
tective, shuts the worlds door!
against the American consumer enc
leaves him to the tender mercies O.
the tariff baronS of our own land
Then, from monopoly, bounded by the
lines of the republic, the way is plair
to monopoly bounded by the lines o.
this or that trust. 1t is, first bolt anC
bar the outer doors of the great
mansion, and then bolt and bar, one
by one, the doors of its several apart
ments, great and small. With com
petition from abroad shut out by law
how naturally is competition from
within strangled by combinations O
sufficient strength to accomplish thu
desired result. Such combinations arr
called trusts, and they are republican
born, republican bred.
If the Standard Oil company, /;
Titan among monopolies, cannot b.
tracked directly from the republican
factory, it surely has enough birth
marks to disclose that it is of kin t.
the G.. O. P. BY its monopoly, il
large part. of natures supply of pc
troleum, that company has been able
to do what the republican party b
its tariff laws has enabled many of b {
trusts to do with things the supply
which cannot be controlled, excer
through restrictive, repressive laws.
The republican party is fast cover
ing the government itself into hug
trust, to cooperate with the Jesse
trusts for which it is responsible. |
is steadily exalting the corporatio
and depressing the individual.
fayors turning over to the corp,or
lions more completely the ma Kir
and control of the currency of II
country. 1t is eager to destro- y +,
greenback and authorize the + ankle
to substitute their currency 70 IT,
is the chief prop of the gold IL ,onono,
1t is the lion in the path ov er viii,
silver must pass to the mint.
counseled with the banker 70 do +
bidding, but has no ear fo r the farm
or the laboring man.
Even now this republ lean party
trying to fashion Cub a, Porto Ri
and the Philippines into trust
Indeed, Imperialism IS but the tru
with its longer tents ,cles in play.
Inc alllahce, on ensive and defe
slSe' winch 1he II ,publicanS long
form WIN Gfeat } Britain would be ii
greaoest tfust OF them all. Then III
happy Ireland &C ,uld bleed hopeless,
at every pore; Cubans or Filipino
coulu pledu OF lght in vain for fire.
dom TO govern themselves. The wa
OF the Cypress ed COULD echo mour