Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-10-16
TRUSTS ARE BLESSINGS.
so SAYS QUAYS GOVERNOR OVER
HIS OWN SIGNATURE.

A Racy Letter from "The Judge" on
Things Political Throughout the State.
Quay Won't Vote His Own Ticket-Re-
pubIicans Counterfeiting Tax Receipts.
Philadelphia, October 10, 1899.
There are two conspicuous land
marks on the Delaware river front that
command the eye of the traveler-one
being in Philadelphia and the other in
Camden. Massive, towering buildings,
they are, and yet with no sign of life
or activity about them. They are idle
sugar refineries. The Philadelphia one
is the old Havemeyer plant that in other
days gave employment to thousand
men and kept fleet of vessels busy
bringing from the West Indies raw
suger to it's wharf The Camden con-
Germ was never in operation single
day These are silent telltales of the
greed of the sugar trust that acquired
them only to shut them up that the
production of refined sugar could be
curtailed and the market manipulated.
Giving these fine properties over to
the bats has depIived thousands of
willing men of employment, has raised
the price of sugar to the consumer AMI
cheated the communities in which they
stand of millions of dollars worth of
business. And yet Quay's governor has
the audacity to declare over his own
signature that trusts are blessings and
are not political issue.
A BOSS MAKES POLITICS PAY.
Practical politics as a pursuit must
be profitable, after all, when exception
able advantages can be commanded.
Here is Colonel Quay for instance.
who has hapn repaiUino n ~
but $4,000 per year as a senator of the
United States, and who maintains
homes in Washington, in Beaver, in
Lancaster and in Florida, and rents
cottages at the seashore. He has Just
directed the secretary of the treasury
to transfer to his son, Major Quay,
late of the regular army and who was
educated at West Point at the public
expense, $780, 900 worth of United
States per cent bonds, while he has
added an adjoining farm to his Ian
caster plantation, paying $1S7 per acre.
Surely Colonel Quay has other sources
of revenue than the salary of United
States senator, and which has now
ceased.
QUAY & co. FAVOR TRUSTS.
Governor Stones unqualified en-
mony with the record of his party in
the legislature. For years it has OBJ
stinately refused to spread a law on
the statutes that could not be driven
through with delivery wagon, wipipe
out the "pluckme" store, the curse of
the mining and great industrial CEN
ters. For years the miners have been
praying the Republican party to pro-
tect them from being outrageously rob-
bed by the rapacious corporations that
employs them, in the sale of blasting
powder. AT the last session the retail
grocers of Philadelphia and Pittsburg
asked for law specially taxing the
grocer monopolist, a new harpie that
has come along and who runs as high
as so retail stores, and by cutthroat
prices and the marketing of inferior
goods drives the legitimate dealer
whom he squats alongside of out of
business. This bill was strangled, how
ever, in a senate committee, and no.
toriously SO, for cash, although no
measure in years had been so stoutly
demanded and so largely petitioned for
Yes, the Republican party as con-
Quoted by Quay & Go. has great
respect for trusts and no respect at
all for the common people who suffer
from them.
HOW NAPOLEON QUAY AND THE
REAL NAPOLEON DIFFER.
The admirers of Matthew Stanley
Quay love to compare him with Ma
poleon, and like Napoleon he has had
his Waterloo and his St. Helena. How
often do we hear Quay exploited by
writers and speakers as the Napoleon
of politics, although he has repeatedly
lost his state, which boasts of 350,0
Republican majority, while his Ma
poleonic genius failed when confront
ed with the task of re-electing himself
in the face of an organized opposition
to the senate of the United States. But
there is one material point wherein
Napoleon Quay differs with Napoleon
Bonaparte, and that is in the matter
of trusts. The commercial trust is not
a new thing under the sun. The East
India company and the Hudson Bay
company were the first trusts of which
the modern world has knowledge.
Their home was in England. Their
success excited the cupldity of the
worlds financiers. Napoleon when in
the hey-day of his civic power in
France, was compelled to give them
dttShIiOh ne Hdu lOullucu llS cat
silk mills of Lyons and had inaugu-
rated policy for the preservation OF
the forests. which were coveted, while
the government was pressed en- all
sides by private capitalists to sur
render franchises. Napoleon summon
ed the greatest lawyers of Europe to
Paris and submitted to them the ques-
ton whether trusts were blessing to
hn nnrla hat, IN q Cf1
distinguished conclave concluded that
trusts were both dangerous and unlaw-
full, whereupon Napoleon drove them
out Of France, which is one country in
Europe where they have never been
able to obtain foothold. John Rus
sell Young, the historian of General
Grants trip around the world, wrote
in the New York Herald of Quay vot
ing alone in the United States senate
to save the sugar trust. When by
that act of Quay this despicable trust