The record-union., 1899-09-23
While Some of Them Are as Bad as
They Are Represented,
The Great Majority A,s Legitimate and
Beneficial to the Country.
United States Senator Foraker
at the Emancipation Celebra-
ton at Hamilton, Ohio.

HAMILTON (O.), Sept. 22.-Senator
j. B. Foraker to-day delivered an ad-
dress here at the Emancipation cele-
bration on the Butler County fail
grounds. The features of his address
were his declarations for expansion and
his arguments on trusts. He said III
part:
I'VE hear that the tariff is the
mother of trusts, and that they are
the cause of all sorts of evils We dc
have trusts, and some of them as bad
as they are represented, but they are
not the product of the tariff, and il
they were the tariff, with it's attend
ant prosperity and trusts, is better than
free trade and idleness, ruin, want
hunger, souphouses 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 also have more trusts in thai
country than in any other. They had
their origin there, and there they have
| had their most complete development
But we should distinguish. Not al
combinations of capital and business
are trusts; not all of them have illegiti-
mate purposes and not all are attended
with disadvantageous consequences. On
| the contrary, the great majority oil
| business combinations are legitimate
and beneficial
These consultations mean loss oi
| position and loss of employment to sci
classes and some individuals. So die
the introduction of the sewing machine
and other labor-saving devices that
| have been invented: but the fact re-
mains that but for these consultations
| thousands would lose occupations who
are now employed in producing the
surplus manufactures for which we find
markets outside our own country. Blu!
for the advantages we acquire by these
consultations of capital in industry We
| could not be supplying, as we are to-
| day, locomotives to the railroads OF
England or building bridges in the
Soudan for the British army, in sue
cessful competition with the bridge
builders of Great Britain. We could
not be sending our myriads of products
to South Africa, China, Japan and Aus
tralia.
Five or six hundred millions of peo-
pie in China are just now being intro
duced to our civilization. In the near
future they will make heavy demands
on the rest of the world Russia,
France, Germany and England are
striving for their share of this trade,
and we owe it to the shops and farm
ers of this country to secure our fair
share also. To neglect our opportuni-
tiec would he StIlraid fOlly
considerations of this character
must not be overlooked when we con-
slider the acquisition of the Philippines.
The wisdom of that acquisition will be
in due time demonstrated just, as In
every other case of annexation of ter
ritory 1t is true these islands are
far distant from us, but they are near
by the great markets we must enter.
1t is true that we paid Spain S2O,OOO,-
| 600 on account of them. when we
might have taken them by force, but
that was only to reimburse her for
money actually expended for the i'm
| provemant of harborS and construc-
ton of public buildings and other i'm
provements, which it would have been
ungenerous, to say the least, for us to
helpless humiliation.
'It is true that these islands are III
habited by heterogeneous population,
speaking many different languages and
possessing varying degrees of capacity
and possibility for civilized govern
ment, and that all, good and bad. are,
according to the terms of the treaty, to
pass under our jurisdictions; but it is
not true that by their mere annexa-
ton they are to become citizens o.
the United States participating in our
government and competing with our
labor. On the contrary, it is expressly
provided in the treaty that the civil
and political status of the inhabitants
shall be determined by Congress, and
this provision of the treaty is as much
the supreme law of the United States
as though it were set forth in the Con-
stitution itself. for by the Constitution
it is expressly provided that, not the
Constitution alone shall be the supreme
law of the land, but that the Constitu
ton and the law enacted in pursuance
of the Constitution and sall treaties
made. or to be made, not under the
Constitution, but under the authority
of the United States, shall be the SUI
preme law of the land.
''An unhappy war is now in progress.
It 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
establishment in due time Of such civil
government as Congress may provide.
When Congress convenes all. can be
heard and / 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 one is the American
side. Where our flag and our soldiers
are there must stand the whole Amer
lean people
when the end of the strife comes.
if not sooner, it will be made manifest
that our purposes are altogether benef-
cent. We do not propose to oppress any
body or deprive ANYBODY of self-gov-
ernment who is capable of it. On the