Mexico weekly ledger., 1899-06-01

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That the Republican party Is the
mother of the great hood q trustsnow
savping the vitsls Of this repuhlic Is a
matter Of common knowledge Until
the Republican party came into power
no sneh thing IS q trust was known in
America During IS yeirrs q nearly
unhEoken supremacy in the federal gov
eminent the Republican party has
ucpzg=;ed trusts t0Euehan extent that
they are plentiful ss berries in June
At last the people are beginning to
wake NJ 70 the fact that unless they
intend to permit themselves and their
children TO BE- reduced 70 the pitiable
| condition Of Russian sarfs or Mexican
poems they must exterminate the trusts.
and in order 10 sxtsrminate the trusts
they muEt go to the root Of the matter
and extsruinate the Republican party,
without which there would never have
been and would not now be any such
monstrozifies as trusts
1t has taken them n long time TO
wake Up TO these facts bat better late
than never.
The fact Of this great popular swak-
ening il beginning 10 percolate slowly
through the brains Of certain Republic
an Statesmen. Some Of them who can
read the signs Of the times are endesv-
oring to save themselves and their party
from irretrievabIe ruin By joining in
the erE sgzinst trustA
For instance. there is Hcl- Charles
B Lands Of Delphi. Ind, enc Of the
vsrY brightest anosg the new Repub-
hczn nembsrz he is a country editor.
smart as a whip possessing much ia
eility Of spsech and very little Of this
worlds goods Withal be is a genial.
compsnionzhle Republican. who, hav-
ing tasted the sweets Of congressional
life. would like some more. He repre-
sents a close rural district and eonse-
quently keeps his optics peeled watch
ing for danger signals and his ear close
to the ground to hear what's going on.
Consequently. with his environments,
Hon. Charles B. Landis Of Delphi is in
a good situation to know what's what.
he has discovered that the people are
determined TO destroy the trusts, and,
fearing that when they begin the great
skull cracking his own noggin mag be
battered In. be hies him to Washington
and sounds the alarm. Bat his is a
voice crying in the wilderness-the Re-
publican Wilderness veritzble Jungle
OK trusts.
Traaf Magnates Amaaed.
The Republican trust fed leaders
must have looked at Lands in amaze
ment as be preached a crusade against
trusts. II he doesn't look a little out,
they will swear out q writ de lunatico
inquirendo and clap him into a strait
waistcoat and a padded cell A Wash
ington press dispatch runs as follows:
Congressman IAndis q Indiana sees great
danger 10 the Republican party unless there
- an oEleiAi ~deHuneiatign Of the trusts from
the present administrator. Mr.. lands 10 IN
the city and Is urging upon representative
Of the adninistrntion the deeirabllify o. hAv-
ing some nufhoritative uttsrnnees made public
declaring the antagonism Of the administras
ton TO ~monopoliss. He had . talk today with
Secretary Gage and others. arguing xerJ
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some responsible medium, disavow any respon
sibility for or sympathy with ths trusts. H'
said that the people In the middle west wers
aroused, that small interests we're being sacri
hcsd and that IL the administration did not n
some way not TO be misunderstOod ayow ia
opposition TO trusts the question would be
come very prominent In the next campaign
and dangerous to the Republican party in thai
section of the country. Mr.. lands said thai
the trust question promises to make even 4
more exciting issue in Indiana than vas tn
money question in the last presidential cleo
ton
Now, Mr.. Lands is not q lawyer, bui
being a man Of intelligence he know
that matricide is a capital o~ffense, and
by advising this Republican admins
~tration to kill off the trusts be Is really
advising ii TO murder its own mother
a most unreasonable proposition-s
case Of what Nh. Mckinley would de,
nominate criminal aggression" Bui
upon a careful rereading Of the above
dispatch 1 find that l used the wronl
word in defining Mr.. Lands action
that is the word s'adyise." That's to-
mild to express his performance. III
urged" You bet, be urged" and
"there are others with environment
like those Of Lands who viii urge and
: urge the administration in vain TO maxi
r q war upon trusts
:, Gage, the PhfIanfhropsst.
And upon whom did Hon. Charles B.
lands urge this patriotic seryicei c
. my prophetic soul, upon Hon. Lyman
J. Gage, secretary Of the treasury The
wonderful statesman and astounding
b philanthropist who has discovered that
Christianity and 5 per cent are as insep-
arabic as the Siamese twinsi The only
. mistake that Lyman made was in not
raising II 10 10 per cent. I admire The
: gall Of Nh. lands in urging Lyman Il
announce a crusade against trusts; but
/ cannot-I write II regretfully-I can
not commend bis judgment II appear
10 me 10 partake too much Of tie nm
wise courage Of the bull which under
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