Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-08-25

well aware of :he faseness of his position, yet
lie has the effrontery to imply that the people
are fools lie says, speaking of the Standard
OIL Company: "We want competition in trade";
vet, he knows that the Stadard Oil trust does
not wan, competition, and that no competition
is allowed where this trust is allowed to do
business. GODDARD knows the tactics of the
Standard Oil Company as we'll as any one
knows that there is absolutely competition
in oil in Kansas--practically none in the Unit
ed States.
Speaking OF the wire manufacturers, GODDARD
SAYS "they were compelled to quit business be-
cause they could not form combinations with
other companies of that character" The fact
is, there was but one wire factory i'll Kansas
Git was located in Lawrence), and of course it
made 10 effort to form combination with other
companies of that character-in Kansas. There
was combination already formed, comprising
all the other wire manufacturers in the country.
The Lawrence factory joined this combination,
and, we may incidentally remark, the president
of the Lawrence company, Congressman Bow
ersock, was made vice-president of the wire
trust, and draws neat little salary of $4,000
year--and does nothing.
Mr. Godard's position is full of holes, all the
way through. He has shown himself weak,
vacilating tool His action has caused promi-
nent men in his own patty to condemn him.
Ex.Lieutenant Governor Troutman is especially
severe, and says he does not understand how
GODDARD came to make such foolish break.
Trou.man says, too, that any more such talk
means the defeat of the Republican party.
To man up tree, it looks like GODDARD has
received his plice from the Standard Oil trust
Speaking of the matter more fully, Trout
man says:
"The law prescribes the duty of the attorney
general 'to diligently prosecute any and all
persons violating any of the provisions of this
act A public officer has but one
duty, and that is to enforce the law and let the
consequences take care of themselves.
"Every trust a d combination doing business
in this state can be driven out if the remedy
afforded by law is properly applied. This may
occasion some Inconvenience, but it has been
decreed that the trusts must go, and our state
administration should aid in accomplishing this
result.
"The governor, in public addresses, at BAN
quets and elsewhere, and in his newspaper IN
terviews, has grown eloquent and fervid in the
denunciation of trusts and combines, but exec
utive fulminations are mere burlesque unless
followed by decisive action. The peole OF this
state will not endorse the administration i'll
do-nothing policy respecting this question.
If the administration expects the ap-
proval of the people, let these officers drive
these trusts beyond the limit of the state, as 1t
can be done under existing statutes If this is
n)t done, or an honest effort made III that d-
rection, the abandoned wire factory at Law
renee, the desolate cracker factory building at
Topeka, the vacant linseed oil plant, and sm-
lar institutions, will appear in the next cam
paien as a spectre to emharrass and defeat the
Republican party of this state"
But, Mr.. TIoutnan may not be as long,
headed as Mr.. GODDARD. You see, Mr.. GODDARD
remembers the fate of Mr. Monet, of Ohio.