The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-05-30
I" DOWN WITH TRUSTS"
INCLUDING THE GOLD AND NATIONAL
BANK AND ALL OTHER TRUSTS,
That Says National Committeeman Daniels,
VIII be the ShibboIeth of Democratic
Victory in 1900.

| National Democratic Executive commit
| tee from North Carolina, returned yes
terday from St Louis, where he attended
Il conference Of the National committee
| Asked the trend of opinion among the
committeeman and others as to the lead
ing issues of 1900 Mr.. Daniels said:
Down with the trusts will be the
| slogan Of Democracy in 1900. There
will be other issues, but this and anti
miitarism will be the leading issues.
The trusts, big and little, have been
sapping the individual prosperity of the
people, and the sentiment is overwhclm-
ing against permitting them longer to
monopolize all, or nearly all, the pros
perity which the brain and muscle of the
American people produce. In 1896, six
and Il half millions people, feeling the
evil results of the gold trust and the
national bank trust, sought to end
them by putting Bryan in the White
House. They failed because thousands
of men, who are now in full accord
with the Democratic party. did not then
perceive that if the gold and bank trust
were fully installed in control of gov
ganize trusts in almost every line of
business to the enrichment of the trust
manipulators and robbery of the masses
The fact that more industrial trusts
have been organized since McKinIey's
election than in all the previous years in
the history of the world, has served to
open the eyes of tens of thousands of
men who voted for Mckinley in 1896. If
they all do not accept it as a fact that
the money trust is the most gigantic Of
trusts, they do see that the industrial
trusts are destroying competition, driv
ing men out of positions, and putting an
end to the proper ambition of young
men to become their own employers.
THE national committe did not make
any declaration upon public questions but
devoted its time chiefly to considering
the best plans for bringing the issues
clearly before all the people. 1t will
meet again at Chicago on the twentieth
of July for the purpose of formulating
plans for further pressing the great trust
evil and militarism upon the attention
of the voters. 1t is believed that the
people will turn away from the Repub-
lican party if they are made acquainted
with the true situation. The Demo
cratic party feels the need in the Central
West of a great newspaper at Chicago
to preach its principles daily. There
are several Republican and independent
papers in Chicago, but there is no pa
per in that city of wide circulation that
supported the Democratic ticket in 1896.
The need of such paper must be APP
parent 1t is true that elder Carter
IIop Al
when every paper in the city was fight
ing him actively and that the great city
papers have not near the influence i'll
politics they formerly eXerted. The time
was that the Tribune moved Chicago.
That time has passed, even before the
passing of Medil.
THE PLATFORM OF 1900.
''1'he sentiment among the Democrats
met was that the next National Dom
ocratic Convention will reaffirm the Chi
cago platform without crossing Il IT or
dotting an 81" 1t will also show the
methods of the trusts by which men are
driven out of employment and the profits
of labor monopolized by these OUTLAWS
of commerce. and it will promise such
legislation and such honest and aggres-
siyc enforcement of the law as will stop
the trusts or put the trust manipulators
in the penitentiary. 1t will also CON
denim the policy of criminal aggression"
which the administration is pursuing in
the Philippine islands. and it may, as a.
lit denuncation of the policy, put Wash
ington's Farewell Address and Declara-
ton of Independence in the platform.
If | am not mistaken, it was the Re
publican national convention of 1856 that
put the Declaration of Independence
i'll its platform The fact that the Re
publican party in 1899 is subverting the
doctrine of the Declaration of Independ-
ence and running rough shod over the
declaration that "All governments de-
rive their just powers from the consent
of the goyerned'-that fact tells the
story of the decadence of that party
more fittingly than any words can do.
MILITARISM UNPOPULAR.
1.-THE Germans almost solidly voted for
Mckinley in 1896. 19iey are generally
in favor of gold. Bur you will not find
a German paper in America that sup
ports the Republican policy of imperial
ism. Most of them attack it with great
ylgor, and do not hesitate to declare that
they cannot support any party that
seeks to introduce into this country the
that curses Fatherland. The
resentment against Imperialism and
is deep-seated and based upon
profound convictions. Very many of the
best citizens in America left their Erl-
ropean homes because the militarism en-
forced denied them a chance of provid !
ing homes for themselves, and fair
chance in the race of life. Enforced |
military service is the curse of Europe |
The Germans and men of other nation |
alities who have settled among us know |
its burdens and eXactions. One of the !
objects of coming to America was to
escape the draft and to have their chill |
dren rid of the long military service !
big standing army requires. These vot /
ers know that Il policy of colonial ac !
QUESTION. no matter by what name called, !
leads inevitably to the same military
spirit in America from which they eS- !
capped when they left Europe. To them
militarism is horror, night mare, an
oppression. They know what it means /
They know that the bill that passed |!