The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1899-10-27

(, OR THE REPUBLIC WILL HAVE
LOST ITS MEANING AND ITS MIS-
SION. NO MEN SHOULD BE PUT IN
| OFFICE WHO ARE IN SYMPATHY
WITH TRUSTS OR TRUSTMAKERS.
THE PEOPLE CAN EASILY IDENTI-
Fly THESE MEN, AND IF THE VOT-
ERS ARE PROPERLY AROUSED
THERE WILL BE NO DOUBT OF
WHAT THEY WILL DO"
THE NEXT CAMPAIGN.
DO you believe that the question Of
the trusts will be the foremost Of the
next national campaign"
II don't know" and he hesitated.
II believe that the Democrats would
have made IL the issue and the Republi-
cans would have had to meet 1t. Now
the trust press and the trust mission
aries have so far done their work that
the question of trusts may be made
secondary to that far less important
matter of expansion.
"It looks to me- he continued, "as
though the Republican party managers,
having good political sense, will push
the expansion question to the front and
let the trusts take second place. That
Is good politics II the party Is dominated
| by men who are in sympathy with
the trusts. l believe that the national
temper Is such that the administration
will be indorsed on its foreign policy,
whether you call 1t imperialism or ex-
pansion, If that policy is made the issue.
And it looks as though 1t were to be
made the issue. The Democrats will
have to meet the issue IL 1t Is made that
way, and the whole country will be
with the administration on broad and
no i,,xYn
1t will simply be a matter of stirring up
patriotic feeling, and If they can keep
the eyes of the people on the Philip
pines and off the trusts so much the
better for party that is led, or domin-
ated in any measure, by trust advocates.
But those Republicans who have the
real welfare of the country at heart
will not suffer the odium Of trusts and
trust building to be thrust upon their
party. The need of the Endorsement
of foreign policy is, in my estimation,
unfortunate If it Is to have the effect
of delaying fight to finish on trusts.
The Republican national convention
of next year should deal with that
question and deal with it conclusively.
IT do not believe that party profess
sing to represent the people could do
anything but protest against the domin-
lation of trusts and the sooner the ques-
Ition is settled in convention the bet
tier.
WILL THEY NOT?
But suppose the Democrats take the
initiative in convention. Will not the
Republican party then be forced to
take a position on the trust question:"
Yes, If the Democrats should do that
but they won't. They will protest
lagainst Imperialism. They may have
something to say about trusts, but they
Twill not put the question as far for
ward as to make it the real issue"
But will not the trust people see
that the question is being dodged?"
II don't know. You see these trust
conventions are doing a great deal of
missionary work for trusts in the way
Iof putting them before the public in
the best possible light.
"IT MAY BE THAT THE FALLA-
ICIES THAT ARE BEING PREACHED
BY SOME OF THE PARTY LEADERS
ITO THE EFFECT THAT LABOR
WILL PROSPER BY REASON OF
THE FORMATION OF TRUSTS WILL
HAVE THE EFFECT OF BLINDING
THE PUBLIC TO THE DANGER
THAT MENACES THE UNITED
ESTATES THROUGH THESE VAST
ACCOMMODATIONS OF ACTUAL AND
FICTITIOUS CAPITAL.
"The men who gre engineering the
trusts are sharp beyond the average.
lThey are generally men who rose from
Ismall beginnings, and who know what
competition mean to them. They do
mot propose that the fortunes that they
have accumulated shall be jeopardized
by further competition and they are not
lgoing to give others the /chance they
had themselves. They are ready and
willing to spend plenty of money to
protect the interests they have built
up, and 1T may be that the question
lof the menace of the trust will be beg
ged by party leaders. But 1t will not
be with my consent, and 1 shall endeav-
lor to have congress pass antitrust
laws and appeal such portions of the
tariff as give protection to trusts But
the fight should be taken up now in
levery state and all other state issues
should be made subservient to this one
of the trusts and how they shall be
disposed Of"