Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1899-07-20
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trusts are never squelched till Repub-
Iicans do it, they viii still be robbing
people when Gabriel blows his
trumpet Everybody with two ideas
above a mud turtle knows this. and
that knowledge is precisely what will
smash the Republican party to smith
Greens in 1900.
Hanua as Trust Killer.
Democrats are vociferous on the
subject of trusts are they? It's a
Gods blessing that somebody is vocif-
eroHs on that subject; but I would like
to have The CD. answer one ques-
tion, honor bright. and that's this: If
the Republicans are such great trust
killers. how does it happen that they
permitted trusts in America to multi
ply like rabbits in Australia or frogs in
Egypt and witnessed that frightful
Llritiplieation with that silence which
is said to be golden? Why didn't
some of these palpitating antitrusters
lift up their mellihuous voices against
the trusts before Bryan and other
Democrats inaugurated their crusade?
It would be great relief to a long
suffering world to have direct and
categorical answers to these simple
questions. In It's assumed role of
trust destroyers Republicans are, amid
the jeers of men, re-enacting the futile
performance of the thief who Justify
yells Stop thief.' in order to dis
tract attention from himself
When child | was wont to look
upon the picture of st. George killing
the dragon with admiration and
amazement. That picture wasn't a
marker to the one of Mark Hanna.
mounted upon the broken legged,
stump tailed elephant known as the
Republican party engaged in killing
the new trust dragon. The trouble is
that Marks spear has no point; his
rapier has a button on it, his car
tridges are blank, his blows are love
taps. The whole performance is a
fake pure and simple a roaring farce
"a sort of deathbed repentance
good enough Morgan for the election .
People in NOah's time wouldn't be-
lieve in the coming Of the food and
went down. Republicans do not be-
heve il the antitrust flood that is rig
ing everywhere. and they viii 90 the
same way as did Noah's increduIous
contemporaries.
The wisest Republican that ever
lived said, You can fool part Of the
people all the time and ali the people
part of the time but you can't fool all
the people all the time Mark Hanna
aud The eGlobe-Democrat would do well
-excellently well-to take those words
of Abraham Lincoln seriously to heart
and flee from the wrath to come-the
all consuming wrath of long suffer-
ing and outraged people.
That eminent goldbug pictorial pa
per. Puck is IA her inclined to join is
sue with Mr.. Havemeyer on the prop
osition that ''the tariff is the mother
of trusts" thinks it is only cold
hearted -stepmother'' and winds up
by declaring that the trust movement
is evolution. / never was much Of
an evolutionist and have always pre-
ferred Moses to Darwin. but If the
trust is sample OF what evolution
can do am less an evolutionist than
ever-much less But II is passing
strange how Puck, a free trade jour
nal, with its evolution idea, dovetails
in with Governor Voorhees, of New
Jersey, who recently declared that the
trust is all o. X. and that while some
persons win get hurt it is zone of the
inevitable results of modern progress. =
But evolution or no evolution. the
trusts must go: 90 at once, without
standing on the order of their going.