Mexico weekly ledger., 1899-06-01

The I'm nsaas IS % each package. s
Dr.Wanians Medisine Co. SSheasetaey
took to butt q steam engine of the rail
road track The engine wasn't injured
to any sppreeisbls degree, but the bull,
OH where was hel Lyman owes all be
has in this world 10 the worst q al
trusts-the money trust-frcm whom
all blessings flow. according 10 Ly-
mans philosophy. A careful reading Of
the foregoing dispatch win show that
the substance d what Mr.. lands said
is set forth clearly and with sufficient
fuIlness. but b. a strange omission no
intimation Is given Of what Lyman said
in reply-which Is By far the more i'm
portsnt
Without Lyman's answer to the urg-
ing Of Mr.. LAndis the dispatch resem-
bles in q marked degree the inlay Of
Hamlet with the Prince Of Denmark
left out-or MeKinley's administration
with Marcus A Hanna missing. But
imagination may be able to supply Ly-
mans reply. Perhaps and most likely
be said: $50 TO, young mani You do
not know what yon are talking about.
Would you kill the Republican trust
goose that lays the golden eggf Would
you be 90 foolish as to feed crab apples
70 the Republican milk cow and there
by dry up the sources Of our supply Of
lacteal hhidl Would you be so rash as
to mthlessly cut of all recruitments Of
cash from Marks camp chest in the
days that are TO GOMEZ Would you be
50 heartless, o Hoosier statesman, as to
take away the means Of re-electing
President Mckinley, thereby depriving
me of this fat job, to secure which | rat
ted from the Democrats in 1S96S You
are asking entirely too much, young
man-eDtirely too much. Don't you
know. o Delphi oracle, that our new
attorney general, Ex-Governor Griggs
Of New Jersey, has lately rendered a
decision 70 the effect that trusts are 10.
cal institutions, that the federal gov.
eminent has no control over them and
that they must be regulated or squelch'
ed by the state governments II they arr
ever regulated or squelched at ALT You
preposterous proposition that this Re
publican administration should, might
could or would inaugurate a crusade
against trusts smaeks of sacrilege, sir
Of sacrilege This and much more 0
the same sort perhaps Lyman poures
into the ear Of Congressman Lands.
PaIpabie Truth.
/ have no doubt that Lands was il
earnest He knows full well-none bet
ter-that the trusts are absolutely ruin
GUS 10 rural constituencies sucn as his
and in urging the administration (,
turn the Republican party from tn
error Of its ways he was trying TO saw
himself and was acting under the IRE
sistible impulse Of self preservation
the very same impulse under which hi
district and the whole state Of indiana
viii swing back into the ranks of De
mOcracy, the great antitrust party
Mr.. Lands stated a palpable trutl
ghen be said that the people in tn
middle west were aroused, that small in
terests were being sacrificed and that !
the administration did not in som
way, not TO be misunderstood. avow it
opposition to trusts the question woul'
become very prominent in the mex
campaign and dangerous to the Repub
lican party in that section Of the coun
try. he might have gone further ans
said with perfect truth that ii would b
dangerous to the Republican party no
only in ''the middle west" but ''fron
the center all round to the sea-" Blu
while Mr.. Lands has made a correc
diagnosis Of the disease he has made
monumental mistake in calling in ply
sicians to supply the remedy. Going 4
Lyman ]. Gage et i'd genus omne fo
aid in crushing the trusts is like the ok
and condemned performance Of going t
a goats house for wool For this Re
publican administration to issue a man
ifssto against trusts would be a repeti
tion Of the prepostefous and impuden'
caper Of the devil rebuking Sin. II Mr.
Lands wants trusts killed, there is bui
one thing for him 10 do-cut loose from
the mother Of trusts. the Republican
party, and Join the Democratic party
where his efforts win avail somewhat.
modern P~rOEress."
While l have no plenary power t,
forgive Republicans their sins, / thinl
/ a safely promise him a rousing re
ception among Democrats. such mer
as he mounting about trusts have nc
lot or part with Republicanism. !. I:
fairly and truly represented by sucf
men as Governor Voorhees, Of New Jer
sey, who openly defends trusts, as Ii
shown by the following interview
which is herein reproduced verbatim et
hteratim from the Washington Post
Governor VOORHEES, laughed good naturedij
when asked what he thought Of tho roast q
New Jersey By Hon. HAzsn S. Pingree O
Michigan because Of the liberia treatment o
corporations by TINT commonwealth.
Il ought not, prohabiy, 10 c~siticise q brothel
executive, " he responded; 'but, as Governo,
Pingree has pitched into Jersey. I may lie par
doned for saying that this clamor e largely
demaEogical. Il IL true that cur state has actet
literally in the treatment accorded corpora
tons. but the highest English legal authority
has commended cur law, and three sister stateI
have passed an identical statute. But Yet It b,
distinctly understood that no charters fol
fake or fraudulent concerns are granted viii
rs. Our law Ia stringent On this point, and
only bona Ode corporations can get reeogni
ton The license fees are high, and from THU
source alone cur state treasury will get IN III
~neighborhood q 81 ,0a.0o this year.
.Ths commissions Of capital which lately
ATTRACTED 20 much puhiie notice are hardly :.
b. considered a. trusts IN ths obnoxious aens,
q that term. The cd style trust which wa
in reality = monopoly. sought 10 enhance tn
price Of the comnodity - handled In thiI
selfish purpose ~ failed oftsnsr than IL sue
eesded. as witness ths fate Of the coTdags
trust, the pottery trust and scores Of others
In the concentration u interests now so
Ing On the ehiff yurpose seems 10 10 10 brins
about economy in production. and 10 eanndi
he eontended that even Hush gigantic combine.
tons - the Standard OIL and sugar trust.
have caused the public 70 pay higher prices
for their eommoditiea The low prizes Il
which al and sugar sell are pretty good evi'
denoea that the pebble dos not suffer. In tbs
modern evolution q business he individual
Il q but little ~ronssqueDcs. and associated
capital actinE On = large seals nov does what
was formerly left 70 man In thalr single eapar.
~. In thts changed order q thing = few viii
set hurt but Il IL sn issFiiahis Tssuit of mod
ern rroFroa"
AFsw win Get Hurt.
Let Mr.. lands read that utlerancs
Of Jerseys goverua, coupled with the
opinion q Attorney General GriRRA
and then. 10 borrow a phrase from
Charlie Hartmann II Montana. fuse