The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-07-05

battle of 1900 Although you may not
be in thorough accord with the princi-
pies of faith therein enumerated, those
principles are so far better and so much
prefera Bile to those Of the Republican
party, that believe the people will raj
~ around our standard and carry it to
triumphant victory.
THE TRUSTS.
but there is one ISSUE said Mr..
Caruth, which has become more per-
manent in the years that have gone
since 1885, than it was when the great
popular convention assembled at Chi
cagO and constructed the Democratic
platform, and upon that subject we
must speak with no uncertain voice in
1900. The evil of which we complain is
the natural offspring of the miscalled
American policy of the Republican
party. The evil is upon us. because, as
a nation we have been false to the prin-
ciples of equality proclaimed in the
Declaration of Independence. 1t is be-
cause we have not given equal rights
to all men and exclusive privileges to
no man We fOstered manufacture
and encourage infant industries until
warmed into life and strength they have
turned to strike with their poisonous
StingS the generous bosom winch
nourished them. All through a lie 60
extensive with the life of the republic,
Democracy has sounded a warning to
the people, yet inc. by inch, step by
step, the sO-called doctrine Of 'prOtec-
ton mas advanced IIS advocates W0l
their way by insidi9us pleas and false
representations but now, conscious of
strength they boldly. throw off the mask
and demand protection for protectors
sake
ION the floor of the house of repre-
sentatives of the United States in the
session at which both the Mckinley
tariff bill and the antitrust measure
We're passed, I heard the Hon. VIM L.
Wilson, a Democratic leader, a thought
full and scholarly student of public at
fairs, warn the country that the McKin-
ley bill would be a breeder of trusts and
combines. He said III illustration of the
danger, / remember an old rhyme which
runs something like this:
" I heard a lion Il the lobby roar,
Pray Mr.. Speakess. shall we shut the
And keep him t.sere, or shall we let
him in
To try if we can surn bin out again.
"This is your position in regard to
trusts instead of keepinc' the lion out,
Brother Mckinley scOmeg opening the
door and says: "Lat him in, and then
we are going to chase him around and
try to get him out sagain-
THE Republicans mot only opened the
door, but they cOSxed him in, and
pleased with his qu&rters. he has stayed
in and become mOrS fierce, terrible and
destructive than ar4y lion ever was be-
fore.
Minneapolis has given the brute a
name. He describe 5 him a species
of the hippopOtamUss, because that ami
mai has the thickest of hides, and the
biggest of jaws, and is the ugliest of all
of Gods creatures. How Noah and his
family stayed in the same ark with a
pair of them I have never been able to
understand. He calls the beast the
Hippogat, and says of it:
Look out. look oat, ye merchant men
Look out for. the .Ttippogat,
Who eateth industries great and small
And Waxeth SO big and fat
&c Cradles and cofhrs and babies milk,
Oil. sugar, refined and raw,
Newspaper print and the beIdames' milk
All go to the monsters nav.
1.-The greedy protected Industries of
America first. demanded a home market
and this was secured by legislative en-
actments under which the products of
the manufactures Of other countries were
kept out of the United States and for
eign competition was thus driven away,
and the home market secured. We paid
for this concession to the favOrite classes.
but the Republican advocates Of prOtec-
ton tried to make credulous people be-
paid the tax that we were wrong, that
And a majority of the daily newspaper
press of the Union sustained this cOnten-
Gn aPa 'T BE- %heh the the pfe GueS
ton came home to the Nc wspaper people
Just tariff, raised the price of printing
paper five to ten dollars a ton, they pretty
hundred and fifty-seven daily newspapers
in all sections. Of the Union demanded
free paper ard free wood pulp because
the tariff on these articles was. as they
said, six million dollar tax on intelli-
cry Bust the trusts The tariff has
| driven out the foreign competition, the
trust has destroyed home competit1on, and
so we are at the mercy OF the combines.
They have lowered the price of the raw
material lessened the price Of produc-
| ton and raised the price Of the finished
product. They have become the only PuT-
! CHASER ana the only selie- 1hey eaten
| the American people coming and going
Of trade, has been strangled to death.
| Monopoly reiSnS. The robber hand of
the trust is at your throat and it IS de-
manding 7 our money or your lie. Ihere
are three hundred and hfty-three known
lied The American people believe in
paying fair prices for raw material, and
ing man. and reasonable prohts to the
manufacturer and the merchant as a re-
sumed, the Isbor employed and the risk
incurred. But the trusts are not salts
PlIi9ns OF dt2IItIS o. PI' ger ~ n tIIel1
out of their pockets this, artificial esti-
ing in Indignant wrath over the -imposi-
ton ands demanding a remedy? Expte7Sd5i-
| so-calledf federal antitrust law of 1890 did
not compass the death of the monster.
| antitrust bills useless. Something must
! be done We are told. however, that the
| suppression of trusts cannot be made the
| issue between the parties because both the
great political organizations are the enc
/ mics Of trusts
| REPUBLICAN RESPONSIBILITY FOR
| TRUSTS.
Sometimes. to escape capture and pun
| ishment, a person joins in the hue and
| cry and loudly calls Stop thiefH when
| he himself either is the actual perpetrator
of the crime Or accessory to the act 50
/ 1t is with the Republican party in the
| home of Hanna, the state of Mckinley,
denouncHlg trusts. We are told that the