The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1899-08-17
ore. In one breath he denounces Az.

more. In one breath he denounces AZ.
gregated capital and in the next pictures
associated labor as a twin evil with
trusts. The only harm to labor that the
unions ever did is when their members
at the behest of bribed traitors voted the
republican and democratic tickets, re.
sulting in the election of trust promo ters
to the presidency. ingalls, never had
any genuine sy mpathy for labor and the
walls OF his wrath and the irridescence of
bis fancy have been used for the benefit
OF capital, reserving to himself no small
share OF it for his recompense. Men,
said Junius, speaking of Burke, doubt
the solidity OF superstructure that is
covered all over with flowers. Ingalls, is
potted political geranium, OF brilliant
color, soft as velvet, with the odor of
graveclothes about him. If the people
of Kansas like that sort of statesman,
then they like that sort of a statesman,
and they may make the most OF him.
There is a remedy for trusts that lie
constitutional and efectual. l will not
say the only one; but solemnly believe
| it is the only one that is eminently prac.
tical and will rebound to the general and
permanent prosperity of all the people
and not to a small perez ntage of the in
habitants, as the present so-called pros
perity seems to apply. That the country
ctal
vulsion, which may quicken the minds
OF its citizens on this question, have
only to quote recent utterances of two
leading financiers of the United States.
Henry Willard, the father of the Northern
Pacific railway system and one of the
Oldest living operators on Wall street,
stated last week on the Sound that the
enormous and fictitious capitalization of
trusts would bring on a panic. the like of
which this country never saw before.
Horace White. the acknowledged author
ity on the single gold standard, in his
Wall street financial report last week,
only allows the present prosperity, which
he claims to exist, a short life of two or
three years l have no patience with
the multitude of untried experiments
proposed by many popuists and social.
lists. My faith. however, looks stead
fastlv to the great and fundamental dec
laration Of human rights promulgated at
Omaha by the peoples party, There is
an embodiment OF principles of govern
mental reform that supplements by prac-
teal experience the experimental declara-
ton made by the fathers at Philadelphia
more than century before. The gov.
eminent ownership of railway and other
greal public utilities and the government
coinage of gold, silvsr and paper money
will restore the United States to its
ancient prestige and glory. No one will
deny that the railroads fostered and made
possible the father OF all trusts. the
Standard oil monopoly, which, under
government control, could not have been
brought into being, making possible the
growth of the aggregation OF other trusts
that threaten to throttle the very life of
the republic. The basic ideas set forth in
the Omaha platform are at once pro-
test and prophecy. Put these self-evi
dent truths in practice and the trusts
which are teaching the people the neces.
sity and feasibility of controlling them
will be brought to timely end The
brazen bull Phalars prepared for his
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| therein. JOIN G.. BOYLE.