Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1899-06-08
THURSDAY, JUNE s, 1899.
EVADING THE ISSUE.

The republican piess is well nigh its
wits end in an effort to harmonic the
well known !. We i HE trusts fof the re
publican party with the equally we'll
known antiptthy of the voters to the
trusts, AMI soIe o. their laborcd argu-
ments On the subject are amusing.
An observing reader viii have noticed,
in the republican lapers, recently, the
mos. severe denunciations of the trusts
and in ne cases out OF ten, the most
Jealous paper in advocating the tatif
laws that bred the trusts, has became
the most bitter in denouncing the legiti-
mate cllld OF the policy so warmly de-
tended by it in former years. This has
occasOned cons lerable surprise, and
some Of the more credulous were prone
t. believe that these papers were, for
One, going to Int patriotism above party
and i)in the people in the movement to
destroy the common enemy-the trusts.
But within week these papers have
disclose the method to be adopted to de
lend ,h- trusts while placing the repuo-
icln party in position of seeming OPP
position 10 Them. The managers OF the
parry are aware that a plank in opposi-
ton 10 trusts must be inserted in the
IT. tlr national platform next year,--at 7
which, every trust ma9uatc VIII "Wiuh
his other cre," when "diggins up his .
contribution o the campaign fund
The maHlhanna press is now making
the i4h, on state lines. This is evident
l. the lln 20 be adopted by The trusts
to keep the hands OF the national GOV
ernm mt off them. States they can east .
ly handle. They have already bought .
the state Of New Jersey by the payment
OF three quarters Of Il million, in taxes, /
INFO il, treasury, and, there are others.
In al optirg this line the Daily Oiym-
plan cites the following clause from the
antitrust las OF Missouri in support Of
the policy ui trust extinction by state
law:
Any purchaser Of any article or com
modify tIom any individual company or
corporation transacting business contrary
to the preceding sections of this act shall
not be liable for the price or payment of
such article or commodity, and may plead
this act as defense to any suit for such
price or payment"
And says "This citation is simply to
illustrate the principle of an intelligent
statute vigorously enforced" Well, let's
see about that. The intelligence of the
statute Will not | ? questioned AS to its
vigorous enforcement we will submit the
Olympan. In the same article it tells
us that this law was passed in 1891, yet
the trust levied taxes upon the people of
Missouri right along for eight years not
withstsn ling this ''intclligent statute, -
for it also informs us that the law was
sustained by the circuit court OF appeals on
May 2, 1889. The state appears to have
ha the intelligent statute but the trusts
had a str.rg on the vigorous enforce
nlent.
Sta'e laws ave no tcrrors for large ag-
gregg Ions o. capital combined for the
purpose of SHINING the people, nor will
national laws abolish these pests of civil
cation under markhanna administra-
ton. There is but one remedy an intel
ligent statute on the federal books and an
executive whose election will only be Sc
cured in spite of an immense fund con-
tributed by the trusts to defeat him. and
no sophistry OF a 81 bsidzed press should
be permitted to befog this fact.