The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-06-13
Socialism and the Trusts.

To the Editor of The Post
Fort Worth Texas. June 1O--The Daily
Post has seen fl to print what have had
to say on current topics IN the past with
out stint, letting my expressions 90 for
their worth, while other democratic Jour
mails have followed the old Southern style
of suppressing anything not in line with
what the leaders have promulgated
as the issue of the hour. This sys-
TEN of leadership grew on MS In the South
from the great overshadowing issue caused
by the race question Men had in the past
10 forego all opinion except that Of race
supremacy aud the South has hung as
kite on the tail of Northern democracy so
long. that Tor Southern man to have an
opinion above what is imported from the
East tas meant treason in the past In the
pending presidential campaign the East
made up an issue in advance Tor the south
and West. proposing 10 make the whole
hinge of the next campaign turn on anti
expansion because the East ala not want to
see it's power glide from II by opening the
canal and the immense trade with the
Orient which is sure TO follow. But tho
people OF the South and West begin 10 see
that the East, While sincere in anti-e&-
pansion, IS not sincere In making a COM
panion issue of the silver question. The
East is for gold aud they are preparing TO
fool us again like Grover did on the tariIf.
He threw it to the front and relegated
silver to the rear. and then advanced
silver to the front to ktitsssand democrat
lied his tariff forces so that when they
came TO pass a law II was such bungle
that 1t caused deficiency OF millions,
and the East reaped bonds as a benefit,
while the West strippeA itself OF all benefit
from the tariff on the raw material she
then had ana cast all in the lap OF the
Eastern manufacturer. Many-ye5, tnou-
eands-of democrats have quietly folded
their tents and like Arabs stole away from
the democratic party and are affliating
with republicans in consequence OF the
blind leading the blind into such a ditch,
but | am a democrat that proposes TO stay
with the party and do what | can to cor
rect its errors inside its ranks, as ! have
endeavored to do in the past--because ]
! have nowhere else 10 20 know those
I ideas are not calculated 10 get me an Of
/ 1--WE. for the office seeker must be strict
/ partisan and have no idea above what the
/ leaders lay down. While recognize this
! discipline in ranks to be correct, yet there
/ must ever be those who advance as skr-
mishers for the party, and thus develop
! the enemy therefore this article though
/ 1t be the fate of skrmishers to fall on the
outside OF the breastwcvks
At the recent st. Louis antitrust ana
| free silver banquet a member OF the con-
vention confessed the fact that trusts were
here TO stay and that the only remedy was
a change OF front into socialism. That we
could not dissolve trusts because OF their
power. and the only way 10 do them was
/ to make them useful by owning them ana
working them for all they dre worth.
There is good reasoning in this. IL VIII
be seen that the money trust has forced .
new phase of politics upon us, While gold
has forced thousands into idleness, still II
has advanced the wages q those retained
and thus the higher and lower class have
combined TO control the products OF the
country. Il can be seen al a glance what
the result will be In the next campaign.
These labor unions and corporate trusts
are organized and oppose mass OF disor-
ganized producers, with the result as GER
tain as fighting Filipinos. Let US see
what socialism means II means. in short
the public management Of all Industries
But IL viii DE modified TO embrace only
corporate industries, leaving the non-oor-
porate r. 90 free by competition. This u
distinguished from communism In thisi
Communism would divide all things. IN