The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-03-31

the Indianapolis platform ought to re-
strain them from proffering their SER
vices as platform makers for some years
to come.
Events have been vindicating the
policies proposed by our party in 1896.
The plank in favor of an income tax is
stronger now, because the war has
shown the need of more revenue, and
has, at the same time, shown the i'm
potency of the government to subject
wealth to its share of the public bur-
dens. In an hour of extremity, the
government can draft the citizen, but
cannot touch the incomes of the rich;
money is more precious than blood in
the eyes of those who protect wealth by
legal bulwarks; while the citizen must
ever be ready to surrender his life at
his country's call.
The president, by sending a COM
mission to secure international bimetal-
liSm, confessed that the gold standard
was not satisfactory, and the failure of
the commission to secure foreign aid in
restoring the double standard has prov
en- the necessity for independent bimet-
allism. The maintenance of the gold
standard of the U. S. is not due to
a desire upon the part of the American
people to keep it; it is due merely to the
fact that the financierS of London con-
troll the policy of England and through
England the financial policy of Europe
and the United States. If the advocates
of the gold standard expect to win their
fight, they must appeal to the Ameri-
can people; they cannot rely upon the
favor of foreign financiers.
THE Republican party, not satisfied
with a policy which gives London mon
ey changers a control over our standard
money, are attempting to organize a
paper money trust. and turn over the
control of the supply of credit money to
the national bankers. While they are
increasing the taxes upon the poor they
are preparing to lessen the taxes upon
the issue of national banks and, at the
same time, increase their privileges.
The industrial trusts are attracting
more attention than they did two years
ago, because of the rapidity with which
the great sources of production are be-
ing monopOliZed. The Republican par
ty has control of the law-making power
and of the execution of the federal laws.
1t is not sufficient for the attorney gen.
eraI to say that present laws are insult
ficient, it is within his province to
suggest new and sufficient ones, unless
he believes that the constitution pro-
hibited interference with combinations
in restraint of trade, and if that is his
construction of the constitution, it is
within his province to suggest an
amendment to the constitution which
will make it possible for the federal
government to protect the citizen from
those great aggregationS of wealth. 1t
is a significant fact that the Republican
party is in control of the states where
trust orga nizatiOnS are most numerous,
and shows as little disposition to invoke
the powers of the state courts as it has
to employ the powers of the federal
government for the determination Of
the trusts. If the Republican party goes
into the next campaign upon platform
defending the trusts, it will antagonize
sentiments which are rapidly growing.
even in the Republican party and not
the principle of monopoly, and, if it en-
ters the campaign upon platform an
tagonizing the trusts, it's own record
will show its hypocracy. The trusts
control the policy of the Republican
party. The trusts cannot be extin-
guished by the Democrat. until the ex-
1Cnntin,1nd On sst,th Pa,re1