The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1899-04-20
PERILS FRONT THE REPUBLIC
David A. DeArmond Sees a
Grave Danger in Trusts.

| Inc TeSpiS OF ms hepuDilc muSI EHpisI
TO Save the Nations Life From Being
Strangled Out by the Trusts.
K. c. Times, 14th.
David A. DeArmond, Missouri S
brainy congressman, who may sue
ceed Congressman Bailey of Texas
as leader of the democratic minority
in the House at Washington, spent
Wednesday night in Kansas City.
He is on the way to Columbia, where
he goes to deliver the annual Jeffer
sonian address before the Century
club made up of democratic students
in the State University.
At the Victoria hotel Mr.. Dear.
mond talked with a representative
for The Times last night. He would
not discuss the possibility of his
selection by the democrats of the
house to succeed Mr.. Bailey as the
minority leader.
Mr.. Bailey has resigned and the
democrats will select his successor
can not say who the new leader
will be-" is the way in which Mr..
DeArmond handles the case
But the congressman from Butler
was willing to talk of other things
He always has something to say of
the issues of the day from a political
standpoint. He is a sworn enemy to
the trusts and he believes that the
trusts may become the paramount
issue over which the democratic and
publican parties will fight out the
next national campaign. La this
terse and characteristic language he
takes the measure of the trusts:
sTIFLING ENTERPRISE.
"The trusts have been and are
sitting individual enterprise, foster
ing and perpetuating monopolies,
depriving the people of public
functions, which they convert into
agencies for the advancement of
corporate interests, eorrupting Iegis
lators, debauching the judiciary,
controlling elections, sggrandizipg
wealth, expressing the poor, pro-
noting extravaganza in public ex-
peaditures, extending the immunity
of the classes from just taxation
while adding to the burdens of the
masses, undermining the republic
and building up an aristocracy of
wealth, exalting the millionaire and
expressing the millions"
Mr.. DeArmond was tired and
dusty when he reached the hotel, |
but his wonderful flow of words
never failed him. He sat up in bed |
and wept OF:
"The trusts are at the work of |
destruction upon cur republican in
situations If those institutions are !
to be preserved we must do speedily |
with the trusts something which |
shall destroy them root and branch.
or at least dwarf them SO greatly
that their power for giant evil shall
be gone forever It is necessary
not only to apply heroic remedies
heroicallY, to the existing trusts, but
also to prevent the propagation of
this dangerous brood of modern
avarice and wealth, consorting in
political corruption"
PROPOSE A REMEDY.
Mr.. DeArmond stopped long
enough to get a more comfortable
position and went on again:
THE trusts rests upon the cor
poration-controI the corporations
and the trusts dies, as the branches
of tree die when the roots are cut
away; deny existence to the corpora
tons thai should not be and there
will be no future trusts In the
reckless, improvident, thoughtless,
corrupt, multiplication of corpora
tons of all kinds, for all conceivable
purposes,no only has the trust been
made possible-it has been invited,
If not made inevitable, until the az
is laid at the root of the evil. The
trust is merely the massing of the
into a vaster and more
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