Washington sentinel., 1900-06-16

THE trusts must go!" should be the
battle cry Of the people in the coming
campaign.
What is the Temedy2 Ny friends, hear
many uggestions-some good, some
bad. Rut let me ask what is the matter
with the remedy we now haye-the
remedy OF the anti trust act OF ISeo2
Whenever we have had an official
courageous enough to invoke the power
of that act it has been adequate and
successful to crush the trust.
The people who oppose and condemn
trusts will receive no encouragement
from this trust ridden and, trust owned
administration. The Republican At.
torney General is the mere creature Of
the trusts, and will take no action against
them.
The Republican party in all its power
stands iearlesslv for trusts and is openly
supported by trusts. Every trust
in the country was for William Mckinley
in 1896, and every trust will zealously
and loyally aid him in 1850. If you ask
what tor2 ! answer for value received,
for the blessing Of pllable Secretary Of
the Treasury and a derelict Attorney
General, for a lively sense OF favors yet
to come, and, above all and beyond all,
for Mark Hanna, who runs the Republi.
can machine for the benefit of the trusts,
and who turned down IN Ohio an honest
and fearless attorney general who was
brave enough to do his duty and cour-
ageous enough to make an attempt to
enforce the law against the Standard OIL
trust-the greatest, the most relentless,
and the most cold blooded monopoly OF
them all,
The Republican party Is the party Of
plutocracy. II stands today Tor economic
errors that rob the many for the benefit
OF the few; for financial heresies that
centralize wealth and paralyze Industrial
freedom; for political policies that
enslave the mass, S. The Republican
party spurns the people, rides roughshOd
over the Constitution, tramples on the
rights Of man, turns to the wall the
picture OF the great emancIpator, and
laughs to scorn the Declaration OF
Independence.
To sum il all up. the Republican party
stands for Hanna, and the Republican
party is Hanna. What a difference
between the party of Lincoln and the
party oI Hanna
The Demo cratic party is the party Of
the plain people. Itis opposed to trusts,
to monOpolies, and to special privileges
1t stands for The supremacy OF the laws
1t believes in freedom of thought
freedom OF speech freedom Of action,
freedom of trade, and free institutions.
IL believes in the Constitution, in foster
ing commerce, unfetterlng trade, estab.
lishing industry, aiding enterprise,
maintaining equal opportunity, defend
ing liberty, unshackling the mind and
the conscience, and handing down
unimpaired to future generations the
blessings of our free Institutions.
While the Republican party is in
power the trusts will flourish like green
bay tree.
When the Democratic party comes
into power a Democratic President will
who will enforce the law against the
trusts, and they will dissolve and disap.
pear like mist before the rising morning
sun and be gone forever.
Now, my friends. a few words in con.
clusion. We are entering a momentous
polititical campaign to determine tt e
question whether the trusts or the Gov
ernment shall survive; whether the
people or the plutocrats shall rule 4;
whether this land shall continue to be a
Government Of the many for the many
or an oligsrchY OF the privileged and Tor
the favored few. You ask me what the
outcome will be2 l cannot tell, but
believe history repeats itself; that God
in his infinite wisdom raises up a man
from the plain people for every crisis,
and in the pending crisis we have such
a man. a born leader Of men, whom we
can all follow, and who will lead US to
victory and rescue the people from the
money lenders and the money changers
A hundred years ago the Democratic
party--the party OF the plain people
after most momentous campaign, came
into the power under the matches
leadership of it's famous founder, ,Thoma
Jefferson, and the impetus his Admins
: tration gave to popular government
{ carried forward free institutions unim
f paired for a century.
We are beginning another momentou