The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-10-28


bonds deposited by them respectively
in the United States treasury. and on
which the government pays , per cent
interest per annum-
The bill also reduced the tax on bank
currency from ! per centum to one
half of one per centum. reduction OF
80 per cent thus further increasing
their advantage by giving them their
special privileges at reduced price.
This Ubiquitous measure is worse than
granting special privileges to a favored
class: it empowers the national banks
to use the very functions of govern
ment in their own interest. It creates
a money trust that will have the power
of expanding and contracting the cur
rency at its pleasure, a trust in COM
pariSOn with which all others are COM
paratively mild and harmless.
Republicans on Trusts.
The speaker said the Republican at
titude toward the trusts was utterly
destructive of the best interests of the
industrial classes. The attitude of
the Republican speakers in this cam
paign on this question: continued Mr..
Roberts, is as confused as il is anus
ing. 1t is not with a very good grace
that the party whose policies are large
~ responsible for the existence of this
spawn of iniquity can rise up and kill
out of hand the progeny of its own be-
getting.
so there is an infinite deal of IN
easiness and squirting over the mat
ter Recently in New York the chair
man of the Republican national com
mittee-I think his name is Mr.. Mark
Hanna have been told SO-being
asked if he had said, as reported in the
press, that there were no trusts, re
piled:
L said in my western speech that
commercially and legally there were no
trusts
About the same time another Re-
publican gentleman of senatorial dig
nity-I forgot to mention that Mr.. Han
ma was senatOr-Mr. Chauncey De
pew, in a speech at Newburg, n. Y,
after defining what a trust was, or
what it had been, said:
The Republican party is the party
which has broken UP these trusts It
was the Sherman antitrust law which
brought about this result
And yet, the attorney general of the
administration has insisted for some
time now that so defective is the anti
trust law that it is useless to try TO
enforce il against trusts; and hence
I suppose. this led the. Republican side
of the house OF representatives in the
closing days Of the last session of con-
gress to submit an amendment to the
constitution charging the powers of
the general government, that it may
destroy the trusts which Senator Han
ma says neither commercially nor le-
gally exist. Which Senator Depew
says have been destroyed by the en-
forcement of the Sherman antitrust
law; which the Republican attorney
general says is so defective that it is
useless to invoke it against the trusts;
which Mr.. Hanna says do not exist;
which Mr. DeDeW says have been de-
strOyed by the law which the attorney
general says is not strong enough to
destroy the trusts. And there you are
iS ri
Best Way Out.
Meantime the trusts increase in
number and thrive at the expense of
the people. They are controlling pro-
ductiOn- They are fixing prices. They
are sitting competition. They are mo-
nOpoliZing natural resources and public
utilities, until the possibilities which
in a country such as ours and under
just government with equal laws IN
der which special privileges would be
granted to none, would forever remain
as the equal heritage of all and out of
which men would carve their fortunes
and independence, are rapidly being
closed to the generation that will fol-
low us; and unless this tendency is
checked. the American of the future
instead Of the erect man of independent
mien, viii be a thing abaShed and hum
bled, begging at the door of cOnfeder-
ated SOulleSS corporations. asking leave
TO be their newer of wood and drawers
of water-asking leave to toll for the
pittance they may please to give
And the way to avoid all this? That
question was answered by Mr. Lentz
of Ohio on the floor of the house of rep
reSentativeS one day-elect w. J. Bry-
an president. EntruSt that party with
control of the government whose cardi-
nal principle is equal and exact JUS
tice for all-special privileges for none
Question of Imperialism.
Coming down to the question of the
duty of this country in the Philippines.
Mr. Roberts again invited the attention
of his hearers to some fundamental
principles of government. He quoted
the preamble to the constitution. and
declared those sentiments to be Amer
lean ideas. As showing that the Re
publicanS at one time believed in the
constitution, he quoted McKinley's ex-
preston in his message to congress at
the opening of the session of 1897, where
he spoke of the troubles in Cuba and
expressed a desire to see them settled
not by forcible annexation, for that
is not to be thought of. That, by our
code of morals, would be criminal ag-
gressiOn.'
Spain had governed no better in the
Philippines than in Cuba" continued
Mr.. Roberts. Her people had been in
revolt against her authority and hos
tilitieS were but suspended pending her
-
1t was we'll known that the inha bitants
of those islands were ambitious of in
dependence; that they longed for the
rights Of self-gOVernment, that they
wished to be free.
The war between the United States
and Spain was their opportunity. And
it is a fact that wher il was known
that Admiral Dewey had received or
ders to capture or destroy the Spanish
feet in Philippine waters, the acknOwI-
edged leader of the FilipinOs offered to
go with him and raise the standard of
revolt against Spain.
1T is a fact that the American ad-
miral sent word to this leader of the
FilipinoS to join him, but he had
to leave the harbor of Hongkong before
his arrival. 1t is a fact that though
Aguinaldo did not go with Admiral
Dewey's fleet, which arrived at Manila
on the LIST of May, he followed soon
in the American vessel Me-
CullOCh, landed at Cavite and raised
the standard of revolt against Spain.
June Is he issued a, proclamation from
Cavite establishing a distatOriaI gov
eminent. himself as dictator.
June 20 a decree was issued giving
instructions as to elections IN
der this government. June % another
decree followed changing the title of
the government from dictatoriaI to
revolutionary, and of the chief officer
from dictator TO president, and an
nOuncing the cabinet. The powers of
the president were defined and a code
Of military justice formulated On the
50 date a manifesto was icc1ra5