The evening times., 1900-09-13
EFFECT OF mine STRIKE
Party Men Believe 1t viii Help to
Elect Bryan.
Labor Leaders Declare That the
Hrust should Have No Place in IA
RepufIic-Esxist ting Laws Against
Illicit Com tE,Enations of Capital and
ConspiracEes should BE Enforced.

Democratic politicians and labor lead
ers at Democratic headquarters today
expressed themselves as without doubt
that the strike order issued to the an
thraei coal miners by the United Mine
Workers eff America is another of those
many factors making for the election of
Bryan and Stevenson.
''It is another object lesson of the inhu-
manity OF the trust said leader OF
organized labor to a reported for The
Times this morning. 1T furnishes just
one more reason and incentive for the
common people of America TO strike down
with their votes this industrial monster
without heart or sGu1 or lungs which has
been created by the hand OF man and
which would make slaves OF all men other
than these who own stock in it. i have
read in law text-books that the philoso-
ply of the corporation was that it sub
served human convenience. When the cor
poratIon was hrst instituted by Numa and
invested with the rights peculiar 30 this
"ens Iegis" Or creature of the law, 1t
was that il should be useful 10 human
society and. that it should not be used as
an instrument IN the hands of enc class
TO oppr5Ss another class.
Il think one of the best things that mas
been said about this phase OF the trust
situation was said by MI Bryan Let me
quote:
When Cod made man IS the climax
CT creation He looked upon His work and
said that it was good and yet when GOD
finished His work thG tallest man was not
much taller than the shortest and the
FosrET
the weakest That was Gods plan. We
looked upon His work and said that it was
not quite IS good as il might be, ana so
We made 6 fictitious person. called a cor
poration that is in some instances nun
dred times q thousand times, ( million
times stronger than the God-made man.
Then We started this man-n&Ge man out
against the God-made I:1an.
.tOf course. all corporations are not bad;
neither are al corporations trusts. / be
Heve though that all trusts are bad. Even
though they may not be eterna!iy WORKING
harm, il is within their power TO harm
humanity whenever those concerned in the
trust desire This is more power than
king should have. The trust is entitled TO
NO place in republic. I think it would
even have an evil smell in China
Trusts Must BE Crushed.
A group of men were discussing the
trust question at Democratic headquar-
taTs this afternoon, and all the familiar
arguments for and AGAINST this instEtu-
tion we're brought cut 1t was said by
one man that the trust was but another
manifestation OF that tendency toward
co-operatiCn amCng men or classes or
men which is apparent everywhere II
was said by another that it was a hard
institution TO suppress. because men had
the right TO combine their capital, and
it Was a diificult thing to ascertain
whether this combination CT capital cen-
stitutsd trust OF not. one hoary ola
{ Democrat said
"A trust cannot be excused. It must
be crushed. It is wrong, and l am 1yal
enough to the theory OF the law TO be
lieve that a remedy may be found for
every wrong II IS not that the law can
not reach the trust, ii IS that no effort
is made 10 apply the law The people
have compelled tne passage CT proper
laws. but they have placed in power eS-
ecutive officers unfit and unwilling to en-
force the law. With a trust puppet IN
the highest Office and other trust pup
pets at the head of al The departments
OF the Government, That chance EaFe
the peOple2
"F. s. Nennett. of Ohio. struck the right
key when he said: An attorney general OF
your State using the nigh and important
writ of custer or quo warranJo, in the
highest court in your State, and IN behalf
OF the people in the State, can accomplish
more IN the way of 1lectrocuting mOnopo-
lies and trusts than all the resolutions o
trades unions. municipal reform leagues
tax reform disciples, Industrial commits
sions Wednesday Morning clubs, and long
winded Investigations and party platforms
prepared by high-saiaried trust magnates
will do in the next decade. Trusts. com
bines. monopolies, and criminals, tax dodg-
ers and express robbers are not soIicitous
so long as they can satisfy public ciamoI
with industrial commissions, reform clubs
and magazine articles, or so long as they
can keep a successful lobby between the
people and the legislative halls.
Allow me to repeat and impress thai
the State is sovereign in the Legislative
halls, imperial in the executive, and ON
nipotent in the judicial, if we will only ex-
ercise such powers to protect the com
mon man in the general welfare of tbs
people, and right these wrongs and pre-
serve unto all equal opportunities. Th'
weakness of cur Government has been tha
we have not asserted this sovereignty un.
til oppression became overpowering-
needs no new Government; it needs no po
litical platform; this evil neither require:
free silver nor gold standard, double taJ
nor single tax. 1t needs men to execute
the laws we have. 1t needs the courts Il
weigh out exact justice against the rich
powerful, and mighty with TIE same ever
hand that it should to the poor man "
Secretary Gage ynnquished-
One of the topics among politicians toda.
is the open letter of Carl Schurz to Secre
tary Gage. On all sides it was declaret
that the Secretary had been vanquished-
had been routed in a row which he chal
lenged. The Gage-SchurZ controversy ha
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