Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1900-10-11
NUMBER 10

United Statesg Now, IL that is true
would like to ask Mark or any other
Republican few questions:
Pointed Questions.
% If there are no trusts In the Unit
ed States, why do the Republican lead
ers, such as General Charles Henry
Grosvenor of Ohio, constantly boast
that the Republicans passed the Sher-
man antitrust law? (2) What sense is
there In legislating against an evil that
does not exist? (3) When congress
passed that law, were the Republicans
In earnest or were they mel " follow
Ing their usual custom and playing q
bunlIo game on the peopIe7 ~ If there
are no trusts, why did the Republic
ans put milk and cider, good Lord,
good devil, sore Of antitrust plank IN
their platform at Philadelphia (51
Did Mark ever hear of the Standard
Oil company, which is always cited,
even by Republicans themselves, as
the most successful trust fn existe1eea
20 Did he ever hear of the anthracite
coal trust, which has Just starved l50.-
600 honest and Industrious men into
striking for living waqess 4D Hae
he ever heard Of the barbed wire trust,
which has raised the price OF baTbed
wire so high that farmers have almost
quit using 1T (sY Does he not know
that the SUGAR trust has 50 Increased
the price Of sugar In the fourth year
of the reign OF William, the first king
of the United States and eInperor OF
the Philippine Islands, that we now
get five or six pounds less for a dollar
than we did before his imperial maj
esty ascended the throne? (0) Finally,
If Mark does not know Of these and
divers other trusts, is be not more In
noeent than the babes In the wood2
An Absurd Statement.
It may seem presumptuous III me 70
answer Marks challenge, but ny ex-
cuse Is that his defiance was directed
not only to Mr.. Bryan himself, but to
"aTy other Democrat z Consequent
ly have a right to furnish him tne
information be seeks.
But Mark makes the absurd and
untruthful statement that s'esery law
against trusts, national or state, has
been the product Of Republican law
makers and the credit IS due to the
Republican party" There IS not D zvl
liable of truth In that statement. When
was In the legislature In 1889, had
the honor, as chairman of the commit
tee on criminal Jurisprudence, to re-
port the first Missouri bill leyeled
against the trusts. Under it Attorney
General Grow broke up the insurance
trust and compelled the insurance COM
panies to pay $4,000 of fines into the
state treasury. Now, II there are no
trusts in the United States, as Mark
asserts, VIII he please inform an eager
world how the trusts could azssraseaal esl
state treasury Of Missouri By that
handsome sum?
With o graciousness and liberality
that do him honor, Mark says, 81
have no objections to the Democrats
opposing trusts" Thanks, Marcus.
thanks for granting US permission to
DO that which we have been doing
for, 10, these many years without your
| permission. But Il there are No trusts.
as you assert. would II nos
as wise aud proatauSe Tor democrats
or anybody else to oppose wlteheraft
as to oppose f-sst1?
If Marks speech does not perform
| the same office for Mckinley that
Parson Burchard's alliteratiYe speech
did for Blaine, 1t will be one Of the
wonders of the world.
Did Mark ever hear of the American
Tobacco company, which has choked
out two-thirds of the tobacco factories
/ in the land swallowed them even as
Aaron's rod swallowed the other rods?