The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1900-01-23
TRUSTS.
All Parties Should Unite in Over
throwing This Great Iniquity.

The kentOn PreSS, (Dem. copies an i
article from the REPUBLICAN, on
Trusts, but while endorsing the article,
affects to believe that holding such
sentiments we are not in accord with
our party. 1t says:
GAIL that Campbell says of trusts is
true. Verify "the trust evil is the
worst that ever raised It's horrid front
in this country-worse than slavery,
worse than intemperance, worse than
civil war;" But is it bad enough to
make Campbell cut loose from trust
associates, from the trust promoters and
protectors? We know he is very inde-
pendent but he can't be an orthodox
Republican and stand on the ground he
chooses in the above, and be consistent" "
| We would ask the editor of the Press
wherein we are inconsistent with our
party? The Republican party of Ohio,
and the Republican party of the nation,
have both declared against trusts. And
a Republican Congress and our Re-
pulican Legislature have each passed
law making trusts unlawful. More than
this, Republican Attorney General of
our State has been very prominent in
enforcing the law against trusts; Presi-
dent Mckinley in his last message
sounded no uncertain call to legislation
|against trusts; and Gen. Dawes, the
Comptroller of the Treasury, in a re-
cent speech at Springfield, Illinois, in
which he was understood to speak for
the Administration, denounced trusts
unsparingly and said that if necessary
they should not only be regulated but
destroyed. Surely this does not show
that we are not in accord with our par
ty. But when so great an evil threat
ems our country, men should not en-
quire whether they are consistent with
. their party, or not. They should labol
( to educate and arouse the people, ant
s bring their party to a right position
t Garfield never uttered greater trutl
than when he said, ''He serves his par
ty best, who serves his country best"
:. We are aware that there are mem
n bers of Trusts, in Congress and out Q
8 it, who are leaders in the Republica
q party. The same is true of the Demo
n cratic party. Our duty is to help th
people overthrow all such leaders an
commit our party to prompt and vigol
J, Gus action to save the country from th
l. curse of trusts. We welcome Republ
l. cans, and Democrats and men of a
ID parties into the ranks of the anti-tru
le army, and they must unite-thoug
n they need not leave their party ranks
W or we will be beaten and subjugated
the tremendous power of combine
capi tai in trusts. We need to stand
er gether as Republicans and Democrat
,e to nominate and elect men of our ov
rv parties to Congress and Legislature
n who will enact laws that will utterly
nd stroy trusts and all combinations tn
II. control trade, crush small factori
ill and extOrt high prices from the peopl
a by their power to control and regula
,r. trade. Monopolies are curse-a me
D. ace to popular Government, and robbie
of the people-and the people shor
crush them now, before they get
strongly entrenched in power.
" The Republican party has rtart
- well; but it must make quick and {
cided advance. The Democratic pal
~ ~ has done nothing. 1t has not passed
he single law to even regulate Trusts.
ng Ohio last Fall, it put up candidate
OK Governor, because being member
~ sy several Trusts, and being millionai
IRE he had money to burn, and they thoug
ev- this would insure his election. T
'ad editor of the Kenton Press voted
"O him, and thereby showed his inc
sistency, but we will do him the ere
to say he did it reluctantly.
'he But no good is to be done by critic
lb- ing those who are honestly fighting {
Ar Trusts; let US labor to bring both {
rn- parti es into the antitrust plane, a
ne thus unite our efforts to avert the gr
W. evil that threatens our country.