The Delawarean., 1900-07-21
COMMUNICATED.
A Veterans Endorsement.

about. Your editorials are only what
might be expected from journal that
for forty odd years has battled here
in Delaware for the rights OF the people
against the entertainments of syndicate
tyranny shat came to us as a legacy
OF the Civil War. Well, l remember
after the close OF the war how Dr. Cove
Salisbury, Senators Willard and Eli
and other well-known leaders of that
day, all giants in Democratic work and
/ in State affairs, warned the people that
the Republican party seeing their op-
portunity to grasp and sold the reins
of government by the aid Of the bay
onet, while they blinded the people
with the glitter Of gold button and gold
braid, would make good that grasp Of
power, if they had TO perpetuate il by
the aid OF concentrated wealth. ! re-
member that Governor Salisbury con
tended that the Republican party was
1 building up citadel, which unless
crushed. would some day bring our
Republican institutions to wreck; that
when the military fever engendered by
the Civil War had died out, and mems
sectional prejudices could be no longer
appealed TO, there would rise in it's
stead power, then being built up5hat
would choke the franchise OF free citi-
zenship as etfectually as the Spanish
garrote choked the life out Of victim
How have their predictions been
verified? During the quarter OF a cen
tury that the Republican party held
control of this government after the
Civil War, there were born under its
auspices an octopus of syndicates such
as the world had never known Pow
erful and concienceless, with their
tentacles fastened in the very highest
places of our National government
through their agents, these syndicates
with knowledge and shrewdness that
must have been drawn from Satan
himself, bent all their energies TO con
troll the very heart veins which give
the life-blood to our Nations existence
/ mean our industries. The arteries
from whence our millions draw susten-
ance. The workshop, the mill and the
farm. 1t is in these arteries of our
great nation that the great mass of the
American people live. When these die
or are sluggish in their action, they
die. As I remarked, to control these
was these primary object OF the
moneyed oligarchies born during the
twenty-five years of Republican dynas-
ty Immediately following the Civil
War. when we have control of the
industrial interests of the nation" was
their motto, We will have its life
blood in our hands. The wage Garner
will be our slave. to do our bidding or
die His right Of franchise will be his
but in name only. In this as in every
thing else he will be compelled 10 do
our bidding if he wishes to exist.
This was their aim. Have they sue
ceeded in attaining il? Mr.. Edia5r, the
columns of the Delawlrean noting
week by week the course of events gives
) the answer 10 this ques ion all too
) plainly. What do we find here record
ed? Every conceivable avenue of in
dusjry, The manufac .ure ana product
of every commodity necessary 10 the
sustenance Of even life Itself, under the
control and domination of trusts. Cen.
: tralized power at every point control
ling output and manufacture. The
small Independent mill owner Or manu-,
fac,urer Of thirty years ago has disap-
pcared No where in this broad lane
can you find him to day conducting his
industry as he himself wills Trust.
and syndicates controlling everything
How do they do it? Take the Della
warean of Wednesday,. Sugar profits
$4,000 per day is a headline I reaO
therein, and then fellows an accoun
e of how tine sugar trust has again ad
e vanced the price of this article of dali.
4 consumption in every workingman'
family in the land And the none,
thus ground out will so into the Golfer
of that party which has proven that j
: believes the franchise of this countr.
l. is its by the right of purchase.
1t In the light of these facts, Mr.. Editor
Il again ! say that your paper is rea
% with interest. 1t stands now as it di
years ago as a bulwark of the Demo
cratic party against this damnable OF
preston. It brings to the people fact
= as they exist. 1t points out the danger
% ahead of us, and sets our people think
le ing. Keep up the good work withou
> fear or favor. The tide must be nearl
Ia on the turn Il looks to me as thong
the limit had been reached, and tha
this year the people would rise in the
might and overthrow this octopu
al which is eating out our vitals.
Is Aye, let us redeem our State as W
IS did in the days of yore. We hay
: started right. Men of fearless charactt