The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1900-03-02

own property and not be disturbed
by what Is being done in the ma
tons OF the world, and until We have
an American financial policy we
are not independent OF any policy.
This ii Sht for bimetallism Will 70
| on.
Trusts Are Taken UP.
do you believe the Republican
party will destroy the trusts? Why,
my friends, when men tell me that
ought to drop the money question
and fight the trusts, my reply is that
when we get hear enough to the
trusts to strike them you will tlnd
behind them very great financi-rs
OF the country, aud men who
thought H. would be terrible thing
to have 80 cent dollars, have their
vaults filled with trust certificates
that do not represent % per cent. Oi
actual investment called for. These
great financiers are backed by the
trusts. and John J. Michel, of the
International Trust 4 Savings Bank,
OF Chicago, gave out an interview
not long ago in which he said that
IN the long run the trusts can do no
harm; but what consolation Is tha,
to u short-winded man who cannot
stand a long runl daughter.
What consol ItIon is that to a man
who suffers bankruptcy while the
run is III progress? WHAT codsola
ton Is that to man who Is u victim
OF eX crlion before the long run 10
mpleteu?
"Ihe Republican party has the
President and senate ana the House,
and J ct trusts grow anu thrive, ana
If you ask d Republican why his
party does not leg islale on this ques
Llon he tells you that there is n law
on the statute books ana If you ask
then, why they DO not destroy the
trusts, he says the law does not quite
reach that case. IG is little law
| and requires digger law when you
want Lu use 1t. The trust is 80 bau
tina even Mr.. Hauna's convention
III OHIO last fall had to deuouuce the
trusts, ana yet after That convention
denounced the trusts Mr.. Hanna
went out ana made speeches., and III
one speech he SAID We have no
trusts, and in another speech he sad
that The trusts We're necessary tor
the successful manufacturing inter.
tsts of the country, an hen he al l.
eu: But don'J be a raj ii of so
called trust; If they il ju q us We will.
IKE care OF them - farmer was
once building hen house to protect
his chickens, and fox came along
ana said TO the farmer, Don't waste
your time ON hen-houses, but leave
them to US; we Will TAKE Care OF yodr
cnlckens.' daughter.
~
"Do you believe the Republican
party will destroy the trusts? Ii
Guey would destloy the trusts, they
would destroy the hen that laid the
GOLDEN egg in campaign purposes.
why DON'T the Repuolicau parry
enforce the law that now exists, anu
If new law IN necessary, why
doesn't it apply new law? We
nave law on the statute books that
makes it a criminal Utfeuse for d
Inan 10 organize a trust, and Yet
you Will tlnu men standing up aud
defending the trusts.
There is difference between the
Individual aud the corporation. God
made the individual; man made the
corporation. When God made the III
divIdual, he dlu notmake the strong
est much stronger than the weak 5oC.
When be made mau he placed Il
limit on his existence, so If ne is "A
Dad man, he cannot be bad loIg.
When GOD made man he DreaJu5u
into him soul, aud warned hinI
that In the next world he would Ue
accountable Ior his deeds i'll tile
| tlesh.
"rne Republican party has taken
the slue OF "a man-made giant, anu
We appeal TO Lne people UnaG the IL
rIghts are not infrInged upon. Gap
| plause.
Il believe the people can destroy
the corporations when they get
ready 10 act. L heard of an Instance
once where u mau put his hay into
d wagon to take TO the barn, and a
rain came up, and in trying to get to
, the barn his wagon Iotleu off "a
bridge aud his hay fell off in the
rain. His wife ran out to see what
had happened, and the old man,
when he saw his wife coming, salu :
sara, Sara, go Dlck; am ABOUT to
] cApIeoS my eSli' Nhtub ibOi'j
Confidence in The Election.
II believe that the people will be
reaoy to express themselves by next
fall.
What answer does the Republi-
can party make to our charge
against the trusts? They say, we
have pros perity, and We must not
destroy 1t. My friends, if the Re-
publican party goes into this race
on the platform that they brought
prosperity, our answer will be u
country where everybody voted the
Republican ticket who has received
his share of 1t, and ii we Jan get
every hody who has not received his
snare fit, We will have the largest
share III the United States. Gap.
! Dladse.)
~ ask the old man who is ap-
| preaching the end of life whether he
Is satisfied with the conditions left
/ To his children. | ask the middle
age, strong of body and mind, and
! children growing up about him, are
you satisfied with the conditions
that you tind? ask the young
man, with iIfe before him, whether
/ he is satisfied with the narrow op-
pOItuuities that are now before hun.
The II publican party Is BUILDING
up great Institutions. Ii Is pouring
wealth without limit into the