The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-09-18
Ghe Wessenger.
THE REPUBLICAN PARTY BREEDS
AND FOSTERS TRUSTS.

GFOA oCC1
party there would have been a
trust in these United States. If there
were no republican party now to
shield, foster and encourage trusts
there would not be a single trust ope-
rating and squeezing n crushing
legitimate industries in this country,
and thereby robbing h people whole
sale by their injurious, cruel course.
The only hope the great trusts have
now that they will be permitted to
live is based upon the corruption Of
republican leaders. In three years
more trusts have been organized in
this country than were ever organiz-
ed in all the preceding years OF our
government. Under republican boss
ing and favoritism and protection
the trusts prosper with great satisfac-
ton to the money kings. The party
that was first to favor n protect
them is not the party to check or de-
stroy them. Put no faith whatever in
what MiKinley may say or any of his
admirers, indorsers and pensioners.
Mckinley is practically owned by the
trust magnates. Mark Hanna has
held his note for some Sis, 900 for sew
eral years. He obeys the men who
have big money" and practically own
him. He is the ervant of the Moloch
Of Money. He has no Independent
views of his own. He is the slave of
his party, the willing, plant tool of
the autocrats Of h gold mint. He
never acts independently, conscienti-
ously, a. the result of well defined
principles. He stands for the great
money power in all things. The Ma
tional Democrat says his Of little Mac,
and it is true and 1t Is a great pity
for the country that it is true:
George Washington was III father
of his country's liberties; William Nc
Kinley is the father Of his country's
trusts. What a happy conjunction Of
events for the Napoleon Of Ohio!
Washington struggled that his people
might be free from the yoke of oppres-
sion; Mckinley n his friends are
struggling that another yoke, the ty-
ranny OF n and greed, shall be
placed upon the necks Of that same
people"
He is the comfort and hope of the
great, grinding trusts. In him they
move and live and have their being.
If elected again the trust oppressors
know that they will have in all proba-
bility four more years of lease and
license to pluck and Cypress and de-
stroy.
Look at the sugar trust. In four
teen weeks sugar has advanced from
$500 per hundred pounds to $6.15. This
is robbery pure and palpable. The
screws are applied to the hopeless,
helpless ~householders who a w to
pay the advance owever onerous and
venal. In fourteen weeks this rapa-
cious, u~nfeeling, s~coundrelly concern
has made nine raises in prices. Three
or four months ago 1t obtained exclu-
sive, absolute control of the market.
and the grinding of the people keeps
pace with the grinding of the sugar.
1t is a very great outrage. 1t lakes
millions of dollars from the suffering
people to swell their already enormous
profits. 1t is the most open, scandal
Gus, ba~reface robbery Of the people.
Take the Armor Plate trust. The
United States government paid the
s~coundrels $6O6 a ton for steel plate
which this Infamous robber company
was selling to the Russian govern
ment for less than half-for $500 a ton.
And yet the administration is the
friend of the trusts, and knew of the
rascally things done by them against
the people.
The Dingley tariff bill should have
been called the Dingley Nurse Bill for
Trusts. The most odious and infam-
Gus combinations existing are traced
directly to the recent republican tariff
legislation favored by Mckinley from
beginning to end.
1t is not denied that in the congress
some men processing to be democrats
have proved unfaithfu1 and have voted
for robber tariff schemers. What ar
guments were used to induce their
urse is not made public. 1t Is known
that in 1S76-twenty-four years ago
Samuel ]. Tilden, the great democratic
leader and candidate for the presiden-
cy, organized a campaign against a
high protective tariff tax and won the
victory. The corrupt republican party
literally and deliberately robbed him
of his victory and gave it to a fellow
who was never Observation-Disclosures B.
Hayes, the taker and receiver OF
stolen goods. The Dingley law-the
monster now in operation-is response
BILE for the hundreds OF trusts that
have sprung into life within three
years. The democratic party a been
and is nov an anti-protectton party.
It's record for a quarter of a century
is consistently against a robber tariff.
Remember that the supreme court of
the United States when every member
but one (Justice Ffeld) was republi-
can. decided that a tax levied for any
purpose whatever other than for rev.
enue was robbery" That is the word
it applied. The Dingley law is a
"robber' and it builds up and enriches
the great trusts that are gigantic