Arizona silver belt., 1900-10-25
THE TRUST EVIL.
Ex- Attorney General Mon nett $ speech at Columbus.
HYPOCRISY OF REPUBLICANS.
Mir. Monnett Tells How His Efforts to Prosecute Niolators of the Law Were Obstructed Ar
 raignment of the Ad-
 ministration.

mass meeting held in Columbus, Ohio, was devoted wholly to trusts and con tained the first public declaration of his intention to support Mir, Bryan. Mir. Monnett reviewed the prosecu- tions against various trusts, combina- tions and monopolies which he had undertaken while attorney general of the state, saying: Ut became my privilege and duty to institute upward of 24 suits against these combinations, monopolies and trusts as your sworn officer of the law, calling upon the highest courts of the state to electro cute these law violators that pillaged your sugar bowl, your oil can, your tobacco pouch, exact excessive freight and telephone charges and to protect you in your rights of private property under the constitution and laws of the state.
 BADGERED BY REPUBLICANS
 We labored to accomplish this as it was our duty to do. We were bad gered and obstructed by republican leaders, United States senators and political bosses and subsidized press. One hundred and ten newspapers &C., cepted Standard Oll money to culti- vate public sentiment wrongfuliy in their favor and against the prose cators. The monopolies sent the briber with his gold and seductive promises of positions and salaries and procured the leading governmental of ficials to defend them and, law but not least, driven from pillar to post. they came into court and with uplitted hands swore that they did not and could not answer the interrogatories or produce their books, for if they did it would subject their corporation to civil death for violating the law of their creation; and lastly that it would criminate the ollege-iostering, church erecting, campaign-contributlng mu- nopolists.
 "A like experience was encountered against the salt trust at POmeroy, Ohio, and the same dodging and skulking from tbe averaging law was adopted there"
 Mir. Monnett then went into the subject of federal legislation against trusts and discussed tine sherman anti trust law. He dwelt especially upon the Evils Of combinations in restraint of trade.'
 THE LAW UPHELD.
 Referring to the decision of the SUI preme court sustaining the constitu- tionality of the sherman law, AIr. Nonnett said:
 This brought the trusts and mo nopolies to the last ditch in the con test so far as the court and congress were concerned; so far as the legisa- tive and the judiciary were called upon to act All of us that had earnestly fought and contended for this principle felt that 8 great victory had been won; republican from Ohio had introduced the bill, the republi- can house and senate had enacted it into a law. a democratic solicitor gen eral and an attorney general from Ohio had with great learning and i ability sustained the law before the | United States supreme court.
 Pooling of railroads and of rail | road rates, joint traffic associations. | the monopoly of the Standard Oil . company both in it's production and ! transportation of the raw product and | distributing the refined product should | now come under the control of this legislative act, so far as it interfereS !. with interstate commerce.
 "Thirteen suits had been begun, two of them under MT. Cleveiand's admin istration, but they were delayed awaiting the final decision as to the constitutiOnality of this act
 PROMISES NOT KEPT.
 "We nominated president from Ohio, who promised the people in fair phrases that he would enforce the | antitrust laws of the United States, including the sherman antitrust act How has he enforced it? He went to New Jersey, the state of the trust breeding grounds, the ceSspool and the spawn of all these illegal comb- nations, and placed at the head of the attorney generals department His Honor John W. Griggs, who has under him 76 district attorneys scattered throughout the various states of the union, the duty of each and every one of whom is tO enforce this antitrust act. According to his official report May 29, 1900, to congress, out of l3 suits instituted under this law, three have been begun under his adminis- tration, one in the ease of the United States ys. Anderson begun June :. 1897, decided against the government on the ground of want of jurisdiction The second was the United States Coal Dealers Association, decided January 2s, 1898, the third one the