The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1900-10-26
DOWN ON TRUSTS.
frank S. Monnett, of Ohio, Speak,
for Bryan.
Former Republican Attorney GcEs
eral Char ges Capitalists with
Controlling the Nations
Chief Executive.

ScuGIdl OI OIIC
and who has achieved national repb
tation on account of his vigorous war.
fare on trusts, made ringing speech
at nonpartisan meeting of laborins
men at Columbus ON the night of Fri.
day, October IL, concluding with
public announcement that he would
vote for Bryan this fall and advising
all of his republican friends to do the
same. Mr.. Monnett confined his adj
dress wholly to trusts. He reviewed
the prosecutions against various
trusts, combinations and monopolies
which he had undertaken while at
torney general of the state. In this
connection he said:
"It became my privilege and duty to in
stitute upward of "a 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 pillage your
sugar bowl, your oil can, your tobacco
pouch exact excessive freight and tele-
phone charges and to protect you In your
rights of private property under the con-
stitution and laws of the state. We la
bored to accomplish this, as it was our
duty to do. a
Distracted by Republicans. 90
I'VE were badgered and gobstructed by
republican leaders, United States senators,
political bosses and subsidized press. The
nonopolies sent the briber with his seduc-
tons of gold and with his promises of po-
sitions and salaries and procured the lead
ing governmental officials to defend them,
and last, but not least, driven from pillar
10 post, they came into court and with
uplifted hands sworethat they did not and
could not answer the interrogatories or
produce their books for If they did 1t would
subject their corporations to civil death
iof viola ting the law of their creation;
and lastly. that it would criminate the col
iege-fostering, church-erecting, campaign
contributing monopOliSts.
"A like experience was encountered.
against the salt trust at Pomeroy. O.. The
same dodge and skulking from the aveng-
Ing law was adopted there"
Points to McKinley's Record.
Mr.. Monnett then went into the subject
Of federal legislation against trusts and
discussed the Sherman antitrust law.
He dwelt especially on the "evils of COM
binations in restraint Of trade" Contin-
uing, he said:
I'VE nominated a president from Ohio,
who promised the people in fair phrases
that he would enforce the antitrust laws
IF the United States. including the Sher-
man antitrust act. How has he enforced
1t? He went to New Jersey, the state of
The trust-breeding grounds, the cesspool
and the spawn of all these illegal COM
binations, and placed at tie head of the
attorney generals department John w.
GriggS, who has under him IS district at
:orneys scattered throughout the various
states of the union, the duty of each and
every one of which is to enforce this anti
trust act, and according to his official re-
port May y, 1900. to congress out of Is suits
instituted under this law three have been
begun under his administration, and one
Of these is not yet decided.
Declares Law liz Nullihed.
This is the magnificent record of the
present national Administered and the
complete notification of the most impor-
.ant law upon the statute books upon this
subject since the beginning of our govern
ment
the Sherman antitrust act; they were
completely routed by the judiciary in the
inal test In the supreme court, and they
have row begun the dangerous policy of
paralyzing the executive arm by means
that are so palpable that he who runs may
read, and none but the most skeptical can
fail to be convinced.
II believe that William Mckinley and
John w. Grfggs. his attorney general and
his executive officers have willfuIly, pur.
posely and knowingly paralyzed the OK.
ecutive arm of this government for the
last four years and prevented the enforce
ment Of the common law and the statute
law, both crimfnally- and civilly against
come and the only time we win have for
the next four years as voters to legally and
ronstitutionally smite them for this hypoc-
risy, to resent this violation of official
duty, and We should vote against every
slector that is pledged on the republican
ticket to peIpetuate this great wrong in
our republic.
Urges Support of Bryan
William J. Bryan may not accomplish
all that We expect or all that we hope for
in this behalf but believe him to be thor
,ughly honest. sincere and a determined
nah. and while 1 do not agree with him
in all that he advocates. yet am forced to
take one side al the other on this great
question which for the masses is the para
mount issue.
In the name of patriotism and for the
sake of our republic and to prevent the
threatened danger that Senator John Sher-
man ard the other Nestors in the coun-
ellis of our government have so graphically
>rophesied. and which firmly believe will
come to pass If not checked propose tc
champion of the people, William J. Bryan"
Nothing could be more child
ish than the plant of Mr.. Mckinley
commission that it is the hope of dem
ocratic success in the election that
keeps the Filipino instruction alive
Was it any hope CT a liberal success il
Spain that kept them fighting agains'
Spanish domination for 200 years.
Were Pitts speeches required to en-