The evening times., 1900-10-16
Trust. LARGE and sn,au.

| in the back by Governor stones Infantry
Trusts Large and Small.
| MIR. AIger has contributed his erumb to
| the heap of testimony on the trust ques-
/! tion. He says that there are trusts which
are not trusts.
| This is perhaps the prettiest example of
| word juggling which has yet come TO
| light in the literature of the present cam
| paign. 1t bestrides the fence most sue
| cessfully, admitting as much on one side
as it denies on the other 1t only half
| agrees with Mr.. Hanna, who says that
! there are trusts. but so far as heard
| from Mr.. Hanna. is the only one who is
| entirely in accord with that opinion.
| The people know that there are such
| things as trusts. and they know what
| these are, and what their effect is. They
| have been educated up to this knowledge
| by a sort of kindergarten method The
| principle of these combinations of capital
| is SO deep-seated and far-reaching that
almost everyone has seen a small illus
| tration Of it in his own community. In
| most villages there are, or have been at
some time, monopolies held by one man
or a syndicate of men. They may have
had to do with either business or social
life. Sometimes there is one man who,
by dint of oyerbearing will and superior
executive ability, craft and determina-
ton, has made himself the controlling
factor in the lives of the villagers. Moth
ing can be done in town meeting without
his influence: the church must please
be graeed by his presence; no business
deal can SO through against his wish. The
effect of such domination is always bad.
II is essentially contrary to the American
spirit, and it never lasts. There is no viii
lage, however small, IN this country,
where such a monopoly of power and
privilege has been held for long This
proves as clearly anything can the es-
sentally democratic spirit of the people
of this country. Sooner or later some
barefooted, tow-headed boy on a hill
farm. observing the haughtiness of the
village magnate and the demoralizing ef-
feet 1t has on the citizens of the place,
grows up with burning determination to
overthrow this influence; and he general
ly does it. When. therefore, that same
tow headed boy, grown TO manhood, sees
big combination Of capitalists doing to
the whole country precisely what the
squire" or the Judge" or simply '-oid
Mr.. Skinfint,' did in his native village
a quarter of a century before, he knows
what the effect is likely to be. and sets
his wits to work to find some way 10
destroy the demoralizing influence. There
IS no aristocratic tradition in America.
There is nothing to support plutocracy.
When all is said, all social systems rest
on sentiment; and there is no sentiment
in being ruled by syndicate.
Only a few days ago the State Depart
ment renewed its expressions of the most
distinguished consideration" to Minister
(and EDITOR WI, and congratulated him
upon the good faith and pTomptitude shown
by his Government in degrading and ban
ishing the bloody and execrable Prince
Tuan to the Siberian frontier. Today the
China dispatches announce that Tuan is
still doing business at the old stand: that
he is in absolute control OF the court and
! Of the Imperial seal which he is stamp
ing on edicts of a most sangufnary nature,
ers and butchers Of foreigners TO high Of
flee, and generally acting the part of a
regularly chartered and licensed Chinese
Hanna. The moral which we deduce from
this situation is, that it is sometimes desir-
able to withhold congratulations until one
can get direct news from Siberia.
What may be considered as one of the
early fruits OF the Administration Chi
nese cut. and scuttIe policy is TO be seen
in the general outbreak in southern
China by which the lives OF hundreds
of Americans and vast aggregate of
property belonging to citizens of this
country are placed in extreme and inmi-
nent peril Mr.. Wildman, cur Consul at
Hongkong, has gone to Manila to consult
General Macarthur about the situation:
doubtless with q view to learning wheth-
er or not there is any chance of getting
military protection for our menaced p2o-
pie Probably this is a bad move for
Mr.. Wildman to make. He may see more
of the conditions in the Philippines than
his suDeriors would like him to. and Mac
Arthur may tell him things concerning
the war situation which the Washington
orator until afte.. election The Consul
therefore, in his zeal for his country, may
stand a chance of losing his official head.
II the public knew exactly who was pro-
noting the proposed Russian loan
of one hundred and fifty million |
dollars, in New York, it might not |
be difficult to understand the rec |
ent sudden warming of our splendid |
diplomacy toward the Court of St. Pet |
ersbuTgh. There is something back of |
the raPprochement, of a substantial bust
ness character, or our amiable and kind |
hearted President would not smile and |
chirp so sweetly over power that had |
the inhumanity to order the massacre of |
the five thousand Chinese men. women,
and children who were ruthlessly marched |
TO the banks Of the Amur River and bayo- |
neted into it, and drowned, at BIago- |
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New York State Swinging Back
tFTom the Omaha World Herald)