The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1900-10-27
CirCuintion Statement.
Senator scott-Burchard.

All patriots have reason to pray: Give
US this day. our daily Burchard!" We
presume it has been done to a wide ex-
tent already. since we have had the bless
ing of Hanna's declaration that there is
hot trust in the United States. and
President Governs practical threat to
throw workingmen out Of employment in
ease of trust defeat at the polls. Now,
however. Senator Scott of West Virginia
comes along and does better by US than
either OF the others.
It was at the dinner given in New York
last evening in honor of Theodore Roose-
Welt, and which he refused to attend, that
Scott rose to the occasion and INDUCED
in few appropriate remarks Referring
to conditions in his own State. he is quot
ed as saying:
Fright here I want to say believe in trusts.
They a.e a good thing. IT, Standard Oil Com
pany put in its pipe lines to all the small towns
where oil is produced, and if it was not for the
Standard OIL Company this prosperity that we
have wouldn't be there today
1t is stated that the look of consterna-
ton which this outburst produced on the
faces of the trust politicians and mag
mates at the banquet tables caused Sena-
tor Scott to see that he had opened his
mouth only to put his foot in it. The
story goes on to relate that with his
usual resourcefulness in difficulties, he
jumped upon his chair. and shaking his
red right fist at a reporter in 4 corner,
he roared:
t'If that newspaper puts that down, 1 viii
make trouble for him!'
In a less offensive way, it is said that
Mr., Bliss. General Greene. Lobbyist
Odell, and several other trust lights,
begged that Senator Scott's remarks
might be omitted from the report of the
proceedings. All Of these gentlemen had
distinct and shiyering forebodings of
what might result should such indis-
creetly frank language reach the great
public which Hanna and his coadjutors
are desperately trying to delude.
Except upon the ground of imprudence,
we do not see that Mr.. Rockeseller's Sen
etor is much to be blamed OF course he
thinks that trusts ara good thing"
They are eminently good for and TO him.
Were HanEa's assertion true, SCOTS title
would be plain Mr. and not Senator
and what he does not know about pipe
lines and pine LAYING rnuId ha snsyrnSsed
upon three-cent piece in circus poster
type We agree with him, too, that if the
Standard Oil Company did not have a
blanket mortgage on his State-at least
while it is under Republican rule-''this
prosperity that We have wouldn't be there
today" The prosperity to which he re-
fers, naturally is that enjoyed by himself.
Elkins, and few Others and he ought to
speak well OF it from a personal view
point
We must acknowledge that prosperity
which is confined to trusts and their local
agents and tools is not the kind that the
people at large are likely to endorse It is
the prosperity which fills the safety depos-
1t vaults of the trust magnates with gilt
edged securities, provides them with nal
aces and ocean yachts, and loads their
women with more diamonds, rubies. and
pearls than any Indian Maharanee can
show Otherwise it is general only in the
Bense that it offers the unfulfiiled, and in
tended to be unfulfIled, promise of a full
dinner pail TO the remainder of our citi
genship- II sends trust attorneys to the
United States Senate, and makes Attor-
heys General of them. It even lands them
On the Supreme Court bench which, by
and by, they viii pack and dominate
Should the trusts triumph at the polls
next month It is exactly that sort OF
prosperity that Scott and his masters adore
and would p5rpetuate. 1t is prosperity
for class and economic slavery for the
masses.