The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1900-06-23
HOW TO STRANGLE THE
OCTOPUS.
Daily States.

Daily States.
In his speech delivered in the
House on the subject of TRUSTS and
their .ools," Hon. John j. Lentz, OF
Ono, gave some telling blows to the
Republican leaders that made then
squirm =, in their seats. Here are
some specimen bricks thrown at the
tools of the trusts by the speaker
who tells them q very simple way tC
strsngle the octopus if they are sin.
cere in their protestations of a de.
sire TO do so-which of course they
are not:
"Oh, yes; you are against the
trusts l will tell you how to get rid
of the trusts. If the trusts elect Nc
Kinley in November, constitutional
amendment or 40 amendment, the
trusts will do business at the old
stand for four years more. Ii the
people elect William Jennings Bry-
an (applause). no amendment will
be necessary, and after the 4th of
next March we shall have an Attor-
ney- General who will not go on
sleeping while trusts go on fattening,
for he will keep the trusts SO busy
that 1t will be hotter for them than
any part of the tropical islands Of
our empire
"Let William Jennings Bryan
give us an honest ACKNOWLEDGEMENT,
not from the State of New Jersey
(lnughter) but from State where
they are not trust-ridden, and l
assure you that if Mr.. Bryan is elect
ed we shall need no constitutional
amendment. We will not 60 to the
home OF the trusts for an Attorney
General of the United States; we
will not ask governor. made such
by the trusts of New York and the
State of New Jersey, to come over to
Washington and sit in the Cabinet
and protect the trusts. We will do
business under the law as it now ex-
lists, and trusts will depart from this
land. cloud applause on the DEM
ocratic side.
Nov let me tell you another
thing about these trusts. We have
President Of the United States who
told us our plain duty to Porto
Rico. Immediately couple of trust
magnates visited the city of Wash
ington, and from the President of the
United States down to the smallest
member over there you changed your
minds in day and a night and you
never told anybody where or when
changed nor whether 1t was before
or after midnight when you changed.
Nor have you told who was present
when you changed your minds. Oh,
yes; you are against trusts, all of
you. Laughter.)
lyon are very anxious to amend
the Constitution under which you es-
tablished despotism in Porto Rico.
the Constitution under which you es-
tabllshed a trust of carpetbag thieves
in Cuba (applause), under which you
paid brides and pensions to NOLAN
and polygam!sts in the Sulu
Islands Daughter and applause, the
under which you had
power to shoot to death a congress
of Christian people III Luzon who
had fought, bled and died for lib
erty and the right Of self-govern-
ment, and yet you claim YOU have
not sufficient to stop the trusts from
using the mails while they are
fleeing the Republic of thousands,
Of hundreds of thousands, and mill
ions of dollars.
'1ou could prevent the lottery
trust in New Orleans from using the
mails, but your Constitution is too
weak to prevent the wire and nail
trust. or the tobacco trust from using
the mails,
"Who says the Constitution will
allow postal laws to prevent obscene
hut will not allow postal laws
to prevent the trusts from robbing
the people?
You know very well how You can
reach the trusts. The 6est-informed
man on this subject in your party.
Mr.. Monnett. told YOU how he would
and yon got rid of him." daughter
on the Democratic side.
la the same speech Mr.. Lentz
gives this singing blow to the i'm
United. States Supreme
Court. or to at least ore member
hereof in which he more than lnti-
mates that the learned and upright |
uGge had in night changed his
nind--in brief, sold himself as the |
sells = cabbage-head to the
hrif,y hou1
II ycs~ zen on the other
.iSi''sss ennd for legisla-