Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1900-07-11


Private monopol,as are indefensible
and intolerable. They destroy compe-
titlon. control the price Of all mate
rial. and of the the finished product
thus robblng both the producer and
the consumer. They lessen the employ
of labor, and arbitrarily fix the term
and conditions thereof and deprive in
dividual energy and small capital Of
their opportunity for betterment.
They are the most efficient mears
yet devised for approprlating the frui
of industry to the benefit of the few at
the expense of the many, and unless
their insatiate greed is checked all
wealth will be aggregated in few
hands and the republic destroyed.
The dishonest palterlng with the
trust evil by the Republican party in
state and national platforms is con-
elusive proof of the truth of the
charge that trusts are the legitimate
product of Republican policies, that
they are fostered by Republican laws,
and that they are protected by the Re
publican administration in return for
campaign subscriptions and political
support.
We pledge the Democratic party to
an unceasing warfare in nation. state
and city against private monopoly 10
every form. Existing laws against
trusts must be enforced and more
stringent ones must be enacted, pro-
viding for publicity as to the affairs
of corporations doing business outside
of the state in their origin that they
have no water in their stock and that
they have not attempted and are not
attempting to monopolize any branch
of business or the production of any
articles of merchandise and the whole
constitutional power OF congress over
interstate commerce, the mails and all
modes of interstate communication
shall be exercised by the enactment of
comprehensive laws upon the subject.
Tariff should be amended by putting
the products of trusts upon the free list
to prevent monopoly under the plea of
protection
The failure Of the present Republican
administration with an absolute con-
troll of all the branches of the natioial
government, to enact any legislation
designed to prevent or even curtail the
absorbing power of trusts and illegal
combinations or to enforce the anti
trust laws already on the statute books
proves the insincerity Of the high
sounding phrases of the Republican
platform,
~ Corporations should be protected In
all their rights, and their legitimate
interests should be respected, but any
attempt by corporations to interfere
with the public affairs of the people, or
to control the sovereignty which Gre
ates them, should be forbidden under
such penalties as will make such at
tempt impossible.
We favor an enlargement of the
scope of the interstate commerce law
as will enable the commission to pro-
tect individuals and communities from
Determinations and the public from
unjust and unfair transportation rates.
We affirm and indorse the principles
of the national Democratic platform
adopted in 1896 in Chicago, made by
the American people for themselves
which shall restore and maintain BIZ
metallic price level, and as part OF
such system the immediate restoration
of the free and unlimited coinage OF
silver at the present legal ratio of Il
to I, without waiting for the aid OF
consent of any other nation.
We denounce the currency bill enact.
ed in the last session OF congress as g
step forward in the Republican policy
which aims to discredit the sovereign
rights of the national government tt
! issue all money, whether coin or pa,
per, and to bestow upon national banks
> the power to issue and control thu
/ volume of paper money for their owl
benefit. A permanent national banl
4 currency. secured by government bond
: must have permanent debt to res
= upon, and If the bank currency is t
a increase with population and business
: the debt must also increase. The Re
a publican currency scheme is the re
: form scheme for fastening upon tn
S taxpayers perpetual and growinl