The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-09-08
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Mississippi, while insisting upon their
adherence to It westiof the Mississippi.
Is in itself enough!to, liscredit them In.
he Eyes Sof all good citizens, whether.
Republicans or genuine Democrats.
Free. Silver Policy Disastrous.
moreover over the attitude Is entirely f,,-
III. The leaders hmons our opponents
arc doubtless unfasily conscious that,
thcir free silver pplicy would be dlsas-;l
trous to The welfare of.3our country
bpt having played me part of dema-
cogues, they must noWareap the fruits
Of their action. 1f,thcy Gang into pow
Or their possession of power would
throw this country tihto commissions Of
disaster. They would be obliged TO
make war, upon thsIprinciplas Of sound
finance. / The victory or Nh Bryan
would mean such 4 strengthening Of the
foes OF honest money US TO powerfully
impress every wayering mind in the
senate, so shnt free silver legislation
could probably pass both houses; and
no secretary OF the treasury who would
accept Office under Mr.. Bryan could do
anything but follow a course OF action
which would plunge our financial sys-
tenn into chaos. IL the Sfarmer, thu
business man, fnd the geSorker var.
prosperity to continue. they, must make
up their minds that the incoming Of Mr.:
BRYAN would mean terrible and wide.
spread disaster.
I. Talks on Trusts. q, Z
A word as totrusts. Beyond q ques-
ton the great Industrial combinations
which We group In popular parlance I'M,
dert he name h trusts have produced
great and SERIOUS evils. There is every
reason why &e should try 70 abatc
those evils and 70 make men Of wealth.
whether they Act individually or collec-
tIyeB, bear their full share, of the coun-:
tryis burdens and keep as scrupulously
within the bounds Of equity and moral.
ity astany OF their nelghbors. Butswild..
and frantic dsnunciattons does not do
them the least harm and simply post
pones the daywhen we, can make them
.amenable TO proper laws. Hasty legls-.
lados of a violent type is either wholly
ineffective against the evil, or else
brushes the evil at the expense Of
crushing even more of good. We need
ito approach the subject both with firm
resolution toiabate the evils and In a
spirit Of hard comon sense as We search,
for the means of abatlng them.
n; What the Evils Are. 4.
One Of the first things to obtain Is,
publicity. We must be able by law TO
find out exactly what each corporation
does and earns. This near publicity It
self will eject something towards rem
edying many evils, Moreover it will
therefoit enable us to shape. our meas
ures tof attacking the latter with: good
prospects of success. 1mmdderate at.
tack aways invitestreactlo and often
defe.Y, Moderation combined with res
olutSn can alone secure results worth
haythg. Let me point out to you that
within the last two yearscwe have in
Nsiv York established q franchise tax
,upder.. (which the corporations which
oke most to the state, but which had
Hitherto largely escaped taxation; have
3een required to pay their. Just share Of
taxation.
,tSi. Beneficial Law.
This law has resulted In putting upon
the assessment Books nearly two hun
dred millions Of property, which had
heretofore escaped taxation. It repre-
eents ten times over more than our OPP
ponents ever did in that state. or SO
far as I know In any other state, have
done 70 remedy the inequalities which
can justly be complained Of; and yet
we did 1t without any demagoglc out
cry, and we did 1t in no anarchic spirit,
but simply as the friends of order and
liberty; tof property and individual
rights. who intended temperately but
flrmty.to. insist upon Justice for all. In
other words, We made our performance
square with our promise. Contrast this
with what our epponetns in that state
DID. The leader Of the Democratic
party in my state, and the gentleman
who ran against me for governor on
an antitrust platform and who served
on the committee on resolutions at
Kansas City which drew up their pres
ent platform, ere both of them very
loud in their denunclation Of trusts.
Deeds, Not Words
They say a great deal more against
them than I should say. because I am
hampered by the fact that I want to
have my deeds always make good my
words. When we come to deeds, how.
ever, we. find that in q particularly fla
grant trust, the Ice trusts. the two gen
tlemen referred to stand foremost
among the stockholders, the same
stockholders including a number OF the
New York City officials and this in
spite Of the fact that the city itself had
dealings with the trusts. Such con-
dition 5of affairs calls. for but scant
comment from me. You can hope for
but little from men who in; other
words play the demasogue about
trusts; youican hope for Infinitely less
when these very men Join TO public de-
nunclatlon ofitfusts private ownership
in them. /. Y !. IL i, Z. z, s n
Lauds McKinley's Administration.
In many points there is q curious