The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1900-06-22


sccptcr and responsibility benignly
smiles on beth and says. God bless yss.
my children.
..Only short time aro they were tell
ing Us with equal earnestnesS thar there
were no trusts But when Mark Hanna
dictated q platform for the r'pupheAh
state convention ~ ohio. which Was
adopted Ia this Auditorium but few
weeks since he forSook that old false
hood and made full confession oil MS
sins ana the sins OF the -cpEolcan party
The, platform not only acknowledge the
existence OF trusts. but proceeded 20
classify them. In effect, II declared that
there are three kinds OF trusts good. bad
ana indifferent The indifferent trust Is
the trust that IS not big enough 70 at
tract much attention: the bad trust Is the
trust that refuses to throw up its hands
when the political highwayman appears.
and the good trust Is the trust Thar CON
tributes most % the REPUBLICAN, party. 70
which Il owes It's life. Thus nowadays.
instead OF telling US there Is no impe-
rfalism they will be pointing US 70 the
comparative advantages OF Inherent
brands 81 imperialism. Some will doubt
less be labeled 'Polygamy. others slaV-
cry others Tariff Taxes Between Parts
OF the Union and stil others with va
rious designations more or less appropri-
ate And rien we shall have c.sseFta-
lions on their respective merits by
man whose only claim 10 renoWn Is that
he bought 4 United States senatorship
and afterward boosted that he Knows
hfs business But when this happens we
shall have gained one point. We shall
have forced them TO admit that imperial
Ism is az hand. just as we have ALREADY
forced them To admit trusts are to-day
operating in every state OF the union.
in violation of the law and 10 the ruin
OF the public welfare
..Rehind these trusts-the Industrial and
the imper!ai-is one greater than any and
from which all the others come. IL is the
political trust operated by NJ. A. Hanna
and represented in the white house by
William Mckinley. This is the trust that
goes into every state. every congressional
district. every county and every precinct
in this country. debating who shall be
candidates for public once: who, being
candidates shall be elected; who shall
make the laws and what kind OF laws
| they shall De when made. The political
/ trust is the trust that goes into state
/ legislatures and even 10 the distant Is
/ lands OF the sea, TO procure puDnc IRAN
/ chiSes for its favoritcs. This Is the trust
\ that determines which party shall pre-
dominate in both branches OF congress,
\ and in return for services 20 that end
openly and shamelessly bestows foreign
/ consulships and local Offices upon those
who promote its interests. This is the
| trust which gathers UP the usufruct OF
/ all the other trusts and applies their
millions annually 70 perpetuate itseit IN
| mower This * the trust that worms
itself into political conventions. as II has
/ recently done in Ohio. and from this very
| platform and IS able To prevent delegates
I from voting for their choice for state
| officer. even after they have been In
| structed b. their constituents for whom
| To vote This Is the trust that is abb,
| = $50 Ii Of
bratfng the one hundredth year OF theii
glorious history in a manner already
provided By law. because. forsooth, tins
political trust would make Of the Ohio
centennial political machine. This J.
the trust whose operations are universe
the mother OF all the other trusts
Sometimes its offspring multiply too rap
idly. and then it becomes like the oil
woman who lived In a shOe-she rad -
many children she didn't know what Z
do But when this happens 10 the 20
ltical trust it has remedy in killinl
on some OF its children BY giving other
advantages over them. and so the fam
lis resumes its former numbers and pros
pers on continued robbery without az
tracing too much attention This trus
fixes the policy OF the government BY die
tating who shall constitute II. IL Is able {
, stine freedom abroad and breed corruT
ton at home. for under its operation
ii is easier for political boss 10 buy
United States scnatorship than for
slave. to buy his liberty in the Philippine:
..You cannot destroy the other trust
! and let the political trust live. The
, must stand or fail together. IL all IN
other trusts were destroyed. the politics
! trust would breed their successors, bl
II the political trust is destroyed. a
the others will die from lack OF nourisf
, | ment. To accomplish this is the objcs
| q IL he III ~
. ssn5lage here and will be the object (
the greater assemblage that will pre-!
I entity give a new expression OF the NJ
| tional faith at Kansas city. And whe
that Il done and our cand late Is non
mated at one stroke we shall have mao
/ an end Of the Imperialism Of industr
and the Imperialism Of arms.
: -NIv friends in all we think. in all "
I express. in all we DO. in all We propos
/ ii Is most essential now that we rene
our devotion 70 the cardinal principle
8 or American statesmdnship, since othe
4 have departed from them. II was VII
y ten Oh the death Of a great Persia
\ philosopher that. taking the ilrat ioo
: step with the good thought the secof
: with the good word and the third wi
i the good deed. he entered Paradise.
!, the same order OF progress the poop
= OF this country. narshaled under Il
C banners 81 triumphant democracy. M
= rceater the land or the fathtr- anu 10
: sess IT, IL Is astonishing. Il Is humilla
y ing-but II is true-that to-day we a
v obliged to reatsirm fundamental doctrin
< that were accepted as matters OF cour
L only four years ago IN order 10 pro
n our title 10 the name OF freemen.
d 1--WE believe in the constitution OF q
j. United States We believe In tho declar
/ ton OF independence. We believe In q
J. Monroe doctrine We believe that Z
Il love Of liberty is Unborn in the huns
n breast and that possessing It's fruits ou
selves through more than a century
u trial and temptation. we cannot de-
n them to others We believe that the 10
( OF liberty "a the same In California
70 In Massa rhusctts the same In cuba
a in California. the same in Porto ri
y as in cuba the same in the Philippin
= as IN Porto Rico. and the same in Sou
D. Africa a. in the Philippines. We ma
he no distinction as to where liberty shot
\ be enjoyed when men desire II. Intel
- gent sacrifices for liberty prove the
re ness of their victims To possess IL. a
"a there's no line drawn between such sac
b. fees. whether they are offered on
IN altar OF American tyranny In Luzon
IL on the altar OF British greed in
le TransvaaI Sherman said that war