The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1900-07-10

would entail. The average town
ship in Crawford county today is
asked to maintain from one-half to
three fourths of a soldier and yet
our people talk OF militafism. The
people who fled from Europe, as
the democratic platform states, on
account Of miitarism will laugh at
the straw bug a-boo erected by
democracy.
And now with beating of tom
toms and blood-curdling war cries
Democracy takes up the sub
ject OF trusts. Nothing is said
about the ice-trust, nothing is said
about the fact that the democrats
IN Congress are responsible for the
defeat In the lower house Of the
proposed constitutional amend
ment by which Congress would
have power to properly regulate,
control, and if need be to abolish
any harmful trust And in view of
the fact that when Democracy has
had absolute control of the gov
eminent, nothing was done to pre-
vent monopolies and trusts, in
view of the fact that in New York
City, the greatest Democratic
stronghold of the country to-day, a
trust on that great product of ice,
which is so necessary even to the
lives of the people, has been foster
ed by democratic leaders and poll
ticians; in view of the fact that
democratic control has ever been
synomous. with public corruption,
the following statement of Demo
crazy is almost ludicrous: sWe
pledge the democratic party to an
unceasiag warfare in nation, state,
and city and against private mono
poly in every FORM" And how the
Tammany braves must have laugh
ed in their sleeves when they read
this plank in the democratic plat
form. After this general statement
of what they are going to do Dem
ocracy comes down to detail and
urges three things relative to trust
regulation. The first is publicity.
AS if you could materially effect
the interest Of any corporation by
compelling it to publish statistics,
which it must of necessity prepare
itself. The figures given out by
the trust would naturally be such
figures as the trust desired Ito have
published. Secondly, Democracy
proposes more stringent enforce.
ment of the republican antitrust
laws and the enactment of still
stronger legislation.
4 Leading jurists throughout the
country have given it as their opin-
ion, and the many decisions of the
supreme court have shown that on
account of the limitations of the
constitution, the present law is al.
most incapable of enforcement, and
that more stringent Legislation
could not be made effective with.
out an amendment to the constitu
ton. This is excactly what the
republicans proposed and is exact
ly what the representatives of dem
ocracy defeated.
The third measure which demo
cracy would direct against the
: trusts is the repeal OF the Protec
tive tariff. This is exactly wha
5 the people do not want. Th'
people as a whole have not beer
so prosperous as they have beer
: under protective tariffs, they know
A that while its repeal might injur'
5 large business concerns it would
also ipjure small ones. They know
that repeal of the protective TART
r would mean a return of the Cleve
: land hard times, and they are no
! jealous enough of some other man
success to empty their own pocket
7 books in order to effect another
ruin.
And now comes the importan
and dangerous plank of the demo