The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-11-02

| a CLOCK IUdL ne DlduG. lO-uGy Il SOoh
horse will furnish every room in the
largest house in this city with good
| clock. 1t used to take a good COW to
buy cook-stove now a good COW VIII
fit up a whole kitchen. 1t used to take
a whole calf to buy a saw; now you
can buy a saw for the hide of calf.
1t used to take a pound of best dairy
butter to buy a pound of nails; now
you can buy a pound of nails for
quart of skim milk. 1t used to keep
all the hens on the farm busy laying
eggs to buy the farmers wife calico
dress; now one old hen can do it and
not exert herself much either.
TRUSTS. .=.
Mr. Bryan and the other democratic
candidates and speakers dodge free
| trade except as a panacea for the evil
| of trusts, and they also avoid free Sill
yer. They have found that the Kan
sas City platform is a populistic raft
| hopelessly adrift and only kept a1loat
by those on board of it jumping from
plank to plank This platform, which
| studiously avoids all reference to the
| administration of Mr.. Cleveland, the
only democratic candidate for the pres
| idency elected in forty-four years, de-
nounces the republican party on the
! trust question. They ignore the dem
ocratic president who founded his rep
utation upon the declaration, "Publlc
office is public trust" but they have
been unable to escape the fact in this
| campaign that the democratic party in
the city of New York has turned pub
lie office into an ice trust. And their
! iol feti ia do to no cot lire Of
their position regarding the external
affairs of the nation; so in their rela-
ton to the trust question the hypocri-
sy of their position regarding the inter
nal affairs of the nation. Mr. Bryan
visits the city of New York as the
guest of Richard Croker, who has par
ticipated in the organization Of more
trusts during the past two or three years
than any man in the United States;
and is introduced to a great audience
In Madison Square Garden by Edward
NJ. Shepard, the counsel for the Sugar
Trust. Conscious that he has lost the
support of the commercial and manu-
featuring interests of the country
through his advocacy of the free and
unlimited coinage of silver, Mr. Bryan,
under the guise of an attack upon
trusts undertakes to array the men who
work for a living with their hands
against the men who work for a living
with their capital Conspicuous, indeed,
is hts insincerity. The democratic par
ty has never done anything to control
or suppress monopolies on the other
hand in nearly all the states Of the
union the republican party has put laws
on the statute books regulating them.
The Sherman antitrust law and the
Interstate commerce law, enacted and
enforced by the republican party have
succeeded in exercising such a control
over the greatest of all corporations,
the railroad systems of the country,
that we no longer hear of such opposi-
ton to them as that which led to the
defeat of our Chauncey M. Depew when
in the republican convention of 1888 he
was defeated as candidate for the
presidential nomination by the anti
railroad states of the west. This last
spring the republicans of congress
sought through an amendment to the |
federal constitution to place other great
corporations under federal control The |
resolution for this purpose offered in
congress received the votes OF practical |
ly all the republican members, and was
voted against by every democrat except |
five. The democrats gave as reason |
of their opposition that this amend |
ment was in violation of state rights |
They again demonstrated their insn-
certify on the trust question when they |
allowed an old musty tradition of Bour- |
bon democracy to stand in the way of |
legislation having for its purpose the es-
Enlistment of such power in the fed |
eral government as would make 1t pos
sibe, whenever the interests of the peo-
pie demanded 1t, to regulate or suppress
these unlawful combinations. Br. Bry-
ans entire effort OF late has been di-
rected toward an attempt to array la
Dor against capital This strikes at the
of American institutions,
and is the gravest menace to the integ-
rlty Of the nation and the development
of its destiny of anything that has
since the civil war. No two
forces have closer relationship and are
more inter-dependent than capital and
labor. The man who seeks to destroy
this relationship deserves the condem-
nation of all classes, particularly the la
boring classes. In the closing days of
the campaign Mr.. Bryan has shifted the
contest from being one between repub-
Leans and democrats to q contest be-
tween popullste on the one side and re-
pubicans and democrats upon the 9TH
err combined to maintain such accord
between all classes of citizens as is alb
solutely essential to the continued pros
perity of the nation.
IMPERIALISM
The attempted subordnation of sound
money and protection to the paramount
so-called imperialism and TRUSTS"
retire sound money and protec-
ton as issues from this campaign. A
party platform is no stronger than its
weakest plank whatever be the location
Of the plank. An imperialistic veneer
Ing has added nothing to the strength
IF the Chicago platform of 1896. It has not
been materially strengthened by a number
Of antitrust props, for icicles are very brit
sle Nevertheless, the Bryanlzed democracy
Of 1900 has managed to catch In the net of
imperialism, some who We're among the
btterest opponents Of Mr.. Bryan and all
that he stood for four years ago. Fright
ened Mt the spectre of imperialism they ,
seem to be unconscious of the fact that
torch to some Of our most cherished insti- !
urn nlYn hn al .