The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1900-02-01
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And we don't exTeet to wait for he AID
OF consent OF any other nation on EARN
Bot we are not gong to stop there. We
asa going to call attention to the fact
that more trusts have been organized I'M
der the Repu hlican admlnistfation than
were organized in ell tho previous histofy
OF the country. They know t,my fFienos,
that more combinations of capital organ
ICED for the monopolization OF the sources
of production have come into existence
in the last three years than IN the preVi-
GUS story OF he co1ttry, ana II mas
beep interesting TO me to zee men Wn1
were afraid that we would have nifty
cent dollar nov willing to stand ny cor
porRtions, some OF whom don't have ten
cents to the dollar OF money, the rest OF
IL being wafer. iAppiause. The water
ing Il stock has become so common tnat
somebody has defined a syndicate to 30
oooy OF men entirely surrounded by wa
ter. (Laughter aud applause DO you
expect the Republican party to destroy
the trust? You tell a Republican that
they ought to leg slate on the trust ques-
tion and he will tell you that there Is al
ready a law on that subject and ee Will
sit back very coDtentedly pointing 70 the
law, and then point out trust and ask
him why his party doesn enforce the
law and destroy the trust, and hs explains
to you that the law doesn't quite reach
that case. daughter and applause i
am reminued bv their adjuetible opinion,
1 say l am reminded OF the boy who
watched his father help tie plates ana as
his istner helled his grand ( otner ne
said, "Wbat, all that for grandma" and
the faiths replied, "No 10Y son, that Is
for you," he said, f"Oh,l what "a little
bit" daughter and sppls1se.l ally
friends the Republican party dare not de-
stroy the trust. IL the Republican party
were to destroy the trust IT would kill
81 o bat Iov 10 urlden md the
Republican party would not kill hen
that laid a silver egg IL it could get the
egg. daughter and applause
1t lie possi BILE to destroy the trust when
you want TO. livery trust rests upon a
corporation and every corporation is
through laws create the corporations can
by law restrain them ana protect the
public interests. tApplause.) AND when
they get ready to destroy them the trust
VIII 20. The trouble Is that where all
pa.ties declare against the trust the trust
sees to u that certain cnsa are elected who
will look alter them and without going
baiore the people to procure monopoly
they secure all the benefits of monopoly
py controlling the instrumentalities oil
government. But / believe the peonle eau
see things they dIdn see in 1894 j won
dered why In 1896 everybody dIdn see
what the trusts meant. ALI these trusts
were supporting the Republican party
then, and Ii was pointed out to the peo-
pie that il the trusts secured the election
Of the candidates whom they supported
they wouIdn be destroyed by these can
dioatss whom they elected. l say | won
dered why people didn't see 1t. But, my
friends, II a man can't see thing some
distance off he can generally see 1t when
no comes up against ii, and great many
people have felt the trusts since 1895 tho
didn see them befo.e that time. Laugh
nd nj \
minded OF one OF Solomons proverbs:
"The wise man forsseeth evil and heedeth
hiuself; the foolish pass on ana are nun
ished." There is an IDEA there, great
idea, and it is beautifully expressed, hut
it is SO long that have condensed II ana
in Its condensed form 1t reads like TINS:
The wise man gets the idea into his head;
the foolish man gets 1t IN the neck.
daughter and applause l believe that
the people are ready 10 express themselves
on this subject. remem Der hearing OF q
Quaker. long suffering and patient man,
who was cut in the field putting up his
hay. lie put load OF hay onto the wag'
on and started Tor his house. As he saw
the clouds gathering be hurried up and
ran into a rut. and the hay fell OF. Ho
put the hay back onto the wagon and
started again and this clouds came near
him and IN his hurry be ran into another
rut sni his hay ell off again. de put
the hay olto tine wagon again and started
Tor the third time, and just as be got 10
the barn ii began to rain ana in his hur-
~ to get into the barn he ran of the
bridge ana the hay fell off again. His
pat fence was exhausted ana as be saw
his wife coming out from the house TO
inquire what was the matter ne shouted
$40 back, Sarah, go back, am about TO
express mvself." (Gtest laughter and
applause i believe that the American
peorIs are about ready to express them
~ nnegtinU | met
the OF her day on the train who now lives
in oston. lie used TO live IN the town
in which ! reside. de sat down by me
and we were recalling old times ana /
had inquired about his business and he
began 10 tell me how the trusts we're
bothering him, and as he grew eloquent
In his denunciation OF the trusts said TO
him. "You were Republican IN Ns6ras.
ka were you not?" "Yes. SIR" "You
won't be a Republican much longer ii
you talk that way" And he says, ~
know OF five hundred men of my own ac-
uuaiutance who voted the kepu blic8n
ticket in 1896 who will vote against tho
Kepub licans this year on the trust cues
tom (Applause.) But, my friends,
there are some VINO Will not see the
VICIOUS doctrine that Ierverts all Repub-
lIcan policies even as applied to the trust
question, and / am glad that even in
this campaign We have even simpler
question than the money question or the
trust question. Because whan you take
an economic question you must tirst take
some accepted principle and then apply
It to the question in HAND. But when
you deal with the great fundamental
principles OF government you deal with
self-evident truths. You don't have TO
argue, you merely have to state, and IN
this next campaign We are going to have
the question OF imperialism, which
itrikes at this very fundant ntal principles
OF our government. In the Declaration
OF Indeucndence our foreiathers wrote
that certain truths were seif-evIdent.
What were they? that all men are
created equal; that they are endowed
with certain inaliensble rights: that gov
ern ~ 9 is are instituted among men to
4 scure these rights; and thar governments
ueEiVs their just powers from the consent
o: the governed. Here are the four great
policies upon which all free governments
must rest, and for more than century
no man has ever risen to question The
correctness OF these truths. under all
the conditions that have taken place, PEG
pie have ad mitted that ths Declaration OF
Independence was sound, but today The
Renu blIcan marty has started in to EepsaI