The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-08-30

room to dispute what we have just said
We will quote few sentences from
carefully prepared address delivered by
representative Littlefeld, of Maine,
before the American Bar Association
in Denver, a week ago. Mr.. Littletield
is a staunch and strenuous Republican.
Speaking of the insular cases he said:
"These cases in the manner in which
results were reached, The incongruity
of results, and the variety of iuconsis-
tent views expressed by members of
the court, are without parallel in our
judicial history. Until some reason
able consistency and unanimity of
opinion is reached by the Court upon
the questions brought up by what are
called the "insular cases" We can
hardly expect the courts conclusions
to be final and beyond revision" In
| the light of this criticism it is not an
easy matter to see how the platform
builders could venture to say that the
Republican insular policy was sane
toned hy the Supreme Court.
The Republican party sis reddy by
lar to curb and dcffat trusts which
aide competition in trade, and to sup
press all combinations Which create q
monopoy." This is cool and refresh
ing for sultry weather. Monopolles
have existed probably as long as civil
liZation has, but the trusts as we know
them today are of recent origin. They
have grown up under Republican au.
spices and are hostile to Democracy.
The fact, which is notorious, that these
trusts are the mainstay of the Repub-
ican party and furnish its managers
with money to carry elections, is most
persuasive evidence that the Republi-
can party is not ready to curb and de-
feat organized trusts. These trusts an
tagonize the Democratic party because
that party's precepts aud principles are
at war with their policy and practice,
and the trusts support the Republican
party because they are protected by 1t
aud expand and grow more powerful
under its fostering care. In the Au-
Gust number Of the Cosmopolitan DR..
Richard T. Ely states that he sees in
the billion dollar steel trust "three dis
tinct kinds of monopolistic forces
working together and strengthening
each other-viz. those proceeding from
sharp limitations of upply of valuable
minerals; those proceeding from pat
ents and secret processes, and, finally,
those coming from transportation
agencies and other similar monopois-
tic pursuits. We find thus what we
may call monopoly raised to the third
pDw,rn Does not this colossal trust
stihe competition in trade and is it not
combination which creates a monop-
oily? 1t is, as DIR. Ely says, monopoly
raised to the third power. Yet, in
stead of being curbed, defeated or
suppressed by the Republican party, it
has grown up during that partys as
cendancy and is today, without a word
of condemnation from that party, en-
gagged in gigantic warfare on organ
lied labor According to the ethics of
these monopplists and their Republi-
can allies combinations are lawful for
milliouaires, but criminal for laboring
men. Monopolists may combine and
crush labor, but if laboring men organ
ize for self-protection they are shot
down on the highway or new pro-
cedure invoked, namely, government
by injunction. If there were no Smo-
nopolistic combinations there would be
no labor organizations, because there
would be no occasion for their exist
ence, and there would be no conflict
between capital and labor The cause
of that conflict is to be found in unlaw-
full combinations of capital. Remove
the cause and an end will be put to
the conflict. 1t will take the strong
hand of the Democratic party to re-
move the cause 1t is unreasonable to
expect the Republican party to extir-
pate an evil which that party has itself
created and encouraged.
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