The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-06-28
A REPUBLICAN RLIEE

The Republican leaders are awakening
to the fact that if they would preserve
their power, work must be done. 1t would
be easy to correct the evils Of which
the people now complain, and which will
make against Republican success next
year and at the presidential election of
1904 But this would entail a substantial
change of policy which the leaders are
not prepared to sanction. The flesh pots
of Egypt have not yet been despoiled
of their contents, and until that time
comes the Republican party, as a party.
will not abandon the policy of taxing
the many for the benefit of the few.
They will trust to luck and the ignor-
ance Of the common voter to keep them
in power for yet another term. BY that
time there will be enough for all who
are entitled to sit at the feast.
Something must be done and done
quickly. Revise the tariff? No, not on
your life. Favor reciprocity treaties?
Never That would be a confession of
the principal allegation in the complaint.
What is to be done? An appeal to
patriotism will be made to offset an
European combination against our trade.
The lingo spellbinder will take the stump
and show how the great American In
dustries Of sugar making and of well
digging are menaced by the arbitrary ac-
tlOn of that 9ufnOratio
Whch presides the car. He will tell
how that prince of darkness, De WHITE
sought to force bounty-bought sugar into
our markets, and was met and defeated
by that angel of light. Gage, armed with
the sword Of Gideon, the Dingley act.
The cry of America for Americans in
particular, and the world for Americans
in general, will be raised to cover the
tracks of our foreign trade policy, as
maintained by the senate.
TO fool the antitrust faction of the
not fill the bill
Something is to be done. The trusts
are to be dealt with according to law.
Even now, we are informed by the chief
organ of the only boss, that the at
torney general is laying the foundation
for legal actions that are to sweep all
unlawful combinations from the face Of
the earth Unlawful combinations what
are unlawful combinations? Mr.. Mark
Hanna himself told the people no longer
ago than last fall, that there are no
trusts, meaning that there were no COM
binations which the law would construe
as trusts and thus hold them amenable
to the antitrust law. What can ATTORNEY
General Knox do? Did not Attorney
General Griggs do his best to fasten upon
the United States decisions which are
favorable to combinations? Unless the
supreme court can be influenced to re-
verse itself, nothing can be done with
the industrial combinations commonly
called trusts
What IS the meaning of this move in
the direction of the courts? It means
that the Republican leauers have seen
the necessity of setting a back-fire to
prevent being consumed by the spread
of the tariff reform con1agration. Some
thing must be done to attract attention
and to give the cuckoo press some
ground to stand upon Nothing will be
done in the line of legal control, because
nothing is wanted done The Ohio Re-
publican platform, dictated by hanna
declared that the Republican party is In
favor Of combinations trusts for both
labor and capital. 1t is difficult to de-
termine whether this is a sly boost for
the trusts or direct slap at labor or
CARNATIONS
All kinds of promises will be made by
the Republican machine to preserve for
the next three years the inviolabiiity of
the modern trust. BY the expiration of
that time, those concerned will have made
their mark and now think they viii be
willing to let up. and turn honest.
These bluffs will, however, be called as
often as put up, by the Republican push. |