The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-02-28

these American trusts have been able to
crush out the smaller manufacturers ana
traders of the United States and in less
than two decades build up n mountain
of Millionaire personal estates to the de-
structIon of the old regime of free com
petition and moderate fortunes invested
in business In the financial sense, the
middle class of this country has been All
but viped out through the power over
legislation and the State and natiohal
executives, and through the illegal de-
vices and oppressive practices defiantly
resorted to by these cormorant syudi-
Gates and corporations to enrich them
selves and rob the people.
An important feature of the situation,
and one which has received far TOO Httie
attention on this side of the water Is
undressing Great Britain and Europe IN
the most serious manner. we reIer u
the repeated and defiant international
evidences which, of late. have been given
that the Government of the thlted
States as it exists and operates under
the Fanna-Mc Kinley. Morgan and ROCK
efeller control. is one with the trusts
and has its being primarily for their pro-
motion and benefit
The worlds statesmen. dipiomatists'
and economists are not blind to the I'M
adopted in our foreign relations. designed
to conserve and advance the interests OF
the great magnates of industry, trans
I portation, and money, who own, and
through a political agency, dominate
and conduct the present Administration
The wise of all countries know that
trouble is to be expected with a vast and
growing power like the United States,
which subordinates its course in a world
movement like that in CHINA, to the de-
sires and purposes of the Standard Oil
Trust; and which threatens to make war
on a neigbboring Republic to enforce
very questionable claim of the Asphalt
Trust against smaller American inter-
est holding franchises from Venezuela,
which menace the monopoly of the ia
vored combination. If the trusts. which
ara beginning to take the bread out of the
mouths of Europe, because extortion at
home under the protective" tariff en-
al;ies them to do so. in truth are not only
Ga the United States. but TO all interests
and purposes are the United States.
then a political and international prob
lem is presented to the family of nations
that its members will not be long in at
lacking, from the highest prudential mo-
tives.
In the course of a couple of years our
principal commercial treaties with Eu-
rope Will begin to run out; that with
France will expire in about that time.
Russia has sounded a note of warning to
the other Old World States in its IMPOSE
ton of retaliatory tariffs upon our export
trade. We may look for movements of
this kind from other quarters. Yet, In
the face of such conditions. the rec-
procity treaties which have been nego-
tiated with number of States are hung
UP in the Senate, and are not to he con-
sidered at the present session of Con-
gress. This is simply reckless madness.
Each reciprocity treaty affects some trust
in some small way. EaGu. through its
power oyer Congress through the Admin
istration is able 10 defeat the particular
proposition to which it objects There
are. therefore, DIRECTORS in plenty to the
entire list. There will be a day of reck-
oning in the course of time. but, unhap-
PLY, 1t will not be for the political bene-
ficiaries of the present system. The
American people. who are innocent of
wrong in the premises. except as they
are TO blame for putting such cannibal
masters in power over them, as usual.
will catch the cuffs and pay the piper.