The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-10-12

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enactment Of any legislation looking to
the removal of duties on trust made
goods, or the reduction of duties on
goods sold cheaper abroad than at home.
In 1891 a law was passed by Congress
WILL NOT ENFORCE ANTITRUST
LAWS.
declaring all combinations for the pur-
Ipose of regulating production and still
ling competition illegal. and the directors
and officers of such combinations guilty
lof misdemeanor and indictable. 1t d.
IrectS the attorney general TO institute
civil suits to dissolve these combinations
and to indict their managers. In the
last Congress the Democratic party de-
manded that this law be enforced. Ihey
| declared that they stood ready TO Streng-
| then it if it was not adequate to ac7
complish the purpose for which it was
intended Although over two hundred
of these illegal combinations have sprung
ND since the election of Mr.. Mckinney,
there is now pending on the. civil side
of the docket but one single solitary
suit against them, and that was not be-
gun until the clamor of the people verg-
ed upon riot 1t takes only a few days
under this act to procure and execute
| to final issue an injunction or contempt
proceeding against a poor striker, but the
suit against the beef trust has fingered
without progress and without results TOR
more than six months. There is not.
so far as I know. single Indictment
against the managers of any one OF these
combinations pending III the fedefai
courts of this country.
TRUSTS DEFEATS CUBAN RECIPRo-
CITY PROMISED BY MCKINLEY
AND ROOSEVELT.
President Mckinley said that we ow-
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dent Roosevelt said that the failure TO
perform this national duty would be ma
| tional dshonor. The great mass or the
voters of all parties said that we mad
brought this young Republic into exist
ence that its people were just emerging
| from desolating war, that 1t was our
duty to help to safely Launch 1t among
| of Cuba lay in its sugar crop. Our tarlll
duties upon sugar were so high they
could not pay the duty and sell their
| sugar in our markets for much more
than the cost of production. Dill
was introduced in Congress to reduce
| the duty on raw sugar farm product'
| The sugar trust had no objection to this,
| 1T wanted cheap raw sugar. When the
/ bill came to Il vote in the House the
Democrats, with the help of few Re
publcanS. added an ANTITRUST amend
ment, reducing the duty on refined sugar,
a trust product. The sugar trust dld
not want this. and when the bill reach
, ed the Senate, both the. ADMINISTRATION
and the leaders Of the Republican par
tv in that body decided to abandon
the whole scheme rather than to offend
the trusts.
DEMOCRATS READY TO FIGHT TRUSTS
Some Republicans. among them the
present chairman of the Republican Ma
n
number of Democrats. early in the last
session of Congress, introduced bills IN
! the House to reduce the duty upon trust
/ goods and break the trust monopoly by
! having the way for foreign competition.
! The leader of the Democratic party III
the House repeatedly appealed in open
! House for the consideration of these
hills; he declared the willingness of the
| Democrats to remain in Washington
| indefinitely that they might be consider
| ed but the Republicans refused TO CON
slider them, either in committee or IN
open session, and they are now lying I'D
the pigeon holes of the committee 10
which they were referred
PARTY RECORDS CoNTRAsTED.
In view of this record Of the two
parties. can there be any doubt that the
Democratic party stands with the reo-
/ pie upon this great question al that
the Republican party}is deliberately pro-
tecting the trusts. not only against me
enforcement of the laws against them,
but aSlinst E1g&Tatiun which would
break their monopoly.
i ANTI TRUST TALK NOW BUFFERS NO
PARSNIPS.
! The people are not to be deceived by
! the administration show of antitrust
] zeal upon the eve of an election. They
y
was quieScent. They know when the
Republican party, having control of both
branches of Congress. had an oppor-
/ tunity to act, it not only failed. but re-
| fused to act They know too that even
were the administration in earnest III
this matter. the party would not be In
sympathy with il More than that, they
know that the administration has failed
and continues to fail to execute the
! civil or criminal laws against these IL
! legal combinations. Neither are the peo-
fFDte to he deceived in this matter by
! sham remedies. They know there Is
hut one remedy outside of the criminal
law which the trusts fear and that RENE
lhx is the Democratic remedy of taking
Taway the tariff which shelters them
| AS long as the president talked about
| publicity as remedy. as long as he
! talked about government control as a
remedy, rs long as he talked about u
constitutional amendment as remedy,
| the trusts had no word of complaint:
They did not fear publicity. They had
no objection to the inspection of their
books. They had seen how Intellectual
government regulation had been In case
of the railroads. They knew that there
had been but three amendments to the
Constitution in one hundred years. ana
they were forced at the point of the
bayonet. They knew if an amendment
should come that it could not come for
many long years in the future. They
had no complaint to make, because they
knew these were remedies which would
not remedy But the minute the presi-
dent suggested. the minute the Iowa. con-
yention suggested, revision of the tariff.
they scented danger and they sent forth
a howl which made the welkin ring and
shook the Republican party from center
TO furthermost circumference. IL you
want to remedy an evil-if you want
to reach the root Of an evil-do that
thing which the authors and beneticiar-
hes of the evil most dread-most fear
fHEhat is what the Democrats propose TO
DO with regard to the trust and that is
what the Republican party oppose doing.
Senator Simmons then devoted a half
hour to the discussion of State issues.
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