The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-10-08
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A PERTINENT QUESTION.

A PERTINENT QUESTION.
sIf the candidate OF the opposition tells
YOU that the trusts are running you and
that the Republican party is responsible
for them, Just ask him how it happens that
the only law to restrain them that was
ever enacted is a Republican law. that the
only Presidents who ever enforced 1t were
Republican Presidents. Ask him why IL
was that when the Republicans In Con-
gress, two years ago. offered an amendment
10 the federal Constitution giving the ma
tional government control OF national cor
porafions. every Republican voted lor II,
government voted against IL. ASK him why
II IS that to-day the administration says
that the trusts must be controlled by the
Nation and that tne 1pp0slaoa, 30 i Il
The administration is determined 10 cure
the evils OF organized industry, put not 10
Of curing the disease of a patient but not
TO kin him.. II a man has a cold or a IeEeI
you can kill that cold and that FEVER py
strychnine, but you also XIII the man "H0
has Ii.
"a farmer up In Carroll county told me
the other day that he had a better Illus
trasion thar that. Said he: My granary
those rats by burning the granary down:
IL would be hot on the rats; but what
would become Of my grainT
llU5lS . llC ndIIC " DI(A
sition to the government describes the
twentieth century organizations OF INDUSTRY
which manufacture In a great way and dls,
tribute their products in a great way, ano
therefore employ labor in a great way. And
yet the millions Of laborers thus employed
are the men who furnish the home marker
for everything the farmer raises; these
immense organizations are the only ones
who have sufficient resources to ship the
flour and meat and every other products OF
the American farm TO foreign markets. lou
see. we are producing a great deal more
every day than we produced the day before;
and we can't keep our prosperity unless
We sell that increased production. But eacn
farmer could not ship his product TO Eu-
rope or even to distant places In our own
union That must be done by large organi-
cations which have wealth enough TO ouy
what you raise and ship 1T where there is
somebody TO consume IL. You see, this Re-
public Is an Industrial family and we all
work together The manufactures plays
farmers play into the manufacturers
hands. There Is no such thing as classes In
there are classes which are hostile to each
other our prosperity will be gone for good
and all. And yet classes among the Amer
lean people who hate and fight one another
IS trying TO create. Now this is one phase
Of the trust question.
A TRUST ILLUSTRATION.
LET us take another phase. The oppo
sition to the government says that the
trusts are arbitrarily raising the prices OF
the necessaries of life. Last Saturday q
week ago I spoke at Greencastle. and there
was a farmer who lives in Danville, Hen
bricks county, who was kind enough Il
come down to hear me. We rode home to
gether on the train. And that farmer CAV,
me more in five minutes than
have been able 10 study up in five months
and 1 will give 1t to you just as he gave 1
TO me. After the war he said Il though