Sunday Washington globe., 1902-05-18


exorbitaut prices, disregards every prin.
oiple on which our government is founded,
and viii be properly rebuked at the polls.
Foreign shipping is now doing our freight
business to foreign countries cheaper and
better than we can do it ourselves, and
thereby performing a useful service for us.
Hanna aud his party wishes to take this
advantage from the people, aud compel
them to go down into their pockets aud
pay twice the money for this carrying serv-
ice that they are now paying
DO we love Pierpont Morgan SO well
that we wish to pay him two millions for
what Upton willingly does for one million?
1t is to our interest to have our goods trans
ported to foreign countries by those who
viii do it the cheapest It is only a push
cart business after all, and it would be as
reasonable to say that a millionaire must
push his own lawn mower as to say we
must navigate our own freight barges
through the waves to foreign lands
If Greeks, Italians, coolies and English
men are willing to buffet the waves for us
at low price while we stay at home and at
tend to our more agreeable and remunera-
tive business, we ought to be thankful to
them. The true animus of this ship Subsidy
business, very properly called a steal, is
that a syndicate of millionaires with Hanna
and Pierpont Morgan at their head, wish to
levy huge tribute on the American people,
and the Republican party will 6nd it mill
stone around its neck when in deep water.
We do not need merchant marine to
train sailors for our navy, as the gunners,
engineers and stokers on our battleships
and cruisers are made of landsmen. as in.
deed are our naval officers, selected from the
gallant youth of our country, and trained on
dry land at Annapolis. We use no sails and
need no sailors.
The activities of the Republican party
have enabled the few to gather in the wealth
of the country to themselves. Carnegie
loves the party because il has enabled him
to accumulate the millions with which he
is now playing, in building himself marble
monuments called Libraries, all over the
country. He gives us a stone when we need
bread. We tell him we are hungry and he
invites us into a library to read on an empty
stomach. He takes our barrel of -four away
from us and in return presents us with a
set of the works Of Laura Jean I.ibbey
He has still other millions which he has
collected from US and which he is carrying
over to England to dedicate to himself
series of monuments in a foreign land
Better were it if the Republican policy had
not permitted Carnegie and his grand com
pauy of plutocrats to bereave Us of our sub
stance and cram dose of monuments down
our throats.
The legislation Of the party has given US
the beef trust, which has made that food
too good for the people, and only suitable
for money barons menu.
The leather trust bids fair to reduce us to
sabots and wooden shoes, if indeed the
lumber trust does not make wood too high.
The steel trust may rob us of our knives
and forks, and compel us to learn the
Chinese art of using chop sticks to convey
to our mouths the little food we are ex-
pected to be thankful to them for leaving
u.s.
The sugar and the candy trusts will cause
our children's craving for sweets to 60 un-
satisfied
The tobacco trust will compel us to chew
only the quid of bitter disappointment, and
likewise force us to put in our pipes and
smoke it,
The plate glass trust, with Secretary
Hitchcock at its head, will consign MS to
windowless dens, that we will have to fasten
together with hickory bark, because the
nail trust may put nails beyond our reach.
or if we have the nails, the poll.axe and
hammer trust may compel us to butt the
nails in with our thick skulls, that have so
long permitted the Republican party to
engage in the Vaccinations that have re.
duced us to these abiect conditions.
So we might go on. Trust, trust, trust.
Trust ad finitem, as the result of Republican
legislation.
When it is not trust it is monopoly, and
Standard Oil may yet be too high for any
use, except to grease the gouty limbs Of
Rockefeller Hanna, and their noble com.
panions Of the order of piled up lucre.