The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1902-09-18

Inc Boston Herald recently began
an editorial with the following wordA:
IL may be claimed as an open ques.
ZION as to whether the Republican par
" really accepts the trust issue as be.
lore the American people in the cleo.
ton contests of the present year"
NOW the Boston Herald is one of
our very contemporaries, having the
ability TO analyze and expose nonsense
when 1t so desires, and to state It's con.
clusions-the sentence quoted to the
contrary Observation-Disclosures clear
ana vigorous American, and so in or.
der to start the subject, as they say in
debating societies, we respectfully ask
our contemporary to state what is the
trust issue?" We ask in good faith
tor we do not know.
Now we hope that our contemporarv
VIII not be flippant and evade the
question with the remark that the
trust issue Is "the removal of the nro.
tective duties under which Trusts
thrive" because 1t knows as well as
we do that the tariff has nothing to do
with trusts. Many Democrats do not
Know that, but the Boston Herald does
because 1t is an able journal. It de.
sires the removal of protective duties.
and, like many other political journals
sometimes condescends to play upon
popular prejudice to promote what II
deems a beneficient end. But in n
heart,to-heart talk 1t would disdain
such robustness and we ask Il to state
the real trust issue-confessing tina,
we cannot ourselves do it-because we
are sure that If the thing can be done
anywhere 1t Is In the Office of the Bos. |
ton Herald. Now, to helm matters
along, we will ourselves be as definite
as we can by saying that BY the
trusts We all mean the consolidation
Oh industries, financial and commercial
enterprises which is going on through.
out the world, In free trade and pro. |
tested countries alike, and upon the
h'sh seas, out OF the reach of any
tarlH. An" movement in opposition to
thls consolidation must be either to
prevent or break up these consolida.
lions or 10 regulate and control them.
III IL Is proposed to smash the trusts"
now does the Herald propose TO pro.
ceed! III 1t is proposed not to pre.
vent or abolish, but to regulate, what
are the things now being done by
trusts which should be prevented, and
now under the national and state con.
stitutions, can 1t be done? We do NOT
care to hear about the publicity"
remedy. Doubtless we must have
1ght To see our work, but the work
VIII still remain to be done.
An Issue" would be raised nv
proposal that Congress shall enact a
constitutional law which shall abolish
'r restrain the trusts without injuripg
general business. Amy one can propose
'uch law. Have the Democrats pro.
'osed any? II SO, there may be an
issue which we do not know of
II is not believed that under the
congress can pass any Of. {
ective law an issue could be raised !
" proposing constitutional amend. Q
nent. The Republicans have done .
nat and every Democrat voted against I
and defeated 1t. 1t must therefore '
e assumed that the Democrats Oh.
ose giving congress unquestloned au. !
hority. II that be the case, the only
ational issue which can be made is in
aspect to some law either forbidding
nnsolidation or prohibiting consoli- l.
ated management from doing certain p
,ings. Will the Herald kindly in. II
'rm us what the Democratic party n
roposes and the Republicans oppose. g
that we may understand what the O.
ust issue is?-San Francisco Chron. u
lie. o.