The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-10-04
DoLLWER ON "THE INFANTS"

Senator Dolliver, of Iowa, has set
himself to a further elucidation of the
Iowa idea in his speech before the
League of Republican Clubs at Chicago.
1t cannot be said that his address has
been particularly luminous or instruc-
tive in that direction, so far at least
as the press reports indicate. The
Iowa idea will return to plague its
creators as long as the trusts remain
and the wall of the tariff rears up it's
huge bulk in the path Of the Ameri-
can peoples prosperity.
It is hard to understand what posi-
ton Senator Dolliver takes on the sub
ject Of the trusts, save that like all
the orators and writer's of his party,
he seeks to minimize their influence
and to apologize for their existence.
Cup to this time" says Senator Dol
liver, "the tariff policy to which we
owe the prosperous conditions which
now surround us, has been the ally of
Independent capital in it's grapple with
the modern trust system; but if the
day should ever come when the pro-
ductive energies of the American peo-
pie are impotent in the presence of
monopoly, the protection which for
more than a generation our laws have
given to all our industries alike. is
not likely to remain to enrich such a
conspiracy Of avarice and greed"
This is just plain, ordinary, every
day fudge, is at war with plain, ordi-
nary, very-day fact and does not rise
even to the height of ordinary good
rhetoric. The day" that the senator
talks about has come. 1t Is here-this
present, existing moment-and the
conspiracy to which he refers is in full
and notorious operation. What is the
condition Of the productive energies of
the American people at this moment
with reference to their supply Of an
thracite coal? What has it been for
years past, with reference to their
supply of Illuminating and other oils?
in regard to the supply of fresh meat
live in our cities; to the other neces-
sites of life, controlled by hundreds Of
trusts now existing and protected"
by the Republican party through the
tariff and without it?
Senator Dolliver is a good orator, but
a mighty bad guide for his party, and
mighty poor prophet to follow for
the people whose markets in the neces-
saries of life are monopolized, and who
have accordingly to pay any price
which those who control those supplies,
through trust organization, choose to
exact. He cannot convince the people
that the trusts are not a menace to
the safety and prosperity of the peo-
pie. He cannot tell us at this late day
that protection, having outlived its
mission of wet nurse to sucking in
dustrial infants, should be still main
tanned because Alexander Hamilton
founded it or deemed it necessary to
the industrial growth of an infant ma
ton.
The trust and the tariff are allies in
the same undertaking-the robbery and
oppression of this people, and they
will in time descend into a common
grave. They will never reach their
last resting place through the aid Of
their friends" But through whatever
medium they do ultimately reach that
grave, he is but a short-sighted poll
tician, whether he be president or SEN
ator, who has naught to suggest con-
corning them other than that by bury
ing them side by side we may do the
country injury rather than service