The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-10-04
VERBAL gems" OF HOWELL
TRIED IN THE CRUCIBLE
Judge King PunctureS Campaign Pleas of His Op-
ponent and SutherIaOdS SophiSmS.
Tremendous Audience at Brigham City Listens to His Brilliant Ex-
position of Democratic Principles

D
bend. All the gold and silver i'm the
world IS only little more than S. 00O.-
100000. The combined wealth of Utah
ITS mines, cattle. houses and taxed
lands-only equals about sl50. 600 600
Ana these trusts have been founded
largely since the passage OF the Ding
ley bill. ! am afraid Sutherland
mas been contaminated IN Wash
lngtOn. When he went there he said
! there were trusts. but that the Repub-
| ttcan party was graphing with them.
In 1899 Hanna said there is not a trust
in the country. Sutherland comes home
and says there are no trusts. lie Went
there a good man and returned i'm
pregnated with Hanna's views. I think
it is a bad thing to send'a good Repub-
lican TO Washington l guess we had
better keep him at home"
What the Result Will Be.
Judge King then spent some time
showing what the results will be if the
trusts are not thro3tlA, saying that
it Will only be a question of time be
| fore a few men or great corporations
will rule the country, from the presi-
dency down 20 the smallest office an
the land. And / ask you again" said
the speaker. ''are the Republicans
graphing with the trusts? l answer.
| No. The only time Sutherland voted
right in Washington was when he
voted with the Democrats several
/ times. Did he ever vote against the
/ trusts? Did he ever raise his voice
| against the trusts? OF course not, be-
| cause he says there are no trusts. He
/ is travelling around the state as spon-
sor for Howell. Is il not logical to con-
Fclude that Howell will vote and act in
| congress as did Sutherland? Howell
says trusts are a dangerous symptom.
! but that the Republican party Will
grapple with them. Why did NOT they
| do it when President Mckinley was
alive? Did he and his party grapple
with the trusts when J. w. Griggs
J from the trust state Of New Jersey was
| appointed attorney general? Did the
! president grapple with the trusts when
| Knox. the legal head of the steel trust,
was appointed to succeed Griggs, when
| the latter went back 10 New Jersey to
| organize new trusts and help lobby
more trust laws through the New Jer-
| sey legislature? What has The Repub-
lican party ever done, what is it doing
10 suppress trusts? Nothing"
A Case in Point.
! Judge King then referred to the fact
/ that trust made goods can be bought
/ in foreign countries for less than in
the American cities where they are
manufactured. He then recounted 81
mon Bamberger's inability 10 buy steel
rails for his Lagoon road, which he
wants to extend to Ogden, because the
! steel trust and railroads are so closely
allied that the SchWab concern would
not sell 10 Bamberger because his road
would hurt the parallel lines be
tween Salt Lake and Ogden. which
lines the steel or other trusts
are interested in. The speaker then
/ showed how firm a grip the trusts have
on congress. The last national cam
| paign saw the ship building trust give
! Hanna $l,000,0 900. Since then that trust
has been awarded contracts sufficient
to more than offset its donation. and
the party lash was cracked by Hanna
to force the Republicans, at the eX
pense Of the masses. TO pay back that
campaign debt.
A Working Alliance.
Judge King said the Republican par
ty and the trusts are so closely allied
that il is foolishnesS for any one 10
entertain for a minute the belief that
the party viii grapple with its aftil~
ator. He said If the Republicans really
want 10 grapple with the trusts ali
they have 10 do is TO enforce the pro-
visions of the Sherman antitrust law
The remedy is there. he said, but the
Republicans refuse TO take advantage
Of lit, for they know The provisions OF
the law would destroy the trusts.
Judge King then referred 10 the
statement made by Joseph Howell that
he. when in the Fifty-siXth congress.
had voted against the constitutional
amendment sought 10 control the
trusts. He said the measure was
wrong, outrageous. pernlclous and I'M
constitutional. Only a short time ago
Congressman Littleheld, who intro
duced the measure, in "A signed article
said the same thing about the measure,
which was introduced simply for cam
paign purposes. as has since been
proven. President Roosevelt, in his re-
cent speeches. says a constitutional
amendment must not be resOrted TO eX-
cept as a last ditch. Leslie's Weekly.
one Of the most staunch Republican
papers in the United States, took M.
Roosevelt TO task for that statement.
adding that constitutional amendment
talk to control the tSpsts is equal 10
the most bloody talk Of the most en-
thusiastic anarchists. He told how the
Republicans refused TO vote for the
permanent census bureau requiring
trusts 10 make annual reports TO the
government officials because n would
have injured the trusts. The speaker
then touched upon the decentralization
Of silver. saying it is not dead yet, told
how the banking trust is controlling III
money of the world. Tecounted the
Philippine war scandals. and in con-
clusion asked his crowded house OF
hearers to vote for the Democratic
ticket, Major r. w. Young and him
self, if they want a government of the
people, by the people. for the people"