The Courier. (Genoa, Nev.) 1899-1904, 1902-08-08

fortune, arising from difference in
ability and opportunity. But it does
seek to obliterate inequality so far as
the law is concerned, and to prevent
the machinery of the law from being
used in such way as to unduly pro-
mote the wealth of the few at the ex-
pense of the many. The antitrust
sentiment is not organized against law
abiding wealth, but against the lawless
wealth of the country; the wealth
which,seeks exemption from taxation,
which seeks special privileges; the
wealth which evades and perverts. the
law in order to Cypress the people.
1.-THE Republican party has been in
power for six years, yet it has done
nothing in the way of legislation to
meet these evils. On the contrary, it
has legislated to promote them. In
the repeal of war revenue taxes the
Democratic party stood for an endeay-
or to prevent the repeal of the tax on
the gross receipts of the oil refneries
from which we were getting total of
81, 900, 900 annually. Recognizing the
fact that all the great trusts should
contribute something to the federal
burden, and that the oil trust and the
sugar trust were alone being taxed,
we wanted to perfect this tax4by re-
ducing the percentage and extending
it to all industrial corporations whose
gross receipts exceeded 81, 100000 an
nually. We sought in this connection,
by our amendment, to compel public
ity through public statements under
oath as to the capital, debts, operating
expenses, receipts, profits, wages paid,
etc., of these Industrial corporations,
thus securing the very publicity for
which Mr.. Roosevelt subsequently
contended in his message and in his
Pittsburg speech.
REPUBLICANS DID IT.
"But the Republicans stood together
and repealed the tax altogether, so
that these corporations contribute
nothing to the Federal treasury and am
opportunity for trust-regulating was
lost.
THE TRUSTS.
Later on, when the census bill was
pending in the Senate, Senator Dubois
offered an amendment providing that
the inquiry should be extended to
trusts, and that published statements
of their affairs should be made. His
Observation-Disclosures exactly the rec
ommendation which President Roose-
velt made in his message. Senator
Quales, Republican who was in
charge of the-bill, appealed to Dubois
to withdraw the amendment, saying it
would endanger the bill; but Dubois
insisted on vote, and the Republicans
lined up against it and the Democrats
for it, so the amendment was beaten.
The Republican party protects the
trusts. OF COURSE before the people
they will quote the sayings of the
President, but when they want cam
paign funds from the TRUSTS they will
point to their congressional action.
"rhen the Cuban reciprocity bill
passed the house. But because it con-
tanned a provision in the interests of
our own consumers as well as the
Cuban producers, by repeating the adj
ditionaf duty on refined sugar, which
the Sugar Trust wishes to be main
tanned, the Republican Senate refused
to report the BILL,
"Mr. Roosevelt had splendid OPP
portunity here to side with the anti
trust sentiment in both houses and
possibly force the reporting. of this
bill; but he failed to avail himself of it.
The bill as it passed the House gave
relief to Cuba and at the same time
gave relief to the sugar consumers of
this country by the abolition of tax
which protected one of the most I'M
popular trusts in the country. Mr..
Roosevelt evidently concluded that
it was more important TO maintain the
protective tariff as a whole regardless
of its abuses and inequalities, rather
than to give relief to the Cuban sugar
producers and SO Ameldcanconsumers
The Democratic party in caucus voted
against adjournment until trust bill
and the Cuban reciprocity bill should
be passed. But the Republican party
voted for an adjournment without act
ion on these questions.
ON WESTERN QUESTIONS.
In speaking of Western questions
Mr.. Newlands said:
'As for the West, the Democratic
party stood solid for the admission of
New Mexico, Oklahoma and Arizona,
but the Republican Senate tied the bill
up.