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federal government all power which they
now possess upon that subject. Then let
the federal government take charge or
them and the president solemnly promises
that he would see to 1t that the federal
government would control them.
MUST WAIT NINE YEARS?
.'In view of the fact that the processes
of amendment and enactment will require
nearly nine years, it is not too much 70
say this is a strenuous promise ms
revolutionary remedy would typify trust
deVelopment by taking all the power OF
all the states and delegating it to the red
eral government.
Then when the trusts had elected
enough men who regarded them simply as
captains of industry the states would
be powerless and the trusts would be free
1.-THE president says he does not regard
the reduction of tariff duties on trust
made articles as an efficient or safe rem
edy. because it would injure the legitimate
as well as the illegitimate industries. we
do not propose to disturb; we do not pro-
nose to attack legitimate industries; we
do not seek to take away from them any
thing that belongs to them but we pre-
pose to withhold the aid OF this great
government from them; we propose TO
make them stand alone; we propose TO
take away the unnecessary proteeuon
now afforded them by the government ana
let the commercial batteries Of the world
be trained upon them with the shot ana
shall of competition until they are driven
from their entrenchment of protection out
into the open field of honest trade.
Rather than do this, the Republican
party now proposes to revoluuonize the
government, change it's form and further
cl.croach upon right of local self-govern-
ment in states"
COAL, STRIKE Is PROOF.
The speaker quoted from the tariff and
a ruling of the board of general apprais-
ers to show that the anthracite coal COM
panies were protected and declared the
present situation brought about by the
coal strike was but a manifestation or
the irresistible power of those protected mo-
nopolies."
Continuing he said:
Are we to wait nine or ten years for
the remedy against such an acute eondi-
ton of evil? Must the president run about
the country apologizing for the menace
Of such concerns, while winter approach
es and hundreds of firesides will be cold
and dark and suffering. Unspeakable suf-
fering will ensue. If the tariff has no
more to do with trusts than the penal
code has to with ordinary affairs, how
IAN the removal of the tariff be so harm
tul to these great captains OF Industry
Not only the president, but members or
he cabinet are out crying from the house
ops to the people to pause in their rough
work, and behold the great prosperity.
rhe secretary of the treasury, having. in
days. acquainted himself with the sim
lie problems Of finance, is stamping
round the country apologizing to hungry
eople because they have no beef and
GAL Why does he not have the courage
his fellow-citizen Of Iowa and take up
re battle to drive these combinations
-om the shelter Of a protective tariff
he secretary of war is out on the high
avs of politics, willing at all times to
Omit that the present administration is