Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1902-12-08
TARIFF AND TRUSTS.

of prominent republican statesmen and
newspapers are wrong. Listen to some
Of them on this subject
"publicity of the affairs OF trusts and
removal of all duty on commodities con-
.rolled by trusts. THE Republican CLUB
of Harvard University, May 16, 1900.
eve favor any modification
of the tariff schedules that may be re-
ouired to prevent their affording shelter
to monopoly" Iowa Republican Plat
form of 1901.
"* No mercy or consideration
should be shown to any combination OF
capital that takes advantage OF protec'
tive tariff to muct American consumers.
n "-Chicago Times Herald,
March 81.
81 emphatically favor removing all
tariff protection from every industry that
belongs to combination formed in re-
straint of trade. "-Governor Mount, OF
Indiana, December, 1899.
"If changes in the tariff can be proved
to be necessary to break down the power
of TIE trusts-and there is little reason
to doubt that they can be-changes
should be made. "-Philadelphia Press,
December, 1899.
"What is imperatively required is
revision of the tariff such as will modify
the rates, or, better still, place upon the
free list all TO. eign goods that are the
subject of domestic monopoly. "-Phila-
delphia Ledger, February, 1899.
"* We have combinations COW
ering everything, from sugar and lead to
brooms and soap and collins. The only
fortunes are those that are made by the
multi. millionaires who control trusts"
Senator William f. Chandler, March
10, 1899.
"* do not know Of any better
way to start in, at least to reduce the
of trusts, than to cut down the
shelter behind which trusts are created
Senator Plumb. of Kansas, August
20, 1891.
60 The growth of these huge
com binations of capital is alarming.
If congress should remove the benefit of
the protective tariff from all articles con.
trolled by trusts it would be stunning
blow to em."-Portland (Me.) Adver.
tiser, March %, 1899.
"The mother of all trusts is the GUS
toms tariff bill. 1t is the gov
eminent, through its tariff laws. which
plumbers the people, and the trusts, etc.,
are merely the machinery for doing it."
o. Havemeyer, president Of the
sugar trust, June Il, 1899.
go = This same combination
(National harvester trust) is now selling,
or offering to sell, machinery in Russia
and Australia and other wheat.growing
countries at a lower figure than they do
in this country. n The first thing
the farmer will do when he is acquainted
with the facts will be to make howl
against trusts and protection that does
not protect. '-Hon. J. M. Rusk, 1890.
1--WE assert the sovereignty of the peo-
pie over all corporations and agoregations
OF capital, and che right residing in the
people to enforce such regulations, ,e-
strictions or prohibitions upon corporate
management as will protect the indi.
vidual and society from abuse OF the
power which great combinations of capi-
tai WELD. Iowa Republican Platform
of 1901.
"Most certainly it should be the duty
of congress to abolish or sus-
pend the protective duty on the products
of any industry which has been organized
into trust, ard which has arbitrarily
raised the prices of such products. -
Chicago Times. Herald, March, 1899.
"With the formation OF trusts con.
trolling almost everything in use, there
arises the fair question why, after all
these years of practical NOR opoly of the
home market, and now after the practical
ending of domestic competition, should
there be law to keep out foreign manu-
factures?'- indianapolis News, May,
1899.
The merchants who leers at it ";