The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-07-22
TRUSTS" TO BE
GREAT QUESTION
Prominent Democrat Expresses
His Views on Party Harmony.
SAYS PAST ISSUES ARE DEAD
PROTECTIVE TARIFF RESPONSE
BILE FOR PRESENT CONDITIONS.

MILWAUKEE, Wis, July 21.-The
iVi Hon William F. Villas, who was
secretary of the interior in Presi-
dent Cleveland's cabinet, was recently
asked by Mr.. A. F. Warden, chairman
Of the Democratic state central COM
nittee, TO give his opinion. respecting
political conditions, the possibilities of
Democratic harmony and the assur-
ances of the party's restoration to pow
er and the relief of the people from
Republican administratio
Mr.. Villas replied today, in part, as
follows:
Nothing can be more evident to one
who takes a broad view of the nature
of public affairs or of our political his
tory than that the achievement of
good is to be won only by leaving to
the past the burial of its own dead,
and pushing on undiSturbed to the
great ends open in the future.
Whatever the alignments on past
issues, the Democratic party remains
today the hope of the people of this
land Any one can see who will see,
the truth that all the combinations of
greed, all the plotters who work upon
our government to win special gain at
the cost of the people at large are to
be found supporting the party now in
power; for the Democratic party they
have, as always, only hostility.
THE overriding need is of concen-
tration of opinion and cooperation in
political action by the people.
Under the false and deceitful nature
Of protection 10 industry there has
arisen such a system Of combining de-
vices of legislation with the vices of
business management to obtain mas
Is he
seen in this or any other land, the in
iquity of which it would be hard to find
any parallel for, unless in Oriental
countries.
Employees Become Slaves.
attained it can be but a few years, il
it go unchecked, before substantially
the entire range of manufacture, min
ing, trade and transportation will stand
composed of a few mssters and millions
of employees, the latter constrained TO
trade only at what may be called prac-
tically 'company's stores and all ag-
riculture viii be helplessly ensnared,
as it already is 70 no small extent
Liberty, in the pursuit of livelihood,
will well nigh have disappeared, for,
with the devices of our modern inven-
tons. it is unnecessary longer to man
acle the condemned with ball and
chains.
1.-The victory to be won, which alone
is worth winning, is the overthrow Of
the grand central governing conspiracy
of protection. When that browning
mercy shall be youchsafed, the very
publication of the nations soul by the
fires of the strife will easily enable it
to subdue the lesser forms in which
satan is embodied in our national life.
1T is painful record we have writ
ten on the pages of three years past
for Americans who look to Washing
ton, Jefferson, Madison, the Adamses
and their compeers of the declarat4on
and the constitution for the rule of the
national conduct that should eniighten
the world. with that love and truth Of
liberty.
And that same must yet be wiped
off by future treatment of the unhappy
Filipinos according to the principles we
have inherited. or SO surely as justice
rules the world, America viii bitterly
atone for it in resulting suffering of her
own.
But not at once can all national
wrongs be redressed, and those borne
by our cOuntrymen must challenge first
relief. l fear distraction. Protection
is quick to profit by it. Its shrewd
counsels have fOmented war. have set
the nation in quest of military glory,
and ind its account in the controversy
over Imperialism.
we may justly hold protection it,
self responsible for these conditions,
it Will craftily keep agitation of such
questions alive and we may be sure
also, as the careful observer cannot
but see the fact now TO be, that it will
prevent an array Of parties on an>1 is
sue arising from them that may i'm
peril its own party strength"