Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-09-30


care, and with absolute recognition of
the necessity for protection to our in
dustries. A republican congress has
already removed all the war taxes
that were levied to carry on our great
war with Spain. Should further modi-
fications be found necessary they will
be made along the same lines upon
which Dingley framed the most sue
cessful tariff bill that ever has been
spread upon our statute books.
My opponent stands upon the Kan
sas City platform, for he accepted the
nomination upon the platform framed
by his district convention. Let me eX-
hibit the wonderful word painting by
which that district convention endors-
ed the Kansas City free coinage and
free trade platform.
That platforms and candidates
shall mean something; that party
may not always have majority of the
vote, but it may always have major
ity of the right; that democracy stands
] for the protection of the great COM
mon people: that it's face is now turn
ed squarely to the great white sunlight
| of truth human rights and higher CIV
ilization to the end that this grand
republic, the last great hope of the
ages, shall be and continue to be a
! government of the people, by the peo--
| pie and for the people; and we there
fore reafIirm our faith in the principles
of the last democratic national plat
/ form
ut will be observed however, that
the best part of what l have just read
is a quotation from the greatest of all
republicans, Abraham Lincoln. 1t was
| the republican party that created the
/ bureau of labor; it framed the con-
tract labor law; it enacted the law
abolishing coolie trade Republicans
| voted for and helped to pass the Chin
/ csc exclusion act, and it was republi-
| can congress that re-enacted the same.
! The homestead law was a republican
measure, and was passed after the
4 veto of democratic president, James
| Buchanan. The laborers of this coun-
try nave had the experience of both
/ policies, they should beware of the
/ free trade and free silver schemes.
/ The scalded child looks with suspicion
even on cold water. The miners and
workingmen helped elect Mr.. Cleve--
land in 1892. They soon realized their
mistake.
The Trusts.
! "The trust question has been
brought to the front by the enormous
aggregations of capital which have
combined in the recent years. But the
trusts are not new. The republican
party in 1890 passed the Sherman an
| thrust law. These great combna-
tons of capital originally assumed
the form of working agreements be-
tween separate corporations. These
combinations were called trusts. In or
der to evade the state and national
Jews recently the same results have
been obtained by organizing gigantic
corporations and actually purchasing
all the stock or property of competing
organizations. 1t has been a favorite
doctrine of our democratic opponents
that the tariff is the mother of the
trusts that free trade would cure the
trust evil but two of the greatest
trusts in this country are the coal oil
trust and the anthracite coal trust
| Anthracite coal is on the free list and
SO is petroleum, SO these organizations
show that there is no necessary cor
nection between the trusts and the
tariff
Take the great Addison Pipe and
Steel company case decided by the
supreme court in 1899; it was held
that the Sherman law was operative
and the trust was permanently en-
joined by the supreme court of the
States. That was one injunction that
everybody was in favor of except the
trust. My democratic friends may be
surprised to learn that that trust was
organized December %, 1894, while
the Wilson law was in operation Was
the Wilson law the mother of the
trust? The car of Russia has recent
ly sent a circular note to the crowned
heads O. Europe asking for a confer
ence upon the question of trusts. Is
the republican tariff creating trusts
in Germany and Great Britain? Eng
land is free trade country yet the
trusts are poisoning out there as
well as elsewhere. The question then
is one that must be considered in the
light of our knowledge of these or
CARNATIONS throughout the world for
they are not limited TO any locality
They exist even in South Africa. They
are the evolution of conditions, which
have arisen and must be dealt with
in a practical way Many of the states
of the Union have severe laws tend
ing to curb the power of these organic
atoms. In the great sugar trust case
the supreme court of the United States
held that the national authority could
not control in such cases. To meet
this difficulty in the Fifty-sixth con-
gress, Speaker Henderson was instru-
mental in bringing forward the pro
posed amendment to the constitution
giving congress the needed power to
control their organizations. 1t took a
two-thirds vote to pass the constitu-
tional amendment. Newlands, of
Nevada, Campbell, of Montana, and
Naphen of Massachusetts were the
only democrats who voted with the
republicans and the resolution was
lost, Our opponents were in favor OF
curbing the trusts b national legsla-
ton, but opposed giving congress the |
authority to enact the legislation. Dur
ing the time that our democratic op-
ponents were in power under Mr.,
Cleveland, there was no attempt at
any LEGISLATION upon this subject Pres
ident Roosevelt with his able attorney
on appl