The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-07-31
BURGESS ON ROOSEVELT.
TEXAS MAN TALKS OF PRESI-
DENTS TRUST FIGHT.

| Mr.. RooseveIt's PIatitudes Come
Little Late Now That Congress Has
Adjourned, He Thinks-The Repub-
Iican Opposition to Trusts Only
Pretended and the Presidents Re-
marks on the Subject Only "Aca-
demic''-May Prove Useful to Dem
Ocrats, However.
Washington, July 30.-Hon. Geo. F.
Burgess of Texas. the Democrat who
redeemed the Galveston district from
the Republicans under R. B. Hawley.
passed through Washington yesterday
en- route home from New York Mr..
Burgess called at Democratic head
quarters and while there was asked
what he thought of Republican activ-
ity on the trust question, and especial
ly of the attitude of the President
1.-THE platitudes of the President on
trusts can only benefit the Democ-
racy," said Mr. Burgess. These talks
come a little late, in that Congress
has adjourned to meet after the cleo
ton, still the effect will be to arouse
a deeper interest in the subject, and
hence a wider development of the fact
that the Republican party only pre-
tends an opposition to the trusts
by all means turn this terrible
talker loose. Call the attention of the
people to his speeches on the subject
and ask them if they can find anything
in one of them but literary style"
THE Democrats were accused of an
academic discussion of the money
question. We are now having worse
than an academic discussion of the
trust question. We have an admission
of the fact that they exist and that
they are hurtful, but no remedy is pro-
posed but presidential publicity! This
is too strenuous!' Talk, before the
election, and silence after the election,
is the established programme of the
Republican party on the trust ques-
ton. The people are waking up to the
facts. With full control of all branches
of the government for years the Re-
publican party has done nothing to
control the trusts, and they don't in
tend to. They offered a constitutional
amendment to control trusts. Were
they in earnest? Would they have
pressed it's adorSion by the states? No!
in that if they had agreed to it as the
remedy, trusts would have been elm
mated as a political issue. Since they
have done nothing, presumably their
position is that not having unlimited
power to control the trusts they will
not attempt to control them at all.
Did Nothing in Congress.
GAS they can't fire at the trusts with
cannon they won't shoot with a
gun. The long session of this Congress
has ended, and what is it's record?
Nothing but talk! Guarded glittering
general talk like the academic discus
sion of the President, who by the way
has fondness for that word Captain"
The Republican party does not intend
to harm their captains of industry.
The stream of campaign funds must
flow freely. We must talk against
them, but what Dickens called the
science of how to do it. must be in
voked to protect our friends the fat
fryers! What IS the use of denying
that they are in with the trusts, when
under their administration the funds
Of the Cuhans are blended with the
funds of the sugar trust, and both
used cunnjngly to influence the lead
ers of thought CO in this country to
pass law through Congress- the re-
suit of which would be to give the
sugar trust cheaper raw material,
and thus increase its profits on the
American consumer, and that pretend
ed relief to Cuba was conditioned on
Cuba so arranging her tariff rates as
that the products of all the trusts of
this country should enter her ports
at 20 ger cent. less than from any
other country on earth! 1t is true
part of the Republicans rebelled
against the administration, and its
party leadership and joined with the
Democrats and put an amendment on
the bill that cut the profits of the
sugar trust out of it, and then what?
The bill got lost in the Senate in spite
of presidential publicity! Now the
talk begins when the session ends.
Why not have pressed the House and
the Senate when in session to enact
some antitrust legislation? Why not
have suggested putting trust made ar
ticles on the free list? Why not have
suggested prohibiting the use of the
mails by the trusts? Why not have
suggested publicity forced by law?
Why not have suggested some amend
ment to the weak Sherman act? Why
| not have pressed his department of
justice to enforce the civil and GRIM
inal provisions of the Sherman act Z?
| Why the buster about the beef trust
and sullen silence as to all other
| trusts? The people will hear these
oTaStinnS offop hafuyaao Now,