The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1902-09-26
LESSON IN HOW Not TO Do IT
TIE PREsIDENF'S ALLEGED WAR
UPON TaE TRUSTS.
Senator Money. OF Misuissippl. Proceeds To
Remove the Wool Which Mr.. Rooa"-
velt 10 Trying to Pull Over the
Eyes Of the People.

Eyes Of the People.
In the recent conference at Oyster
Bay, in which q committee of dis
tinguished Republican senators met
to edit the Presidents tongue on his
swing around the Western circle,
and the announcement that he would
confne his remarks to "trust bust
ing'' and eliminate remarks snent
tariff revision, Senator Fernando D.
Money, of Mississippi, at Democratic
congressional headquarters in WASH
ington, SAID recently:
"The President sent message to
| congress last December, suggesting
remedy for the trusts, which was
to give publicity to their doings and
bring everything TO the public view.
His suggestion was embodied in an
amendment to the census bill, offered
by Senator Dubois, and every Re-
publican voted against it, thus de-
clsring that they were not in accord
with the President on that subject.
The President sent in no message
recommending 8 constitutional
amendment for the control OF the
trusts. Il he had done so it is q
question whether it would not have
met the fate of his suggestion of
"more light" but he had patronage
to dispose OF, and q real earnest
effort on his part probably would
have carried DUBOIS amendment to
the census bill or the Presidents re-
Gently proposed amendment to tho
constitution. He attempted nothing
while congress was IN session. He
now proposes constitutional amend
mend which seems to be the only
remedy presented to his mind No.
body knows better than the Presi-
dent the exceeding difficulty ot pass
ing an amendment to the constitu-
ton. Even those amendments which
settled the status of the freed negro
as a citizen, civilly and politically,
were only made amendments by
drsgooning Southern States into
their federal relation, and in the
State Of Indiana by certificate that
two-thirds of the senate had voted
afirmstively, when in fact two-thirds
were not present. That question
was imminent and overwhelming and
some settlement was vitality neces-
cary, and yet, after the heat of the
four years conflict, and the enor.
nous sympathy developed for the
negro in the North and the neces-
sity for fixing his status, which was
obvious to everybody, there was
really no fair adoption of the four
teenth and fifteenth amendments.
As a student and writer of history
the President is acquainted with
thess facts, and it will be singular if
he is not aware Of the difficulty Of
the constitutional amendment that
be speaks OF. It sounds very we'll
to the people. Words are cheap,
but performance is difficult. Even
if the required two-thirds vote OF
each house could be obtained aud
the President should give his sigma
ture, then thrse-fourths of the States
must rstify the amendment, and to
say that one fourth of the Republi-
can States ut least are not absolutely
dominated by the trnsts and their
politicians would be too absurd and
would torture creduIity One who
fears the power of the trusts aud
recognizes their terrible msnsce to
free institutions can take little cnm-
fort from any uttersnce Of President
Roosevels on this subject, and, giving
him credit for some knowledge, it Is
difficult to give him credit for sim
cerity. If he is sincere, then he is
repudiated by his party, and no hope
of reform in this particular can be
expected by the public from the
Republican partyand its President"
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