Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1903-01-09


marching on, battered down the Jail
doors, took from his cell one Montgom-
cry Cooley and publicly put him to
death. Cooley, whose crime bellies his
name, had killed a policeman engaged
IN the discharge of his duties, which is
not SO diabolical a deed as rape, the
fecupd cause of southern lynchings.
And Cooley was a negro! Only think
/. of that, We Boston anitlynchers. Here
is a concatenation of events calculated
to stir the hearts of reformers-bleed-
ing Kansas lynching colored man for
murder! Up. reformers, and at them!
Isn't the outgoing governor of Kansas,
Stanley, Republican? Isn't the in
coming governor, Bailey. Republic
an? Perhaps these things account for
the mystifying inactivity of the Boston
Antilynching society. Its crusade is
against southern Democratic states.
When Doctors Disagree.
The trust question is certainly one
of the most difficult that ever vexed
the human mind. Most people are
against the trusts. Nearly everybody is
suggesting remedy. No two appear
to agree, and the trusts grow apace.
Congress appropriates 100000 to prose-
cute the trusts one week, and the next
one of the biggest trusts is organized
in Chicago. Mr.. Attorney General
! Knox in his Pittsburg speech thought
there is already plenty of law to bust
the trusts, while President Roosevelt
| thinks it may be necessary to adopt q
constitutional amendment in order to
| bust them. Not long since Senator John
I. Morgan thought they could be reg.
ulated and controlled through the tax
ing power, which Chief Justice Mar
shall declared is the power to destroy.
Now comes Senator Morgan and prac,
; tically throws up his hands and asserts
that both the old parties have acted
hypocritically as to the trusts and that
1T may be necessary to establish new
party to deal with them. The venerable
senator from Alabama appears to be in
the same frame of mind in which Nine.
| Pompadour found herself when she ex-
claimed, After us the deluge!' only
| she said it in French. AS the new party
would be made up of persons who com.
pose the old ones, the senator's latest
programme holds out precious little
hope to suffering humanity. AS he has
tabernaeled in the flesh considerably
! more than the psalm!st's allotment of
!, threescore years and ten, he ought to
know that hope deferred maketh the
heart sick and propose something more
practical and expeditions than the
formation Of q new party.
Mr.. II. o. Havemeyer says that the
high protective tariff system is the
mother of all trusts and he ought to
know something about it, for he is
president OF one Of the largest and
worst in the land. On the other hand,
President Roosevelt thinks that there
10 no sort Of connection between the
tariff and the trusts. Clearly it is a
case of many men of many minds, in
which even the most eminent doctors
disagree. Senator George Graham
Vest In an elaborate article practically
comedies with Havemeyer as to cause
and effect between the tariff and the
trusts. The main points of Senator
Vests interview are as follows:
The greatest menace that threatens this
country today is in combinations of CAPT.
tai that have monopoly for their object.
The argument OF the protectionists that
equally great trusts exist in free trade
England is false. absolutely.
No monopoly can exist in great staple
OF commerce where competition is open to
the world.
Z The first step in an honest attempt to
correct the evils from which we suffer Is
to remove the protection the tariff ri, es
tq monopolies and force them into world
Competition.
The protective tariff is intermutuality of
greed, Let any attempt be made to re-
move the protection afforded one industry
and every industry that feeds on protec-
ton will cry out in pain,
The accredited author OF the Dingley
law admitted the rates were unnecessarily
high, yet the Dingley rates are HOW held
sacred, and their continuance is dena nded
by the interests that have gluttoned on
Them
Refusal to reduce the tariff rates leaves
congress With but weak weapons with
which to fight monopoly.
The act OF 1880 represents the limit of
constitutional authority ss congress to
regulate trade between the states.
Resort to the simple subterfuge OF SELF
ing goods to second party and disown-
ing knowledge OF what became Of them
after they left the factories will at any
time render the SO called Sherman lazy
insuficient to cope with trusts.
Ihe attorney general may have resources
OF which know nothing: but, as one OF
the authors of the act. do not see how
he can conduct successful prosecutions
under the law.
The difficulty IL not the imposslbility. of
dealing with trusts through remedial leg.
islation being established, does 1t not seem
reasonable that the wisest course would
be to cut of the nourishment that has en-
sixe? 4 -. -, - - $500
Whatever may be thought us to the
soundness Of Senator Vests views, It
must be admitted that he states them
with treat vtsur.