Clarke courier. [volume] (Berryville, Va.) 1869-1997, 1903-04-01

Ahc tSJ OF SOo trusts recently
published in the Congressional
Record by the Hon. Chas. +. Lit
tlefield, of Maine, the redoubtable
trust buster from the Pine Tree
State, and which was compiled
by Mr.. Claude Bennett, manager
OF the Congressional Information
Bureau of this city, must have hit
the trusts a swat on the nose that
they felt. The New York Sun.
which Is the recognized organ of
Plerpolnt Morgan and the trusts
generally, has been letting out a
howl about this list that reverber-
ates from Tadmor in the Wilder
ness to luba Dam. The Sun could
not deny the accuracy of the list
and the only defense it could make
was to make fun of the butterfly"
signature of the honorable gentle
man from Maine. The list is accur-
ate and is worth having and pre-
serving. Mr.. Bennett did lot of
work last fall for the Democratic
Congressional Committee and |
know that his work is well and
carefully done. Write TO him and
get copy.
The trusts are beginning to find
out that the people are on to them
and their methods and they are up
against the real thing. The decis-
ION of the Missouri Supreme Court
last week has attracted much atten-
ton here in all circles and has been
the subject of discussion rs to It's
probable effect ON trusts. Itseems
TO be the consensus of Democratic
opinion here that while the Miss
our decision shows the earnestness
of the Democratic states i'm the
matter of curbing the trusts. vet
1t shows conclusively that state
legislation can never furnish the
remedy for trust control and for
trust examination. The members
of the Beef Trust will simply pay
their $1,000 fine to the people of
Missouri and proceed to the rob
berry of the people as before. The
Democrats here feel that the only
way to control a beef combine is to
take the tariff off cattle and then
put the clamps down so that rail
road discrimination in freight rates
will be an impoSsibility. The rail
road trust must be killed before the
beef combine or the oil trust and a
lot of other trusts can be handled,
1t is also felt that the Democratic
contention in the tariff debate in
the next Congress, which is sure
to come, will be to remove the tar
iff from those articles controlled by
the trusts and not enter into a
general revision of the tariff. which
might disturb the business condi-
tihns of the country. OF course,
those tariff schedules well never
he touched so long as there is a
Republican Congress and Repub-
lican Administration, but if the
people see that the Democrats do
not intend to tear things all To Gus
Sed smash, but to proceed conser-
vatively about this business and
swat only the trusts that are goug-
ing the people the hardest, there
will be no Republican Congress
and no Republican Administration
after the 4th of March, 1905. 1t
is felt here that that is to be the
Democrats battle CRY in the next
campaign and is going to win:
There is some amazement evin-
ced here by prominent men in both
political parties at the summary
manner In which the Secretary of
War dismissed the charges filed by
Estes G. Rathbone, former Direc-
tor Of Posts in Cuba under Ameri-
can occupation, against Brig. Gen.
Leonard Wood, the Governor-Gen-
eral of Cuba during the same
period. The general consensus of
opinion here is that General Wood
is the pet of the administration
and that no matter what or by
whom charges are made against
him they will receive no consider
alton at the hands of the President
or any member of his Cabinet. II
will be remembered that Rathbonc
was convicted in Cuba of extrav.
agapce and embezzlement of funds
and was sent to prison and that h.t
was pardoned by a proclamation Of
general amnesty by the President
Of the Cuban Republic. He cam,