Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1903-03-05
Especial Washington Letter.

ne lS SluulOuS, Capable, cOuE-
ageous and industrious. He is a very
handsome man, fact not to be over
looked in estimating a mans chances
for political promotion. Clayton is one
of the leading members of the judiciary
committee Of the house. In the debates
concerning the trusts no man distin-
guished himself more than this stall
wart son of Alabama. His speech of
ten hours length was full of good
things. l wish 1 had room for more
than the following excerpts:
There is no organization on earth where
the rule of majority carried to brutality
is SO well exempliaed as in the case of
your party. Your party has created these
trusts and now protects them. The trusts
have fed you during the campaigns, they
have furnished the money that has paid
your election expenses. and the Repub-
lican party is as wise as the two animals
mentioned in the Scriptures:
The OK knoweth his owner and the ass
his masters crib"
Now, go ahead with the guessing, and
you will see that this bill as presented
here to will never become law. And
while tt nan from Maine [Mr. Lit
tlefield1 be SO tender of his own
record W. attention to the fact
that at one ne rocess of his evo-
lut he ia ID the exercise in some
We the taxing power against trade
me hes for he introduced into this
hot b i proposing to levy tax upon
the cred stock of these corporatio
But evolution goes on and the taxing
clause is entirely abandoned in the bill
which is presented to this house today
49, Mr. Chairman. this great Republican
party has been in power for six years, has
it not? Yes, you have been in power or
the trusts have been.
Mr. Olmstead-We have no more power
now than you had in 1883.
Mr.. Clayton-You have full power. We
did not have it, l confess that my knowl-
edge of evolution and natural history is
SO limited that I can hardly distinguish
the difference between the trusts and the
Republican party. You belong to them.
of them in every campaign. but there may
come a day when platform declarations
and campaign promises will not purchase
place and power.
Mr.. Chairman. there are some Of US
who sdissent somewhat from the view of
the president that trusts are the legiti-
mate result of commercial evolution. We
believe that the trusts. as they exist to-
day. have come from either some federal
legislation or federal privilege. permission
or liberation. In cases where congress has
ample power to enact remedial laws But
the trusts are here, and We should legis-
late to control them
You are backed up by the consolidated
and organized greed Of the country. The
party to which i owe allegiance recog-
nizes all legitimate occupations. 1t Ell
courages the accumulation of wealth 1t
Is proud of the progress of the country.
but 1t Is mindful of the great interests of
the wage Garner, the taxpayer and the
small man-the man of moderate means
and the consumer This party believes in
the Fundamental doctiine of equal rights
to all and special privileges To none 1t
believes we should give every man fair
showing in the race of life Enforce the
laws against trade conspirators and let
the era Of real happiness come in our in
duStr1al progress.
The eloquent gentleman TMr. Powersi
who opened this debate has spoken enter
tainingIy and regretfnlly OF the growth of
socialism. All, gentlemen. cease content
ing yourselves with deploring that growth.
Remember that every time a lamp Is
lighted in the cottage of the poor a tribute
has been exacted and poured into the
Golfers Of the Standard OH monopoly. Do
something Throw away your artful ex-
cuses Abandon subterfuges and fulfill
sorne of your petty promises. Avaricious
and more u control you.
The government must be not in theory
only, but in fact, for the people. Constitu-
tional authority you have. When will you
cease triflingf We owe 1t to the country.
to ourselves, to humanity, to make eff
fective use of the power to regulate COM
merce and all other lawful power neces-
sary Why longer reject the suggestions
Of the attorney general and of your breth-
ren on this side Of the house? Let Us see
to 1t that justice is done between. the very
rich and the very poor and to the great
middle class Most of US here belong to
neither OF the extremes, but are. claim,
and with becoming modesty. / trust. of
that great mass pf self reliant. tndepend"
ent people who toll with brain or hand or
with both and who are at once the bull
wark and hope of the perpetuity of Amer
lean Institutions. Let us not be controlled
by the trust potentates. who, however
commendable it may be- build monu-
lnents to their selfish selves in the form
of libraries or great universities with
corps of sycophantic professors and who
also vainly endeavor to bribe God AL
mighty by giving magnificent structures
Of stone called churches
This is a government in some sort by
the states, in another sort by congress, by
the federal government. and in It's last
analysis it is a government by political
parties. Speed the day when the party
big enough and brave enough will be eho-
sen to enact and enforce legislation to re-
strain these conspiracies and combina-
tions against the welfare OF the people
and a party that WILL in the language OF
a great justice of the supreme court OF
the United States prevent the submer-
gence Of the liberties Of the people IN
sordid despotism CT wealth.
Mirabiie Dictu!
Wonders will never cease. While
that eminent performer, Rev. Wilbur
F. Crafts, has been whooping it up to
a very large and hilarious extent
around Washington as to the ruinous
effects of the prospective donning of
the senatorial toga by the Hon. Reed
Smoot of Utah, because, forsooth, the
aforesaid Smoot is a Mormon prophet,
the Rev. III. L. Hutehins discovers that
polygamy is flourishing in Connecticut.
So it appears to mere "looker on in
Vienna" that not only is eternal vigi-
lance the price of liberty" but it is also
the price Of monogamy. That emf
nent Missouri philosopher, Mark Twain,
remarked that human nature is strong
and that most of us have good deal
of it in us, a fact that the good DR..
Crafts would do we'll to make note of.
He also would do well to make note of
the further fact that, while the Hon.
Brigham HI. Roberts. being a Demo-
crat, was unceremoniously yanked out
Of the house, the Hon. Reed Smoot, be-
ing Republican, will be given front
seat in the senate. DR.. Crafts owes it
to suffering humanity to take day off
and investigate the moral delinquencies
in the old Nutmeg State, as the follow
ing press dispatch will show:
New Haven, Conn, Feb. 23-Rev. II. L.
Hutchins who has been making tour OF
this state in the interests of the Con-
necticut Bible society, read paper today
at a meeting of pastors of this city IN
which he presented the results OF his op-
servations in certain parts of Connecticut
in way that startled his hearers.
Mr. Hutchins said that polygamy IS
practiced in certain towns in the eastern
part of Connecticut. The degeneracy or
the inhabitants of the town referred TO-
Mr. Hutchins said. was productive OF
murder and other crimes. He added that
another feature of life in that section and
in the northwestern part of the state was
the existence of class of illiterates
whom he called poor whites. These
live in shacks and are an ignorant set
The speaker thought the ineficiency OF
the country school was responsible IN a
large measure for such conditions, and ne
believed also that the church was not
holding its own in these districts.
An UPRIGHT Judge.