Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1903-05-14
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VERNE II. BEEMAN. Editor.
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Federal authorities will make some at
tempt to reach the leather trust. the
sugar trust, the steel trust, the tobacco
trust, the oil trust and divers and sun
dry other trusts, to numerous to mention. |
These trusts will also pay their little
fines of five thousand dollars each,
and then we may expect an increase
in the price of the commodities which
they furnish us, and thus we pay the
cost of their litigation and they will
continue to do flourishing business
at their old stands, and all this tran
spires under the republican 'trust
SYSTEM and the administration says
we must have no "tariff tinkering,"
no tariff reform or tariff revision for
fear that me might interfere with the
money making proclivities of these
'.industries.'
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But some republicans who have
their own and their countrymen's in
interests at heart are beginning to see
the evil of the trusts.
Governor Cummins, the republican
executive of Iowa, who so strongly
favors ''tariff revision,' as a remedy
for the trust evil, has at last succeeded
in bringing some other prominent re-
publicans around to his way of think
ing. But their ideas are not in entire
accord with the ideas of Mr.. Cummins.
It will be remembered that sometime
ago Governor Cummins prepared
plank which was to be submitted to
the republican convention of Iowa.
This platform was as follows: "We
stand by the historic policy of the re-
publican party in giving protection to
home industries and point for its ample
idity with which our national resources
have been developed and our industrial
and financial Independence secured.
| "a oh, t1n f.,rt
from time to time as become advisable
through the progress of our industries
and their changing relations to the
commerce of the world. We endorse
the policy of reciprocity as the natural
complement of protection and urge it's
development as necessary to the reali-
cation of our highest commercial posi-
bilities. We favor the modification
of any tariff schedules that may be
required to prevent their affording
shelter to monopoly
Governor Cummins has been COM
PEELED to change this plank in order to
bring over his other republican friends,
and as the plank now stands it reads
as follows: 1--WE are not pledged to
any particular tariff schedules. The
question of rates is a practical one to
be governed by the conditions of the
time and of production. The ruling
and uncompromising principle is the
protection and development of Ameri-
can labor and industries. Reciprocity
and protection are twin measures of
republican policy and go hand in hand.
We demand protection for what we
produce and free admission for the
necessities of life that we do not pro-
duce."
The word "Trusts' is written all
over this plank. in capital letters. 1t
is vague. 1t is meaningless. Notice
the absence of the words 'affording
shelter to monopolics, which are con-
tanned i'll Gov. Cummins' first plank.
Let the people watch the movement of
the republicans carefully, and they
will see our predictions come true that
the reDu blicau Dartv fayorS tba +rus+s
and will adopt another trust nlank for