The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1903-01-21
ANTITRUST SPEECH.

The much heralded anti trust
speech of Senator B. r. Tillman
was delivered on scheduled time;
but whether from lack Of inter
est on the part of the Senators,
or because Of selfinterest we 40
not know, however, his speech
was disappointing in its lack OF
ginger. We have read the
speech in the Congressional Re-
cord, and while reading 1t we
wondered how some Of our local
friends would have rellshed his
remarks when he was down here
last summer trying to show why
no rebates we're paid into the
State treasury. Had he alluded
to those interested in trusts as
:theives" and "robbers" some
who made themselves very con-
spicuous on that occasion would
have worn one Of Brete Hart's
':smoles"-well hardly either,
because men who can with bra
zen face profess piety, and then
scheme to take advantage of, ard
oppress their fellowman, can
not have shame to mantle their
cheeks. There are some men
in this world who are callous
enough to adulterate the sacra-
mental wine, and then chuckle
within themselves for their
shrewdness in robbing the Lord.
The Senator's speech arraigns
the Attorney General for lack
of duty in not ::throttling" these
Infamous combinations and
blames him for all the misery,
wrong and suffering. He tells a
story about an old hound bark
ing up the wrong tree, and said
"God Almighty, or the devil,
owed the Southern people, or
the Democratic party, a grudge
and paid it off in Grover Cleve-
land" His entire speech related
to the coal trusts and we suppose
he will in his next antitrust
speech tell what he knows about
the trust in OIL We imagine he
is better prepared to show up
the iniquities of the oil trust,
having posted himself when he
was in Beaumont, Texas, some
time back to meet with his
friends who like himself have in
terests in an oil corporation, and
Of which he is director. AS we
understood him when here, his
corporation is fighting the Stan
dard Oil combine, and it is max
ing such good headway that oil,
like the products of our local
trust, is going higher and higher.
We believe Senator Tillman is
sincerely opposed to trusts and
his speech before the masses
would do more good, than such
a deliverance in the United
States Senate; because, if it is
true that the monopolies have
secured control of the lawmak-
ing power, there is absolutely
no hope of relief from that
source, and our only hope lies in
awakening the people to their
own interests. Our antagonism
to these combinations which seek
monopoly is so well grounded,
that Notwithstanding the differ
ences between the Senator and
ourself we will give him ali the
aid in our power if he will
arouse these people to resist the
encrouchments of trusts whether
foreign or local. If Senator
Tillman were to announce his
intention to make a speech here,
at this time, before our farmers
have permitted themselves to be
shackled, by the purchase of fer
tilizers, meal or mixture, we
doubt exceedingly, if some who
schemed for his coming once,
would do so now, at least, not
until after the product of the
mills has been exhausted.
The coal trust which the Sen
ator has been Investigating is no
worse than the fertilizer trust,
except, perhaps, coal is a neces-
sity in some parts Of the coun-
try, and fertilizers are not, abso-
lutely. The Senator's argument
so far as trusts are in violation
of law, cannot be successfully
controverted and his quotations
from the Sherman act is conclu-
sive; this fragrant violation
of law is not only in Pennsyl-
vania, but it is in the Senator's
own State and many OF the guilty
are those who now hold seats
from several of the counties in