The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1903-03-20
POWER OF THE TRUSTS
1t Is omnipotent With the
Republican Leaders.
TRUST BUSTING Is POSTPONED.

The Programme Suspended Until IA.
More Convenient Season An An
drew Is Needed to Fight
Monopoly and Champion the Cause
of the People.
1t now appears that President Roose-
velt is so sick Of having congress on
his hands that he is singing a much
smaller song about trust busting than
he did a few weeks ago. AT first he
threatened to call all extra session of
congress if the trust legislation he
thought necessary was not accomplish
ed, but he is now said to b" willing to
accept any legislation that will make Il
showing against the trusts. The fact
is that President Roosevelt is DO match
for the political tricksters that control
congress. His friends aud political ad-
viSers are so anxious to see him nomli-
mated for another term that they may
continue to enjoy the spells Of office
ilttl LiNN Az ~ |'iti
Oh linn the necessity not to antugoniZe
the leaders of his party or the corpora
tons. The trusts, through political i'll
hucnce. have thus Il firm hold on this
Republican administration and are die
tating the legislation that on its face is
supposed TO curb them.
This startling and ominouS trust dom
inatiOn is patent TO all close political
observers. Indeed it is openly acknowl-
edged, if not bonstcd Of, by tl.e ltepub-
lican leaders. The newspapers have
published it With various details. The
Washington Star, which is the semi
official organ OF the administration, in
it's issue OF Feb. Z confirmed it wien
it said:
"Thereupon came the conference be.
tween the friends OF, the great indus.
trial combinations likely to lie affected
by legislation and tie statesmen Of
Washington. AS is we'll known, those
conferences resulted III tie agreement
OF the trusts to accept the mid legis-
lation which wa; outlined as being pos
sible of accomplishment. - * St The feel
ing is strong III the senate that the
president will be satisfied With IL very
mild form of antitrust legislation and
that it will be possible to persuade him
after March ! that an extra session OF
congress is not advisable and that it
would be better for linn to accept the
department OF commerce bill, if that is
all that can be obtained now. and to
wait until the regular session of con
gress next December. Wien the trust
question can be handled to better adj
vantage. No one looks for an extra
session, and 20 one believes that the
legislation at this session will be of a
very strenuous character"
The adroit and masterfuI Republican
leaders in congress have compelled the
strenuous statesman in the White
House TO come off his high horse and
play politics. The prize the leaders
are constantly dangling before the eyes
of President Observation-Disclosures term
of power--Has daZZled the vision OF our
greatest public men. The wild chasing
after rank and power has made polit-
ical giants pygmies. and this the as
tute Republican senators know full
well and are not slow in using this
powerful lever to serve their friends.
the combines and corporations.
1t is pitiful to see the president f1oun-
dering in the sea of mud that the Re
publican leaders have so aGroitly
steered him into and the futile and
fin,i1 p1yinn nfE lic nyy, f.; p,,lc, ~, 49,,
tinue to wallow in its Shiny depths.
There was hope that President Roose.
welt, like Andrew Jackson. would defy
the corporations and rally the friends
of the people IN congress to the stand
ard Of the right. But presidents with
the backbone of Old Hickory and WITH
his devotion to the peoples interests
are a rala avis in the political woods.
The monopoly that Jackson fought was
40 greater then than those that are
now controlling the politics Of today,
considering the changed times, but he
is not here to bid defiance to them. Per-
haps the people themselves, or a ma
jority OF them, are as much to blame as
those they have elected to represent
their interests. The stream Of anti
monopoly vas running clear and pure
when Andrew Jackson was the watch
mar on the tower, and he sternly drove
all away who would pollute it's source.
The shilly shallying and coquetting
with the trusts by the Republican
leaders must be met by the protest of
honest Democrat and Republican alike.
When the voice OF the people is ex-
pressed in acts there has never yet
failed to appear the leader who would
carry out their desires and the good
old Democratic doctrine Of equal rights
to all and special privileges to
Like Water ON Bucks, Hacks.