The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1903-06-20
Some Potent Facts.

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In. direct contrast to assertions
made by local Democratic organ,
careful investigation will reveal
that the Democratic party as a whole,
and the Democratic members of Con-
gross, have on every occasion when
the matter came up for consideration,
strenuously opposed every measure
designed to curtail the trusts. The
agitation of the trust question began
i'm the ffty-tirst Congress, and COM
mittee was appointed to investigate
the workings Of these combinations of
capital. Such prominent Democrats
as Representatives Wilson, Brecken-
ridge, Bynum any Bacon were men,
bers of that committee, and after in
vestigation this same committee re-
ported that none of the methods en-
plOyed by the trusts in controlling the
production or disposition of their pro-
ducts are in violation of the United
States laws"
In the face of this report the Demo-
Gratis continued to claim that the
trusts were menace and that Free
Trade was the only remedy. When
they came into power, the first thing
done was to pass the Wilson-G orman
tarifflaw, and to make the killing Of
the trusts doubly sure, a series of pro-
visions purporting to authorize the re-
gulation of trusts,was tackled to it.
For four years our Democratic friends
were in power, but records do not
show that they stamped out a single
trust nor curtailed one, except those
that fell in the crash of '93. And at
this time thousands, even Hundreds
of thousands of poor workingmen
were also crushed.
In 1888 the republican party adopted
the first antitrust plank Incorporated
in any platform and later the Sher-
man Antitrust Law was passed by
a Republican Congress. This bill
declared illegal every combination in
the form OF trust or otherwise, or
conspiracy in restraint of trade or
commerce among the several states or
with foreign nations, and it provided
severe penalties. Did the Democrats
support this measure? Not by great
deal. They tried in every way to OBJ
struct its passage. Carlisle, Bland,
Richardson, Wilson and others fought
1t hard Among other things said in a
speech on the bill, Wilson, the author
OF the infamous Wilson bill, said:
"The States, not Congress, grant the
charters for these corporations. 1t is
AZ once their duty, as it Is easily and
clearly within the sphere of their law
full power, to supervise the creatures
which they bring into being, so as to
prevent the franchises granted by the
people being used for the oppression
and detrimcnt of the people,"
Later President Mckinley proposed
an Amendment to the Constitution,
making II possible to control trusts,
prohibit them or dissolve them. The
Democrats opposed this strenuousy.
This bill was reported late in the
session of the Fifth-sixth Congress.
\ rule for the immediate considera.
ton of the measure was fought by the
Democrats, who voted solidly against
considering the measure. A two
thirds vote was necessary and this was
lacking, consequently the measure
was killed.
Such is the record of the Democratic
party on trusts, and these facts belle
every assertion of the journal and
place that paper before its readers as
a preyaricator or ignorant dispenser
OF information. Whether or not the
Republican party has passed measure
making 1t easier for the working man
to live, 1T is fact that they are living
well at present are happy and con-
tented and have always been 81 under
a Republican administration.
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