The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1904-07-23

reductions in the existing tariff rates.
but not free trade. He continued:
THE true democratic position on the
tariff is this: Recognizing the fact
that large portion of cur revenue
has always been raised from customs
duties or taxes, democrats divide all
imports into three classes neces-
saries, comforts and Injuries and
contend that the tariff taxes should
be highest on Injuries, lower on COM
forts and lowest or none at all on the
necessaries. They furthermore say
that taxes should be uniform on all
articles belonging to one class.
THAT is the democratic party's posi-
ton, from which it will not re driven
or coaxed or buliied No amount of
Misrepresentation will cause them to
bulge from that position"
The chairman then devoted his at
tention to former Attorney General
Philander G. Knox. He declared that
Mr.. Knox had been made attorney
general through the influence Of the
trusts and was afterwards transferred
to the United States senate as a reward
for his protection Of the trusts. On
this subject he said. in part:
People will open their eyes In as
constituent and begin to inquire as to
the why and wherefore Of his appoint
ment when they learn that the transfer
of Mr.. Knox from the attorney gener-
alship to the senate was procured by
the earnest and successful efforts of
Mr.. Frick, Mr.. Cassatt, and Mr. Donald
Cameron to induce United States Sem
ator Boise Penrose, the new republican
boss of Pennsylvania, to permit Mr..
Knox to be senator-for Gov. Penny
packer, who noininally made the ap-
pointment, does not appear to have
been considered at all in the premises.
"The amazement of the people will
grow like Jonah's gourd vine when
they learn that Mr.. Prick is the heavi-
est stockholder in the steel trust; that
Mr.. Cassatt is president of the Penn
sylvania Railroad company, which is
one Of the defendants in the coal trust
suit now pending, and that Mr.. Gamer
on represented the Standard Oil trust
and Wall street interests in persuading
Boss Penrose to let Mr.. Knox go to the
senate.
Here we have the strange spectacle
1.-The mystifying anomaly-of three
of the chief trust magnates in the land
securing the appointment to the senate
of Attorney General Philander g.
Knox, who has been exploited far and
wide as the greatest trust buster on
terra firma.
Folks who still dare to think, will
be forced to one of two conclusions:
First, either that Mr.. Knox is the Only
lawyer, in America capable of conduct
absolutely preposterous-or that the
Knox antitrust crusade has been a
bunko game from the beginning"
Concluding his address, Chairman
Clark said:
HAS the president changed his
views, or have the trust magnates
changed theirs?
plain people cannot be blamed for
being bewildered by all this kaleido-
scopic performance.
They cannot be censured because
by an old process they figure it out
that two and two make four, and that
the transfer of Mr.. Knox from cabinet
to senate at the behest of Messrs.
Prick, Cassatt and Cameron, taken in
connection with the change of feeling
in Wall street in favor of the presi-
dent. has sinister meaning.
''The trust magnates who secured
the senatorial toga for Mr.. Knox, since
they have established the entente cor
dale with that famous trust buster,
ought to compel the young rufnanly
scions Of great trust houses who some
time ago insulted and assaulted Mr..
Knox in a public restaurant to 90
down on their knees and make him the
amende honorable. Then all will be
lovely-away with the trust and the
trust buster"