Clarke courier. [volume] (Berryville, Va.) 1869-1997, 1904-02-17
FROM WASHINGTON
Washington. Feb. /,

'ttcitl ANfrt> lAVil4etce OF the Not kfEk.
Washington. Feb. Is.
The question is being asked here
why the new Department of Com
merce and Labor has not succeeded
better in Its quest for bad trusts
I which 1t purpoSed to scare off the
face of the earth by getting the
facts concerning the doings of those
trusts and giving them publicity.
l That department has been doing
business now for more than year
and not one line has been printed
about trusts. Secretary Cortelyou
has been told times innumerable
where 20 fish to catch a nice long
| string of trusts, but hc persists in
Ignoring the suggestions of Demo
Gratis. If he really meant business
and it ever was intended that he
should proceed against the trusts
and print the facts about them. he
could have collected all the data
necessary for report that would
make the trusts Sizzle like a wet
cat flung into hadeS. but the new
department has been aS idle con
corning the trusts as has been the
Department of Justice. 1t simply
shows Enthusiastically that the Re
publican party has concluded to
stand pat on the trust question
a well a upon the tariff question
and all other questions that will
enter into the campaign this year
a. the vital issues. If the people
OF the country want anything done
on any of these questions they
must vote the Democratic ticket
and elect a Democratic president
and a Democratic House of Repre-
SentativeS. or they will have the
same vicious laws left on the sta
tuteS and will experience no relief
from the present tax exactions and
thc present license of the criminal
trusts of the country to rob the
people. In electing a Democratic
president and "a Democratic House
OF Representatives, the people
need not be alarmed lest tariff re-
ductlon and trust-busting under
Democratic auspices. Will disturb
business. The leaders of the party
are not going TO jump in and tear
things 10 pieces. They are not
going to blow up the tariff wall
with dynamite, they are going TO
begin gently 10 lift the rocks off
one by one until the wall Is not so
high that the people cannot see
over 1t and the tariff protected in
dustries of this country selling
goods TO foreigners cheaper than
they do TO home consumers. lam
rather close their policy is conser-
vatlve and not radical. They may
not be radical enough TO suit some
tariff to some of the party leaders
here and know that .eearmers.
but we are all travelling the Same
road and if all will go together.
then we Will accomplish something
in the end which will be OF real
benefit 10 the tax payers of the
country, If we do not then the
same old game will continue and
the Republicans viii laugh in their
sleeves at the split between the
conservatives and the radicals
which continues to let them have
their own way. When will the
voters of the country who really
want reform learn some sense
The Louisiana Purchase Exposi-
ton or st. Louis Worlds Fair i
beginning TO occupy considerable
of the people here who
make the laws. They are begin
ming to find out that the Fair is to
be bigger thing than they antici
pated. They have lately ascer-
tanned this fact because the builders
of the Fair have come here and
produced the evidence of the won
derful outlay Of cash that has been
expended on the Fair. which far
exceeds that of any previous Fair
IN the worlds history. This great
expenditure has compelled the Fair
management to ask for loan of four
and a half million dollare from the
general government to be paid
back to the treasury by lien ON