The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-02

west and north and south, been pro- ceeded against?
 VIII cortelyl Come Back7
 Another question, a question which I would like to have answered by the President: Is MT. Cortelyou going to be restored to his old position after cam paign and election? Let there be denial that he will be. Why was MT. Cortel- you, of all men, made chairman of the Republican national committed? We can understand why Governor Odell should be chairman of the state machine. We can understand it from very low plane of machine politics, but still we can un- derstand 1t. He has a reputation as d "fxer'' and practical politician and 'organizer," and all that. And in what soever execrable taste hi acting in the double capacity of a presumably impar- tial chief executive of a great state and the manipulator of a partisan machine may be, we can yet perhaps better un- derstand why lie should be chairman of the republican state committee in New York than why he should be governor
 But regardless of the question of taste, why was Mr Cortelyou, of all men, put at the head of the national machine? His reputation was of higher type than Gov ernor Odel. He has had no experience III AlhC WI h anu AlO iCpuidliOii TUT pcCu- liar fitness for it, unless, indeed, having been chief of the department of com merce and labor constitutes in itself pe- culiar fitness for the plaee-along some lines of anticipated operation.
 What W-s tn, Reason?
 Was the fact that he had been secretary of commerce and labor the reason why he was appointed on the Presidents de- mand? Was 1t the chief reason? Was 1t one reason? If so, the taste of the trans action is worse than that displayed in the Odell case. How comes 1t that, up to few short weeks ago, it was in every body's mouth that the President and the trust magnates were lat outs," and that now they are falling into one another's arms while his safety and sanity ara be- ing loudly recognized by them2 It may be that it has all been nothing but rumors, but if more than rumors, then have there been negotiations? Has there been treaty of peace between the political and industrial magnates? Or is 1t a modus vivendl looking to peace after the elec- tion?" If so, who negotiated the treaty? Who arranged the terms of the modus vivendi? What are its terms? Is 1t "in- consistent with the public interest" to let us know them? "All this would be mighty interesting reading" as Horace Greeley used to say. Oh the hypocrisy of these pretences of trust-slaughter upon the part of our friends and political opponentsi
 Definition of Trust.
 A trust Is combination of corporations seeking monopolistic control of produc- tion, or of transportation, with view to the profit of those engaged in forming and managing the combination. Is that a fair definition. or not? I think so, but think it out for yourselves. The defni- ton incidentally answers the questions: what is the object of trustg' Its ob- ject is not pleasure, nor philanthropy, nor education, but gain; and not public gain, but private gain. How can the combina- tion malSe more gain, or given gain at less expense, than the constituent cor porations?
 The Governments Power.
 What can the Federal government do? What is the extent of its jurisdiction? l answer, first, it can remove so much of the tariff shelter as enables American