Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1904-07-20

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 a large portion of our revenue
has always been raised from customs
duties or taxes, democrats divide all
imports into three classes-neces-
contend that the tariff taxes should
be highest on luxuries, 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 be 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 c. 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
tonishnlent 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.. Prick, Mr. Cassatt, and Mr. Donald
Cameron to induce United States Sen
ator Boise PenrOse, the new republican
boss of Pennsylvania, to permit Mr..
Knox to be senator-for Gov. Penny
packer, who nominally 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.. Frick is the heavi-
| est stakeholder 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
the mystifying anomaly-of three
of the chief trust magnates in the land
securing the appointment to the senate
of Attorney General Philander c.
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
! ing suit against a trust-which is
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 fol-
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 thai
f. 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
tbp senatorial tnOo for Mr. Knov
they have established the entente cor.
dale with that famous trust buster
ought TO compel the young rufianly
scions of great trust houses who some
time ago insulted and assaulted Mr.
Knox in a public restaurant to &c
down on their knees and make him the
amende honorable. Then all will bt
lovely-away with the trust and the
trust buster"