Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-09-08
REPUBLICAN FAT FRYERS.
Standard Oil and Other Trusts Are
Again Sizzling in G. o. P.
Frying Pan.

Thomas w. Lawson, of Boston, con,
tinues to tell his story of "Frenzied
Finance" in the September number Of
Everybody's Magazine, and his ex-
posture of the Standard Oil plan OF
fleeing the people is most interesting
and instructive Of trust doings. Mr..
Lawson, being at the time he writes
of in close alliance with the Rookie
fellers and indeed n of the copper
trust magnates and being a strong re-
publican partisan, contributing liber-
ally to the Mckinley campaign funds.
his chapter on "the power of the dol
lar in politics" is Of great Importance.
Here we have a ulti-millionaire tell"
ing us of how the republicans pur-
chased the elections with the vast
sums of money furnished by the trusts
and corporations and that even the
courts are controlled by these vast
aggregations of wealth. Mr.. Lawson
says:
cat no time in the history of the
United States has the power of dol
lars been as great as now. Freedom
and equity are controlled by dollars.
The laws which should preserve and
enforce all rights are made and en-
forced by dollars. 1t is possible, to-
day, with dollars, to steer the selec"
ton of the candidates of both the
great parties for the highest office in
our republic, that of president of the
United States, so that the people, as
a matter of fact, must elect one Of
the 'steered' candidates. 1t is pos
sible to repeat the operation in the
selection of candidates for the eXecu-
tive and legislative conduct and con-
troll of every state and municipality
in the United States, and with a suf-
! ficient number Of dollars to steer the
doings Of the lawmakers and law
enforcers of the national, state and
municipal governments of the people,
and sufficient proportion of the court
decisions to make absolute any power
created by such direction. 1t is all,
broadly speaking, a matter of dollars
to practically accomplish these things.
Democrats have claimed that these
vast forces were at the service OF tbs
republicans, but the absolute evidence
was not possible to procure until this
trust magnate voluntarily took the
witness stand and SC wildly relates
the completely of the republican Lead
ers with the great trust %steerers of tive
country. 1t makes one stand aghaat
to discover that all the tales of the
vast sums placed at the disposal of the
republicans to corrupt the electorate
is more than true and that the amount
acknowledged to have been donated Ii
startling, for Mr.. Lawson says 5 ,000,-
900 was collected from the corpora
tons, as ali extra fund, just before the
election of 1896. Can anyone doubt
that a quid pro quo was forthcoming
and has been rendered by the repub'
lican administration? Is not this obi.
CATION to the trusts the reason Mr.
Roosevelt has treated them SC ginger
ly, perhaps not so much on account
Of past fayors as with the expectation
that they will subscribe literally tc
the fund Mr.. Bliss is collecting ant
Mr.. Cortelyou is expanding under III
rection of Mr.. Roosevelt.
There is good evidence that Stand,
ard Oil is again to be a generous con
tributor to Mr.. Roosevelt's campaigr
fund, for the Washington Star, goo
republican authority, on August %
said:
Senator Aldrich, of Rhode Island
was at republican headquarters to-day
and had a long conference with Chair
man Cortelyou. 1t is understood tina
t finances Of the campaign, was one o
the important features under discus
sion, and 1t is known that the Rhod'
Island senator is in closer touch will
} the business interests than most of tn
prominent republicans"
As Rockefeller's son married tn,
daughter Of Aldrich and the senate
{ has been VIGOROUSLY the representa-
: tive Of Standard Oil and other trust
| in the senate, the interest manifesto,
: in the finances of the republican cam
paign is obvious. 1t is also notabl
that the senator visited Mr.. Roosevelt
5 at Oyster Bay the day before he wa
in New York when NO doubt the finan
( cial end of the campaign was ais,
discussed and probably led to th
visit to Wall street and Mr.. Cortelyou
The trusts and protected interest
I fostered by the protective tariff ar
, the natural sources Of campaign fund
7 for the republican party. That i
T why they stand pat and fry til
t fat out Of the trusts.
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