Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1904-02-19
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WASHINGTON lfTIfR
Feb. IS The question il being
asked here Why the new Department.
q Commerce and Labor has not que:
ceeded better Ia its.. quest FOR Shed Q.
trusts which 1t purposed to scare OF
the face Of the earth BY. getting the
facts concerning the doings Of those
trusts and giving them publicity:
That department. has been doing bust
ness now Tor more than q year and
not one line has been printed about
trusts. Secretary Cortelyou has been
told times innumerable where to 6sh
to catch a nice long, string Of trusts.
but he.persists In ignoring the sug-
gestions of democrats. If he really
meant business and it over was in
tended 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
have made the trusts sizzle Hike a:.wet
cat..dung into hades, but the new de-
partment has been as idle concerning
the trusts as has been the Department
Of Justice. It simply shows unmis-
takably that the republican party has
concluded to ''stand pat'' on the
trust question as we'll as upon the tar
if question and all other questions
that will enter into the campaign
this year as the vital Issue. If the
people Of the country--want anything
done on any OF these questions they
must vote the democratic ticket and
elect democrat president and a..dem-
ocratic house Of representatives, or
they will have the same vicious laws
left on the statutes and will expert
enoe no relief from the present tax
exactions and the present license Of the
criminal trusts Of the country to rob
the people. In electing democratic
president and a democratic house of
representatives. the people need not
be alarmed lest tariff. reduction aud
trust busting under democratic aus-
pieces, will disturb business. The
leaders of the party are not going to
jump In and tear things to pieces.
They arenot going to blowup the tariff
wall with dynamite, they are going to
begin gently to lift the rocks off one
by one until the wall is not 80 high
that the people cannot see over it and
see the tariff protected Industries of
this country selling goods to foreign
ers cheaper than they do to home con-
sumers. am rather close to some of
the party leaders here and know that
their policy is conservative and not
radical They may not DO radical
enough to suit some tariff reformers,
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 to
the taxpayers of the country. If we
do not the same old game will con-
tinue and the republicans will 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 use
some sense?
An item Of interest to the people
is that an order for the first issue of
the new Louisiana Purchase EXPOSE
tion postage stamps, which are to be
placed on sale at all poste fdces in the
United States May /, has been sent
to the Bureau of Engraving and Print
ing by Third Assistant Postmaster
General Madden. It calls for the
printing of 90, 600, 900 of the ore csnt
stamps, bearing the portrait of Rob-
ert r. Livingston 225. 600. 600 of the
two cent stamps, bearing the portrait
of Thomas Jefferson I, 500, 900 Of the
three cent with Monroe's portrait F.;
9, 500, 600 Of the cent with McKin-
ley's portrait and 6, 500. 900 of the ten
cent stamps with miniature map of
the United States, showing the terri.
tory acquired by the Louisiana Pur-
chase.
Hanna was never president, but
will be remembered in American poll
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