The Savannah morning news., 1904-10-02
SCORED ROOSEVELT
AND THE TRUSTS
ATTITUDE OF REPUBLICANISM
JOHN SHARP WILLIAMS FIERY AR
RAIGNMENT OF MONOPOLIES.

brooklyn Last Night with an Inn
penchment of the Republican Pol
icy of PrOtcctiOn-Thc Trusts and
the LabOring Glasses His Theme.
How the Trusts IuJurc the Work
ing Men-The Remedy at Hand.
New York, Oct. John Sharp VIII
lams, of Mississippi shared the honors
with Edward NJ. Grout at the opening
of the Democratic campaign in the
| Clermont Avenue rink. Brooklyn to-
night. A big crowd attended the rail-
ly and Mr.. Williams and MIR. Grout
were enthusiastically cheered.
Congressman Williams began with
this reference to President Roosevelt:
THE President. who is a candidate
for reelection, has lately issued to the
press a written stump speech, in the
form of letter of acceptance. 1t reads
more like the message of one of Gods
anointed to his eXpectant subjects,
one-half of whom are treated by him
as his enemies, and therefore. accord
ing to his logic-the logic of Louis
XIV that of L'Etat c'est moi'-ene-
mics of the country and it's welfare.
"A distinguished barrister of Great
Britain, replying once to an argument
which had been made by opposing
counsel more noted for his impusiVe-
ness than anything else, said May
1t please your honor, the language and
manner INDUCED in towards me by op-
posing counsel would be remarkable
If it came from God Almighty to
beetle bug The Democrats of this
country, constituting nearly q half of
its total population, and, even IN re-
cent elections, over half of it's total
white population, may well remind
Mr.. Roosevelt of the fact that his
manner and language are of that char
acter.
ReDubIicanism's Promise.
I'm this letter of acceptance. however
there is one note-keynote we may call
(which is certain and unmistakable,
to wit, that if the Republican party is
kept in power, it will continue to ad-
minister the government without
amendment just as it has been admin
istered for the last three years. If so,
then we are to have four more years
of standing pat" and of boasting of
the part and of a party partnership
with God If so, then for four more
years the tariff is to remain, like the
laws of the Medes and Persians. un-
changed and Interchangeable If so, for
four more years, all reciprocal trade
relations sought to be entered into by
the other peoples of the world, even
though in accordance with the recon-
mendatons of such distinguished Re-
pubicans as Blaine and Mckinley
some based upon treaties approved by
Mr.. Mckinley. are to be trampled or
lauded as an incident of our alleged
position as an arbiter of the worlds
destiny!
-Four Years of international Per-
hdy.
For four more years, international
perfidy is to be extenuated, because of
the magnitude of the benefit we have
reaped, or which we hope to reap!
For four more years the Industrial and
social peace of the South is to be
menaced, If not by anything actually
done or undertaken to be done, at least
by inconsiderate talk and misleading
conduct in high place! For four more
years, the big stick is to be continu-
ally held up as the national ideal IN
our relationship with the balance of
the world, and especially with the peo-
pies Of Central and South America!
For four more years some of our man
ufacturers, who sell habitualy to the
foreigner at reasonable profit in his
own market, Notwithstanding his pau
per ldBOis are sum W ilill tAlDi iiOlidlt
tariff rates a shelter behind which to
charge the American consumer an un-
reasonable profit at prices 25 to 3S
per cent. higher than are charged to
foreigners for the same goods, made I'm
the same mill on the same day For
four more years the Northern Securi-
ties decision is to be held up as the
be-all and end-all of rust-shackling,
while other trusts are hidden God
acrangtae n Fqanhapt,
develoament!
Trusts and Labor.
"I shall discuss the attitude of the
Republican party towards the trust
question, and the evils Of the trust
system, especially as 1t bears upon the
laboring men.
rs the Northern Securities case to
be the be-all and end-all of Republi-
can interference with the trusts? Is
it to be the only effort to execute Mr..
Roosevelts boast of 'shackling cum
ming, as civilization has, in the past,
'shackled force?' Why among the
many railroad mergers of the United
States was that particular one Sc
lected TO proceed against, and no other?
Was II because It had done most harm?
1t had had no time TO do any IL had
the power to do harm, and the seeds
of abuse and extortion within It., as
but, as a matter OF fact, II had ac-
tually done none. The seed had not
terminated up to the time Of Gov.
Van Zants procedure against II. 10
the Republican machine managers seri-
ousy expect the people 10 believe that
II was and Is the only trust, and the
only railroad merger in the land?
Few other Trusts.
where is the wood pulp trust Of the
Presidents especial friend, Mr.. White
law Reid? Where Is the agricultural
implement trust OF his ambassador 10
st. Petersburg? Where Is the water
logged steel trust, engineered into ex-
istence by the legal ingenuity of his ex-
Attorney General Knox? Why did this
official. while he was yet Attorney
| General, the morning after the Su-
preme Court had decided the North
ern Securities case in favor OF the
! government, and pointed out the reme-
| dies under the law against all like
| trusts hasten to teassure all other
mergers and combines, by announcing
| that the government WAS not going
| TO run amuck2' What does the phrase
mean in this connection. anyhow? How
! can executing the written law Of the
land, under ones sacred oath as an
executive officers, be called running
/ amuckY But If It can be so called,
/ then why not in the name Of the God