Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1905-02-10
THE HOME or THE TRUSTS.

hG VI III INV
The relations between the President
and the Senate are said TO be much
strained. They are not gentlemen to
be trified with, those Senators, and
when they grow mulelsh the effect is
very trying. Now they propose to rs
sert that in the San Domingo affair
the President assumed senatorial
prerogative and thus embittered them.
But the cause OF their anger did not
come from that source. The Senate
of the United States is really the
patron saint IT the trusts 1he cOun.
try owes more-to that body for the
present intolerable conditions than to
the trusts themselves. The Senate is
the home of the trusts. There is no
trust in the United States OF any
magnitude, certainly none of power
and influence, that does not have a
representative in that body. Look at
Senator Aldrich of Rhode Island.
Rhode Island is one Of the smallest
and most Insignificant of all the east
ern commOnwealths, yet that State
through Senator Aldrich, exercises
more power and influence 10 the Sen
ate than most any other. Why? Because
Mr.. Aldrich Is the representative of
and looks after and protects the Tariff
Lords, the Standard Oil, the National
Banks, and even the Railroads He
has many helpers it is true, but he is
the great head, the "agent" we may
say, of all these in the Senate. When
the country was trying to reduce tariff
schedules in Cleveland's second ad-
ministration, it was said that Mr..
Aldrich presented a schedule and
blandly told the Democrats who were
then in power, that when they agreed
to that schedule their bill Guild pass,
and not till then. The Sugar trust,
the Tobacco trust, the Coal trust, and
all the other giants who had the coun-
try by the throat then and have held
1t ever since, were Mr.. Aldrich's
friends whom he WAS protecting above
the people. But he had then such
faithful eoadjutors as Mr.. Quay, Mr..
Penrose, Mr.. Hale, Mr.. EIkins, and
many others, and since then has had
such men as Depew of New York and
Knox of Pennsylvania, added to the
lists. SO long as the United States
Senate is composed of those now in
control there, no relief can be expected
from trust power, unless there arises
such popular demand for relief as will
shake the nation to its center. Such az
We have seen in monarchies where the
heads of the monarch rolled away as
ball. Such as today seems to be
shaking Russia to her foundation
stones. The Senate, however, cannot
see the impending trouble. Mr.. Can
non and Gen. Grosvenor, and such
other blind partisans in the House do
not see that the people are becoming
aroused to the robbery that is end has
been going on for years. aud they are
joining the Trust owned Senate In Its
endeavors to prolong the conditions
they have brought about.
But the hand writing is on the wall
The Senate must yield or their mode
of election will be changed, their beads
in other words, will GO off, and their
beloved Trusts be driven from the
nation. Even in monarchical Europe
We find Emperor William II saying !:
I'm America you can do as you please,
but will never allow the life of the
workmen and farmers in my country
to be crushed out, and they thrown by
their masters into the gutter like a
squeezed lemon.n
Mr.. Roosevelt sees "sQueezed lem
ons" everywhere, and he has had the
nerve to undertake plans for relief.
This causes Senatorial dislike, it will
cause him to suffer trust hated, but be
can rejoice in having the sustaining
power of the people behind him.
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