Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-10-31
MAKE The trusts
OBSERVE THE LAW
Secretary Bonaparte Makes a
Notable Political Speech In
Maryland
LlkENs TRUSTS TO BIG HOGS
They Keep the Little Hogs From the
Troush-Would Put Them in separ-
ate Pens and Give the Little Fellows
a chance-Makins the Rich Man
Poor Will Not Aid the Poor Man.

Denton, Md, Oct 31.-Sec'y Bona
parte spoke here today at meeting in
the interest of William H. Jackson, re-
publican nominee for congress in the
First district of Maryland. Bonaparte's
speech was a plea for a continuation
of the next house of representatives in
republican hands. He quoted figures
showing the increase of the foreign
commerce Of the country since 1896.
when the republicans came into power,
and in support of his contention that
national prosperity was due to repub-
lean administration.
But this very prosperity" he con-
tinued, "is a source of some serious
embarrassment. When nation grows
rich the individuals who make up that
nation grow rich also, and in such cases
some of these individuals always grow
far richer than others. We have devel-
oped crop of Croesuses without pre-
cedent in history, and moreover the
long distance telephone, ocean cable,
and development Of corporate agencies
enables these multi nlillionaires to
unite their wealth in huge combina-
tions which threaten the commercial
liberties of their fellow citizens and
even bid defiance to our laws"
Bonapart likedend the trust to pen
of pigs in which big, strong and over
fed hogs crowded the little ones away
from their feed and got far more than
their share. He continued:
"Our big, strong, greedy. over-pros-
porous trusts are animals of the like
order. They crowd their smaller and
weaker fellows from the feeding trough
SO that these don't get their fair share
of our national prosperity. The prob
lem is how to SO fence off the great
beasts so as to give the little ones a
show.
"The democrats propose to cut off
the supply of swill, or in other words.
to destroy our prosperity by unsettling
all our business relations. No doubt
this process would soon make the big
hogs as thin as razorbacks, but would
the small ones fare any better?
"Remem ber we don't complain of the
former because they are themselves
big and fat. but because others are
small and thin. The fatter the big
pigs become the better for their owner,
and the more money the trusts make
the better for the American people,
provided in the one case all the little
pigs get fat, too, or at all events as
fat as these, and other dealers outside
the trusts have fair field and the
trusts have no favor.
"Our president wants and has al
ways wanted square deal for every
one, whether pig, lion or man and un-
der his leadership the republican party
has tried to put and keep each of our
trusts in its own proper pen, where it
can't crowd any Of the little fellows
around it. To these ends he has asked
the aid of congress and of the courts
to keep the corporate and individual
wealth of the country in due subsection
to the law, not to make the rich men
poor, for to do this would only make
the poor men poorer, but to make the
rich men law abiding, so that poor men
may become rich If they will. And
the two houses of congress as we'll as
the courts have responded to his ap-
peal"