The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-06-30

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but that was a simple matter. The
mills composing the trust are still op-
Grated in a community OF interest if
not IN community of ownership; they
are in a position to control the news
paper market west Of Chicago. and they
have not suffered any inconvenience
apparently from the much-heralded ac-
ton Of the government
The Tobacco trust has been cited and
two OF its officials indicted, but it is
n long while in advance to predict the
outcome. This much may be predicted
with certainty: the trust viii continue
to control the tobacco market and most
Of the tobacco manufacturing business
Of America just as long as there is a
Republican president and a congress in
sympathy with him.
Likewise. the Beef trust members
have been found guilty Of accepting
rebates. or illegal rates. and the net
result has been a fine for each defend
ant found guilty. The fine is nothing
Of Importance; the trust IS still con-
trolling the price of live stock it buys
and OF food products it sells as surely
and as serenely as if there were no
federal courts.
Are the trusts frightened and cowed,
lying awake O. nights and shivering
from fear in daylight ASK the live
stock shipper, the grower of tobacco.
the buyer OF packing house meats or
other products whether ne has seen any
signs of mortal fear in the trusts. Ask
the grower OF tobacco who fixes the
price Of his labor when his crop is
marketed. Talk to the railroads who
buy steel rails of the steel trust, or
the farmer who buys wire fencing and
agricultural implements Ask any con-
suTner OF trust goods or any producer
OF material used by the trusts whether
the hystericai activity of Roosevelt has
made any material difference in the
attitude of the trusts.
II is true they are exasperated and
indignant. but at the same time they
have little to fear so long as they have
a stand-pat congress, a stand-pat pres
ident and a Speaker Cannon to prevent
any revision of the tariff which has
made their monopones possible; or so
long as the prosecutions of the adj
ministration result in nothing more
than fines, as in Kansas City, or COM
plete immunity as in the Beef trusts
Chicago cases.
The difference between Mr.. Bryan
and Mr.. Roosevelt in their positions on
The trust question is so clear that even
a newspaper like the Times could per-
mysteries make a good diversion in ad-
vance of a congressional election, but
they come to very little in the final
analysis. Mr.. Bryan's efforts if he were
president would not be subject to dis
count, they would be sincere, effective
and final Mr.. Roosevelt is under OBJ
legations to the monopolies which no
politician can forget; Mr.. Bryan is I'M
hampered by the memory of the trust
contributions to his campaign fund, and
he will remain unhampered. Mr.. Roose-
veIt's bosom friend and steering COM
mittee, Mr.. Aldrich. is a guarantee that
no trust will be fatally crippled so long
as Roosevelt remains I'm the White
House. Mr.. Bryan's platform, carried
out with the aid of a congress in sym
patty with him, would mean the ex-
tinction of criminal trusts and the
restoration of competitive conditions.
His declaration that the next cleo
ton will determine whether America is
10 swallow the trusts or the trusts
swallow America is strictly accurate.
The American people have paid tribute
to the trust monopolies as long as
human nature can endure such things,
and they are in the mood 10 settle the
question just as soon as opportunity
offers. Mr.. Bryan is the one presi-
Dental possibility whose position has
been clear on the subject; there is no
doubt as to his sincerity, his ability or
his absolute fairness, and in all prob
ability he will be called upon to guide
the f1nal settlement of the problem