Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-10-31
Crowd the Little Pigs
Away From the
lSwiH.
PLEA FOR REPUBLICANS
EndeaV0rs to Show How a G.
o. P. Congress Will Aid
to This End.

Denton, Md. Oct. 31.-Secretary
Bonaparte spoke here today at a meet
ing in the interest of William II. Jack
son, the republican nominee for con-
gTess in the First district of Maryland.
BOnaparte's speech was plea for d
continuation of the next house of rep
resentatives in republican hands. He
quoted figures showing the increase in
foreign commerce of the country in
1896, when the republicans came into
power, in support of his contention that
national prosperity was due TO the re-
publican administration.
Has It's Drawbacks
But this very prosperity" he con-
tinued, lis a source of some embarrasS-
ment." When a nation grows rich the
individuals who make up that nation
grow rich also, and in some cases some
of these individuals always grow far
richer than others. We have develop
ed crop of Croesuses without prece-
dent in history, and now over the long
distance telephone, ocean cable deyel-
Opment and corporate agencies enable
these multi-millionaires to unite their
wealth in huge combinations which
threaten the commercial liberties of
their fellow citizens and even bid de-
fiance TO our law"
Like Pen Of Pigs.
Bonaparte likened a trust to a pen of
pigs. in which the big. strong. overfed
hogs crowded the little ones away from
their feed and got far more than their
share. He continued:
"Our hfr
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 great beasts
so as to give the little ones snow.
Idea Of Democratic Remedy.
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?
Remember. we don't complain of the
former because they are themselves
big and fat. but because others are
small and thin.
Fat Pigs Commended.
'Fatter big pigs become better for
their owner, and more money and
trusts make it better for the American
people. provided, in the one case, all
the little pigs get the same, too, or. at
all events, as fat as these can; and. in
the other that all 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 I'M
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 il.
Asked Aid of Congress.
'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 subjection 10 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 the poor men may become
rich if they will And the two houses
of congress as well as the courts have
responded to his appeal"
Fairbanks in Indiana.
indianapolis. Oct. 31.-Vice President