The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1906-11-02

he told the attorney general 10 go
and ask some Judge TO tell the trusts
10 stop OF course. you don't do that
IN horse stealing You don't enioin
man from stealing horse You
put him in the pententiary. after
you take the horse away from him
and let him stay long enough TO let
him reflect on horse stealing"
But even the president IS talking
of putting trust magnates in the pen.
ltentiary | am glad that the presi.
dent is doing something. I only wish
he would do more But. my friends
II you will look where he has put his
foot forward on this subject you will
find he has put his foot in the track
made by Democrat and that his foot
does not NJ the track. So YOU see
they have done all they could Well
my friends. they have been in power
Tor ten years. and We have lust as
many trusts now as we had ten wears
ago. DO you expect reform from
them, No. my friends. II anybody
tells YOU OF reforms that the Republi-
can party has brought about. | wish
you would tell them a story | heard
lie other day. An old colored man
married. a second time. and. unfortu-
astely got an extrayagant wife He
Sas complaining TO one OF his friends
about his wife. and he said. That
woman wants money all the time
she wants a dollar today. fifty cents
tomorrow. and quarter the next day
hen another fifty cents, and then
quarter, and ii is just a dollar. fifty
,ents and a quarter. round and round
and round all the time Well his
friend said. what can she do with so
much money! And the old man re-
piled. I don't know: hain't gin her
aCcs yet No. my friends. they haint
gin us any reforms yet. And why
1ont they? Because they dare not
ay the ak at the roots OF the tree"
The Democrats say that a private
monopoly is indefensible and intolera.
Die. The Democrats say that God
aeyer made a man good enough TO
stand at the head OF monopoly and
ieciie arbitrarily what Others should
pay him for what they had TO have
and for what he alone could sell
Tfat is the Democratic position Now
what do the Republicans say? Why
hey say, regulate. restrain and re.
strict Well. they have been regulat- I
nS for ten years. and what is the re-
suit Why. the trusts elect the regu.
sfors. That is the trouble You can
-egulate legitimate business. but Won
cannot regulate a criminal business
md, my friends the trust the mon.
opoly, has been an outlaw for thou
sands OF years"
Now why don't you try 10 regulate
burglary? For instance. why not en-.
ict Law providing that no more than
wo burglars may enter a house at
me time2 Now great deal of harm
nay be done by allowing a large mum.
Der OF burglars TO go in together. but
7 you limit IL 70 two | don't think II
you'd be so bad. And then sometimes
hese burglars take everything they
Ind in the house or course that
sn't fair Why not limit them 10
ne-half OF what they ind2 That will
- so much better. Why don't YOU
egulate burglars? Because. my freind. {
ou have always known that when /
rime constituted the element OF n Il f,
lust be not regulation but prohibition.
nd so. you say. Thou shalt not steal
hat is the old-fashioned way Of say
TX H. and il was good until the Re I
ublicans amended the commandment a
) read. Thou shalt not steal on a
mall scale
Now. everybody knows what the $
lrpose OF the trust is The younger h
Ockefeller has been kind enough to .
Ike the world into his confidence.
I'd he gives a beautiful. Illustration:
2 says. as the American Beauty i
'se can only be brought 10 its pres d
Il perfection by pinching of ninety
ne buds that the strength OF the 1,
ish may go into the other bud. so
eat industrial enterprises can only
brought to perfection by pinching n
the smaller and weaker ones a
lu understand II now. Just pinch r
EN- of Just bankrupt them. Just !.
I've them out OF business. and when
u have destroyed competition raise II
q price and make the people pay il IA
OK. 1t is so simple and easy. Well. br
an just oldfashloned enough TO be- n
we that Il IL better To have q hun Al
ed roses giving perfume TO hun :,
ed homes than 10 have Just one big
Sc in one big home and TO have all "
= rest OF the people without flowers.
am just old-fashioned enough TO be- IN
we that II is better 10 have tens OF n,
ousands Of industries each giving
lpe and ambition TO those who work
them than TO have just a few gi-
.ntic trusts preying on the whole ch
untry. whose owners will transmit ha
earned wealth from generation TO a.,
neration. Yes. we have dreamed "
out the trust question. and we have W
"a a vision Of country freed from pa