The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1906-11-23
SECRETARY B0NAPARTE ANDoTHEB
REPUBLICAN HOG RAISERS.


ed the trusts 20 pen of pigs Inc
strong. oyerfei hogs he sald' were
crowding the little ones away from
their food and were getting more ihan
their share. Secretary BonaparIe ana
not mean this i'm am mcomphmen'Sry
wav at all. lie was defending bis
idea. lie said further:
"Our biz. strong greedy ,oVer-pros per
Gus trusts are animals OF the IKE oiIei.
They crowd their smaller ana "eaAc.
fellows from the feeding trough, so tla'
these don't get their fair share OF our
national prosperity. The problem Is
how 20 SO fence of the great ueas's az
10 give the little ones show. al,
"rhe Democrats propose 10 cut on
the supply of swill, or, In other w ..l,l.'
to DESTROY our prosperity by unsettlihR
all business relations. No douo' tnls
nrocess would soon make the big hogs
iook as Thin as razOrbacks, but WOuId
line small ones fare any the better!
"Our President wants, and has al
WAYS wanted, a pure deal IOt every
one. whether pig, lion or man, allu uh-
der his leadership the Republican
marty has tried to put and keep each
of our trusts in its own proper pen
where it can't crowd any OF the NIUE
fellows around il. To these ends ne
has asked the aid of Congress ana OF
the courts TO keep the wealth OF the
country under the subsection OF the law
NOT to make rich men pOOr Tor 10 40
this would only make poor men poorer,
but TO make rich men law-aoldlng, 50
that poor men may become rich fthey
will: and the two houses Of Congress,
as well as the courts, have responder
to his appeal
Its an amazing thing that a menu
Der of the Cabinet could be guilty OF
giving utterance to such disgusting
stuff as this. But We suppose that II
Secretary Bonaparte approves Of the
trust hogs getting the "swill,' as he
calls it, he was compelled to use an
argument of the swill-tub variety.
And SO this is Mr.. Bonaparte's idea
Of government. that the people are to
see that the "swill" is equally divided
among the "hogs." With him pros
perityr is "swill." The hOgs-or
trusts-do not produce anything; the
people do that. And it is the duty Of
all true Republicans to see that the
prosperity produced by the PEOPLE IL
equally divided among the hogs. Mr..
Bonaparte's chief complaint is not
that there are overfed hogs, but that
the smaller hogs do not get enough.
The Republicans should now make
the oyerfed hogs less greedy and give
the small ones a chance.
The Standard Oil hog and the Steel
Trust and Beef Trust and Railroad
hogs, for example, should sleep awhile,
now that they have eaten so much
"swill'-orprosperity- and lesser hogs
likethe Paper Trust, the Harvester
Trust, the Leather Trust, and other
small hogs should have a chance at
the trough. "The people produces the
trust-hogs eat. Give the small hogs a
chance ~ is Secretary Bonaparte's
battle cry.
But the Secretary is certainly right
in two particulars. He is right in
likening the trusts TO hogs; and he is
right in declaring that "the Democrats
propose to cut of the supply ofswill.'
The Democrats have maintained for
years that the trusts were set Of
greedy hogs, and they propose to make
them thinner than razorbacks. They
propose to destroy them utterly. As
Mr.. Bryan says trusts cannot be re-
gulated; they must be destroyed. A
private monopoly is utterly indefen-
sible.
We are glad to have an acknowledge
ment from Secretary Bonaparte that
under the leadership Of President
Roosevelt "the Republican party has
tried to put and keep each ofour trusts
in its own proper pen, where it can't
crowd any Of the little fellows around
it, Exactly so. And the Republi-
can party has greatly encouraged the
breeding of the trust-hog, until the
land is filed with the pigpens, and
each hog is absorbing all the "swill'
he can get.
Who is feeding these infant-industry
pigs and these swill-swollen hogs? The
everyday man who works for his liy-
ing. What benefit does the everyday
working man get for feeding these
hogs? Why, he can vote to keep the
Republican hogfeeders in power. The
trust-hog has the privilege Of eating
the "swill' and the eryiay man has
the privilege Of seeing him swell.
It's a swill-tub argument used by
Secretary Bonaparte. But it's an ex-
cellent illustration of the Republican
idea Of government and Of prosperity.
You can get a Whit of the hog pen in
the argument, but that suits the Secre-
tary. And Democrats who haven't
bad colds can stop their noses.
The attempt Of the Pennsylvania