The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-12-12

be done to curtail the great powerof this monster trust-John D. Rockefeller
 trust-the great Standard oil trust.'
 There was no applause in the galler>
 ies, but some of the sallies were so amusing that the e-president had to
 call attention to the rule that prohib-
 it's any manifestation or approval or
 disapproval
 The fact that the house was not in session brought many representatives to the senate "to see the fun"
 Nearly seven years of Mir. Roose- velts strenuous term have passed with all the machinery of the government at his back, with the great power of the chief executive in his hands; yet will ask some republican senator upon this floor to tell men one trust that he has even tanned, much less destroyed. An, Mr President, it was stated by the metropolitan press before I entered this august body-hippantly ,too-that before I had been In the senate six months the trust magnates would have me feeding out of their hands. l may share crumbs with a Lazarus, but I swear to you to-day, by every god in .he calendar, that I shall never eat from the hands of Mammon.
 Our president, and I speak of him in the most respectful terms, besides his salary of S50,000 year, and say that that is not excessive, is paid by this congress $25,O00 a year for travel ing expenses, approximating in all s11S,00O annually for living expenses. Ah, Mir. President, this is enormous. This is unreasonable. The president of the United States has five cheldren, believe. It is true that he should live in accordance with the dignity of the position which he occupies-the great est executive upon the face of the earth-but I have the president
 skinned city block' in the matter of family I have eight children and it don't take $113,000 for my living ex- penses. No, sir. The greatest presi- dent that ever lived upon this earth, that was ever inaugurated in this capi- tai, in my judgment, was 'Old Blue Jcans-old Hickory Jackson" who rode hie horse to the White House dressed In suit of blue jeans.
 Nr President, the present money panic of the country has been manipu- lated by the trusts and aided and as- sisted by their confederates, the stock gamblers, for the purpose of stealing from the toilers of the Southland the fruits of their labor To tell me that the stock gamblers of New York do not fix the price of the commodity (cotton) is to display an ignorance stu pendous indeed, that will bring down upon the head of the man who asserts it the contempt and ridicule of the stock gambler himself. . I assert, sir, that 75 per cent. yea, 90 per cent of the dealings of the New York Cotton exchange is gambling pure and simple. If we do not destroy the trusts, MT. President then tremble for the re- public, tremhle for the government, itself. The creature is growing greater and stronger and more powerful than the creator, and if permitted for only a few years to run without check or hindrance, instead of the government prescribing terms upon which the trusts may do business, the trusts will be prescribing terms upon which the government may do business.
 What Is needed to-day by the trust magnates of this union in order to make them respect the law and obey | its solemn mandates is that they be treated like ordinary felons; is that the strong arm of the law be laid upon them just as it would be upon a horse thief or anyone else charged with crime. Land them in the penitentiary: place felon's stripes, the doxology of a misspent life" upon them, and you will see the trusts are busted and the people will get relief.
 1T undertake to say" he continued. that If this bill is enacted into a law. and faithfully and honestly executed, trusts will be wiped from the face Of the earth, and no longer will we feel their grinding and destroying grip on the arteries of trade and commerce"
 A domestic corporation found fixing the price of any article, by this bill, he said, would have it's charter forfeit ed and a foreign corporation found uiAtS VI ooSAt ebNt nSa9h iibN DN di- lowed to do business in the United States
 Congress should not hesitate in it's work of destroying the trusts because of any fear of unsettling business, he continued He spoke of the Sherman antitrust law. Has it proven effectu- al2 he asked. Has 1t destroyed a sim gle trust? Under its operation have they not grown strong, defiant and ar rogant? Almost for seventeen years the Sherman antitrust law has been upon our statute books, more than four times as long as it took the north to wear out the south upon the bloody fields of battle.'
 This is an age when men have gone mad in their frenzied efforts for the dollar This Is an age when money is