Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-12-26
RULED BY TRUSTS
PROOF or REPUBLICAN PARTYs
UNWoRTHINEss.
Time Has Shown the Truth of Judge
Parker's Charges Made in 1904,
Of the R~oosevelt-c Corpora
ton Alliance.

The more we examine the history
of the last campaign for the presi-
dency, the more we must be con
WINGED that Judge Parker was right
and that his opponents, whether
they called themselves Democrats
or Republicans, were wrong. In
his speech at Esopus, on October
"a, 1904, Judge Parker declared that
the president and the trusts had COM
bined in an effort ito satisfy the coun-
try that the trusts were opposed to his
administrations" andnthat the corpor-
atoms were contributing largely to the
Republican corruption fund, while
pretending to be hostile to Roosevelt.
And in this connection he added:
Political contributions by corpora
tons and trusts mean corruption.
They cannot be honest. A corporation
will subscribe to a political party only
because the corporation expects that
party, through it's control of public Of
ficers, executive or legislative, to do
something for the benefit Of the cor
poration, or to refrain from doing
something to its injury. No other mo-
tive can be imagined; in the nature
of things, no other motive can exist"
In short, Judge Parker charged the
president with conniving with the
trusts and moneyed corporations in
deluding the people of this country.
The New York Times, the New
York World, and the Brooklyn Eagle
made similar charges. In an editorial
the Eagle, on October 16, 1904, said:
Payments have been made and OBJ
legations correspond. AS it is now too
late to modify the program, under the
auspices of Cortelyou, collections will
continue" And again in the same ar
ticle, it said: Corporations are not in
the habit of giving something for moth
ing"
Developments in the investigation of
the life insurance companies and 9TH
er corporations have demonstrated the
truth of these charges. And develop
ments in connection with the present
panic commenced on the very day on
which the president was denouncing
the criminal rich in a speech at Nash
vile, while Cortelyou was in confer
ence with them in New York, and was
lending them money out of the public
treasury to enable them to absorb all
the resources Of ordinary industrial
institutions and railroads, prove that
the same conspiracy to delude the peo-
pie is still in existence. C%ortelyou,, the
same man who managed the business
end of the conspiracy in 1904, is now
managing 1t with a view to greater
results of the same character in 1908.
Why did the trusts and moneyed cor
porations contribute such enormous
funds to elect Roosevelt in 1904? This
question was answered by the New
York Evening Post in 1904, as well
as it can be answered now, when in
an editorial article it said:
Manufacturing corporations and
trusts make contributions, not to tes-
tify their admiration for President
Roosevelt, but to purchase privileges
and immunities. They put money in
Mr.. Cortelyou's slot and take out a
tariff duty. This scarcely concealed
partnership between the Republican
party and the favored interests which
think they will find their accounts in
keeping it in power constitutes the
peculiar offense and menace attend
ing the use of huge campaign funds.
1t is a revolving thing, yet no intelli-
gent man will deny the substantial
accuracy of Judge Parker's in
dictment. The plan to buy the
lawmaking power, in the expectation
of favors to come, is as detestable as
it is wicked; and the best way to re-
buke and defeat it is to put a party in
office whose policy is not to have any
privileges to sell to any man"