Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1907-12-24

"e'V p"SSeu' Win all the machinery
OF the government at his back. with
the great power of the chief executiv,
In his hands, yet ask, will come re-.
publican senator upon this floor tell
me one trust that ever has beon
tanned much less destroyed?
"Ah, MIR. President, It was stated
by the metropolitan press before 7
entered this august body. fippantlv
too, that before ! had been in tha
senate six months the trust mapnato.
would have me feeding out of their
hands. may share crumbs from
Lazarus, but | swear TO you TODAY.
by every god in the calendar that 7
shall never eat from the hands Of
mammon
II want to say to you. sir and
to the members OF this senate. that
you need not lose any sleep about a
corporation getting It's rights. You
need not looe any sleep about unjust
discrimination against them. They
Will take care of themselves. But
rather should our solicitude be for
the man who bears the burdens OF
the government.
This is an age when men have
gone mad in their frenzied efforts for
the dollar. This Is an age when
money is placed above men: when
gold is placed before God. When we
would sell our souls, our govern
ment, our all for the bright smile
from the god mammon.
What is money, Mr.. President
that It is held so priceless? You
can not eat Il, you can not wear Il.
Your shroud has no pocket in Il,
and St. Peter will not receive II for
admission into the golden gates
when we look to the leading
cause for this great wealth upon the
part of those great corporations, and
the causes leading to their forma-
ton, TO the formation OF trusts, we
are compelled % go no further than
republican authority Itself and take
the sworn statement OF Havemeyer.
the great sugar king who has gone
TO his reward, be It good or bad, who
has gone to that land and that cline
where st. Peter does not take sugar
in his and whore money is Of no
value"
He recalled Hayemeyer's state
ment before the Industrial commits !
sion that "the tariff is the mother OF
trusts"
"Under the operation Of this sys-
tem." he said, '"fifty-one men in the
United States, multi-millionaires, II
you please. have amassed total for
tunes OF sS,295,OOO,OOO. OF this
John d. Rockefeller, the oil king OF
the world. leads with s6OO,OOO,OOOi
Andrew Carnegie, the steel king OF
the world, follows with half Of this
The secretary Of commerce and
labor has calculated, ne said, all the
property owned by S9,OOO,OOO
American citizens is S1O7OOO,OOO'-
600, so that these ffty-one citizens
own one-thlrty-fifth of the entire
wealth of tho nation.
"What an alarming concentration
of weelth; what an alarming eonoeh-
tration of power" he declared In
this day and time money is King
money Is god; without wealth the
doors OF opportunity are closed, the
doors of society are shut. Yea, even
in some instances the doors OF 'he
church do not welcome the man ID
rags and tetters. How shall this
condition be changed? How shail
this government be saved? one way
and one way only that is to XIII,
destroy, annihilate the source OF al
his evil-tho trusts"
"What is needed today by the trust
of this union in order 70
make them respect the law and OBEY
It's solemn mandates" he said H
hat they be treated like ordinary ie-
ons; that the strong arm OF the Jaw
be laid against them just as II Wou'u
be against a horse thief or anyone
Else charged with crime. Lana tnou
n the penitentiary, place lcion
stripes. the doxolOgy Of misspeu'
ife,' upon them. AMI you will see 'ne
most two-thirds of the crop withou'
forcing prices down to disastrous
limits, ami the problem of hndlns
profitable outlet for the remainia
hird is yearly becoming more u,iH
,ult to solve. Spanish home 0OA
sumption of oranges does net eAos,1
, or 10 per cent of the crop mos,'' %
allen fruit and the refuse OF .ns
packing stores. Transportation ta'I
o cities in the interior are so n's
- "a .o,t. thra afimes as muCu "