The Washington herald., 1907-12-23
a Rich Mans Conspiracy.

Editor The Washington Herald:
a rich mans conspiracy at a $780, 900
cost OF free-press advertisement TO launch
a million-dollar magazine entitled 'Roose-
veit. the Destroyer" for the spending of
millions upon millions in few months
to spread political buncombe TO debauch
the public about the President, under the
guise of business mems work. has be-
gun the great campaign Of 1908. If the
SiXtieth Congress passes laws limiting
campaign expenses 10 government ap-
propriations as the President recon-
mends. would the rich mans conspiracy
hold them inviolate any more than It has
other laws it has trampled under foot?
The Saturday Evening Post asks: rs
Roosevelt menace 10 business?'
II to raise the curtain and give the peo-
pie view OF some Of the outrages by
which their property has been taken and
transferred 10 trusts; IL to invoke the
Constitution. declaring Congress shall
have power 10 regulate commerce .
among the several States" and. by virtue
Of that peoples given prerogative, 10 en-
force the law Of the land, instead Of in
trusting it TO the moral standing OF rail
road magnates, managers. and manipu-
latOrs of stock markets 10 do II. then
Roosevelt is a menace 10 business.
If il is a menace 70 business to enunci-
ate policies within the law 10 punish
successful dishonesty and to turn on
the light exposing the rascality Of trusts:
to show in the courts Of the Constitution
and Congress made, that octopus Rookie
/ Fa11 md hf
sociates unlawfully juggled railroad
autOcratic managers 70 carry their oil
cheaper than that of individuals: to show
that such Illegal rebating between the
/ Standard Oil octopus and railroad mag
mates coniscated the oil wells and oil
| lands OF everybody not connected with the
combine; to show that the grain elevator
| trusts compel the farmers of the great
] Northwest TO sell their grain at such
points and at such prices that such trusts
may dictate. because the railroad charges
TO other markets are prohibitOry; to show
/ that combinations between railroads and
/ the Armours, the Cudahys. and the Swifts
whereby the meat trusts were created and
the independent butchers OF the country
were forced out of business; to protect mil
| lions Of farmers and stockraisers from
the greed of trusts. compelling them 10
/ sell TO such trusts at monopoly fixed
prices or none; TO show, in their respec,
/ tive fields Of commerce. likewise with
/ the all-powerful sugar, tobacco. copper.
/ Steel paper, powder. fertilizer trusts and
/ numerous other mOnOpOlies In combina-
/ ton with railroad managers in rebate ad-
vantage wiping out the business of small
| concerns and OF individuals to prevent
/ trusts. combines. and monopolies in re-
straint of trade being built up and foster
ed by railroad mana gers in every arm of
industrial life; TO enforce pure-food laws
/ for the preservation of the lives Of the
| helpless citizens Of the nation from
/ tainted meats. decayed vegetables. putrid
! fruits. chemically preserved in cold stor-
age and distributed at leisure upon a
] helpless public: TO raise tie standard in
foodstuffs TO the point OF such purity
that even foreign states raised the ban
on their Importation; tc expose the Job
! berry and mismanagement Of honeycomb-
| ing life insurance companies whereby a
! few plutocrats fed and fattened in glut-
l tony and aggrandizement on the billions
OF the people in stock deals. bank lug
Cling. and railroad rivalry; to protect the
peoples billions In life insurance by COM
pelling reform and safe business methods;
70 recover ana hold scores OF millions of
/ acres of land-agricultural, mineral. for
est-to the public domain for national
posterity. against railroad greed and
grasping muiu-millionaires; 10 weed from
the use Of the public postal system pro-
moters of wildcat schemes. saving many
/ millions annually TO the people; 10 look
20 the interests of the people in great
/ public enterprises. as the Panama Canal.
/ connecting the Atlantic with the Pacific.
New York with Chile. and California with
the Mediterranean, and inland canals con-
Meeting Chicago with New Orleans: look
ing far into the future beyond party linn
its; to stand for everything for civic good.
welfare, and success. whose courageous
example therein has been the Impetus 10
! the great wave of civic and legislative re-