The Democrat-sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1906-1935, 1908-08-27
Republican Trust Busting,


has been It's trust. busting activi-
ties and it's claim of controlling
corporations.
The cry of the President has
been ''let no guilty man escape"
But what are the facts. Has any
corporation magnate been impris-
oned in consequence of the activi-
| ty of the Administrations
The prosecution of the railroad
com bine, known as the Northern
Securities Company, was success
| full and the Courts ordered that
combine to be dissolved, but the
railroad corporation composing 1t
are still doing business at the old
stand and controlled by the same
men and are charging call the
traffic will bear"
The prosecution of the Packers
Combine resulted in fining some of
| it's mem bers small sum, but the
Beef trust still exists under an
other agreement, and the price of
beef Is higher than before the
prosecution was commenced.
The Standard Oil Trust was
prosecuted with deal of vigor
and when Judge Lands inflicted a
fine of twenty.nine millions and
over the Administrative was 'over-
joyed' and some people really be
lieved that the day of their re-.
demption from the predatory
trusts was nigh at hand and par
TALLY accomplished. But sensible
people were not fooled by the mag
nitude of the fine and now comes
the Circuit Court of the United
States and orders the fine remitted
and sends the case back to the
lower court for new trial. Of
course, in the meantime, kerosene
and gasoline go up in price and
Standard shares are held at $3.50
share and pay 40 to so per cent on
their par value.
The Fertilizer Trust, however,
was to be made shining example.
But after all the most faithful
ust-busting attorneys of Uncle
Sam had spent months of time and
thousands of dollars in bringing
that plunderer of the farmers into
Court, it was suddenly determined
by the Administration to discon-
tinue the suit, 80 the plundering
continues.
There were some few others,
such as the Paper Trust, ordered
to disband, but if you want to buy
any paper you must still buy
trust products and pay trust prices.
These proceedings against
Trusts are the four shining exam
Piles of what this Republican Ad-
ministration has been able to do in
the way of trust-busting and cor.
poration batting and on which it is
expected the voters will decide to
give the Republican party another
lease of power.
The Steel Trust, the Tobacco
Trust, the Sugar Trust, the Paper
Trust, and all the predatory trusts
are being "investigated" but those
who "know the ropes" declare
they will never be the worse for
what is discovered.
This is way, however,to bring
most of the trusts to time and no
one knows it better than the Re-
publican politicians, but they
Ntudiously avoid attempting it.
All the Trusts have some form of
monopoly that holsters them up
and most of them are specially
protected by the tariff but the Re-
publicans declare that the sacred
tariff must not be reduced, but
even declare in their platform, Just
adopted, that maximum tariff
must be enacted, which will furth-
er protect the trusts from compe
tition from the products of those
countries who also have a high
tariff. That is the promise of Re
publican reform and method Jf re-
ducing trust high prices. 1t il
also proposed to give the corpora
tions Federal license which
would give them further lease cf
power from which even the States
could not dislodge them.
The Democratic plan Of controll
ing the trusts is simple aud flee
tive. By reducing or abolishine
the tariff an trust nroducts the