The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1908-04-08

tue QOOI62O loQu6 IyI hun Mo y III
ocrats mean to revive industry aud
not to destroy it BY eNtermina
tion we mean to restore oompeti
ton. Secretary Taft is not in fa-
yor of extermineting the trust but
to control them, but the Rspubli
oan patty has not controlled the
trusts but is controlled by them.
Look at the amount of money that
has been paid by the trusts for leg
isIations They have bought all
they wanted for the past several
years They oen afford to put tep
million dollars into the Republican
campaign if they are promised im
munity, because they can make
back ten times ten millions
The law says any continuation in
restraint of trnde is unlawful, YET
Secretary Taft would omend tn.
law to make it read unreasonable
restraint of trade On the same.
basis the criminal statutes might
be changed so as not to be unreas-
rnable. Burglars should do their
work with the least possible moon
venienoe to the people plundered,
aud murderers should be polite
aud deferentiel to their victims
1 think L oan tell you why Score.
tary Taft deals 80 gently with cor.
porstions; be has not learned the
difference between corporations
and the natural man.
Shall the corporations be bigger
than the man is the question in
this discussion The railroad oor-
poration expects rights which the
natural man would not dare to ask. 1.
Gcd made man, and man made the
corporations Man was placed hero
to Garry out divine decree, and
man made corporations to make
money. When God made man he
made limit to his existence, but
gben it comes to corporations, man
eises the age limit and some want
20 make them perpetual God
brathed soul into man. but man
could not breathe a soul into cor
oorations.
] am afraid that Secretary Taft
nas not studied the subject of oor
because he was in favor
Of perpetual franchise for a rail
road when he was in tho Philip
pine Islands When the Secretary
Uas urging that. he wac also uEg
iug the passage Of bill that would
guarantee perpetual income TO
the railroads in the island. If
Adam had given Gain perpetual
with guarantee of
income, we would be
paying it yet.
Perpetual means us long as long
eternity. Mr. Bryan illustrated
1is point by relating an explana,
ion of the length of eternity that
vas given him when boy, That
VAS, if bird attempted to Garry
al the sand on earth to one of the
distant stars. and would take one
,rain at time, requiring two mil.
ion years to make the trip for each
grain each way, and after it had
,arried all of the sand f.om earth
% the star. and found that ii had
made mistake, then carrying all
If the sand back to earth. requir-
ng the same length of time, that
he sun would not yet have arizen
IN eternity.
More people are ready at this
line than ever before to say that
private monopoly is indefensible
.ud intolerable Oar position on
.he tariff has baen vindioated after
He have been talking of it for the
past twenty eight years. and after
avery argument which the Repub
loans have outlined agaiust tariff |
reform they have built up the tariff
so high that it is now more than
fifty per cent of what the laborer.
gets out of the total prodnot. Have
you heard of the great $29,000,000
fine which was imposed but which
has meyer been collected, and the
fine looked as though the Repub-
loan party was trying to get even
" ith the Standard Oil Company,
yet it has given that company
protective tariff of about l2O per
oent.
While We are waiting for the
Standard Oil Company to pay the
that fne, eighty mill