The morning journal-courier., 1908-07-11

to suy lolnlnS or the lunu ana the furnishings, John D., Rockefeller's yearly income is greater than was the entire fortune of the richest Roman. From one little railroad. the Central of Georgia, J. P. Morgan and q choice assortment of participating thieves stole larger sum than Caesar wrung from conquered Gaul The victorious Sylla astonlshed historians by levying a fine of s25,O00,0O0 upon the rich cities of Greece. The sugar trust levied an annual fine of twice that amount upon this republic few years ago to recoup itself for n contribution of S500,000 which 1t had made to the campaign fund of the democratic par ty. By judiciously placing it's con tributions with both the old parties the steel trust gets the privilege to so arrange our tariff schedules as to ex- tort net profits every year ten times larger than the entire revenue of the Roman republic.
 The Vanderbilt family, through franchise grabbing and stock watering operations, have robbed the American people of a vaster sum than Alexander the Great harvested by his conquest of the Persian empire.
 From the traction lines of New York city, Ryan and Belmont have taken greater amounts of plunder than Warren Hastings wrung from the princes of Hindustan. Great Britain n n u ct at ha r.n att nf ings. Her greatest orators, Burke. Sheridan, Fox, thundered against him at the bar of the house of lords, de- nouncing him in language that will live forever. Ryan and Belmont did not ravage foreign state, nor plum der people of different race, as Hastings did; they robbed the people of their. own city, men and women of the same race as themselves, and nc impeachment for high crimes and .misdemeanors has brought them tc tthe bar of any tribunal which has Epower to- punish. Hastings despoiled l.the idle rich of Indian, grandees who had themselves plundered their own < people Ryan and Belmont did not l plunder the idle rich. No-"they put l'their greedy"- hands upon the scan' earnings of millions of workmen ant I'work women of greater New York ant amassed fortunes for themselves bS robbing the industrious poor. Int | British government threw it's whole power against Warren Hastings, 1T the effort to-. punish him for crime, committed aga!nst'.a foreign people of an alien race fahd creed, but wht talks. of indictng such men as Ryar l.and Belmont? Who dreaffs of pun
 ishing such criminals as Morgan ant Hartman? Miserable towards tha we are. We crouch before the gigan
 tic law breakers and allow them |, run our government.
 Predatory Wealth.
 They talk to us of foreign foes, am ssome of our statesmen wildly clamo Tor a billion dollar navy. But, tell m
 what greater harm foreign foe coul
 inflict upon us than we are sufferint
 from the foe within our gates? The en tire loss of France in the German inva sion of 1871 was not greater, either Il
 money or in human life, than our loss
 es every five years to our predator
 corporations.
 Take our own civil war It was fierc
 and bloody and 1t lasted four years
 Yet we buried fewer dead, and carrie
 to the hospitals fewer wounded tha
 we have lost during the last four year
 to the remorseless greed of capitalism
 Count up the victims in mine, mill an
 factory count up the human wrecks (
 the at-shops; count up the victim
 that have strewn the lines of our rail
 roads; the victims of the stock-yard
 the sugar refneries and the smeltin
 works; count up what you have lost t
 those who exploit child-labor; count Il
 all these for four years and you wi reach frightful total which exceed
 the losses of our civil war.
 For several years, Big Stick
 President has been engaged in the a
 legged work of trust busting. Where your busted trust Which one of the, has been put out of business? You cal |. not name IL. HOW can d pTeSlueIl who has been standing pat" with u tariff standpatters do any effectiy trust busting? You might as well u to purge the Gulf of Mexico withou , diverting the Mississippi. As long g , you stand pat" as to the river, tl {. gulf will stand pat in spite of yo
 We Jeffersonians contend thas Il trusts are the natural offspring of mol , opoly and that the only way to destrt !, trust is to kill the monopoly. Pl ,fon the free list thse articles manufat
 tured by the trusts. The foreign con petitor will do the rest.
 f The Money Question.
 Last fall there was panic, in spi 1 of the fact that we had a great Q amount of material wealth than ev , before. Bankruptcy went stalkir . through the land and the cry of di Q tress ran from sea to sea How did ol k republican president-our friend of Il
 Big stick" deal with the panic? I - followed precedent, doing just wh 1 our democratic president Mir. Clev V land had done. J. P Morgan was con n mander-in- chief of the Wall street p, s triots" who forced the panic, just ; f he was in 1898, and to Morgan Roos l, velts administration virtually said, {