The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1908-10-15

foTty-eight. VITA nearly aA OF the
other cases pending. The total suits
broughtxby this administration IN
der all laws against combinations OF
capital are two hundred and twenty
eight. with seTensy-three convie-
tions already.
Thus it~wiil be seen that the
Democratic party when In power.
when Mr.. Olney was Attorney Gen
eral and when Mr.. Bryan was In
Congress, did very little to enforce
that great antitrust law except
against labor, and did absolutely
nothing to strengthen IL. even
though Mr. Oiney b on record as
saying that the law was ineffective.
What does Mr.. Bryan now offer
In the way of an amendment to that
law? Simply this: that every trust
that controls 25 per cent OF the out
put of any product shall be required
to get out federal license. and that
no corporation shall be permitted to
manufacture or handle more than
so per cent of any product. This
is another one of Mr.. Bryans ILL.,
considered, half-barked panaceas.
which could result in no good but
would result in much mischief. Il
Is not in the interest OF the people
to require any factory to run on half
time or to shut down. 1t Is In the
interest of labor and of all of the
people for every factory to run full
time. 1t is not the business OF the
Government to say to a factory that
it shall run only half time and to the
laborer he shall work only a half
day, but it is the business of the
Government to regulate these great
corporations in the interests of a
square deal for all the people. The
Government should not discourage
work and enterprises, but should
late them, and then enforce the law,
and enforce it not to hinder business
but to encourage business.
''The absurdity Of Mr.. Bryan's
trust remedy will be apparent when
we stop to think that any factory to-
day that was the only one of its kind
in the country, and was. therefore,
doing 100 per cent of the business
in its line, would have to shut down
entirely until Mr.. Bryan could find
and induce somebody else with capt.
tai to come in and put up other fac
tories to handle half of the product.
There is one marble quarry in the
United States that furnishes so per
cent of the building marble used in
the country. Shall that quarry shut
down until Mr.. Bryan can induce
other people to find and open up
other marble auarries? This new
Bryan patent medicine nostrum
should he suppressed under the pure
food law, and labeled, "A Sure Pam
ic Breeder
"Mr. Bryan says that he and his
party should be put in power in Or
der that they may revise the tariff.
| should think that Mr.. Bryan would
deem it prudent to say as little about
the tariff as possible Nobody knows
to-day where he and his party stand
on this important question. His
party has declared in some cam
paigns for free trade and in other
campaigns for incidental production
from a revenue tariff. But the peo-
pie do not have to judge Mr.. Bryan
and his party on this question by
their promises because they have
record. Mr.. Bryan was a member
of the Democratic Congress that
once revised the tariff. They did
not give the country free trade, nor
did they give the country a tariff
that produced revenue. But, on the
other hand, they gave the country
a tariff law that was a hodge-podge
crazy-quilt of free trade and exces-
sive high production. All protection
was taken from certain industries,
while certain trusts were greatly IA
vored. AS a result, certain trusts
made large profits, while many fac
tories were forced to close their
doors. Thousands and ten of thou
sands of laborers were thrown out
of employment and marched the
streets looking for work, while their
wives and children at home were
starving for bread.
There has never been such de-
preston, business stagnation and
suffering on the part of laborer, pro-
ducer and consumer as resulted from
that expensive and disastrous tariff
experiment by an incompetent and
reckless Democratic administration.
"The Republican position is for a
tariff that will be high enough to
cover the difference between pauper
labor abroad and the price paid to
American labor. This is the great
American principle that creates a
home market, that makes prosperity
for the manufacturer, producer and
consumer, and that has raised our
laboring class to plane of comfort
and advancement higher than is
found in any country in the world.
Mr.. Bryan says that some American
goods are being sold abroad cheaper
than here, and that this is outrage
Gus robbery and should be stopped.
I desire to remind Mr.. Bryan that
even if this is so under aDemocratic
tariff we did not sell goods abroad
or at home, for the people did not
have the money to buy them. And
further, even If Mr.. Bryan's state
ment is true, why is it that the for
eigners do not appreciate the great
privilege of buying American goods