Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1910-10-10
SCOTT AND THE TRUSTS.

| Scout OF west virginia Is Just abOu
! as convincing in the matter of Eek
! plantations" as State Senator f.. S
Baker OF the Seventh district. The
New, York World in its recent charges
against the former is lending an eff
, iicient hand to West Virginia Demo
| cracy in showing that Scott was an
ever faithful friend in the Senat,
tariff voting to the following trusts:
The Sugar Trust, .s2o
The Beef Trust,
The oil Trust,
The Coal Trust. and Of the coal in
terests of his colleague. Senator FL
kins.
The Steel Trust.
The Lumber Trust
The Leather Trust,
The Paper Trust,
The Pottery Trust,
The Asphalt Trust.
The Agricultural Implement Trust
The Lead Trust.
The Zinc Trust,
The Salt Trust.
The Wooden Trust.
The Cotton Manufacturers,
The School Book Trust.
The Cash Register Trust.
The Typewriter Trust,
The Sewing Machine Trust.
and of every other trust or special
privilege in the United States. bar.
ring possibly not more than one no.
table exception-the Tobacco Trust.
He went on record as mot voting"
on Senator Daniels amendment to re
duce the duty on tobacco. and again
not voting" on the adoption of the
tobacco schedule.
BY not voting on tobacco Sentor
Scott saved himself from yaccusa-
tons or suspicious similar to those
directed against Aldrich and Guggen-
helm. for Scott has been openly
charged with being closely i'm league
with the Tobacco Trust"
In this reply to the Worlds charg-
cs Senator Scott says:
The World says am glass -nanu-
facturer, that | carried my wares into
the United States senate like a ped
der, and there plead for the increas-
ed protective duty for the glass indus
try. My entire holdings in glass stock
of any kind today are less than $12,-
600. ! did make fight in the United
States senate for reasonable protec.
ton to the glass business. | showed
glass pitchers in the United States
senate which years ago were bought
abroad, and cost as much as SO doz-
en-. which are now made by American
manufacturers and sold. as low as 75c
dozen. Other glassware has been
cheapened by American manufactur.
ers in like proportion"
Reviewing this declaration OF the
senator, the Parkersburg Dispatch
News, a straight-out Republican news
paper, edited by Reese Blizzard long
one of the Republican leaders in the
state, has the following comment:
These are the senator's own words
as reported by the Intelligencer. Let
us see what they mean. He was q
senator of the United States repre-
senting the people of the whole ma
ton. The glass industry was entitled
to consideration just as every other
industry was entitled to consideration
He seems to have overlooked the fact
that the purchasers of glassware were
able to be considered. He says his
holdings in glass stock chow about
other classes of securitiesO are less
than $4,000.
Not much less, we imagine. ANY
how, $4,000 is quite a good wad Il
properly protected But whether i
is much or little, how does he iustif,
himself in setting in judgment upoi
it? His interest as a stakeholder wa,
adverse TO the interests of the pur
chaser. and by virtue of his high ofTic,
he represented both. Under such co,
| ditions who would receive the NOR,
favorable consideration, the manufac
turer or the purchaser? But. he ar
CUES, he should not be blamed fol
this, because his interest was g,
small"
Then as TO those pitchers. ABROAD