The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1911-11-16
SAME OLD GAME
-rast People Using The U,u5l Tec:ics to
3:a, Democratic Patty.
BUSINESS DEPRESSION

, Being Sprung to Frighten Voters of
the Country Into State of Mind
That Will Make Them Fear to Put
In Il Power an Administration
Which Will Cut Tariff Duties.
The Washington correspondent of
the Greenville Daily Piedmont says
the trust game Of bringing out the
old Doggy Man called Business De-
preston who always is kept right
up in the front part Of the stage
when ever an election approaches
is being played again. From Wall
street comes the cry thai Democratic
Investigations, and Supreme court de-
/ cisions, and the cry for low tariff.
and a dozen other such calamities are
constantly threatening business.
The purpose of the walls, it is be-
coming more and more apparent, ID
20 gradually frighten the voters Of
the country into a state of mind that
will make them fear to put in power
| an administration which will cut
the high tariff duties.
The trusts pretend to be greatly
wrought up over recent suits against
some OF ther number They pre-
tend, for instance, to be in panic
because of the suit against the steel
trust, and are trying to make the
country believe such activities as
these against Big Business will re-
suit in general industrial depres-
sion.
And while they are sending cut
these alarms they. know that the
suit against the steel trust will
amount to nothing as long as a Re-
publican administration is in power
to prosecute it Similar suits were
filed against the beef trust by a, Re-
publican attorney general eight years
ago, and that suit hasn't progressed
an inch since it was filed, LotWith-
standing that it, has been held up
dozens of times as horrible. ex-
ample" of the way the politicians
were disturbing business.
If the suit against the steel trust
we're prosecuted with all reasonable
despatch it would require two o.
three years to get it before the SUI
preme court, hence the cry that this
suit alarms business" becomes re-
diculous.
The real reason business is alarm
ed, if it is true that business is
alarmed--which is question that Is
open to arguments the fear Of
those business men who operate on a
moderate scale that the money trust
is getting grip on the industrial
situation which no political party
will be able to break.
These small business men are ap-
prehensive only in the degree that
they fear the money trust controlled
by Morgan will make some move to
discipline those who are crying for
a low tariff, and for some relief from
the abnormally high cost Of living.
The Morgan crowd is standpat Re-
publican to the core, and regardless
of what Wall street talks about now,
there is little doubt that what it is
thinking about is the possibility of
tariff cut by the Democrats. TO FORE
stall this menace the billionaires are
stirring up the old cry of danger to
business" and getting ready to make
their usual attempt to coerce an
other Stand Pat Republican victory
a year from now.
The tariff is still the issue on
which the two parties must fight it
out next year. Knowing this, Wall
street is already laying plans and
since the only weapon these money
! baruns know how to use, since they
have neither facts nor justice to aid
them, is the threat Of slack business.
Their present walls simply are prac-
! tice stunts to get the old bOgey in
working order for the coming cam-
raisn.