Martinsburg statesman-democrat. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1906-1921, 1912-08-30


Aid In Formation of MonopoIies
! criminalIy Liable-Trusts Are the
outerowth Of rotection--Defends
Democratic Platform Before Maine
People.
Augusta, Maine. Aug. Ex-Governor
Marshall, of Indiana, the Democratic
nominee for the Vice-Presidency, de-
liyered an address in this city last
night speaking in part, as follows:
IAN my public utterances are in
tended to be without venom. ! want
family is wrong yet many good men
to attack systems and not men. Pro
swear. Because they are good they
ought not to expect me to stand for
their profanity Although they know
a rebuke is merited, sometimes they
get mad. good man is as likely to
20 to sleep at a place of danger as
bad man. Because>he is good shall
not awaken him, although ! must Jolt
him to do it?
Il know no protected manufacturer
who is not a pillar of society. He goes
to Congress and says he must have
help to run his business. Suppose to
awaken him from his well-fed and con
tented condition | should say to him
You're a beggar' Would | get ont of
town alive? But can this man who
insists that he must have protection
tell me how he differs from the man
who goes to the overseer of the poor
and says he must have help to live?
Perhaps he has never thought of it in
that light. And when he gets over his
anger his pride will assert itself and
he will say I can and will get along
without help
"He ought not to get mad at me.
Some men would say he is not beg
gar but a strong-armed man. That
would be worse.
Trusts outgrowth of Protection.
"If man honestly believes in this
theory of taxation and his Judgment
and conscience approves, 1t is easy for
him to take the next step toward
monopoly If the government can
righteously give man the right to tax
the people, what is wrong in a close
corporation of tax gatherers? He
thinks nothing. And SO we have the
trust. The Democratic platform says
a private monopoly is indefensible.
The regular Republicans are going on
by the legislation of the Supreme
Court to dissolve trusts. When we
see the effect of these dissolutions on
their stocks and bonds a sense of graf
itude suggests that on the first moon
light night of the October term the
trust quartet serenade the court with;
. 'HalleIujah. Thine the glory, Hallelu-
jah! Amen.
Hallelujah! Thine the glory, dissolve
us again
THE Progressives say let not the
people be dismayed. We have the
man who can make the trusts come
up and eat out of his hand And they
surely have.
IF his record is any index of re-
suits we may be assured that the
provender will be not. only good but
nutritious.
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