The Washington times., 1914-09-30
REEDS TRUST SPEECH
ALARMS DEMOCRATS
Missouri Senator. by His Ar
raignment of Conference Re-
port. Causes Uneasiness.

Anxiety has been caused among the
Democratic leaders Of the Senate and
House by Senator Reeds recent scath-
ing arragnment of the conference re-
port OH the Clayton trust bill. They
are fearful OF the political effects of IT,
Senator Reeds arraignment was the
most Vitriolic ever heard in the Senate
and his denunciations of the conference
report as an apology to the trusts and
betrayal of the Baltimore platform
nave caused such uneasiness on the
Democratic side of the chamber as to
cause serious talk of recommitting the
bill to the conferees. number of
Democratic Senators are threatening to
vote to recommit. 1t is known that
several have already determined to do
so.
In the course of his speech lasting
two days, Senator Reed showed the
conferees had practically stripped the
bill of the provisions which would be
most effective against combines and
monopolies. AS matter OF fact. the
conservatives of the Senate have never
desired drastic bill. and the Demo-
cratic conservatives are going to vote
for the conference report. giving as
their reason that to recommit the bill
would be slap at the President, who
has given the conference report his in
dorsement and might delay the labor
legislation contained in the bill.
Sounds a Warning.
Senator Reed. in the course of his
speech. warned his Democratic COL
leagues that the party was playing the
hypocrite. He said:
We are playing the hypocrite, sir.
We came here sounding our cymbals.
girding up our loins. furnishing our
when this great Democratic host shall
assemble when It bears down upon the
citadels Of greed, or corruption. Of
plunder. then you will see how valiant
arms, backed by honest hearts. wi
hew a clean path for the common peo-
pie to tread
But now, having marched up the hill
to the heroic voices of bugles OF war, We
are sitting down by the camp fire and
tuning our ears to the seductive notes
of Home, Sweet Home
Some of us viii hear from home
now-some OF them: but | have never
seen a fraud put off upon the American
people that at the end of ten days there
was not somebody in every community
who knew about it. and at the end OF
six months everybody in every COM
munity knew about it.
What change has come over the
spirit of our dreams? Where now are
the soldiers of Democracy who said:
Lead US to the charger Where now
these bold and dauntless gentlemen who
on a thousand platforms and a hundred
thousand stumps that declared to the
people of this land open the doors of
the citadel to Democracy and we will
expel the rogues. Give us the key OF
the temple, and. in imitation OF the Sa-
viour 1900 years ago. we Will make a
scourge of corrs and drive the money
changers from the temple of God and
from the public places OF the land?'
Your scourge of cords is but wisp
of straw to which you set the match.
that even 1t shall be turned to ashes
to be blown aside by the Winds
Branded Dissolutions.
He branded in severe terms such dis
solutions as those of Standard Oil,
wherein the stock scared after the de-
cision OF the Supreme Court was given,
the decision being sort Of judicial
franchise TO the concern. Courts like
Congress seemed TO be unable to look
in the eyes of two or three hundred
millions without blinking. But there was