Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 May 1890 — The Trusts Are Safe. [ARTICLE]

The Trusts Are Safe.

In the dispatches from Washington announcing the passage in the Senate of the anti-trust bill, it is stated that tho measure stands no show of being acted on by the House at the present session. This was doubtless well understood by the Republican Senators, or else they would have found some excuse for killing it. There is not the slightest doubt that ic is a buncombe measure. The Republican politicians do not intend to prevent or punish trusts. If they did they would not discard the most palpable and potent remedv— the withdrawal of the tariff protection under which five-sixths of the trusts organize and prosper. The object of a protective duty is to enable the home producer to charge more for his product than he would be able to do vjrifchout it. If the duty fails in this, Erotection fails to protect. The commotion in a protected industry to secure entire control of the home market—in other words, to stop all competition and make the monopoly complete and effective—is the logic of protection harried to its full length. And this is why the Republican Congress will do nothing to forbid tracts.— Lansing . Journal.