Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 May 1899 — Republicans On Trusts. [ARTICLE]

Republicans On Trusts.

The republican office-holders and pffice-seekers are just now putting in their best licks in an endeavor to set themselves right before the people as opposed to trusts and combines, which have flourished to such an extent under the benificent administration of William I. Of course, all this ranting and raving on the part of the above gentlemen doesn’t disturb the great combinations of capital formed for controlling the various necessaries of consumption. The trusts know that whenever th^ T need the votes of these republicans they will get them, every one, regardless of what they may now be saying to their rural constituents for the purpose of being retained in or being elected to office.

Charlie (Kid) Landis over in the Ninth district is just tearing his hair and swinging his arms in holy horror at the greatest of all the great wrongs that has grown up under the republican policy of protection, and yet, no one ever heard of Charlie voting against any proposition presented by these self-same men who rule his party and dictate what legislation shall be made for their protection and enrichment. Even Governor Mount —who is no doubt at heart opposed to these gigantic monopolies, but who never fprgets for a moment that he is a republican—is quoted in an interview assaying: “There is a universal feeling of unrest among the people of our state over the collossal combinations or trusts that have been formed of late, and that are crushing out the smaller industries, throwing thousands of laboring people out of employment, relieving thousands of traveling men of their lifetime occupations, find seriously affect ing the business of the hotels. Two industries, the wire and nail manufacturies, of my resident city, Crawfordsville, have been closed since they went into the trust, and the only remaining industry there, the coffin manufactory, is going into the trust, and will be shut up, it is said.” The people, however, will do well to pay no attention to the howls of republican politicians about “trusts.” The republican party is getting ready to insert a (meaningless) anti-trust plank in its next national platform, and its politicians are seeking to make you believe that they are honestly opposed to these grasping combinations. Why, the trusts, monopolies and other lawdefying corporations and combi-

nations of capital are the very life blood of the republican party, and were this support taken away it could not exist through a single campaign, so tenaciously have they fastened their grip on the party'. The republican party will never do anything to embarrass their friends, the trusts.