Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 September 1904 — A GRAVE DANGER. [ARTICLE]

A GRAVE DANGER.

Concentration of power in the hands of n few men in one of the great dangers to popular government, and the defeat of the Republican machine would go a great way toward arresting the further development of such combinations. The Republican administration has taken no real steps to arrest this concentration, though there are laws on the statute book and the common law to prevent it, if rigidly enforced. The so-called “merge?* trust suit which Attorney Oeneral Knox instituted is worthless unless followed by more drastic measures, and the fact that J. P. Morgan has declared for President Roosevelt and the New York Sun, which he controls, is now advocating his election, though formerly denouncing him, Bhows that the merger interests do not fear further legal prosecutions by Mr. Roosevelt if he is elected. Voters who have been led to believe that Mr. Roosevelt is fighting the trusts, especially the railroad and financial combinations, should remember that he la directly under obligations to the great railroad corporations for thousands of miles of travel in special trains, and that the Republican campaign fund is largely furnished by the same interests.