Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 September 1888 — Republican Doctrine on Trusts. [ARTICLE]

Republican Doctrine on Trusts.

Journal. James G. Blaine, in one of his speeches a few days ago, in referring to trusts declared that he should “not venture to say that they are not altogether advantageous or disadvantageous,” and added that “they are largely private affairs, with which neither President Cleveland nor any private citizen has any particu--lar right to interfere.” These 'expressions are apparently,given a good deal of aid and comfort to the Democracy. Democratic newspapers all over the country have seized upon this utterance, with the attempt to show that Mr. Blaine is in favor of trusts. Of course his meaning Was that “neither President Cleveland nor any private citizen has any particular right to interfere” with trusts except by the regular processes’of the law. In this position, he has every sane, responsible person in the country with him. However, if our Democratic friends are affxi'ous to find out how the Republican party stands on the t. ust question their attention is called to the following: : “We declare oii.r opposition to all combinations of capital organized in trusts or otherwise to control arbitrarily the condition of trade among our citizens, and we commend to Congress and the State Legislatures, in their Respective jurisdictions, such legislation as will prevent the execution of all schemes to oppress the people by undue charges on their supplies, or by unjust rates for the transportation of their products to market.’’ ----- —— - -- Let the Democrats read the foregoing words over carefully. They are taken from the Republican National platform adoptedjn Chicago in 1888. Party platforms do not always adequately-set forth the doctrines of the organizations which frame them. The Republican platform this however, fairly and plainly outlines the party views on the subject of trusts. Not only does this instrument clearly and all the commercial and industrial “combines,” such as the sugar, coal, Standard Oil and the otlaer trusts, but it denounces pool.by transportation agencies, -as well as all other influences which arbitrarily attempt to obstruct or set at defiance the natural laws of trade. This is sound Republican doctrine, as shown by the utterances of Republican statesmen and newspapers, and demonstrated "by Republican policy. We presume Mr. Blaine is fully iu accord with this view. There Is certainly no good reason to believe that he is hot. But if he is not, he does not fairly, represent Republican opinion on this question. The Indianapolis Jonrnal has the best of Congressman Bynum in the contest that has been going on between them. In a speech at Atlanta Bynum said tnat “four Months in the year the factory hands at Indianapolis were turned out to starve.”. The, Journal took the ground that the statement was a lie, which it is. Bynum hedged by claim-

ing that he did not make th© statement —that he was incorrectly reported. The Jonrnal now brings forward evidence that almost similar language was used by Bynum in a speech in Congress in favor of the Mills bill. Evidently Mr. B. has stirred up the wrong hornet’s best. “Protection to home industries I regard as the most important plank in any platform after ‘the Union must and shall be preserved.’ Gen v U. 8. Grant, in 1883. ■v. ■ ' - . : ; ;■■■■ ; “It is my deliberate judgment that the prosperity of America is mainlv due to her system of protective lawß.’ r -J?riace Bismarck. “We should be slow to abandon that system of protective'duties which looks to th© promotion and development of American industry and to the preservation of the highest possible scale of wages for the American workman.” — Benjamin Harrison. “No man’s wages should be so low that he cannot make provisions in his days of vigor for the incapacity of accident or the feebleness of old age.”—Benjamin Harrison. - ,• “We believe in the preservation of the American market for our American producers and workmen.” —Benjamin Harrison. “This is not the time to weigh in art apothecary’s scale the services or the rewards of the men whosaVedthe Nation.” —Benjamin Harrison. “Against whom is it that the Repub lican party lias been unable to protect your race?” —Benjamin Harrison to the colored voters. Ix the annual report of the Cobden Club, England is congratulated upon the fact that President Cleveland’s message “carries with it the promise of such measures of tariff reform as may, in the course of a few years, make something of a revolution in international trade” by opening to that country the extensive and profitable markets of the United States. Such testimony from such a source as to the meaningand tendency of the Democratic anti-protection policy simplifies the situation and leaves no excuse for misunderstanding on the part of any intelligent American voter. “The wages of the American laborer sent and the votes of the American laborer himself. The appeal lies to him.” James G. Blaine. “We don’t wan’t any Republicans in our country.” —Senator Colquitt and Representative Stewart, of Georgia. “Yes, I was a rebel and a Democrat, but I thank God I have never < Been a Republican.” —Rev. -John A. Brooks, Third-party Prohibition Candidate- for Vica-president, —— "-•■•TheTresideni is now trying to conciliate Mr.'Randall, and other aggrieved dr lukewarm Democratic leaders. Will he succeed? Hardlv, Mr. Randal[ knows a free trade • message when he sees it, and he is not the man to follow blindly after the Cobden club. Havemeyer, head of the [Sugar Trust, Gould, Standard Oil Payne, Standard Oil Whitney, Norvin Green, the Western Union potentate, Garland, the Pan Electric, Jeff ©avis, the traitor, G. W. Curtis, the dude mugwump, are all for Cleveland and reform. That is the reason he will be defeated. The public need not be deceived by Gould and Gruelle,the Indianapolis professional labor -agitators. These two worthies do not represent the labor of the country. Neither of them have done a day’s work at manual labor for years, if ever, and it is believed from almost unimpeachable evidence that their mouthy vaporings are paid for by the State Democratic committee. They have no influence among workingmen or anybody else who knows them. If the Democrats can afford to put such worthies forward as representatives- of Democracy the Republicans ought to stand it. - Congressman Bynum is one of the worst demagogues in the country. His apparent interest in behalf of the “poor ■ workingman” does not extend beyond the accomplishment of his selfish designs, Bynum is a lawyer and probably never did a hard day’s work at manual labor. Like Cleveland and the Democratic platform he favors the reduction of wages of American workingmen to the English standard^ The Democrats announce with a flourish of trumpets that Marshall Field, the Chicago merchant, has “come out for Cleveland.” Like nine-tenths of the reported “conversions” Marshall Field has been a Democrat all his life, and never supported a -Republican on the national ticket.