Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 September 1888 — MR. BLAINE ON TRUSTS. [ARTICLE]

MR. BLAINE ON TRUSTS.

Hon. James G. Blaine spoke at Foxcraft. Maine, Friday afternoon. In opening, he proceeded at once to a consideration of trusts, .charging that they flourished to a greater extent under the free trade policy of England than under the protection policy of the United States., He cited authorities for his statement. Of American trusts, he said, there is not one among them all that derives its being, owes its organization, or came up under the patronage of the National Government. Every one derives whatever sanction of law it possesses from a State Government —generally one State but sometimes several. The Presiv dent, therefore, certainly should have

known, when he arraigned trusts in his message to Congress, that Gongress could not dissolve them when their charters were from State Legislatures, of their organizations under State laws. It had been confessed by the Democratic House Ways and Means committee, by Chairman Mills, and every* man who stood as an advocate of free trade, that trusts had no possible legal connection with the tariff. The President’s charge that trusts had their own origin in the protective tariff hasnot afoot' of ground to stand upon, and was contradicted in every line of the free trade experience the speaker had quoted from England. Now, when all chance to investigate the alleged bribery by which a certain United State Senator, connected wfith one of the largest trusts, was charged with obtaining his seat, is past and gone, the Democratic papers can make a loud howl about trusts. There was a Democaatic opportunity to get the true inwardness of trusts, and both: outside and inside the administration they were determined to have no investigation. Trusts have no place in the National campaign. They are State issues, and the Republicans of Mainepat least, can be depended upon to look after thosertn their own State.”