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Show P ACCEPTING- THE 1SSCE KEJ DEMOCRATS ARE ASKED TO DC- BUl F,NE IT CLEARLY. H Kg p y Have No Trust Remedy to Pro- Mn ' " P OuUlde of the Worthless and J Destructive One of Smashing Protec- m' i ,t,on " Order to Smash the Com- . H t fho Boston Herald recently began an editorial with the following words: H , "" may ho claimed as an opon ques- "on s to whether tho Itcpuhllcan par-J par-J J 'V rca"y accepts the trust Issuo as bo-1 bo-1 J roro tho American people In tho olec-M olec-M I tlon contests of tho present year." 1 y t Now the Roston Herald Is ono of f our. very contemporaries, having tho V' ability to analyzo and oxposo nonsonso B j wlle ll so desires, and to statu Its con-r, con-r, I elusions the sentenco quoted to tho ; contrary notwithstanding In clear h uuu vigorous American, and so In or- M dor to start tho subject, as thoy say In M debating societies, wo respectfully ask M our. contemporary to stato what Is tho B "trust Issuo?" Wo nsk In good faith, H for wo do not know. m Now wo hopo that our contemporary m will not bo flippant and ovade tho m question with tho remark that' tho m truslt Issue Is "tho removal of tho pro- m tectlvc duties under which trusts m thrlvo," because It knows as well as H wo do that tho tariff has nothing to do m w't" trusts. Many Democrats do not m know that, but tho lloston Horald does M t, because It Is an nblo Journal. It do- B , 8lroa tho removal of protoctlvo duties, and, llko many other political Journals Homotlmes condescends to play upon - popular projudlco to promote what It deems a boneflclent end. Dut In a heart-to-heart talk It would dlBdaln such foolishness and wo ask It to stato tho real trust Issue confessing that wo cannot oursolvcs do It becanso vo - aro HUre that if tho thing can bo dono anywhero It is In tho offlco of tho Bos- m ton Herald. Now, to help matters H along, wo will ourselves bo as deflnlto m as wo can by saying that by "tho Bj truBts" wo all mean tho consolidation m of Industries, financial and commercial BJ enterprises which Is going on through- j out tho world, In freo trade and pro- j tested countries alike, and upon tho m high seas, out of tho reach of any j tariff. An- movement in opposition to j this consolidation must be elthor to m prevent or brenk up theso consotldu- Jlo,ls r to regulate and control them. ' " ll la proposed to "smnsh tho trusts," how does tho Herold proposo to pro- H teed? If It Is proposed not to pre- j vent or abolish, but to regulate, what m are tho things now being dono by M trusts which should bo prevented, and m how, undor tho national mid stnto con- H stltutlons, can it bo dono? We do not H faro to hear about tho "publicity" H remedy. Doubtless wo must havo H light to seo our work, but tho work H will still remain to bo dom. H An "Issuo" would bo raised by n H proposal that Congress shall enact a H . r lonstitutlonal law which shall abolish H or restrain the trusts without Injuring gcncrnl business. Any ono can proposo such a law. Havo tho Democrats pro- H posed any? If so. there may bo an B- "Issuo" which wo do not know of. H . If 't Is not bolluved that under the H I constitution congress can pass any ef- H I foctlvo law an Issuo could ho raised H ij UY Proposing a constitutional nmend- H ' ment. Tho Kepubllcans havo dono ! thnt nnd every Democrat voted against It and defeated It. It must thereforo bo assumed that tho Democrats op-poso op-poso giving congress unquestioned authority. au-thority. If that bo tho case, tho only national Issuo which can bo made Is in respect to some law either forbidding . I'onsolldtttlon or prohibiting consoll- 1 ( llttted management fiom doing certain i J things. Will tho Herald kindly In- Kr" l f"rm "s what tho Democratic party B proposes and tho Republicans oppose. 1 U so that wo may understand what tho M U trust issuo is? San Francisco Chron- |