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Show Some Potent Facts. In direct conttast , to asscttions made by a local Democratic organ, careful investigation will reveal that the Demociatic party as a whole, and the Democratic members of Congress, Con-gress, have on every occasion when the matter came up for consideration, strenuously opposed every incasuie designed to cm tall the trusts. The agitation of the tiust cpiestlon began In the llfty-firbt Congress, and a committee com-mittee was appointed to investigate the workings of these combinations of capital. Such piomlnent Democrats as Rcpiesentatives "Wilson, Rreckcn-rldge, Rreckcn-rldge, R)tium any Racon were mem-bets mem-bets of that committee, and after Investigation In-vestigation tills same committee le-poitcd le-poitcd that "none of-the methods cm-plo)ed cm-plo)ed by the tiusts in controlling the production oi disposition of their products pro-ducts ate In violation of the United States laws." In the face of this lcpoit the Democrats Demo-crats continued to claim that the trusts were a menace and that Free Tiade was the only temedy. When they came into power, the first tiling done was to pass the Wilson-Gorman tariff law, and to make the killing of the tt lists doubly sure, a series of provisions pro-visions purpoi ting to authoilzc the ic-gulatlon ic-gulatlon of trusts.was tacked to it. Foi four) ears our Democratic filends vveio in power, ..but records do not show that they stamped out a single trust nor curtailed one, except those that fell In the crash of '().'. And at this time thousands, even tliundreds of thousands of poor worklngmen wete also crushed. In 1888 the republican party adopted the th st anti-trust plank Incoiporatcd in any platfotm and later the Shot-man Shot-man Anti-Trust Law was passed by a Republican Congress. This bill dcclatcd Illegal every combination in the form of a tiust or otherwise, or conspiracy in restraint of Made or commerce among the several states or with foielgn nations, and It provided severe penalties. Did the Democrats support this measure? Not by a gieat deal. They tried In every waytoob-stiuct waytoob-stiuct its passage. Carlisle, Rland, Richardson, Wilson and others fought tt hard. Among other things said In a speech on the bill, Wilson, the author of the infamous Wilson bill, said: "The States, not Congress, grant the charters for these cotporations. It Is at once their duty, as it Is easll) and clearly within thespheic of their lawful law-ful powei, to supeivlsc the cicatittes which they bring into being, so as to prevent the franchises granted by the people being used for the opptesslon and dettlmentof the people." Later President McKlnley proposed an Amendment to the Constitution, making It possible to conttol trusts, ptohlbit tliem or dissolve them. The Democrats opposed tills sticnuously. This bill was teported late In the session or the Fifth-sixth Congiess. A tale for the Immediate consideration considera-tion of the measure was fought by the Democrats, who voted solidly against consldetlng the inc.isuic. A two-thlids two-thlids vote was necessaty and this was lacking, consequently the measure was killed Such Is the tecotd of the Demociatic paity on tiusts, and these facts belio every assertion of the Journal and I place that papet befoie Its leadeis as aptevarieator or Ignorant despenser ' of Information. Whether oi not the Republican pint lias passed a measure making it easier far the working man to live, It is a fact that the are living well at present ate happy and contented con-tented and have always b2en sj under a Republican administration. |