Show PLATFORMS PLAT Marcus Marus Hanna humorist must be enjoying life Ute these days deys reading the savage resolutions adopted by his as associates associates in various states stat s anent the evils evis of trusts trust Imagine Marcus Macus pe perusing perusing perusing these thee denunciations and anc winking his other eye eya out oUt of ot joint as a he cons the phrases threatening dire ven yen vengeance vengence gence to the unholy combinations of capital that line Una his campaign pocket pocketbook pocketbook pocketbook book regularly on call cal Fancy ancy his con consternation consternation when he realizes that the good trusts trust are being roasted to a turn by the virtuous politicians who control his party in the various states Here are some of the things promised by the Republicans who have hav so far fr felt called upon to consider the caled ques question question tion They call cl for a constitutional a amendment providing for the prosecution prosecution prosecution tion of the trusts trust that are caught mak making ma making ing a monopoly for themselves they want to deprive the favored trusts of the tariff advantages given them by the kind Mr bill bi they th y would ostracize ostracise those capitalists c s who are found making undue undu profits out of the people That Is they say they would Wo ld do all al this thi Meanwhile Mr 1 r Hanna Hanna reassures the capitalists by telling them they are to take the campaign resolutions for foi just what they are worth He reminds them that the present antitrust law has been b en deprived of Its It terrors by the tha appoint appointment appointment ment of an attorney general generl who re ye refuses refuse fuses fuse to recognize cognize r a trust when whim it i is introduced to him in court He tells them what they already know that the present valid vaid law has been ren dered perfectly Innocuous by an admin administration of the te law which is a parody I on justice Then he invites them to I step up and hand in their usual liberal lb ral contributions to the campaign fund for th thi perpetuation of honest money honest politics and hon honest t administration of the laws l ws now pow on the statute books book and nd they will wil contrib contribute contribute ute to save trouble t ble Antitrust resolutions by b Republican conventions are ae about as sincere as resolutions against grand grad larceny d by the Ancient and Honorable Association of |