Show I SENATOR SPEECH N CANNOT HELP admiring Sen Son Senator SenI O ONE I ator awl Beveridge for tor his frankness lie II I I appears a lUS boldly as ate an attorney for the tle trusts He makes make no secret of ot his Id As A an ambitious young l ng stan who he would like to be become come ome c pre I some day dK he has al alted allied a ted lied l himself eK with Uh the power which has hasco co the nation since tho the advent ot It f Mark Irk Hanna liann with hU his I new school of or It has not been very long lon since sines Re i denied the existence of trust rusts t We aJI JI l remember that time Ume here In Utah When they were forced it at l t last to acknowledge the t e feet they lectured declared that while whit decidedly de an evil the he t Republican party would suppress them The trusts trust continued to flour J hot h and increase IMre se in numbers So Re Republican publican campaigners reluctantly ad admitted d that trusts were of two kinds good anti and nd bad Now cornea cameo Senator proclaiming that all trusts are aN good although an evil en exists in some me of ot them that of ot watering their i sto stork k the Ute only injury resulting to toek Investors Why hy the th senator said Mid In his Ogden speech last It evening that the country had wd prospered under trusts and be because because because cause of ot trusts that the number of ot is greater than ever before that rates of ot transportation are cheap cheaper er or than in the early days of ot raIlroad lag ng and that farmers and wage earn earners earners ers era are more prosperous since trusts came into power It is la true there are more wage earn earners era ers sew new 88 than there were a 0 dozen years rears ago but we should bear bellr in mind that there are arc more people in the United States now than there were wele in 1800 and as all of or them have to make a somehow or other they are presumably wage earners But the trusts are not to be credited with this Increase of ot population nor have they employed more men than necessary in i their plan of or reducing running ex cx expenses i and the cost coat of or production Everywhere that trusts have been In operation mills and factories have been closed from tron time to time throw throwIng throWIng throwing Ing thousands put of ot employment The avowed purpose of these combinations of ot capital has been to limit the output that prices may ma be held UP to reduce expenses expanses and anti to Increase the profits of or stockholders by decreasing the cost coat of production Trusts are a menace to the people of ot this country countr because of or these things The supreme court of the United States has declared against unlawful combinations of cap capital capital ital In restraint of or trade The congress of the United States has enacted laws for tor their tbell suppression But the en on enforcement of ot those laws left lert to a 0 Re Ro Republican Republican publican president and attorney gen general general eral oral has been n a farce i The tariff Is not the parent of trusts trusta said Senator Beveridge Then why have han Republican loaders leaders J during the past four tour years advocated ton a re ro reduction reduction of ot the tariff on those articles produced by trusts Why does ev cv every every ery cry trust in the country send end a lobby Jobb to Washington at every session of ot con C n gross greag whose wh special business it is to tos s see e that no tariff reductions are made on the articles they respectively pro produce produce produce duce The senator wants to know why wh trusts ta did not develop dele during curing the Mer Mor Merrill rill rib war tariff The Shylocks were operating along different lines in those days It was us necessary first to con contract contract tract and control c the volume of or cur currency rency reacy Under the war tariff of Mor Morrill rill nil law Ja and the tho th still sUII higher tariff of ot the Wilson ncr occurred two of or the themo most mo t disastrous dl panics panic l the t country has hua ever known of oC 1133 und and 1801 The money power hewer wa after the money sup supply supply supply ply then This Ihl secured It WitS an anea ea matter to reach out and grasp the industries of the nation naU n one by byone byone byone one making wage earners of men who enee ones were in Ia n business for themselves 4 f Have those these the Mt organizations trusts extorted extort money mon from the people asks a ks I Senator Yes When they i iare are enabled e bled to make from 1110 to MX per cent out of tho the sweat of labor laborthe they the are extorting that which Is not theirs by any an law Jaw of right When they sell to foreign customers for less than they supply the same me product to homo home consumers they are extorting money from the people Examine the scale of ot the tho cost coat of the necessities of ot life Ufe during the last gen generation generation oration and you will wili find a steady de do decline dine cline in prIces price says the senator Yes This Is hi true of oC what the Ute and sells sell But lot Jot us Inquire if it labor laborIng laboring Ing men are any better off oft now than they the were four tour years ago in relation to the necessaries uee of or life lICe Ask any clerk in any store stereo He win will tell you ou that It costs so 80 much to live that he lie Is unable to lay up uli anything Kor or is this a local condition In the ual of or the east where wages are not satis mus satisfactory factory and thousands of ot people Jh are arc out of work ork the following scale of ot prices has been found ISIS Is lere leret 1 Bf Beef t p per r Ib lb O 13 S I 1 a Flour Ilour oer sor bbL 35 Tea per pe Ib lb 40 4 70 0 SItU Salt D per r lb Ib H M HK M K Jero e per sal gal aI 10 0 Laundry soap mop per par dr 9 41 H Item nam ra pr per lb Ib 12 J 18 These are arc some of the necessities n of the miner Other Oth r things are In pro proportion proportion proportion portion Powder that he used to get for tor lO 1 O per keg costs him hint now 2 5 The Th facts do not bear out the state statements ments meats of ot the Hoo Hoosier ler statesman He took up the question of Cuban reciprocity and said that Democrats D opposed It He lIe knew bettor better He knew w that every Democrat and forty Republicans In the lower house of ot con congress congress gress gross voted for tor the Cuban reciprocity bill and that it died with the Republican Republican lican committee on Cuban affairs in the thu th senate the difference between the parties being that Republican were averse ae to removing the differential du duty d dt duty ty t on refined sugar which is main maln maintained tamed solely In the interest ot of the I sugar trust Senator Beveridge holds that we must conquer and keep k ep the Philippines to control the markets of ot the Orient He offered a few ew statistics to show how bow our trade In the archipelago has In Increased Increased increased creased since the war var with Spain But the advantage is small email and he failed tailed to explain that most of ot our exports to Manila have hao been sent to our army and navy nay engaged In holding the is Islands ands ends at enormous expense Neither did he call attention to the fact tact that the trade of ot England and Germany has Increased there at a greater ratio than has our own Nor yet to the fact that our trade In Africa and und elsewhere with foreign colonies has bus been growing much m uch more rapidly than where we have tried ried t to carry It out at the point of ot the bayonet b Our conquests of ot pence peace have been b een far tar more satisfactory and profit profitable profitable able a ble Philippine expense Is not met by P revenues Official reports show how s that the revenues of the Islands inlands barely b pay py tm teu expense of collection while w hile the groat expense of army and navy avy n maintenance is still taken from the treasury trea of ot the United States The senator spoke feelingly of our duty dut d uty to Cube Cuba the lug hug once planted p was wa romo removed ed He then declared that hat t territory once acquired by y this nation n would not be surrendered He Heas was w as afraid Germany or some other power ower p would capture the Philippines If ife we w e should treat th them m as we have treat treated treated ed e d Cuba Yet he explained how hew our protecting p Influence was over Cuba to keep k rapacious powers pow rs away wa So it i t be with the islands of the Pacific Take rake it all In all Senator Bever i speech was a fair exposition of oC the he t new Republicanism that which is founded foundell f upon trusts trusta and militarism |