Show TRUSTS OR ANTI TRUSTS Is the question to be decided on elec alun day and it Is now up to the amer can people the election Is at hand the re suit will be much more far reaching than the election of congressmen gen brally is it if the republicans Republic arb hold their own or are able to organize the house of representatives it will be heralded as deciding that the protective tariff is endorsed by the voters such a result will even be interpreted to mean that there are no bad trusts and that the american people are willing to pay more for trust products than the trust is asking to pay in short the voter will stand pat with senator hanna al though they know they have a losing hand in the trust and tariff game it if the democrats gain the lower house of congress and carry the legis lasures of some states that are now represented by republican united states senators it will be notice to the protectionists that their days are numbered and that monopoly Is to be to show that these issues between the parties are not exaggerated and that the republicans really stand for protection to the trusts and the dem for placing trust product productions toris on the free list it is only necessary to take the known fitte utterances rances of the nominees of both parties on these questions of all the three hundred and over republican publican He candidates only one mr foss of massachusetts has been quoted as declaring tor for any relief from trust exactions he wants free coal free iron free hides and free wool he does not say he wants it to help the people but bul as a relief to the man of the country who use those raw ma magerian mate teriaN nala for such a small expression of free trade the I 1 can machine managed by senator lodge the home market marke club and the other republican He publican auxiliary eions did all they could to defeat him it is true that secretary moody and perhaps others hav declared for free anthracite coal but as there Is 1 no 0 true anthracite anywhere in the known world that eat equals als the pennsylvania product it res no argument to show that after the extraordinary prices that now prevail for hard coal recede to the normal level none will be imported so the taking off the duty of anthracite and leaving it on bit aminous coal will not affect the price of the american consumer Is any other republican candidate for congress in favor of free raw prod et ctr if so now is the time for him to lift up his voice and declare it on the other hand nearly every 1 cm tin socratic candidate is either pledged pie aged by his plat from or has openly declared for tree free trade in trust prod atio colons the declarations of the democrats also call for a reduction of the tariff to a reasonable has s so I 1 ere is no doubt of the iss is i s ie and it is almost impossible to believe that is any doubt of the re it it is improbable that a majority of the american people will vote to huit hult themselves and he p the trusts |