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Show Iblsccitain that up to this time, neither the Democratic nor Republican Republi-can party has hit upon the one means of settling the trust question satisfactorily. satis-factorily. The Democratic party was In power at the time the trust began such active and extensive operations as to suggest the unlimited power they now hae. Had the proper means been at hand and the disposition disposi-tion there, the trusts question might have been nipped in the bud at its conception, and In its failure to copo with the emergency at that time, the Democratic party showed an incapacity incapa-city to control or a failure to recognize the enormous possibilities for harm in the trusts combinations. The Republican Re-publican party has done as much tb stein the tide of these baneful organizations organi-zations as has been possible, and the bowlings of the Democratic press at this time are but the Idle vaporings of imcompctcnts who can but kick and offer no reasonable suggestions for the settlement of the question. |