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Show An Honest Confession. Democratic newspapeis the countiy over tako pleasme in quoting fiom the New Yoik Woild. That papei Is one of the gieatest exponents of Do-oniciacy Do-oniciacy tills countiy possesses, and Its uttciances aie icgaidod as little shoit of inspiration. However the small fi) that cop) fiom this great paper arc not big enough to quote Indiscriminately Indiscrim-inately and honestly, hence none have seen the follow Ing on the tnisl question. ques-tion. The Woild sa)s: 1. "The antl-li 11st law was tiamed 1 1) a Republican, was passed b) a Ec-public. Ec-public. in House and a Republican Senate, was signed b) a Republican Piesldent 1!. The law remained a dead Icttci on the statute booksdming the entlio second term of (Jiover Cleveland, a Deinoeialicpiesldent. Thiough those fom .veais ol Demociatlc admlulstia-t admlulstia-t Ion all appeals and all elicits of the Woild to have the law enfoiced weie met with sneeis, jeeis and open contempt con-tempt fiom a Democratic Attoinev-(Jeneral, Attoinev-(Jeneral, Klcdaid Olno), who pretended pretend-ed that the law was iiuconsthitional, and who would do nothing toward piosecutlng violatoisot It. :i. The Hist olioit to enfoice the law was made byTheodoie Roosevelt a Republican piesldent The tirst Attoiney-Oeneial to vlgoiously prosecute prose-cute olfondeis and to test the law was a Republican AttoiiuM-Cionoial, Philander Phi-lander C. Knox. 4. Tho decision of Hie Supieine com t of the Culled States, given as a tlnalltv fiom which thcic is 110 appeal, upholding the law as peifectl) constitutional consti-tutional and absolutol) linmcguahlc In ovoi) lespeit, as the Woild foi twelve )oais constantlt Insisted, was due to live Judges, over) one of whom is a Republican. .". Tho dissenting liilnoilt) of the couit Included even Democratic Judge of that tiibunal to wit Chiot Justice Fuller of Illinois, Mr. Justice White of Louisiana and Mr. Justice Peck-ham Peck-ham of Now York, All these dlstln-gulshcd dlstln-gulshcd Democrats not only voted against the constitutionality of Hie law, but denounced It as a danger I to the Republic. I (1. Undei these circumstances It I does not seem piobable that the Dem- I ocrats can make gicat capital In .seek- I Ing to inonopolle the anti-trust Issue I and cliaiglng the Republican paity I with the ciline of being owned body I and soul by the trusts. I Itlswelfto recoidsonie plain tiuths, I however unpleasant or smprislng." |