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If the platform adopted at Chicago
accurately reflects the attitude of tho
republican party toward the trusts,
the party is receding from its former
position of professed hostility to mo
nopolistic combinations of capital,
and is directing its course to an open
and avowed recognition of tho trusts
as an "inevitable development" of
economic conditions to be encouraged
rather than suppressed-.
In the republican platform adopted
at Philadelphia four years ago 'all
conspiracies and combinations intend
ed to restrict business, to create mo
nopolies, to limit production or to con
trol prices" were condemned and leg
islation was' favored "to restrain aud
prevent all such abuses" and to "pro
tect and promote competition." Tnough
this pledge was ignored by the Mc
Kinley administration, it remained as
tho authoritative expression of the
party's attitude.
The platform adopted at Chicago, in
spite of the Roosevelt administration's
professed hostility to monopolistic
combinations of capital, treats the
trusts gingerly. It places labor organi
zations and" monopolies in the same
flfitacrnrv. "Combinations of capital
and labor are the results of the eco
nomic movement of the age," it de
clares, "but neither must be permitted
to infringe upon the rights and inter
ests of the people. Such combina
tions when lawfully formed for law
ful purposes are alike entitled to the
protection of the laws, but both are
subject to the laws, and neither can
be permitted to break them."
Is the republican party preparing to
recognize the monopolistic combina
tions of capital as the logical sequence
of the protective policy? Tho purpose
of protection is to eliminate foreign
competition. So long as American
manufacturers were not confronted
with a surplus of goods, the elimina
tion permitted them to exact the ex
orbitant profits which the tariff priv
ileges them to levy upon the Ameri
can consumer. When, however, Amer
ican industries had developed to the
point where they were able to supply
the home market, competition threat
ened the curtailment of profits. Com
petition among themselves was as de
struction to excessive profits as com
petition with foreign manufacturers
would be were they permitted en
trance in.to the American market. Un
less competition could be eliminated,
the American manufacturers would be
deprived of the profits which the tariff
is designed to place in their pockets.
Thus arose industrial combinations to
regulate -production and fix prices.
The industrial monopoly, then, is
the logical sequence of protection. The
protective policy is based on the theory
that competition is destructive. It is
absurd, then, for the Jarty that is
committed to tho protective policy to
legislate to eliminate foreign compe
tition and at the same time insist that
tho tariff beneficiaries Bhall competo
among themselves to tho sacrifice of
the profits which the tariff guarantees
them. A parallel might bo found in
congress providing coast defenses and
a navy to protect tho country from
the evils of foreign invasion and at
tho same time Insist that the nation's
welfare depended upon the waging of
civil war. Obviously, if war is an
evil, civil war is as bad as a foreign
war. If competition is destructive,
competition between our own manu
facturers must prove as great an evil
and as destructive as would competi
tion with foreign producers.
Either competition is beneficial or it
is destructive. If it is beneficial, the
tariff wall should be thrown down and
monopolistic combinations suppressed.
If it Is destructive, the tariff schedules
should be permitted to stand or in
creased as conditions may demand and
the anti-trust law repeated. Milwau
kee News.
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Books R.ocoived
Messrs. Funk & Wagnells of New
York have issued a book entitled "The
Widow's Mite and Other Psychic
Phenomena, ' by Isaac K. Funk. The
purpose of the book is to present some
phases of psychic phenomena with a
discussion of various well-known in
stances of psychic research and ex
periment. The Baker and Taylor Co., publish
ers, New York, have issued "A Year
Book" for 1904, entitled "Social Prog
ress," by Josiah Strong. It is ai? en
cyclopedia of economic, industrial, so
cial and religious statistics for tho
year. It will be found of especial in
terest to students of political econ
omy. The MacMillan Co., New York, has
just issued a volume entitled "The
American City: A Problem in Dem
ocracy," by Dr. Delos F. Wilcox, Ph.
D. The book is in the Citizen's Li
brary series and will be found useful
to those who are studying municipal
questions.
Small, Maynard & Co., of Boston,
have issued a valuable little book by
Edward Bicknell, entitled "The Terri
torial Acquisition of the United
States." It gives a brief history of
each of the annexations.
Edward Lee Masters, of Chicago, has
recently given to the public, through
the Hammersmark Publishing Co. of
that city a -volume of essays -entitled
"The New Star Chamber, and Other
Essays." It is strongly written and
deals with subjects which are just
now occupying the attention of stu
dents of covernment and nolitical his-
tory. The following chapter titles in-
mcate the scope of the work:
The New Star Chamber.
Theodore Roosevelt.
John Marshall
Thomas Jefferson.
Alexander Hamilton. .
Implied Powers and Imperialism.
Elect the Federal Judges.
Despotism Revamped.
The Philippine Conquest.
The New Policy.
Political Tendencies.
Mr. Bryan's Campaign.
Observations on Democracy.
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