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mmmiiwn i ntJ'i!iuiywww.- inn wwmMW'WWviwmi)l yiW OCTOBER , 1808 The Commoner 13 J! tWs tbbbb b9 BaT h llETVAKTto tH too all about oar liberal t)an ci furnfflv if Inr home for the MOnla all finrttn mantra n credit. Ws want to explain to iou bow wesdwfallv coavtnknt mir crsdlt Mrrico Is, and how ft cItm jou from tea to thirty months in which to par for your purchasesbow it enable! rm to btij a clnele article, or to fumlih roar hone com plet and to eajoy the full ttso of the fnrnlehinti while pay Inr for them la mail amount from month to month as .too earn tho motier. We charee abtolBtely BotMag for Oils credit accommodation Be l&tarest bo extras of aay kind. Etsry salaried an, ererj wnie earner, ever farmer and erarr family of mTl incocao in the eoontry should have thlt helpfal Credit service. TOU should hare U. Vo tell all abont the plan in oar We Fall Catalog. Writs fur It today. 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As to most or what you say about mo personally 1 do not regard any answer as nec eitsary. When you say that 1 am un fair to your platform you reiterated certain opinions as to which I had quoted, with my hettrty approval, Governor Hughes In my first letter, and these, therefore, it Is also un necessary to answer. You have not answered tho Hughes speech, and, in my judgment, you do well not to make tho attempt. You say tjiat your platform declares in favor of vigor ous enforcement of tho law against guilty trust magnates and officials, and that tho platform upon which Mr. Taft stands makes no such de claration. It was not necessary. That platform approved the policies of the administration and promised to continue them, and here, as usual, I have only to compare your words with tho deeds of tho administration and of Mr. Taft. You merely prom iso in your platform that you Intend ed to do Just what this administra tion has actually done and is doing. Thrust At Olney To show tho differenco between deeds and words. I will compare the record of this administration with tho record of ono of your moBt prom inent supporters at tho moment Mr Olney, attorney general under the last democratic administration. While Mr. Olney was attorney gen eral no cases whatever wero brought under the anti-trust law against combinations of capital, the only new cases which he brought being direct ed against comb'nations of working men. During that entire administra tion the only qases' brought against combinations 'of 'capital under the anti-trust act were four in number, two of which wero unsuccessful, ono of the other two being tho case which was decided by Judgo Taft in favor of the government. Under this administration a mass of such cases have been brought, in cluding the case against the North ern Securities company; against the neef packers; against the Federal Salt company; against the Otis and other elevator companies; against tho American Tobacco company; against the powder trust; agaiust tlie Virginia-Carolina Chemical com pany; aganst the Standard Oil com pany, and others. Claims Success In a number of these cases the government has already succeeded by injunctions and otherwise. Some of the cases are now ponding. In hardly any important case against great law-breaking corporations has the government yet suffered defeat. As regards suits to suppress railway abuses, under the last democratic administration, xl.ere were no indict ments against shippers for receiving rebates or secret rates. Under my administration there have been forty-nine indictments for secret re bates, resulting in eighteen "Convic tions, and In only four cases have these Indictments failed. The other twenty-seven cases are still pending. Among the railroads -which have It mere promised are empty indeed, and they would not be made now with any possibility of performance resulting if it were not for the achievement above recited. Tho Steel Company Case You state that tho steel company, with ray express consent, purchased one of its largest rivals and thus ob tained control of over 50 per cent of the total output. This action of the steel company (which increased its share of the total output by only four per cent and In no way altered the standing of the company under the law) may have been a violation of your plan, the absurdity of which has been exposed by Governor Hughes. But there was no violation of the law. T was cognizant of the entire transaction. It was not en tered Into fcy the steel corporation on its own desiro, but sololy at tho urgent requests of tho corporation purchased and of the big banks hold ing that corporation's securities, In order to enable them to prevent a crash which would havo turned tho panic of last fall Into tho moBt wide spread disaster. I should indeed havo been derolict in my duty If I had not so acted and efficiently used all the power of the government whore It could no legally and prop erly used (as !t was In this case) to seo that tho panic was kept within the smallest possible radius and tho damage caused as slight as possible. You would better understand tho principle on which I acted if you would rid yourself of tho idea that 1 am trying to discriminate for or against any man or corporation be cause ho or it is either wealthy or not woalthy. I regard bucIi discrim ination In either direction as utter ly incompatible with a spirit of hon esty and fair dealing. Bases Distinction on Conduct I base my distinctions on conduct, not on rolatlvo wealth. When tho samo men who wero leaders In tho steel corporation acted in connection with the Northern Securities suit In a manner which I regarded as con trary to the law, by my direction a successful suit was immediately un dertaken againBt them. If thoy vio late the law in connection with any act of tho Bteel corporation I will Immediately proceed against them. Until they do violate the law they will bo troated precisely as any other corporation, great or small, which obeys the law, is treated. I treat each man and each corpor ation with a view solely to whetln r be or It Is acting rightly on a given occasion. Let no give you an ex ample. I have proceeded against the corporations of which Mr, E. H Har riman is thp head on certain points where I believe they have violated the, law. But when, In connection with the breaking of tho SaKon sea dam, one of the Harriman corpora tions repaired the dam, I last winter did everything I could to have con gress reimburse Mr. Harriman for so much of the o ligation as I folt ought to come upon tho United States. I would hold myself unfit to be president if, because T prose cuted Mr. Harriman where I thought he had broken the law, I yet hesitat ed to do him Justice where I thought the facts required that justice should be done him. In exactly tho same way I have acted and shall act as regards the steel corporation. Gives a Name You aslc me to name a single offi cial connected with a law-defying corporation who has declared or will declare that he Is supporting you. In a St. Louis paper which reached me at the same time that the papers containing this published letter of vours I find a statement from Judge Henry S. Priest, attorney for the Waters-Pierce Oil company, tho west ern subsidiary cr representative of the Standard Oil company, in which ho announces that ho Is for Bryan and states that Wall Street believes that Bryan will be elected. Tn re sponse to the question as to whether ho could quote any of the Standard Oil magnates as feeling that way he answered: "1 did not say T saw any of the officials of tho Standard Oil company. I am giving ydu what T found was tho drift of opinion, among well posted politicians, as well as bankers. I guess Gov ernor Haskell is all right. They have not proven anything on him, have tbev?" The newspaper clipping goes on to say that Judge Priest was one of the lawyers who fought Attorney Gen eral Hadley in the state's ouster snlt against the Waters-Pierce and Re public Oil companies. His legal practice is chiefly with the big cor poration and hla firm la counsel for tho United Railways company and tho North American Interests In St. Louis. Judgo Priest Is credited with originating tho phrase, "Bribory Is r conventional offeiiBO," which ho used In an argument at tho trial of R. M. Snyder, tho Kansas City millionaire, now dead. Support of Trust Magnate You say that tho trust magnates know their own intercBts and aro supporting Judgo Taft. So far as Bral5BBKBm BVer jBrKBa Mayor Johnson ctartfMl thin institution to a bank for nil the people nml nt his nuc Kwtlon wo nUoiitcd Uio now famous Bank Money Order Plan of Banking by Mail which jplvcs the d porttor ailvnuUKra honover iiad bofurp. Hy i!i.a unlijuo plan your mono begins to draw Four par Cant Interest tho moment It rrrvclxa us and you receive not the ordinary, clumpy, unenro prow hook but a Money Order which Hhowa on It fnco tho amount or principal and Interest and la a certi fied chuck, Cashable Anywhere At Any Time By our met 1 1 oil your money Is nlwny on do poAlUyotalwuyfliri yur puaoMfon ready for lualant uxu when needed. "Write for llooldct No. Ti9. 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