JANUARY 23, 1903.
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"YOU CAN END IT"
William Bandolph'iHearsfs Opan Letter to
President Reosevelt Asking Him to
End the Coal Famine
William Randolph Hearst on Jan
uary 8 devoted a whole page of the
New York American to an open letter
addressed to President Roosevelt, ask
ing him to end the coal famine. The
letter tells the whole story but will
Roosevelt act? Mr. Hearst said:
To Theodore Roosevelt, President of
the United States. Sir: On October
4, more than three months ago, I had
the honor of addressing a letter to you,
informing you that I had petitioned
your attorney general for permission
to furnish him with conclusive proofs
of the existence of a coal trust.
At the request of your attorney gen
eral, I submitted my proofs to General
Burnett, United States district attor
ney for the southern district of New
.York.
Those proofs demonstrated, over the
hands and seals of the corporations
constituting the trust, that a combina
tion of coal-carrying railroads abso
lutely controls the country's supply of
anthracite and fixes its price to the
consumer.
In the judgment of lawyers whose
professional competency is quite as
undisputed as that of your attorney
general, those proofs if presented in
court would suffice to dissolve the coal
trust and subject its members to the
civil and criminal penalties provided
by law.
Continuously since the submission
of those proofs the coal trust has
robbed the people, extorting famine
prices for coal, a prime necessity of
industrial and domestic life, yet no
action against this trust has been tak
en by your attorney general for the
enforcement of the laws and the ra
lief of the public.
So remarkable has been the lethargy
of your attorney general in the face
of a condition of things which reaches
the gravity of a widespread public
calamity tliat in both houses of con
gress a resolution has been intro
duced calling upon him to disclose the
evidence submitted by me through my
attorneys in October last.
These proofs aside, sir, neither you
nor any other well informed citizen
can doubt the existence of the coal
trust, nor be ignorant of the organized
brigandage which it has practiced and
is practicing.
You have but to consult the final
report of the industrial commission to
learn that the eight lines of railroad
comprising the trust own nine-tenths
of the anthracite deposits and mine
three-quarters of the yearly product.
From the same report you can ascer
tain that in order to crush out compe
tition these railroads have charged
extortionate freight rates. Compared
with the charge per ton per mile on
bituminous coal the rate for carrying
anthracite is so high that, in the lan
guage of Industrial Commissioner
HOW'S THIS?
We offer One Hundred Dollars Re
ward for any case of Catarrh that can
not be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure
F. J. CHENEY & CO., Props..
Toledo. 0.
We, . the undersigned, have known
.F. J. Cheney for the last 15 years, and
believe him perfectly honorable in all
business transactions and financially
able to carry out any obligation made
by their firm.
West & Truax, Wholesale Druggists,
Toledo, O.
WaUing, Kinnan & Marvin, Whole
sale Druggists, Toledo. O
Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken inter
nally, acting directly upon the blood
and mucous surfaces of the system.
Price, 75c per bottle. Sold by all drug
gists. Testimonials free.
Hall's Family Pills ar the best.
Phillips, the excess charge "is greater
every year than the interest on our
national debt," and is "made possible
by the railroad monopoly, now euph
oniously called 'community of inter
ests. "
Tiie fact that the coal trust exists is
notorious, and its character is univer
sally understood.
A former attorney general of the
United States, Richard Olney, on Oc
tober 11 last, in a public address at
Boston, said that the members of the
trust are the "most unblushing and
persistent of law breakers," and he
thus specified:
"For years they have defied the laws
of Pennsylvania, which forbids com
mon carriers engaging in the business
of mining.
"For years they have discriminated
between customers in the freiglu
charges on their railroads, in viola
tion of the interstate commerce law
"For years they have unlawfully
monopolized interstate commerce, in
violation of the Sherman anti-trut
law."
Senator Spooner of Wisconsin, a
member of your own party, high in
your confidence, in last Monday's de
bate on the Jones resolution direct
ing the attorney general to transmit
to the senate the evidence presented to
him by me proving that a conspiracy
in restraint of interstate trade exists,
said:
"I have been of the opinion that
probably there is such a conspiracy."
And he added that "if there be such a
conspiracy it is one that should bs
prosecuted as one absolutely wicked in
its character and far-reaching in its
deleterious effects. ... If one does ex
ist it is a very merciless one, violat
ing the laws of the United States and
most harmful in every way."
You, Mr. President, can have no
doubt of this conspiracy, but, if there
should chance to remain in your mind
any such doubt, I suggest that you
remove it by personally examining
the 'exidence which I placed in pos
session of your attorney general ia
October.
Sir, these men of the coal trust,
enormously ri?h and politically influ
ential as they may be, are criminals.
They swell their great fortunes daily
by deliberate law-breaking.
And while your attorney general haa
remained so strangely quiescent thest
opulent aud politically influential
criminals have adopted an old trust
device for the double purpose of fur
ther plundering the public and laying
the basis for a fraudulent defence
against the evidence now in the hands
of the attorney general should he be
gin proceedings against them. A pre
tended division between them and the
so-called "independent" operators has
been arranged, whereby these so
called "independents,'' who are utter
ly in the power of the trust, shall
seem to compete with the trust, and so
prepare the ground for the false con
tention that the trust is not a mo
nopoly, but a legitimate business or
ganization subject to competition. As
the immediate result of this counter
feit rivalry the price of coal has be mi
doubled.
As a citizen regardful of the public
welfare, Kr. President, I respectful
ly represent to you that the law officer
of your administration has been, and
is, remiss in hi3 duty in not proceed
ing against the coal trust on the evi
dence of its unlawful character sup
plied by me to him last year.
By that failure in duty he has en
couraged the coal trust to take ad
vantage of a situation largely of its
own creation,. not merely to persist In
it3 customary pillage of the people,
but to enormously increase the scale
of its extortion.
The submission of evidence to your
attorney general and my appeal to
him to apply the. law to the coal trust
having up to this time resulted in no
action on his part, I turn from him to
you. - '
In your public speeches and mes
sages, Mr. President, you have often
declared your conviction that the great
combinations of capital commonly
known as trusts should be subjected
to the fullest publicity and brought
within the regulating control of the
law1; to the end that the public, while
profiting by the concentration of capi
tal in' business, may be protected
against the incidental . evil effects of
that concentration.
I submit, sir, that there Js no other
combination of capital in the country
more contemptuous of law than the
coal trust. And I further submit that
the most effective method of subject
ing it to publicity is to bring it into
court to answer for its illegal of-
The attorney general of the United
States is your servant He must obey
your commands or give way to a suc
cessor who will do so.
I appeal to you. therefore, Mr. Pres
ident, to command your attorney gen
eral to proceed against the coal trust,
both civilly and criminally, on the
evidence of its unlawful acts laid be
fore him by me, or explain to the
people of the. United States his rea
sons for not doing so, if reasons suit
able for public avowal he has.
The people of the United States,
President Roosevelt, have a right to
expect action from you against the
trusts in general and the coal trust in
particular. No conspicuous public
man of your party has so vehemently
as yourself expressed a desire to pro
tect the public from spoliation at the
hands of combinations of predatory
capital. And you have well said that
"words are good when backed up by
deeds, and only so."
What better proof of your sincer
ity could you give, what better deed
in support of your words could you
do, than by moving at once upon this
insolent lawbreaker and wholesale
robber of the people, the coal trust?
As a citizen I have done my duty in
supplying evidence for the attack to
your attorney general. As a citizen I
do my duty in turning from him to
you when time has shown his in
vincible reluctance to act.
The coal trust continues to exist
and continues to plunder because the
laws are not enforced.
For that non-enforcement of the
laws, Mr. President, your attorney
general is responsible to you, and if
you shall uphold him in his refusal to
act against the coal trust you will be
responsible to the American people.
Respectfully,
WILLIAM RANDOLPH HEARST.
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