Why don’t you have your prosecuting officers take out warrants for such men as Armour, the Rockefellers and Rogers?
You know they are law-breakers; deal with them as law-breakers.
Don’t seine the pond for minnows when you can harpoon such whales as these.
Hit the big criminals—hit them hard—and eighty million people will cheer you on!
You led us to believe that you meant to revise the Tariff; why don’t you follow it up?
You know that the Trust exists because of the Railroad and the Tariff.
The Railroad gives the special favor; the Tariff prevents foreign Competition—and there you are. The Trust is born of these two Special Favors, one given by the Tariff and the other by private contracts violative of law.
To break any and all Trusts remove the Tariff on the articles controlled by the Trusts, and at the same time relentlessly prosecute as common criminals every Railroad Official, however high and rich, who grants to one shipper any sort of favor not granted to all.
There isn’t a Trust in the United States that you can’t bust in twelve months if you go at it with these weapons.
The Free List for trust-controlled articles; Criminal Warrants for the Armours, Swifts, Harrimans, Rockefellers, Morgans, Belmonts—all who are “in the game.”