Excerpt from McKinleyism as It Appears to a Non-PartisanProtection when diverted from its legitimate course, and used to promote the interest of cliques and com bines may be rendered as dangerous to the country as liberty when it degenerates into unbridled license. The abuse of the one leads to high-handed robbery, the abuse of the other to red-handed anarchy.If legislation could prevent the organization of trusts and pools under a high tarifi', the interests of the unprotected masses might, perhaps, in the main, be safely left to home competition, but Congress has thus far failed to provide a barrier against the extending evils resulting from commercial combinations, and hence those tempted by the prospect of exorbitant profits to engage in business, often find it easier and more profitable to join the combines than to fight them, so that in certain lines there is now practically no competi tion and no wholesome check on prices.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.