Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 August 1898 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 5 [ADVERTISEMENT]

ing the former, appeared L an e istern paper and was shown t - Gaptain Evans. “Fighting Bob” has taken the pains to explain his position, qu te unnecessarily so far as the people are concerned, for the batfleship lowa and her gallant captain gave too goou an account of themselves at Santiago to need any explanations. Gaptain Evans states that just as the chaplain was going to offer thanks a Spanish battleship came in range and created a diversion. G apt.'ll vans continues “M- first duty to God and my country was to sink this Spanish batth ship, and l immediately mac® my preparations to dc so \\ heu it was discovered that this ship was an Austrian I found my ship sur rounded by boats carryiug dying and wounded prisoners and others of the crew of the Viscava to the number.of 250. To leave these men to .uffe/ for want of food aud clotting while 1 ca led my men aft to offer gravers was not my idea of either Ghristiauitv or religion. I preferred to clothe the naked, feed the hungry, and and succor the sick aud i am strongly of the opinion that Almighty God has not put a black mark agaim-t me on account of it. “1 do not know wh°ther I shall stand with Gaptain Philip among the first chosen in the hereafter, bu I have this to say i conclusion: That every diop of b ood in my body on the astern ou of the 3d of July was binging thanks and praise to Almighty God for the victory we had won.” Under the circumstances it lo ks as though “Fighting Hob” has whipped his critics quite as com bletely as he whip ed the Spaniards.

Trusts When an independent AND Corporation begins to Labor fight a trust the eonsum> er has occasion for con gratu'atioD, and the workingman finds himself in worse straits than before. It is reported from Pittsburg that the Oliver Wire Company,OLe of the biggest independent corporations o f its kind in the cct ntry, has rolled up its sleeves to take a fall out of the trust which does business under tie ame of the American Steel and Wire Company. As a preliminary the Oliver company has made a cut of 10 cts per keg on wire nai 8. For the man whojtmjs wire nails this is doubtless ’cheering news, but there is nothing encourag ng in it for the man who is hired to make the nails. How ia it that the Oliver compan ny has prepared itself for mak ng this reduction in price? The dispatch from Pittsburg explains it m a few words. It says: “The Oliver comp ny bas been reparirg for this fight for months. Ever since the tnist w a s formed the fi in as been putting in the most ©ode’n machinery, with the intenlion l of enhancing production aud at the ! same time i educing the labor cod.’ j H-re is the secret m a nutshell. ! it lies in the three words, “redan j ing the cost.” This cost is reduced in two wayr: First, by introducing labo -saving machineiy. and, second, by cutting the wages of laborers. Both methods form a double edged sword withTtwhichj to strike down the workers.

There is no chance for the workingman—there can be no chance f r him —so long as competition is confined lo occasional contents be tween trusts. Wages ire simply reduced to the lowest terms, the Statural course of competition is turned awry a-d the laborer is made to pay the expenses of a battle between the trusts.

The Journal professes indigoa* tioD th t the Hon Samuel Kalsston should should say that ral Dewey is -a demociat. hate not seen any very satisfactory evidence that he is not a democrat. It was publicly announced that he was a democrat, and he has shown all the cnara teristics of a demo* ci at. He was evidently anxious to “remember the Maine” long before the administration got leady to do go, and was off at the word. He displayed a marked caution of Wa&hington influence by cutting the cable, which, by the way, the Journal oommenued at the time. He has not given the slignteot in*» dication of being under the con trol of ahy corporation, syndicate or trust. He has not recommend ed the gold standard, or the pro tective tariff system for the Philip pinesa He Las not appointed any relatives to office. He ha • not gone into any schemes for making mon eyoutof the Philippines. It is the most natural thing in the world that he should be taken for a.Dem ocrat. Even if h Is not ore, he acts! just like on A [ln Jianapoiis Sentinel An exchange ream ks: “It must be understood at the outset that President McKinley can’t be iiur*« ried into peace.” Why not? He was hurried into war.