Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 March 1900 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

The republican rings of Rensselaer, Hammond and Crown Point are having a squabble over the nomination of joint representative made last week, Rensselaer and some of the Crown Pointers claiming fraudulent delegates or a “stuffed” delegation from Hammond.

The trusts are still in evidence, and not only show no signs of disintegration, except so for as the Flour combine and Third Avenue surface road in New York is concerned. but exhibit a lively increase in every department of staple goods and necessaries. In New Jersey, Delaware and West Virginia “infant industries” to the extent of about $200,000,000 have been brought forth, from electric light, all along the line to shoes, and which, to add the total of all the prior trusts created under the three years of William McKinley’s administration makes a grand total of over three thousand millions of dollars of capital stock, which must not be inferred to be money, notwithstanding ex-Speaker Reed’s statement to the contrary. This stock is the stuff, however, which is used for speculation and to sell the general public at about 15 cents on the dollar for “working capital,” and as high at 3, 4 and even 5 hundred dollars per share. It is nearly all “water” but upon it the people must pay a fat dividend whether they use coal oil or gas, consume bread or stone. The total amount paid in these stocks by the consumers reaches a sum equal tout least two-thirds of our entire circulating medium, and when it reaches the sum total of our entire stock of money, which will not be long, the entire nation will be in the clutch of the most heartless, depraved and pernicious monster the world ever saw. It is useless to say "Good Lord deliver us,” for the Lord helps those who help themselves, and tho people have the power now to control the monster, but with five years more of McKinley, Hanna, etc., they will not be able to resist.

Nonce. Having sold my lumber yard I desire to close all my business by March 20. All accounts not settled by cash or note will be left with a collector and costs added. I will be at my office until March 20. J. W. Paxton & Oo.,: