Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 October 1908 — Fake Prosperity. [ARTICLE]

Fake Prosperity.

The steel trust denies that it will spend >6,000,000 in wages before election, chiefly in Ohio, Indiana. Illinois and West Virginia, for the purpose of I giving work to 100,000 idle men whose i employment is not Justified by trad I conditions. But the “financial man” of the New Yoyk Journal of Commerce | Says that this stbry “comes from a Source that is always interesting and often right.” It Is pointed out that i< this should result in keeping the high tariff party in power It might be the beat possible “investment,” which is not k wild guess in view of the fact that the trust annually takes from the people many times $6,000,000 purely as a result of the high duties on steel and iron. In past campaigns direct 'contributions were the rule. Now a I monopoly corporation can use It* stockholders’ money in creating a pre 'election prosperity. ■