Pike County Democrat, Volume 28, Number 11, Petersburg, Pike County, 23 July 1897 — Page 5

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THE ORIGIN Of TRUSTS. Natural Outcome of the Contraction of Baataesa.

HEAL AHD ONLY TRUE REMEDY. All Cosotrj NMd* a Cwrtmmmr That Cannot B* CratrolkM by a Vmw. WantlUhw 1* th« VMM te Sat Ik* WkwU A-wblrHac. According to the repeat of a recent interview in a New York paper, John Sherman bas announced that he is opposed to trusts and othea combinations in restraint of trade. Such an announcement, coming from John Sherman, may n)ean that he is in favor of them. Those who are familiar with his public career know that no confidence can ha placed in any statement he may make. This, j which was true of him in his prime, is doubly true now that the shadows of old age and oblivion are gathering over his mind and memory. Mr. Sherman is the author of the •eoret legislation which demonetised silver and which has made trusts in this country possible. He now says that the antitrust law can be so amended as to destroy the trusts, but this is a statement that means nothing. Trusts are the natural outcome of the coutraction of business, trade and profits due to the i contraction of currency. The theory that a prohibitive law can be made effective is a fallacy on the face of it, for currency contraction drives all business and all capital into concentrated chan Dels, and this movement is in the nature of things irresistible. A partial remedy f^r trusts of a semipublic character is to be found, as the supreme court intimated, in a species of federal, state and municipal paternalism, but the real and only true remedy is to be found in the restoration of bimetallism, which would result in a gradual and healthy expansion in the volume of our money, in the gradual rise of prices, the increase of business aud trade and the re* ewal of industrial activity In all parts of the republic. An editorial article, in which The Constitution recently discussed the nature of trusts and th»- remedy for them, has gone the rounds of the press with such singular marks of approval that we ore justified in saying that it struck the keynote of the situation. In that article we showed that the trust evil is not only of comparatively recent growth, but that its origin and develop-ment-are coincident with the success of the secret movement to demonetise silver and contract the currency. What trust or combination of capital strong enough to strangle competition was to be found in the country 25 years ago? What syndicate of bankers was powerful enough to interfere with the natural laws of trade, and artificially increase the rates of sterling exchange so as to cause the export of gold ?h the face of a large balance of trade in favor of this country? There* was not a trust in existence in this counter, as trusts are now known, and there was no banking syndicate powerful enough to disturb our currency system. Why? Because there was plenty of tnouey in circulation, aud the supply of available capital was ample to meet all the demands made upon it. A man with a small business could get as much money proportionately as a firm with a largo business. Prices were at a profitable level for all producers, and profits in trade aud business were large in proportion. According to the present arguments of the gold men, everything should have been topsy-turvy in 'bjisSuess aud'trade 25 years ago. Why? Simply because we bad that hideous nightmare of the goldi»es. an,“unsound” currency. We had —horror of horrors!—“dishonest” and “depreciated” money. Gold, though a dollar of that metal would buy no more than 48 cents’ worth* of bullion silver will buy today, was at a premium. The greenbacks were “depreciated,” our whole currency system W as precisely in the fix that the gold men say it would j be if we were now to'open the mints to I the free coinage of silver. According to She arguments aud assumptions of the gold men, the people of the country should have been in a mast deplorablecondition. But they were not. They were highly prosperous, and the prosperity was gen- j f eral. It was not confined to a few cap- j ttalists at the money centers, but per- j rneated all lines of business and all j channels of trade, and the enterprise and energy of individuals had the widest possible field, of which tbeyj were not slew td take advantage. And > there were no trusts. The sup^y of | available capital was so ample that business men were able to secure all1 thut their resources aud prospects jnsti-1

fled. ! There was do room for truKt-*. During ■ the ten year*- preceding lb?S the cor- i rency of the country bad been greatly J expanded by the war Decertifies of the | government. What the money lending class regarded a* a misfortune was is reality a blessing for the north. Gold had gone into hiding at the first smell • of gunpowder, as it always does, and ! the war as well as all business was carried on by means of a “d* preciated. ” ah “unsound" and a “dishonest" dollar, the greenback. At tbe north business and enterprise expanded with the expanding currency, and it was not until silver was demonetized that paralysis fell on trade aud business. Then began tbe era of trust* and cumbinations'to strangle competition. These concerns are not so much the outgrowth of man's natural greed as they are of the inevitable contraction of business and profits under the gold standard. They are developments of the situation. Individuals, firms and enterprises have been-driven to tbe wall by tbe dearn«*s and scarcity of money, hy contracting business and diminishing profits. Tc save themselves tbe most farseeing of these hnsilHMi men and firms have bssn

WSSST — Mtea into “pooling their issues” with other firm* and individuals, and oat of this inevitable tendency has sprung the trusts and oapdtaiistio -com binations exist today. It is as idle to abase them as it is to propose futile remedies. 4 There is bat one remedy that vrill go to the root of the matter and that is an entire change in oar currency system. Whenever this country has an elastic currency based on a system which vrill not permit a few men. to control and congest the money of the country subject to thek will* we will gear less about trusts than we do now. Trusts have their development in hard times, and they flourish in periods of bosiness depression. That is why they have bloomed like green hays during toe past few years, and why the attention of the public has been directed to them more than ever before. Return to the conditions existing prior to 1678, when the mints were open to the free coinage of both gold and silver, and the trust evil will disappear like mist before toe sun. As it is now, combined capital can take ear© of itself, but it is toe struggling industries which cannot withstand the pressure to which they are subjected by toe combinations j which are formed against them. Enable • the people to secure employment at re- ; munerative rates and start the wheels I of industry and commerce in motion again by a change in currency conditions, and the small and struggling enterprises will be enabled to take care of themselves against tbeir most potent , competitors.—Atlanta Constitution.

GREATEST OF ALL TRUSTS. CmnpavMl With the Gotd Combta* All U>« Others Sink to Insignificance. Returning to John Khorman ’s declared antipathy for trusts, as made manifest in the sham and inoperative law be intro1 duced against them and in the attitude ! of the party which he has followed during his half century of public life, in its | fostering a tariff policy that bus been first the incubator of trusts, afterward I their nuurisber and is now their pur- > chased and willing servitor, it is apposite'to repeal what mere than half the voters in the l?uited States already know, that be is the main instrument in the organization of the most gigantic trust of them all, says the Kansas City Times. He is the grizzled Mephiatowbo engineered the scheme by which the dethronement, the disinheritance and the enslavement of silver was sur- j reptitiously accomplished, j John Sherman is the political Judas Iscariot who betrayed with a kiss the people of this country into the hands of , the goldoeraey of London and New j York. His traitor hand struck down silver and erected in this land the Gold j trust, the insatiate vampire that has been sucking the lifeblood of our farms, our workshops, our shipping and all the ; other ministers to the diffusion of wealth among the people for so many years. John Sherman, the chief architect of the Gold trust, has had the hypocrisy to stand in a public place, to roll his eyes, to elevate his voice, to1 raise bis hands and to anathematize the Tobacco trust, the Nail trust, the Wool i trust and all the rest of the brood when these are, in comparison with the gigantic one for which he stood sponsor in 1873, as insignificant as are the greedy, spiny dogfishes that swim in the woke of the man eatiug sharks in the qualities of activity, voracity and destructive power when compared tc FOUR MONTHS OF M’KINLEY. And the Premised pU»p«rltj It Nowhere In Sight. Eight mouths have elapsed since the issues involved in the last presidential campaign were settled at the polls, and President McKinley has been in office j for nearly four months. It cannot be j claimed that the party has net had suf- I , ficient time to revive trade andtindus-| try, as the 4th cf last March was fixed by Republican soothsayers themselves as the time for that rejriv %, uur can it j be claimed that the party has not been in possession of all the functions of the government, for most* certainly it has. Expressed in a nut-hell, the party ha* simply failed to redeem its pledges to j the people, arid no one is letter aware j of this fact than Senator ,Mark Hanna j ! himself. If testimony is needed along this line, it can be found in the action of ; Senator Mark Hanna's Pennsylvania i coal mine, which has net only fafUd to ! increase wages since the 4th of last March, but which has actually reduced them materially. Cp to the present time the Republican party has been} 1 “weighed in the balances ami fount! ’ wanting,’* and thousands who voted the Republican ticket last fall are now ; complaining-of- the gross manner in which they have been deceived. The state cl Pennsylvania alone gave : President McKinley 300,000 majority in last November’s election, and yet if ’ another election were held this month it is doubtful if the state could be carried by the Republicans. Better day* may be in store for the country, even under Republican rule. Every loyal ! patriot devoutly hopes so. but if property in its broadest and truest sensi is ever re stem! to this country it must I be accomplished through the medium | of the Democratic party.

itappm* tbv.TruU We hereby declare all trust* and xno napolies heat tie and dangerous to Uk people's interest and a standing n:euac« to the pefpetnity of the people’s inter eats, and we demand the rigorous en iorcement of all antitrust laws anc each additional legislation as is necessary for their immediate and final swj* pression.—From Platform of Ohio De mocracy. Lrt the Delve* Wtfls. It was Alexander H. Stephens ol j Georgia who said. “If the world will flood at with its silver, let the flood.bei «**” i

ENEMIES OF MANKIND. Gold Trust Thrives Upon the Distress of Others BKUr EISTOBY OF ITS METHODS. ttkKMt St«r VUl B* to Cmm«1 t)w Gim». back Circulation and Destroy the Legal Trader QaalRy of <ke Stiver Dollar. How K WBl Be Done.

It is becoming more and more obvious that the money power which now reigns in this country, through the Republican organisation it has debauched and captured, has determined to torture the business men into enforcing its demands, as it did in 1893, says the Cin- ! cinnati Enquirer. This is no idle invective. It is only necessary, first, to ccnI aider the objects at which our masters | aim, and, second, the methods which i they have heretofore employed. Their first object is the cancellation ; and destruction of the whole greenback I circulation, neat the destruction of the legal tender quality of the silver dollars and the destruction of all the silver certificates. The actual circulation of the silver dollars, when robbed j of their legal tender characters they think would be inconsiderable. This j would be followed up by a sale of all the silver coin and bullion above, say, 150,000,000, for the benefit of speculators iu silver, who would buy it at the low price caused by precipitating so large an amount upon the market. They are not anxious for a lawcxpr^ly providing for retiring the greenbacks, because they have Mr. Dingley’s assurance that the new tariff bill will produce that result at the rate of over f 100;0Q9,000 a year. This large and steady contraction of the currency, which has already reached the line of a money famine, is intended by its anthers to further prostrate business, to bankrupt merchants and manufacturers and to starve the country into accepting their scheme. They make no concealment that this scheme is to inject into our financial system the poisonous blood of irredeemable bank notes instead of the healthy and uatural supply of real money coined from that cue of the precious met- j als the coinage of which they have ] stopped by criminal methods. The coming mouths of - the year wiil j be marked by increasing business failures, discouragement ami desperation, j This increasing prostration and paraiy- j sis, with increasing failures and in- j creasing suicides, are being planued for by the despotic power which controls I this administration as deliberately as itI prepared and brought on at the appoint- j ed time the panic of 1893. and with the j same object in view. All the Republican I statesmen agree that the country enjoyed a large measure of prosperity from | 1878 until 1898, inclusive. This period j was exactly coincident with the partial j restoration of silver coinage iu 18T8 and ! its enlargement iu 1890. In 1892 the gold power determined upon a desperate j struggle against silver. They could not j again secretly sneak a clause into any j pending measure for the demonetization j of silver, as they did in 1873 by the j help of John Sherman, and they decided upon open warfare. As soon as Cleveland was inaugurated | the repeal of the Sherman purchase act i was loudly demanded by the Gold trust. Who that read it cap. ever forget • the dark chapter of history recorded in the New York Sun, when, without contra- j diction at any time, it gave the names ‘ of great bankers who met at an up tow u I residence ou a Sunday night, with Car-! lisle present, and decided upon a plan | of action for tfi^ purpose of prodneing a { panic through which.to effect legislation on this subject? It was decided iu that couference to pass the word throughout the country to the banks which they could influence that the bank customers j must be refused accommodation, their j Dotes must not be discounted, their nut- ; taring notes must not lo extended, and I business men must he driven to the wall i It was then to be explained to them ! that the reason why the banks could no \ longer credit good anu solvent customers was that the whole financial system of the country was'imperiled by the purchase and coinage of silver. The j food which was making good blood, as 1 even Benjamin Harrison declared, was I suddenly found to be poisonous. In- j deed, all food must be stopped and the ] patient must be hied indefinitely. - Abolish the silver ceiuage entirely aud give i no substitute. Until this was done the j banks would no longty: perform their j usual function of facilitating business. Thus tortured. o»tch desperate mer-1 chant and manufacturer appealed to his representative tu congress to do the bidding of the gold pirates, because until [

taut was done be could have no relief. ; And the scheme worked. But the panic became a conflagration, which came; back upon its authors. It was more than ; they had bur gained fcr. The country has never recovered from It We have recited these well known facts because it seemed uecessary for f the purpose of reminding the people what these enemies of mankind are ca- * pubh* of doing. The application we make of this piece of history is that the same power is now as itrmly bent on de- j streyiug the greenbacks, coinc notes and f silver trertificates as they were four years ago on closing the mints to silver. They will produce, if necessary, the same distress,* with the same object of j torturing the people into surrendering to their outrageous mouelary schemes. They thrive upon the distress of others. If the new tariff does not retire the greenbacks fast enough, there will be j legislation attempted to that end. If j business paralysis does not worry the country into submission, they will invoke their former instrument of torture —a sharp panic. To the Point. The Democracy of Iowa has spoken for the platform and all that there it la »

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