Pike County Democrat, Volume 29, Number 1, Petersburg, Pike County, 13 May 1898 — Page 5

TRICKS OF TRUSTS. The Sugar trust ban adopted an ancient bat still highly regarded stratagem in haring the beet sugar factories in Nebraska offer the fanners contracts for Ihair beet crops at $ 4 per km, with a proviso that if Hawaii is annexed the price is to be cat to $3.50. This idea germinated in the presidential campaign of 1884, wbeu the late P. T. Barnum offered to sell his Bridgeport property at 50 per cent of its value in case of Cleveland’s election. Be subsequently declined to make good the offer. The scheme was fried on the workingmen by the Republican mau4 agars on a considerable scale in tljp campaign of 1888; it was still farther •'■'"developed in 1892, and in 1896 it bad grown into a gigantic system of intimidation. Republican manufacturers and merchants everywhere gave notice of enormous contracts contingent upon McKinley’s election. Promises of wage increases in case of McKinley’s success, accompanied by threats of reductions or lockouts in ttae contrary event were •Iso frequent. The promises were generally repudiated after election. The beet sugar factories are old hands at this form of political blackmail. When the Wilson bill was pending, they tried tbeir present methods on the farmers, offering alternate contracts depeudeut upon the maintenance or repeal of the bounty. They had a better excuse then than now, for there was some traceable connection between the bounty and the value of beet sugar, while Hawaiian annexation can have absolutely uo effect upon the market. If Hawaiian sugar were subject to a duty which it was proposed to repeal, there might be some cbaiifce to argue that the change would uffect the interests of American beet growers, bat since Hawaiian sugar comes in free now. and could not come in any freer under annexation, the action of the Tebruska factories stands as a transparent trick of the Sugar tru^t. —New York Journal.

WAGEWORKERS’ DUTY. Ikty Bate It In Their Power to Work Their Own Salvation. New England has long been granted (be proud place of leader iu the inarch of civilization iu thin country. Is this position to be abandoned? Propositions made iu all earnestness by the manufacturers that the labor laws which have been passed in the various manufacturing states in the east to protect the wageworkers be repealed incline the unprejudiced observer to fear that New England is contemplating a backward •tep. However, there is hope that the patriotic citizens of New England will not permit such a disgrace to be placed upon the name iu that section. Attorney Genera) Kuowltuu has put bis protest on record, iu a speech delivered iu Boston, as follows: "Those laws are on the statute books because it is believed by all patriotic New England citizens that they promote education, the health and the prosperity of men, women and children who work for their daily bread. We love Massachusetts because these laws are made, aud they will uever be repealed because stockholders cannot pay dividends. ’* Tbere is a tendency on the part of capital to ignore the rights of labor, and uufortuuutely capital is securing control of the legislative bodies of this country. While an overwhelming majority of the people are opposed to grinding down labor, the money power ao manipulates politics that the voice of the people fails to be heard in the halls of legislatures, find yet the people have it in their power to work out their own salvation. The party representing the money power is Republican j jin politics. The party representing the! roeople is Democratic. There is no midmle way. Every robe that is not Democratic is a vote for increasing the Dumper of boors devoted/to labor and for | decreasing the wages paid for such serv- j ice. Will the wageworkers ever learn j ■be fact?—Chicago Dispatch.

THE SILVER RESOLUTION. ikiJe RmbItm the Action of the Senate With Indifference. The resolution passed by the United ites senate, declaring it to be the of that body that the bonds of the rsrninent. at its option, may be legal* j ly paid in diver, is trainable chiefly on ’ nit of the way in which it has been i [received by the public all over the couu- j While it merely reiterates the law it stands, its adoptiou by either sh of congress last year or the year fore would have given several hun- J iof thousands of generally estimable Icitisens hysterical fits, whereas today : * they merely shrug their shoulders and keep on at their regular avocations. There is encouragement in this public equanimity concerning this matter, it proves that the scare which the Republicans are trying to keep alive for their own benefit is moribund. Of course the declaration of the senate is not binding cm the administration and knowledge of this fact has doubtless also something to do with the public indifference. The main reason for this last is, however. the firm conviction among workers and traders lg>th that no matter what financial policy the country may adopt it will not go to wreck and ruin,as the Republican spellbinders told them it would, but that it will continue in the even tenor Of its way, and that possibly tt will I oven improve its condition by cutting loom from the lending strings of its money lenders.—New York Newa There is a swelling chorus from all •long the^tepublican lines that Pingree is not a Republican. Of course he isn’t, whatever he himself may^think. No man who fights trusts and monopolies can claim to be a Republican in this year of our Lord 1898.—Indianapolis ffrnfhi+h

RESULT NOT IN DOUBT ! The Gold Standard Structure Must Come Down. PEOPLE ABE BECOMING ALERT. i No iMgirCu th« Money Hoarders Keep Them In Th mil—Hearers of Bardens Object to IscNMlnK Them—The Debtor Will Insist os Being Beard. The report of the commission constituted by the Indianapolis monetary commission is a most remarkable document and one that is destined to cut a considerable figure in the discussions, already entered upon, which are to lead j to a reversal of the mistaken verdict of j 1896. In it is text enough for a volume, for it epitomizes uearly every charartt r- ; istic error of the gold standard school, besides achieving the unenviable distinction of originality in a field where until it appeared there seemed no further rocm for bluuders and no uuimproved opportunities for the display of I ignorance. At a future time it is uot. unlikely that the. writer may be so jure- j sumptuous as to attempt at some length a review and criticism of this report At j present I wish only to call attention to i a very few points in connection with it The gold standard press, among other j devices resorted to for the purpose of | enchanctng the authority and leudiug all passible plausibility to the disinter- ] estedncss of the movement, continually refers to this commission as a “non j partisan” body. It is possible that this shrewd untruth may deceive some peo- ! pie, even as the preposterous desigua- i tion of the gold standard as “honest money” has deceived them. Let ns, , therefore, understand the truth. What- j ever political names men may wear today. the frayed remnants of other sea-j sous' use, the fact is that for all practical purposes there are iu the United States uow only two parties, the gold standard part^Laud the autigold standart! party. That issue forms the real line of political classification. Every siugle member of this self styled, disiuforested commission is a gold standard partisuu; so is every member of the ex- i ecutive committee to which they report; so was every member of the “souud j money” cot veutiou that appointed them There never was a more jug handled affair ou earth than this self vaout ed, altruistic movement of monetary be

nevoieuce. The reading of these fulsome newspaper tributes must hugely amuse their | recipients. One is remiuded of the Ro man augers, who could not meet oue another on the streets without laughing. This “uoupartisau” commission declares that it etas appointed, iu the Ian- ; gnage of the resolutions by which it was constituted, “to make a thorough investigation of the monetary affairs and ueeds of the country in all relations and aspects and to make proper suggestions as to the evils fouud to exist aud the remedies therefor.” This “investigation” was about as houest And thorough as the whole movement was uou partisan. The civilized world for a quarter of a century has been seeking to get rid of the gold standard. This has been the avowed object of numerous international conferences and of innumerable committees and commissions in mauy lauds. Yet the “thorough investigation” conducted by this reporting body actually began by taking it grauted practically the wholo question at issue. The first < resolution adopted by the convention creating them declared that “the present gold stuuriard should be niaiu- 1 taiued;” that “all classes of United States notes” should be retired; that a | great system of banks of issue should be erected to succeed to erne of the chief functions of sovereignty. After this there was nothing left to “investigate. ” This “nonpartisan” body of gold standard devotees, which engaged in an “investigation" already concluded, was j no more representative thau its pur poses was unbiased and its examination . thorough. The producers of the country found no place at its oouucil board. The j vast majority of our citizens who are concerned in an as nearly unvarying measure of the prices of labor and its j products as possible and iu an equitable j standard, governing the payment of taxes, interests and debts, had no hand j

iu mis ''investigation ana uo voice in its conclusions. The bankers and creditors made this commission. The creature was in'the image of its creator The grower of products, the maker of commodities, the seller of labor, with which things money most be obtained by the masses of men. were overlooked in framing this commission. Bnt the owners of debts and the manipulators of money— money that buys products and commodities and* labor—are the fabrics tors of this commission, the direction of its “investigations.” the designers of its reports, the expectant beneficiaries of its proposed establishment. There will be an appeal from the few who conceived thi* scheme to the many whose ruin is contemplated by it The general good will reply to special interest The bearer of burdens will hare an objection to this proposal for automatically increasing them. The debtor will Insist on being beard as well as the creditor in a matter that concerns them both. The producer of utilities will demand emancipation from the thrall of the hoarder of money. The men who bare brought this thing forth may talk about it hot they cannot enact it An# they hare raised a spirit that they cam not lay. The necessity of becqpuing definits, which, dodge it as they might, was bound to meet them face to face at last is their Nemesis. The People are becoming alert The result is not In doubt. This specific proposition will not only fall, bnt will poll down with it the whole structure of the gold stand , ard in the Utilised States. tt A. Town*

CONDITIONS IN ttr. Bnu Vwnd ladwtcr Baomlag u4 TolUn OattlBf Good Wi|M, Hon. William J. Bryan, the last Democratic candidate for president of the-United States, has learned from his visit to the republic of Mexico, whither he went to observe the land, the people and their government mad financial affairs, says tlte New York News. He conies back to the United States at this severe season of the year —the season which the great manufacturers, for whose benefit onr present congress enacted a protective tariff have chosen for the redaction of the wages of their employees, the season when poverty and privation are pressing upon the industry and the means of subsistence of the masses of our people —when men have hopelessly laid down the work by which they can no longer obtain the means to live, and when even women and little children abandon their occupations and “strike” in despair. He comes hack to a gold standard country, which for a quarter of a century has tried to abolish the people's silver dollar and substitute the gold coin of the bunker and usurer, and which has fallen thereby into the depths of business depression. Sir. Bryan found Mexico enjoying the expansion of bimetallic currency, with mills rnnniu^full time and paying both men and women good wages, price* steady and compensatory, the people satisfied and the government treasury in possession of a surplus above expenses. Compared with onr own laboring classes, the condition and incomes of those of Mexico have risen, while those of ours have fallen since 1878. Many Americans are found settled in that country, while few or none leave the United States to make a home in gold standard countries, like Canada. He comes back to tiud ns still in the gold and silver controversy, with the president insisting and the United States senate refusing to change our public debt from gold and silver to gold aloue. He conies back to take part in the struggle which in the uext three years will decide our American currency question perhaps forever—either in favor of gold, for which 7,000,000 voters declared in 1896, or in favor of both gold and silver, as 6,500.000 then preferred. In the meantime he prediets Mexico will stick to silver.

THE PEOPLE’S MONEY. What 1* Good Enough For th« Producer It Good Enough For the Idler. The resolution under consideration, said Congressman Bailey in the course of the debate on the Teller resolution in the house, contains two propositions, one moral and the other legal One asserts as a matter of law that the bonds of the United States are redeemable at the option of the government in silver, and the other as a matter of morals that to restore to its coiuage such silver coins as legal tender in payment of the bonds, principal and interest is not in violation of the pnblio faith or in derogation of the rights of the pnblio creditor. He would uot dwell, he said, on. the legal aspect of the question. There was not a lawyer in the United States or any other country who wonld venture ou his profc 'sioual reputation to deny that the bonus could be paid in silver. That went without saying. The Republicans in this matter must justify themselves. if at sill, by the proposition that in their consciences they believed that gold was the money of the contract. “Does one of you believe,” he said, addressing the Republicans, “that if the bondholder o.ved the government under a similar contract, he would not exercise his option? We believe the government has the saiua right with their posi turns reversed. We are ready to meet you on this issue—the issue that the money which is good enough for the people who- produce the wealth is good enough for the idlers who spend it; that the money which is good enough for the poor is good enough for the rich; that the money the laborer receives for hi* toil and the merchant for his wares is good enough for the bondholder, and by the Eternal he shall be compelled to take it. ”

STILL A DEFICIT. Neither Relief Nor Rerenue Has Resalted From Dingier** Tariff Bill. Perhaps the Wilson tariff was a bad thing. The Republicans thought so and called a special session of congress in hot haste to substitute for the alleged bad thing an alleged good thing. What has the alleged good thing done fear the oountry? It has piled up a deficit of $51,000,000. It has failed to save the New England cotton mills from a disastrous loss of business. It has been met in its author’s own town bj striking operatives and starvation wages. But Congressman Dingley points with pride to the fact that the daily receipts from his tariff for the present month show an increase over those for the month of August Iasi This is thing to be grateful for, but in the foes of official returns as to the tariff’s performances sinus the law was pasted it is not enough to justify expressions of unmixed joy. It is to be regretted that the secretary of the treasury in his report of Jala. H jmmm forced to make the fc and exi of receipts v :1 •OS.KS ll.5tfi.000 UM1M0M2? 30.211,000 For tfcUfttaSt .fop-tet "‘^SfcVprodueer of revenue the Dingley bill is still a tailure. Congressman Dingley is persistent in hisdemand for more time in which to vindicate the character of his bill. Really, it seems that the longer tbe time fatelcnhmht worse the ooadjp^pwf affairs become* Instant relief, viras what the spe^ifl session of congrats promised. AJtople revenue was STliat the Dingle^ bill was to produoe Neither. relief* nor rei hate resulted. > ' )

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