Pike County Democrat, Volume 29, Number 48, Petersburg, Pike County, 7 April 1899 — Page 7

THE PRESENT ISSUES. Protection and Monopoly Art to He Foaffht the tut an la 1MM1, The text of Mr. Bryan’s letter written iu November, 1897, and made public by the New York Verdict, is very interestuig. Indeed, it may be described as an echo of the present situation, although it was written a year and a half ago. It falls, as it were, pat to the occasion. In the course of his remarks, Mr. Bryan says that “‘events have forced certain issues into the foreground, and the people are ready to act upon them,” and he adds: “To invite them to pass over these questions and take up new ones, will be a confession that we were wrong last fall, and weaken the force of our arguments.” This is just as true now as it was when Mr. Bryan wrote it, and the following describes the necessities of the hour from the party point of \ iew as aptly as it did a year and a half , ago. ‘.“Those who are trying to overthrow the reign of plutocracy inaugurated by the republican party will have to do the best they can, each following his own judgment, and I trust that our forces may be concentrated upon certain reforms held in common, rather than divided, when the next battle begins.” By far the most momentous outcome of the reign of plutocracy inaugurated >by the republicans is to be found in the growth and development of the trusts, ■ uad, so far as the welfare of the people is concerned, this trust growth is a very great issue. To discuss it is to discuss in part, if not in whole, the very greatest of all the issues before the jn'ople, which is the money question, writes Clark Stowell in the Atlanta Constitution. We believe that no'political student now contends that the tariff is responsible for the' growth of trusts.

I hat view may be held by editors m Ohio or ] ndiann, but it has beeu practically discarded by thoughtfuHimi tiiuce recent events have shown that the tariff has no possible effect on prices. Today the wool industry, which was especially "taken care of” by the Dingley tariff is in a worse condition than any other productive industry in the country. It is very clear, therefore, the growth of trusts is due to the fact that the great bulk of the available money of the country is concentrated in a few hands. Ten men in Xew Vurk control al the important railways in the country; one firm will soon control the coal supply of the east; ;v great banking firm with international connections has •‘financed” more than half of the numerous trusts and combines that have been formed during the past 15 months. As we have said many times before,the growth of trusts is due to the reduction of the money supply which has followed the demonetization of silver. The increase in .the gold supply, whieh our mint directors have exploited with so many nourishes, has either been pocketed by the gold syndicates, or it has gone into the arts. At any rate, it has had no appreciable effect on prices. It is idle to lay the blame of trust building to those who engage in it. The individual firms go into it not merely to increase their profits, but as a matter of self-protection. Once in, they no longer have to fight against the competition of rivals.5 More than that, if they need money to carry on their business, they do not have to pay costly discounts to the loyal banks; they are able to borrow at low rates from tn$ institution which has “financed” the combination to which they belong. The Constitution expressed its surprise in 1897 that more trusts had not been formed, all the conditions being ripe for them. It seems that they were then in contemplation by the very plutocracy which ^“financed" the republican party in 1896, and they blossomed out vigorously in the latter part of 1S9S. In the first two T months of the present year they have surpassed all expectation. Thirty or forty industrial combinations have been formed.wit b capital amounting toover a billion of dollars. Some of our esteemed contemporaries who have aided to bring about a state of affairs whieh they are now inclined to resent, solace themselves with the belief, real or pretended, that this great trust movement is a bubble which is bound to burst with a crash. The truth is, that, while some of the combines may be on an insecure footing, the great body of them are as solid as the gold standard itself, are based an its operations, and are direct results of the conditions which that standard imposes on general business. This being so, what are the people going to do about it ? What are democrats going to dombout it? Trust expansion is a definite part of the money question —is the direct and inevitable result of the gold standard, which plaees every business and industrial enterprise in

the country completely at the mercy of those -who control the available supply of gold. So far as this money question is concerned, the party is practically a unit. Those who favor the gold standard are so insignificant as to numbers and influence that they have no influence whatever in the councils of the party. Under these circumstances, and with the rapid progress of trust expansion menacing the interests of the people, would it not be a dangerous piece of folly for the organization to overshadow this great issue with others on which it is by no means a unit? It is necessary to the interests of the people that all who are opposed to plutocracy, all ivho are opposed to the aggressions ©f monopoly, all of whom are opposed to trust expansion, all who are opposed to the gold standard, all who believe in the vital principles of Jeffersonian democracy, should gather under one banner and present a united front against the corrupt and corrupting agent of the plutocrats, the republican party. Can this be done by -taking up new issues and overshadowing those which are most vital and insistent, and1 which most directly affect the domestic inter- ■ eats of o ur people ? Would it not be the part of folly to overshadow the money question and currency reform by bring

-1ling to ffoo front issues on which demo, crats are divided, and which have a very Remote bearing, if any, on the everyday affairs of he American people? There are some questions which the people thetnsehrtjj settle without going through 1 tie formality of a campaign, and we think it is safe to number with these some, if not all, of the issues growing out «;! the war with Spain. The party will make a great mistake if it goes into he campaign next year with its vital irsues handicapped by these new quesi ions on which democrats are not by an;, means united. There will be a tremendous effort made on the part of a ham ful of gold democrats to switch the party away from the Chica* go platform, but as these efforts will be practical),i confined to newspapers that are inimical to democratic principles, And to states normally republican, no harm will oe done unless the democrats themselveii fall into the trap which has been set f ir them.. MONEY AND TRADE. The Price of Labor and All Commodlttea l utler Control of the Capitalists, iWliat i he rnone, Joes the p J tunes A an axion economic)* involved in the control of of a country? What power assessor of that right wield? Garfield simply reduce# to a. well«known principle of when he said: “Whoever has control of the money of a country has t osolute control of its trade and conn tierce.’’ So that the question pf free s.lver and the issue of greenbacks involves the control of the trade and commerce of the country, does it*? t>o you Know of any “reform which Would benefit” the 73,000.000 Americans so iuch as wpuld the taking of the control of their trade and comhn^ce oi i of the hands of tire llothsChilds, ci tizens of alien and competi

live nations, and placing1 it in .their ow n h:u is? But in controlling the money hcj«w can. they control the trade anil con nerce ? Simply by making 'money plenty, or by making it scarce! They can issue $50 per capita, and inaugurati a boom and an era of wild kpeculat in. and can suddenly contract to $11 and brar.hrapt hundreds of thousand. We had an illustration ol that oner. We had $50 per capita at the closr of 1807. and we had $1? per capita w ljien 1873 was ushered in. The governn ernment But the dictation ing us to nt did it then, for the govtlicn had control of the money, government did it all at the of the men who are now askgive them the same powerthe government then had. Whoever controls the ,tion can every pr i>f labor, s deter here is were bv amount of money in circulafix the price of labor, and oiluct of labor; for the price as well as of all commodities, lined by the amount of money to exchange for it. If there 1,000 bushels of wheat in the market, and but $500 to invest in it, It must s ell for 50 cents per bushel. Extend this principle to as many articles, and as ranch money as you may and it liolds good, for it is a law. THE TRUSTS RULE. Rain for the People Will Result from i he Triumph of Monopolists ! Independent "enterprises are being crushei out of existence by the trusts. Small business concerns must go to the wall and labor must accept the dole oi charity or starve if the1* reign of the trusts isl allowed to continue. Some republican editors are begin-, ming tu recognize the danger which threat* as the people from the operations of the combines, but the republican party is bound hand and foot by the trusts and protests are unavailing. The Springfield (Mass.) Republican sees the condition of affairs and comments as follows: “What of the general Industrial effect ol this? Every trust that has been formed has closed ;ome factories and discharged sopne wage la bor, and people have talked of It as a banelul influence of consolidation and monopoly. And what, thep. of the trust When 1: begins to add commercial travelers to the army of the unemployed, and ther other .‘salaried or commission agents, and then merchants—among the very mainstays of the existing industrial and social fabric!” This; question contains its own answer. When the mainstays of the existing social fabric are added to the army of the unemployed the .social fabric will tumble to fragments and commercial chaos will follow. Ruin for the people will be the result :<f the complete triumph of the trusts;, and with this disaster will come the destruction of the combines.. The democrats wish to prevent, this sortoi revolution, but the republicans are ^doing nil in their power to bring it t« pass.-Chicago Democrat.

Flndtoc Oat Some Ttitaga. j . Tl i war inquiry board is finding out a lot of things that it did not bargain for when it began its journeying® from ■Washington. It was thought that in the 'icinity of the packing houses the test mony as to th&excellence of the beel: would preponderate. But right under the very eaves of these houses con » witnesses, bearing certificates of cha i acter from the packers themselves, who testify that the meat canned foj the soldiers was so bad that it burst the cans, and filled the cars with such a h: rrible odor that ammonia had to be used in large quantities to enable work' me to approach the stuff to handle it Tha t was the kind of meat that Algei anti Commissary General Eagan the ight fit for Amerioan soldiers who lefl homes and occupations to sustain the honor of the flag.—Utica Observer. -—It- is good of the.taxpayers to put up $20,000 and furnish a government ship for Mr. Alger to cruise a bout'Cuba ini s earch of private investments. Hii fcr’ices to the country as secretary of wa;- have been so distinguished for per fld«y partisanship and incompetency, thut he is deserving of just such a jun« kt:, America always glories in het

A SENSIBLE LETTER. A Writer* CmiAIm Settler Writes to a* Illinois Friend. In writing to Air. T. llnwkyard. ol | Rockford, 111., Mr. G. Simpkins, uf Le-j-due, Alberta, Western Canada, (and to j which points especially low rates are being quoted over all lines of railway), says; Dear Sir— Rec'd your letter the 14th Inst. We have had no snow till after Christmas, and the cattle have been able to live out, and are all in good condition. It la snowing now. That ia what we want—have about 6 inches now. The old settlers say when we have lots of snow it mcadfe a good crop the coming season. It never drifts here. The weather is calm and bright. We ; do not have to dress any heavier than in Illinois, and the horses never shiver with the cold when we take them from the warm stable, as they do in Illinois, It has not frozen in the stable this winter. The most of the stock runs out. but there is no need of it, for timber is plentiful and there is no expense to build good stables and houses. We have good log houses and they are very warm. Two men can put up a house 1Gx24 in two days. There are good rails for fences. We live ten miles from the coal district, the price being 50 cents up to $2.00. The land is a very rich, loamy soil, from 6 inches to several feet in'depth; the hills have the deepest. It is a rollihg country, and excellent for stock of all kinds. Sheep do well, and there are plenty of small lakes where the cattle can get good water. The cattle got. out of grass last year, about the middfe of April, and run at large: unless in charge of a herdsman, we have to fence against them. Wheat goes

11 lull 111 UU UUMU*|S piT UV'It% uau» OU «ml 90, very often a hundred. As to potatoes, a neighbor planted 7 bushels and dug 220 bushels, and no bugs. Roots of all kinds do well. There are lots of strawberries and lots of red raspberries, black and red currants, and gooseberries, where the fire has not burnt them. Cattle are scarce. I have been trying to buy some, for S months and have got only three two-year-old, and paid $30 each. llogs are scarce, but can be got. Thop sell for 6 cents dressed, and cost more for stoekers. Wheat,50 cents per bushel; oats, 23 cents; eggs, 30 cents a dozen; butter, 15 and 20 cents; poultry was 10 and 11 cents dressed, j^heep are scarce. If you come, bring your farm tools, but bring no seeders; we use drills, liring cows, bjut do not bring horses unless you are an experienced hand in shipping them, for so many of them are hurt in shipping. There will be plenty of work for a binder. Two good horses will break, but threo lighter are better. The horses .you get here can work without grain, but are better with it. It will be hay'd to tell what prices horses will be, for the immigration will be very large the coming spring. They could not be had last spring at one time. They claim the best time to break is June, bht my experience is to break in the spring and work it. You can break till the middle of July. He Took It Gently. “If they'd all do business that way/' said the man in charge of the long-distance telephone as a young man laid down the ! (ee ani P’ent out, “this wouldn't be a bac job to bang on to, but he is an exception” I “In what respect?’’ “Why, he e&Htt* up Chicago, asked a girl to marry him, got the marble heart and went out without a kick. Some fellows would have laid around here for an hour after to shake themselves together, and then , make a big row at having to pay regular rates”—Philadelphia Press. Munlc Hall Horror. P. Arno—That baritone sings as if his windpipe needed a job of plumbing. Is it I bronchitis!: | Pye Porgan—I think he's using his med* cine-chest tones.—Chicago Tribune. THE MARKETS. New York. April 3, 1899. CATTLE—Native Steers_$ 4 <5 <y| 5 30 VJiTON—Middling . 614<ui FLOUR—Winter Wheat 3 25 'y \\ HEAT-No. 2 Red. # CORN-NO. 2. 42\'yi OATS—No. 2.... FORK—New Mess........... 9i>u u ST. LOUIS. COTTON-Middling .. BEEVES—Steers. 3,50 Cows and Heifers. 2 50 CALVES—(per 100). 5 00 HOGS—Fair to Choice. 3 25 SHEEP—Fair to Choice_ 3 40 FLOOR—Patents (new;— 3 56 Clear and Straight. 2 75 WHEAT-No. 2 Red Winter 70 CORN—No. 2...: OATS-No. 2.........:. Hit—No. 2. .... TOBACCO—Lugs . 3 00 T^eaf Burley_< 4 50 HAY—Clear Timothy. 8 50 BUTTER—'Choice Dairy,... 15 # EGGS—Fresh . <tf poRK—StandardMess(new) .... <u> BACON—Clear Rib. if LARD—Prime Steam. 5 <a CHICAGO. CATTLE—Native Steers.... 3 90 @ HoGS—Fair to Choice. 3 50 ^ SHEEP—Fair to Choice.... 3 50 tnutIK— Winter Patents... 3 50 w Spring Patents... 3 20 te •WHEAT—No. 2 Spring. 71 6= No. 2 Red. 75l4|iCORN—No. 2 Mixed... OATS—No. 2.. 2714W PORK—Mess (new). 8 96 fy KANSAS CITY. CATTLE—Native Steers— 4 25 HOGS—All Grades..,. 3 25 WHEAT—No. 2 Red.. OATS-No. 2 Whitt... CORN-No. 2..„ 32%©> NEW ORLEANS. FLOUR—High Grade. 3 40 ti CORN—No. 2. .i.. @ OATS—Western. if HAY-Choice .. 13 50 @ PORK—Standard Mess. 9 25 <u> EACON-Sides .. 5%@ COTTON—Middling . LOUISVILLE. WHEAT- No. 2 Red.. 74 @ CORN—No. 2 Mixed. 37^ OATS—No. 2 Mixed. 30 @ PORK—New Mess.... 9 50 @ BACON-Clear Ribs. 5%t*> COTTON—Midming . if OH 4 15 8214 43-T £% 9 <d 5T4 5 50 4 20 7 00 3 85 4 75 3 70 3 30 « 7614 if 3514 tf -29 (tf 57 G 8 50 if 12 00 4 '44 U 00 IS 1014 9 25 514 514 5 85 3 8714 5 10 3 60 3 60 72 76 3514 28 9 00 5 25 3 75 75 30 3314 4 Oh 4214 34 14 00 9 50 5% 7514 38% 31 9 8714 614 6

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