Pike County Democrat, Volume 30, Number 21, Petersburg, Pike County, 29 September 1899 — Page 5

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HON. d. W. SPEN CER ON TRUSTS. th 1 Democratic Corn Paper at Anti' Hon. J. W. Spen democratic comm First Congressional views on the trusts them by legislation ed by Governor delegates at largje the anti-trust m The following papje “In presenting remedy for the evjl ed wealth, I take all owners of weal able enough to co edy is only to be a feet of wealth and organized for not for the benefit tion of the people. “As a delegate state of Indiana I congressional distiji in }tthe county place, where the cereals, good pe wealth from the cultural county in of like qfcea and p standing the sn would-be humorist emanate from nourished by bad meai. The city is ttye second city confmercial centej: and produces so m ber that it is knb market for that tinent. That distjr lumber, bituminoif corn than any six area in the United not hesitate to sa+ a people who prodv .1 share of this count mlttccman Heads trust Meeting. cer of Evansville, itteeman of the district, giyes his and how to treat He was appointount as one of the from Indiana to feting at Chicago, r was read by him: my ideas upon the effects of organizit for granted that 1th will be reason'iicede that the rempplied to the evil eft is concentrated purposes that are of the major porat large from the :ome from the first ct, which has withPosey, my bir^th;y produce more ople, soldiers and soil than any agrithe United States ibpulation, notwithleering snobs and :s whose thoughts brains apparently alcohol and raw Evansville, which in our state, is the r of that district ijich hard wood lumwn as the largest pjroduct on this conict produces more is coal, wheat and c|ounties of the same States, hence I do that I come from ce more than their :ry’s wealth, when o:: RoVal Made cream Baking Powder Safeguards the food againsirafom. arethe greatest of the present day*

compared with the amount they ^are able to retain, and consume their full share of this country's products of organized wealth: therefore, they as a class, are more affected*and consequently more interested in the results of the organization and concentralization of wealth than those who are east of the Alleghanies who gather the Wealth of the nation, a portion of which is produced by the people of my st^te. “I think it is everywhere a conceded propostion that wealth is centralized and industrial trusts are organized for the sole purpose of making money for those who invest therein: if this is conceded, then the prime motive prompting such organizations is human avarice $nd greed: or put it another way, it is an effort to profit the few at the expense of the many, in total disregard of the rights of the many. I know that some of the later day magazine writers characterize such statements as a “crusade against prosperity,*’ but they fail to state the prosperity they refer to is the prosperity of but the few holders of the trust certificates and not the prosperity of the great mass of people who consume the products of the industrial trusts and produce the wealth to declare the dividends on first, second, common, preferred, fluid, solid and all other classes of stock issued by the trust. I know it is said that by concentration of business interests they cheapen their product to the consumer and enhance the price of labor that produces them, but is that true? We are constantly referred to the Standard Oil trust and the sugar trust, as examples. Now while the crude oil has decreased in price since the organization of this infant industry, the price of the refined oil, such as is consumed by the people has been very successfully maintained. We find that from 1894 until 1897 crude oil declined 6 per cent while refined oil advanced 14 per cent; notwithstanding the fact that since the organization of the Standard Oil trust there has been developed and put into use as against its product, that greatest of all of nature’s product, so great that it has been called, and perhaps correctly so, the law of gravitation, electricity, to say nothing of the development of natural gas, and the fact that demand for light has so whetted the inventive genius, that artificial gas from bituminous coal is now produced at a cost of about 16 cents per 1,000 cubic feet, and the people have learned to make a ‘pillar of fire by night’ from the two-thirds formative substance of the 'earth, water; and so with the Havemeyer associates and sugar; they seem to.

think that some of us do not know that the prices paid for refined sugar have never been so cheap as they were in 1885, and the sugar trust was first organized in November r1887, since which time the price of sugar has been steadily maintained while the price of raw sugar has materially and steadily decreased: so oh analyzing all of them, we find that their every effort has been to strike down and kill all competition, so as to gratify their apparent insatiable avarice, so that they really reap unearned profits and injure the public, that the so called ‘economic evolution of our industries’ injures the public will be readily seen from a few- extracts taken from the testimony of Mr. Havemeyer, given before the« senate investigating committee in 1894: “ ‘The sugar trust makes it a rule to make political contributions to the republican party in republican states and to the democratic party in party in democratic states.’ . “ ‘We get a good deal of protection from our contribution.’ “ *Our company has made considerable money out of the McKinley bill.’ “(Byron W. Holt in June Review of Reviews.) “Such statements as these drive one to the irresistable conclusion that the sugar tryst is an injury to the public. That' they reduce the number of positions for active autfenergetic citizens to fill is no longer in dispute since reports from all commercial travelers’ associations testify to that fact: that they control the output of articles which they produce and handle is a conceded fact, that they control the price of the raw material assisted by “protection for protection’s sake” legislation is no longer disputed; that they fix and regulate the prices paid by wholesaler, jobber, retailer and finally by the consumer is an agreed proposition. “It strikes me that a few master minds have successfully managed politics and business from a financial standpoint, until now the industrial trusts propose to make the people pay tribute to them for all the necessities of life, from the soothing syrup age to the shroud. “The manufacturing interests have told and repeated to us that they wanted protection to give them a home market; they got it and the market, and now they are committing the old common law crimes of forestalling and regrating, until they control that home market from the raw material to the consumed article. “Up to the day of the application of the protective tariff by tne industrial trusts, we had a fair competitive system of production and distribution. If it is possible, let us take up again the inter-state commercial policy, that materially assisted us in developing the greatest union of states that is known to the history of man. “My method of regulating and restraining the substance eating and never earning trusts would be to first have the congress of the United States, as soon as possible, put upon

the free list every article that is made, sold or controlled by a trust, t and every one of the component parts of all articles manufactured by them. The answer to that would be or is, their magnitude is such that they break over any of all nations barriers and become international, but ‘sufficient for the day is the evil thereof,’ by the elimination of the protective tariff, we would not necessarily destroy or disintegrate them but it would in a great measure relieve the people from paying the enhanced prices to them for such necessities of life as coal, salt, petroleum and its products, sugar, matches and the like, and then let the American congress pass a licensing or taxing act in the exercise of the police power of the government under the implied general welfare clause of the constitution as interpreted by Justice Marshal, the definer and defender of the constitution, notwithstanding the opinion of Attorney General Griggs to the contrary. “Are the people to be informed that it does not lie within the power of the general government to protect the government itself from the avarice and greed of some of the members of society? If such is the only pOwer of the government what is there to prohibit a combination of capital or wealth from buying up all the world’s output of coal, or salt or any other necessity and then saying to the other members or society, you can hot have a pound of either unless you pay our prices? “Ah! greater than Griggs have been in error. The people will stand by the declarations of John Marshal in pref-1 erence to Griggsology. Place upon all} corporations a graduated tax the rate l of taxation increasing with the capi- - talization. You tell me it can not be done under the constitution. I tell you that at one time in the interest of organized wealth, the national banks, this government placed a tax upon their competitors, the issue of the state banks, that drove them from the field of finance. Why can not that same power be exercised in the interest of the people and against aggregated wealth? Here is a way that 1 believe is safe and sure. One of the great political parties that is now in complete control of all branches of the national government will next year in its declaration of principles, declare its opposition to trusts, we are told by leaders of that party. We say, ‘act your opposition before you declare; you have the opportunity, give the people some performance and not so much in promise, for by ‘their fruits ye shAU know them.* ” More Than All Others. Rome City, Ind. Dr. C. D, Warner, Coldwater, Mich., Dear Sir:—It gives me great pleasure in recommending your White Wine of Tar Syrup to the public as an excellent cough cure. I have sold over a gross within a short time and I always warrant a cure and have never had a bottle returned. I sell more of your White Wine of Tar Syrup than all other cough remedies I Keep in stock. I sold one dozen bottles to one of my customers. Respectby Paul Bros, J. P. Chapman. 3 t

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. n LouisYille, Eyansyille <& St. Louis C. Railroad Time table tn ett'eet Nov. 28, 1887: St. Louts Fast Exp. 8:00 a.m. 10:13 a.m. 11:08 a.m. 11:22 a.m. 11:88 a.in. 6:20 p.m. St, Louis Limited. Stations. 8:t)0 p.m. Leave 11:10 pan.; Leave 12:01 a.m.! Leave 12:11 a.m.Leave 12:80 a.m. [Leave 7:12 a.m. Arrive. -- . Louisville .. Huntingburg Velpen _ Winslow . ;i Oakland City St. Louts* . . arrive arrive arrive arrive arrive Leave Loutsvt) Limited. 7:no a.m 4:25 a.m. #iS2 a.m. 3:32 a.m 8:37 a.m. 0:13 p.m. li. A. trains stop at Winslow and Velpen on signal Campbell, G.P.A., St. Louis. 4 J. P. Hurt, agent, m

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