Pike County Democrat, Volume 30, Number 43, Petersburg, Pike County, 2 March 1900 — Page 5

THE TRUST OF TRUSTS.

Republican Currency LeffUlatlom Ar- j rnlKued. If it should become a law. it would give the monopoly of Issuing money to the national banks, and hence the right to expand or contract the currency of the people whenever* it suited their convenience. No corporation should have this power to make or destroy. It would deprive the government of one of Its greatest attributes of sovereignty and give to the national banks the right to paralyse, at their own will, every industry in the country. It Is j the most daring attempt the banks have ever made by jaw to seize one of the greatest weapons for good or evil known to civilized tuan. For the government to surrender this prerogative j and delegate away this power would be a crime against every eitizeu in this laud and work woe anti misery to millions yet unborn. ^ h Let me say here it is. a matter o1 gratification for me to tell you,that the recent attempt to passL-througii congress au international bank clmrtet met with the signal and the overwhelming defeat that the scheme deserved. it was one of the most iniquitous bills ever presented to congress. According to its terms there was nc limit to its powers for pelf and no end to Its possibilities for evil, if it bad been enacted into law. it would have created the greatest, trust the world has ever seeh.1 By virtue of Its provisions it would monopolize, own and control almost everything under the sun. It was the most colossal1 scheme ever devised by the ingenuity of mac to rob and swindle the people and tc enslave for all time to coined he industrial masses. * Under the provisions of that bill this gigantic financial trust, with unlimited capital, unrestricted powers and unparalleled opportunities, would soon absorb, monopolize, own and control the wealth, the treasure and the commercial and Industrial business enterprises of the land. The bill was sc cleverly drawn that the men behind it could' practically <lo anything from buying and bolding laud to loaning money on persouffi property, and they could do it nil on their own terms and fix,their own rates of interest. It would have been the trust of trusts. It was the greatest trust franchise eon gress was ever asked to give away andi am happy to state that by a very decisive vote congress placed its seal of condemnation on the colossal scheme. But it will come up again. The forces of corruption are always active, never conquered. Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty. We should also invoke the patriotic spirit of the great destroyer of the United States bank monopoly. Andrew Jackson, and. following in bis footsteps. should enlist in the war of 4‘hc people against the trusts. Andrew. Jackson was the implacable fee of monopoly. Were lie alive todhy he woqld be the Implacable foe of the trusts.

SULZER’S PROTEST. Opitated to tli? Government DclejgatIns; Its Poner*. This is a Republican bill, and (lie Republican party stands sponsor for it. If it should become a law. it vyould give the monopoly of issuing money io the national banks and hence the right tc expand or contract the currency of the people whenever it sufied their convenience. No corporation shouldtfiave this power to make or destroy. It would deprive the government of one of its greatest attributes of sovereignty and give to the national banks the right to paralize, at their own will, every industry in the country* It is the most daring attempt the banks have ever made by law to seize one of tlie greatest weapons for good or evil known to civilized man. For the government to surrender this prerogative and delegate 1 away this power would be a crime agaiust every citizen in this land and work \yoe and misery to millions yet unborn. _v l am opposed to the government delegating away its powers to the national banks. The Democratic party should vigorously oppose conferring any additional powers on or granting any greater privileges to the national banks. In my judgmeut. they already possess entirely too much power. They are doing precisely today, ouly to a greater extent, what the United States bank did in tlie days of Andrew Jackson. Tbe right to coin and issue money is one of the greatest prerogatives of tbe republic and one of the highest attri butes of its sovereignty. It should not be delegated, transferred, assigned or set over to any national bank, to any trust or to any monopoly. As Democrats we should resist the encroachments of national banks on the liberties of the people with the same zeal and the same courage that Andrew Jackson in his day resisted the audacious claims of the United States bank. And when the national banks Impudently declare that the government should go out of the banking business we should answer that the banks should and must go out of the governing business. ' In Jackson’s day then? was only one Nick Riddle. Today there is a Nick Biddle in every natiouaf bank In the land.—Speech by Congressman Sulzer of New York.

Prosperity For n Peer. For the sake of consistency, not to mention responsibility to the cause of • truth, the administration organs ought to lay bare the fact that a#*#i result of excessive duties nails, iron, steel and many other articles have advanced in prices from 100 to 200 per cent. If, they would do this, they would not be amenable to the charge of being more partisan than patriotic. To argue that these advances are proofs of prosperity will doubtless be convincing to the beneficiaries, but consumers will hard' ly be able to ro understand It.—Loa Anseles -1

RECORD OF DISASTER. Three Years of McKinley*s Maladministration. FIGURES TO STUDY AND TO KEEP.

Hold Them as ■ Rod In Pickle Over the Baek of the Republican Party, fan not Be Fled From or Dodaed. Public Money Squandered and Debt Increased. t As a rule, figures are uninteresting, but tbe following tabulated statement the New York Verdict ought to be studied by every taxpayer in America. These are figures to file away. Keep them as a rod in pickle for the back of this black administration. They are not to be lied into silence; uefitber may they be fled from, dodged nor gone about. They are the dollar and cent record of the disastrous McKinley. The treasury deficit In three years of McKinley is: 180?..... 118,054.000 1803.. 3S.048.000 The deficit is progressive and for the fiscal year 1000. upon which the treasury is now entering, will exceed $100,000.000. The government revenues by year during the McKinley administration have been: 1897....;. $347,721,000 1893... 405.321.000 1S99.,.. 510,216,000 Total.....$1,269,258,000 The McKinley ‘administration has spent during its term these vast sums: 1897. . $065,775,000 1S98.. 44il.3CS.000 1899.... 605,093.000

Total.....$l,41i.23G,0d0 Deficit for ,three years. $144,978,000. Of this revenue received in three years $200,000,000 was from the sale of bonds. $70,000,000 from payments by the Pacific railroads and $112,000,000 by means of the utnr revenue bill. Tut in table form, it is: From bonds.... $200,000,000 From Pacific railroads....'.. 76.000,000 From war revenues.... 112,000,000 Total.. SUSS,000,000 This is extraordinary revenue, all counted in the receipts of $1,209,238,000. Had uot the treasury received this extraordinary revenue the deficit, instead of being $144,978,000. would be $332,978,000, a sum greater than for any three years in the life of the nation except during the civil war. In putting upon books sof the treasury $200,000,000 bonds the McKinley administration has increased the public debt as follows: Debt in 1806. $1,760,840,323 Debt in 1800. 1.001,027.300 Increase in public debt In three years, $352,087,000. Naturally the annual interest charge is increased. On the dates given it was as follows: June 30. 1S0G. $35,3S6,4S7 June 30, 1309. 39,806,025 Increase.... $1,509,438 On the basis of population July 1, 189G, the per capita iutercst charge was 49 cents, and on July 1, 189G, it was 53 cents. The*table shows the public debt of the United States for each man. woman and child in this country on the dates named: July 1, 1S96...^.$24 July 1. 1893..... 26

For Fnlr Treatment. Resolved by the senate and house of representatives of the Uuited States of Americadn congress assembled*/ That the government of the United States recognizes a condition of public war between the goverufnent of Great Britain and the government of the republic of the Transvaal, and the United States of America hereby declare that they will maintain a condition of strict neutrality between the contending powers and accord to each all the rights of belligerents in the ports and territory of the United States. The congress of the United States protest and repioustrate against the; barbarous manner In which the war has been conducted by Great Britain, and the president is hereby authorized to take such steps as may be expedient, in his judgment, to secure an observance of the laws of war as recognized by all civilized nations and bring about an honorable, peace.—Resolution Introduced in the House by lion. William Sulzer. Concerning- Trusts. The administration has thrown down the gauntlet in the matteu.of trust legislation. declaring, through its mouthpiece on the floor of the house, that tlie 1 situation is satisfactory as it stands! and that the majority does-not propose! to permit any change. Tpe Democrat- [ ic leaders should uot for a moment de- j lay to accept the challenge. Senator; Morgan has made a good start in thei senate. Now let us see what Mr. Rich- i ardson and his associates can find to say at the other end of the capitol.— ! Washington Times.

Fruits of Imperialism. In order to "benevolently assimilate”) the Philippim> Islands for the benefit* of a few men who have money to invest in the work of exploiting the islands we have sacrificed 2.318 Ameri-*! can lives, have brought cruel wounds to 12,000 more, have sown the seeds of disease in the bodies of 15,000 more ! and have spent the enormous sum of! 5200.25T.2a0. And what have we gain-1 ed by this euormous sacrifice? The promise of more bloodshed and more expenditure.-Omaha World-Herald. j SubMldisiuK Ships. The farmer, who furnishes the freight' and pays the subsidy, is to come in no- i where. The moral of the subsidy is; that our shipping Interests have got strong enough to bulldoze congress into giving them "protection.”—Baltimore Sun. i

CONCEALING THE TRUTH. Imperialist Senators Won’t Hare Llpkt on the Philippines. Uy a rote of 41 to 20 the senate has declared that it will uot ask the secretary of the navy whether the Filipino flag was recognized by our forces at any time after Dewey’s victory in Manila bay or whether Spanish soldiers were required by our military or naval officers to surrender to the Filipino forces. By a vote of 41 to 20 the senate tabled the Pettigrew resolution asking these questions, and the votes tc table were cast for the most part by senators who are known to be imperialists—men who propose to subjugate peoples in distant lands who prefer to govern themselves. Why did these nten refuse to elicit i Information on this subject? If they were, confident there was uo trutli in the statements which have been made! repeatedly to the effect that our naval j forces not only tolerated but even saluted the Filipino ting in Mauila bay. I and that Spanish forces were compel- i led by order of Admiral Dewey to sur- i render to the, Filipino forces in the towns about Sublg bay. they surely could Tiave had no objection to the pro- j duction of an official declaration that! there was no truth in them. The only possible inference is that the iin[>crialist senators very strongly suspect. If they do not positively kuow. that those statements were true. An official admission extracted by an inquiry from the senate that our forces had recognized Filipino belligerency In these ways would be embarrassing. It would amount to an admission of base treachery on the part of our govern* ment—a degree of bad faith wholly incompatible with Mr. McKinley’s benevolent protestations and quite sufficient to account for the fact that the Filipinos turned upon our troops after co-operatiug with them so long aud so effectively. , An official admission of the truth of these statements would play sad havoc with Mr. McKinley’s assertions in his late message that the Filipinos had no sort of provocation to attack our troops, that they had never hoped anything*'more from us than a change of masters, that our officers had exercised the, greatest forbearance and generosity in dealing with them and that their outbreak was prompted by the absurd ambition of a few leaders and was an expression of base ingratitude and a most vicious character. Administration senators are careful to do nothing to expose the truth and exhibit In its true light the campaign of slander as well as of arms wldch lias been carried on from Washington against a people whose only crime is a desire to la- free and independent—a kind of crime which our congress professed to regard as eminently laudable iu the ease of the Cubans. Actuated by the aeeursed Inst of dominion. the administration Isas been doing many things wldeii will not bear the light, and the imperialist senators, actuated by the same accursed lust, are doing what they can to aid the administration in keeping those things from coming to the light. — Chicago Chronicle.

If Washington Were Kero, If Washington won* to return to life, abopt t!j•.* li 't thins he would snv after Inquiring into McKinley's imperialistic record y.uuld be that there was some eouso'ation in bavins been dead nearly 1(K) years before a president of the nation lie founded had desecrated the flax, ignored the Declaration of Iudependence ami abrogated the constitution by a war of conquest, criminal aggression and .entangling foreign alliances.—Columbus (O.t Press-Post. Another Political Asylnm, Senator Frye has introduced-a bill creating a new executive department, to 1«* known ns the department of commerce and industries. As asylums for mere politicians seeking : maintenance at the public expense we have quite enough departments already, and if the proposed department of commerce am! industries is to be simply one more of this sort it.s creation is uot worth while. — Philadelphia Times. A Lesson From History. Before Pome was an empire Romo was a republic. As a republic Rome was loved, trusted and respected. As an empire Rome waxed great and mighty, rich and degenerate. As a republic Rome flourished and developed great names and civic virtues. As an empire Rome planted colonies and "assimilated" many peoples and then collapsed and became a memory.—Omaha World-Herald. Financial Problem. Problem front New England;. The wages of lTi.OOO mill hands have been raised TO per cent. Their,expenses, it) common with those of the rest of the American people, have been shoved up! by Mr. .McKinley’s trusts 20 to Mo per cent. How long will It take the mill hands to become pampered and over fed?—Kansas City Times. In a XntKhcll. The troubles that are facing the administration In the Philippines may be condensed Into three phrases—how to get the islands, how to keep them, and what to do with them after we have got and kept them.—Erie Herald.

They Go Together^ When the process of "unloading Hanna”’really begins, his party will at the same time have to be unloaded. They are hitched up together with a golden link. If you down one. you dowu the other.—Marion (O.i Mirror. Why Waste Effort? Where is the sense of chasing the skipper after one has gobbled the ham t If we=bave got the Philippines, as Otis and MoKinie} tell us we have, why waste wind in hunting AguinaidoVKansas City Times. /

Testimonies. Below are the names of a few persons we have fitted and adjusted glasses for during the past few weeks: Embree Lamb, Petersburg. James Rumble, Rumble. Peb. C. Hammond, Petersburg. Thomas Osgathorpe, Otwell. Ira D.. Stephens. Petersburg. Jerome Borer, Union. Mrs. J. W. Bergen, Petersburg. Mrs. John H. Viehe, Petersburg. Miss Flora Brumfieid, Petersburg. Isaac Whitaker, Petersburg. A. J. Scales, Petersburg. Miss Lillie Bowman, Petersburg. Mrs. A. R. Byers, Petersburg. If your eyes are troubling you en?uire of the above persons what satisaction and pleasure they received from their glasses. Examination free. Call on HAHHOND & KIBE, ’ Petersburg, Indiana.

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