Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-10-12
BLAINE's FRIENDS.

is not doubtful, che Is Overwhelmingly
Democratic.
BLAINE'S FRIENDS.
The 'uuccowned kirg" made a speech
in Indiana the other day about his friends,
the trusts JAMES G. has evidently head
something large and heavy drop and he
did not repeat his famous declaration that
trusts are private affairs" which Presi-
dent CLEVELAND has nothing to do with.
he couldn't hslp defending them, how
ever, from the attacks OF the Democrats,
80 he varied his 'priyate affairs" song by
declaring that the tariff has nothing to do
with tras.s. We pass by the fact that the
Rspu blicsn Senate in IFS tariff bill gives
BLAINE the lie direct by declaring it i,
,fter the Sugar Trust when it reduces the
sugar tariff one half in its buncombe bill,
and quote in answer to Mr.. BLAINE, q
portion Of a speech delivered by Secretary
BAYARD the other day at Wilmington,
Del. 1t is q complete answer to Mr..
BLAINE's glazing sophistriss. Mr.. BAY.
ARD said:
Edward Atkinson shows that from 1870
to 1887 the population of the United States
Increased 90 per cent. At the same time
the dairy products increased rs per cent
The prcduc. lion Of cotton liz per cent, the
production OF wooleps 100 per cent and
the construction of railroads 223 psr cent
What has bean the result Of popI lition
in 80 smell proportion to ell these vast
'o7css? 1t proves that the psople do not
ned and cannot use what the country
produces. An excess Of production has
cIme. In general terms, the people OF the
Un,tsd Siatea can manufacture all they
:, quirs for twelve n ou.bs in seven months.
What, then, is to b come of the excess OF
labor for the remaining FIVE months
Where shall this surplus g? There is a
home market, sure enough, because there
8 no barrier to commerce between the
st ites. But when tie market is over
supplied, what are we to do with the sur-
plus? Not My is this hOms production
increasing, but your inventors have found
ont Row to preserve food and KEEP it for
cen years and send it all over the wo Id
Another feature appears. AS conse-
Iuence of tbs fact to which We have re-
rerre1 prices fall.
The consequences of the oversupp'y Of
aoything in the market is to knock Gown
prices The excess will fatally affect the
OrIce Cf tie whcls. A man has great
Jlast. He sees a surplus of his p!o1uct
threatening, aud he sees lower prices
aeeld. What happens? The coDbinsti9 n
# the strong aud powerful men to prevent
tas threateIe1 fall. They stop the pro-
iuction. WHAT, then, becomes Of labor :?
These sorts of combinations ore called
nowadays Trusts" They say that they
strive TO restrict the output to keep up
prices, and thGy do. They stop p.oduc-
ioa and tbs workingmeu hsve nothing to
do. They nave hemmed themselves in from
Intercourse with the rest OF the world ana
they ciL's get out and 50 they turn to
rend these who ale kept in tie same cage
with taem. The same welt that keeps TIE
foreign supply out also keeps our produc-
ton here a. home, and We have 10 mar
ket fer our surplus. Ths wall is Just a.
high from without as fion within. That
ives meant to be ba-r.es, and barrier
tits
The French prior to 1889 had q famous
great wall about Paris. Then the French
Government farmed ont the taxes to priv
,egsi people, who were known rs farmers
of the taxes. TGese men eolle( I'd as much
and IS mtrcileesly Is they could. The re-
Jult was ths great revolution. The cities
taxed the cCuatry for ali that came into
them, and the country people who came
irto the cities were compelled to submit
20 q sa-ca of their wagons to see that
they did not bring in du,Iable goods with
oat paying the tax. FInsly the people
arose, and then the privileged classes
sought to escsps from the city, but the
great wsll-the barrier which was put up
To keep the farmers out-Eept tie Cypress
ors in, aud they we've caught in their own
trap.
But to return TO the trusts. The bigger
the trusts the greater tbs fact that all
smaller omIeti'ors must 50 to the wall.
Ask any distiller of ccal Gil, petrol,u
coil miner, owner of small salt wells,
farmers and any people what was the
meaning Of the passage Of the Interstate
commerce law, and they will tell you il
was for protection against unjust
competition.
l was railing tonight, in a vvl1me
printed by Benjamin franklin, Of 8 law Of
Peansy lVsnis which was against fo.estall-
ing of all de. criptioas in the various
trades. Ole of the old ordinances OF VIII
mington was against huckstsrs buying up
the country produce to forestall the town.
Such an act was considered q crime and
was punishable A trust has bCe1 said by
8 higher authority to be q merely private
matter; but il came to be Ct pubic inter-
est in Brooklyn the other dny when 1000
men were thoEn out Of employment by
msmber OF the Sugar Trust who, not re-
ceiying the pIiIeI he desired for his pio-
duct, shut down his industry to make
them higher. Domestic commerce, shut
up within its own clIc'e, has no ssc,ps,
but must 20 to the wall.
Daring the war, when everybody was
exc tsd snd rlscsd what tariff tSey pleased
on articles, the tax on copper ore was sd-
vsnced to 81 cents per pound, snd so it
remains today; cons equsptly the oil cop
per trade fell into the bands of few DOW
trful men, wtoss rr,fits on 81, $50, 600
capital were $50, 0c0. 000 The company
formed . Trust, and not only controlled
tha TTpiAad States INIT tha m ar keka of kha