Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-09-19

dinner, which was probably long enough Z
eat all they had to eat.
do not know whether they will succeed il
winning the strike or not No doubt they
will settle it some way or another, but
hope for the sake of the good and the hOnO'
of labor that the striking laborers may b
| triumphantly successful. [Applausel If WI
can but succeed in showing up wages there
TO where men can get living wages out o.
which they can support themselves and fam
lilies, and get homes, in time we will be rid o
all the trouble that calls for protection il
this country. Now, my fellow citizens,
will discuss this no further, but at an early
day shall discuss this plank at some length
All have to say about it to-day l have
thought sufficient when had simply pointed
you to the pictures that that country pre-
sents in contrast with the picture that is al
about you here.
The next plank of this Democratic plat
form is as big a falsehood as the first is q
folly. 1t charges that trusts, about which
we hear so much, and in so many of which
the Democratic leaders of the country are
interested, are the direct product, ''legit
mate product, l believe it says, of our pres
ent tariff system / say that is not true
Every intelligent newspaper-reading man
knows that there is not a word of truth in
it The tariff has nothing whatever to dc
with trusts. Every intelligent man knows
that trusts originated in free trade England.
They had trusts in England long before we
ever heard of them in America We got
them in America only by bringing them
from there here.
1t is in England that trusts have grown tc
their most gigantic and their most offensive
proportions. There they have trusts in al
most everything; thev have iron trusts, coal
trusts, salt trusts, bread trusts, clothing
trusts, and even coffin trusts-trusts on
everything man wears and eats while he
lives, and then trust after that on the
wooden box in which he must be buried
when he dies. That is the condition OF
things in England They have some other
trusts, too. They have some trusts in brew
cries in England, and last night received a
paper by mail that gives me a prospectus of
one of these brewery trust organizations
want to read you briefly from the prospec-
tus, in order that may show you not only
that they have trusts in England, but that
they are recognized and protected by law.
This prospectus sets forth that company
with capital of 500, 600 has been organized
for the purpose of buying the Mt. Vernon
brewery, situated in Washington City,
q. s. A
The first object it discloses is as follows:
''To acquire the good will, business and un-
dertaking known as The Mt Vernon Brew
cry situated in the city of Washington, in
the District of Columbia, United States of
America" Then they pass on, enumerating
the second, third, fourth, fifth and sixth OBJ
jects, and come to the seventh; and l want
to read that carefully to you. 1t is as fol-
lows: The object now of this corporation
chartered in England is to buy the breweries
in the United States. 1t says, seventh:
The seventh object is ''To enter into part
nership, or into any arrangement for shar-
ing profits, union of interests, reciprocal
concession or cooperation with any person
or company carrying on, or about to carry
on, any business in the United States of
America, or elsewhere, which this company
is authorized to carry on, or any business or
transaction capable of being conducted SO as
directly or indirectly to benefit this COM
pany, and to take or otherwise acquire and
hold shares of stock in, or securities of, and
to subsidize [now listen to that or otherwise
assist any such company, and to hold, sell,
divide between the parties in specie, or 9th
erwise deal with such shares or securities
The point make is that here is concern
organized in free trade England, one of the
expressed objects and purposes of which is
set forth in this prospectus, which is issued
in accordance with law and under the pro-
lection of the law of England, to form a
trust for the operation and maintenance and
conduct of the brewery business in the
United States to whatever extent they may
be capable of controlling that business.
That was my purpose in mentioning it.
l want now to quit that, and that plank of
the Democratic platform, by simply saying
to this audience, for the benefit of Mr..
Campbell, however, and the Democratic
party, that, If 1 be not mIsinformed, he, the
Democratic candidate, who stands on this
declaration that trusts are legitimate pro-
duct of the tariff, that he, directly or indi-
rectly, was the representative and agent in
this country of that trust [Applause.l If 1
an incorrectly informed, Mr.. Campbell can
correct me, and hope he will not delay it
too long. If I am on the wrong track,
want to find it out. For | would not put
anybody in a false light; but if 1 am on the
right track, may have great deal more to
say on that subject. IGreat applause.l
Referring to the statements made by
the Democratic platform and by Camp
bell regarding his administration. so
far as it affected the public institutions
Governor Foraker said:
1 do not know what Mr. Campbell calls
'prostituting the public institutions" 4" but
take advantage of his remarks to tell you,
and 1 tell you with pride, something about
how the public institutions of Ohio have
been conducted, and with what results, |
Turing my administrations
In my last annual message 1 pointed out |
what here want to call attention to- In |
my message to the gensral assembly last |
January I called attention to the fact that |
we had carefully examined the statistics of |
states of the Union as to the |
arrangement Of their benevolent institutions, |
md that we had compared them with the |
tatistics of the similar institutions of Ohio;
.n7 then pointed out that as the result-a /
esult that no Democrat can criticiSe even,
ct alone challenge-it was shown that Ohio
tands not only at the head, but long ways |
head of every other state of the twenty
i've. tGreat applause.]
We could not get the reports from the |
'ther states of the Union, but we compared
ii we could get. This result shows that the
ost per capita in these other twenty-five |
tateS of maintaining their unfortunate peo-
'le-the insane, the deaf and dumb, the
lind, the imbecile, and so on-the cost per
apita is $4,000, while in Ohio it is but
;159. IS per annum. The number of recover
es, the per cent, rather, 1 should state it, of
in these other states is 27.92 per
ent., while in ours it is 49, 75 The ratio of
eaths in these other states is 2797, while in
urs it is but z. H.
And now l want to add something more.
he public institutions of Ohio not only COM
ARE that way with the public institutions of
ther states of the Union; not only are they
head of all others, but as to cost of main
enance and practical results for good, they
tand far ahead of what they ever did before
n all the history of the state [Applause1
,eSs cost of maintenance, and better
ractical results than ever before un-
er anybodys administration-and we
ave had some excellent ones And that is
OF all We have gone further, and in these
articulars Ohio not only outranks all her
ster states in the Union, but she outranks
a these particulars every other country in
he civilized world Ahead of them all |
vhere she belongs and where we intend to
eep her. [Applausel And that is the rea-
On we are not going to let anybody else
ome in and take the job off our hands. |
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