The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1889-09-10
THE TRUST PARTY.

money which we now from force OF n2Dlt
call the Republican party, because 1T IS
opposed to Democracy, is not worthy OF
the name Republican. 1t is the Trust
party. 1t is the machinery of millionaire
monopolists, used to grind and crush hon
est American labor into the dust and sitt
out from the ashes Of ther ruin the wealth
which should have gone into the pockets
of those who toll through long and weary
hours for mere pittance of pay. But
can we call it pay? When laborer does
honest and faithful work, and is not given
sufficient to hold soul and body together,
in lieu thereof, can we say that he was
paid for his work? This Trust party is
vampire. 1t has us by the throat and
is sucking our very life blood in its greedy
gathering of more Doodle.
What has brought this Trust party into
existence =? There is but one reply
HIGH TARIFF. Yes, it is a nursing Of
what is falsely called "protection."
False because it does not protect, but
robs the people. How shall we rid our
selves of this hydra-headed vampire ?
Jerk the high tariff teat out of it's capa-
cious mouth and it will die a natural
DEATH 1t cannot exist without govern
ment pap.
1t is strange how farmers and laboring
men allowed themselves to be deceived
by this Trust party last fall. And it will
be still more strange if they vote again
according to the dictations of those who
so basely deceived them then.
1t is all stuff for any sane man to say,
unless he is talking as the hireling of
trusts, that the farmer or laborer receives
one cent more for the product of his soil
or toll because of high tariff, 1t is only
the millionaire monopolist who derives
any benefit from the tariff, and he accu-
mulates at the cost of those who labor in
his mines or manufactures.
Hon. Gerard c. Brown is a citizen of
that Republican, or we should say Trust,
stronghold, Pennsylvania. He is farmer
and he is the official lecturer of the State
Grange. Recently in an address he said:
In spite of protection farm production has so
immensely outgrown the home market that
prices are lower than this generation has ever
seen-on the whole, below cost Of production.
From The foreign market, which invites u.s. and
which would afford an lmme..sc leliet we ale
barred by restrictive tariff which cripples com
merca exchanges. The plea that the tariff also
covers and protects the products OF the farm is
ridiculous and purposely misleading.
But suppose the tariff did give the
farmer few cents more for his corn, his
potatoes, or if he has sheep, say for his
wool; doesn't that same tariff make him
pay double what he should for clothing,
shoes, hats, etc., for himself and family?
But it is not alone the farmer and la
borer who is suffering and being ground
into the dust by the despotic heels of this
combination of millionaires who form the
Trust party. Our small manufacturers
are being crowded to the wall and driven
to bankruptcy by this hungry horde who
seek to swallow up and manage all the
manufacturing interests Of this great
country Then what shall we do? Are
we to sit idly by and see the great wealth
of the whole country raked into piles and
shoveled into the vaults of the millionaire
monopolists?
No! We must elect q tariff reform
President and tariff reform Congress in
1892 and see that they take away the
power of the trusts by reducing the tariff
on such things as they have monopoly
upon.
1t has been suggested that this would
only have temporary effect and that the
monopoly barons would soon catch on to
another teat and fatten upon those things
which were protected. There must be
some way by which this could be
avoided. We admit that it is a vexatious
and perplexing problem. But it is dis
ease which can be cured, and the first
treatment TO give is to rid the White
House Of the tools of the monopolists and
put in power honest and capable men who
have the welfare of THE PEOPLE at heart.
Men who have not been elevated to office
by votes purchased with money furnished
by monopolists. Men who dare to do
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