Oakes weekly Republican. (Oakes, Dickey County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1898, 1894-08-28
VOLUME XII. NUMBER 36.
TRUST is oMNIP0TENT.
THE PASSAGE OF THE TARIFF
BILL "THE MOST DISGRACE
Full CHAPTER IN AMERI-
CAN HISTORY"

A Democratic Investigation that Didn't |
Pan Out as Expected-Nlr. Clover's Ap- |
peal to Populists-How the Parties Diff
fer in Their Way of Doing Business
A Connecticut Workingman on the Do !
ings of Congress-The Triumph of Cor
man.
The Trust is OmniPotent, and the Tari fl |
Bill is Passed.
The President of the United States, and
the Democratic House of Representa-
tiveS, have surrendered to the sugar trust,
and the Senate tariff bill becomes law.
Bourke Cochran, that distinguished and
bold Democratic leader, says that the
full chapter in American history" Mr..
Cochran further says: The walls of
Jericho falling before a blast of wind
yielded to force much more tangible
than that which sent the House Of Repre-
ardly. self-confessed betrayal of the prin-
ciples which they profess.''
EX-Speaker Reed says: "It is useless
to comment upon the performances in the
House today, 1t fifty concludes a long
sons lame opening to the speakers un-
fortunate and unjust allusion to Mr..
Cochran it was all of a pece-a struggle
IN the dust, nauseous WalloWing, most
unsightly. exhibition. The House dealt
with bill that was not before. it-lent
itself to ''perfdy and dishonor,' as the
President says; and not only did it. but
dug down for the chance. That parlia-
mentary law was violated is a small af-
fair, for 1T has not been unusual in this;
voices that they were to fight trusts and
monopolies, and then go into course of
action which made trust shares go up
four points. the very day it was adopted,
demands that severe reprobation should
acc accompany false pretcnses., AS for the
is too transparent for even a moments
consideration. 1t is pure humbug. They
pass bill taxing sugar and coal and
then pass dummies pretending to repeal
1t, and all the same day."
Representative Burrows of Michigan
characterizes the bill as "a most infamous
piece Of legislation, in that it protects spe-
cial industries. trusts and combines, but
the method of its consummation is even
more offensive, and is without a parallel
in legislative history. This constitutes
simply Il mask behind which the Demo-
cratic party attempts to conceal it's real
purpose of free trade, that it may deceive
the fTLp people 4e in n the approaching election
Democratic President, of a Democratic
Senate and of a Democratic House of
Representatives, the people will be taxed
at the rate of $4O.0OO,OOO or so a year
for the exclusive benefit of the sugar
trust; but with such absolute power as it
possesses the wonder is that it has not
taxed us more severely. 1t could have
had the sugar duty doubled had it asked
for lit i. p p, fso,,o+ ,,, D.,,,. :,
Rome) were the letters emblazoned on the
Latin banners: The American ensigns
should bear the inscription. IS. r., 2.
s. (Sugar Trust, President and Senate)
But first and greatest is the trust
The Chicago Tribune, says: Three
Presidents before Cleveland waged bit
nue. Jackson, Tyler and johnson. Hen
~ Clay was the German of both the
Jackson and the Tyler contests, with this
very important difference-he was beaten
both times. The country approved the
jackson fight, for he was fighting the
tested Tyler, who, like Cleveland, got up
a row in his own party. AS for John
son, he, like Cleveland, was beaten to
a jelly, but he had a two-thirds majority
in both houses against him, and his de-
feat, while it was a triumph of great
principle, reflected no particular credit up
on the generalship of his victors. 1t was
reserved for Arthur p German to lead
what seemed a forlorn hope and achieve
in parliamentary war as signal Il victory
as that won by Gen. jackson in New Or
leans"
A Democratic Investigation that Didn't
Pan Out as Expected.
George H. Yenowine of Milwaukee,
editor 511 the well-known and widely read
away back, but heartily favors the candi-
dacy of Maj Upham, and last week he
printed the following:
a few days ago the Democratic Chica-
go Herald sent Paul Hall, the well-known
correspondent, to Marshfeld to thorough
" expose the business career of Maj.
Upham, the Republican candidate for gov
ernor, and to roast him to the queens
taste The partisan press, particularly
the journal of this city. has idiotically
charged upham with being an enemy of
labor, of issuing store-scrip instead of
money, of bulldozing his laborers and in
fact of. being sort Of George NJ Pullman.
OF course everyone who is at all posted
knows that these charges are all false,
that while Maj. Upham is a large employ
er of labor he is a just and honest man.
that he never had a strike or dispute with
his men, that they have always been paid
good wages and paid off in money and
that labor, organized or unorganized, has
no better friend than Bill Upham. The
Herald correspondent was evidently sore
ly disappointed. He could not substanti-
ate any of the charges and he was com.
PEELED to say among other things that:
If Maj. Upham is not the friend of
labor as principle, he is the friend of ev
needs help, for he is by nature generous,
sympathetic and one of the best fellows
on earth but he is not making bedsteads
solely for the purpose of employing labor,
nor has he laid down the principles of the
conduct of his general store purely for
mental exercise.
"'Any man in trouble can get help from
Maj. Upham, and his own employees get
money from him between pay days if
they show cause. They do not appear to
be an improvident class There is no idle
ness drunkenness or poverty in the town,
but not as many as one would suppose
get ahead a months wages The en-
ployes are not compelled to trade at the
Upham general store, which is evident
from the volume of their trade at the
other stores.
The scrip had its origin with the
Upham company in the effort to simplify
the bookkeeping of the general store.
Early in the SOS, when Marshfield was
nothing but a clearing in the woods, when
the Upham business was nothing but a
sawmil, the Upham store was neces-
sity. The employees were loggers, working
in the winter deep in the forest and liv-
ing in temporary camps. They did not
want their wages or need them oftener
than once or twice year, but they need
ed supplies in the meantime, and their