The Coconino weekly sun., 1896-10-29

/ sIudll prOnt ana OF WHICH we pEouuCc al
excess, like wheat, would be az Put it, tS ooa
each year would swell our domestic COM
merce by at least four times that
amount. If we had produced our own
sugar instead of gold having been ex-
ported during the past three years-an
export that has widely hurt our indus
tries and business-gold would have been
imported. for the more than one hundred
million dollars Of gold or its equivalent
sent abroad each year for sugar would
have been kept at home.
Home or Foreign Wool, which?
| All these adyantages--the use of land,
| the employment of labor, the increase of
domestic commerce and of our circulat-
ing medium, the retention of gold.
would follow also from a production of
the 25O,000,0 900 pounds of wool that we
annually import under the Wilson law;
a production that would follow from the
steady and continued aid of such protec-
tion as was given by the Mckinley law.
| Surely SO far as tariff legislation is con-
cerned, the farmer, whether he regards
only his own interests or looks beyond
them to the interest of his country, will
have no difficulty in deciding which par
ty should have his vote. His decision
| will be all the easier and surer because
Of the record of the candidates for Presi'
/ uChts WI. DTyuH ueCluTeu III cOuSICSSs
January 10, 1894, "It is immaterial in
my judgment whether the sheep-grower
receives any benefit from the tariff or
not l am for free wool" He
| voted for free wool, for the repeal of the
sugar bounties and for the abrogation Of
| the reciprocity arrangements. Mr.. Nc.
| Kinley, it is needless to say, has been
and is, in favor of reciprocity, just pro-
| lection to wool and other farm products,
and such reasonable encouragement Of
| out beet-sugar industry as other coun-
| tries have found profitable. In con-
trast with what Mr.. Bryan said about
| tariff on wool is what Mr.. Mckinley said
| when introducing his tariff bill into the
| House:
with more force than another for defensive
duties It Is this, and to no class Of citizens
! should this House more cheerfully lend legis-
lative assistance, where 1t can properly be
done. than to the million farmers who own
sheep in the United States. We cannot ar
| ford as nation to permit this industry to
| be longer crippled.
This shows Mr.. McKinley's regard for
| the welfare of agricultural industries;
and Mr.. Bryan, also, may be judged by
his utterances on the same subject.
Republicans and Trusts.
Farmers have been consistently and
persistently opposed to trusts. This hos
| tility has been exaggerated in the voci-
| ferrous and sweeping denunciations of
| trusts by the Populists. The farmers of
| this country are well aware that there
are more trusts that, while nearly and
| quite controlling the production and sale
of certain articles to their sure and lib
| eral profit. have nevertheless, by reason
| of the economies of the aggregation of
capital, the employment of best talent in
| directing, and of producing and hand
| ling large quantities, made the prices of
| the articles to the consumers less than
they We're before and probably less than
| they would be if the trusts were not in
| existence. Nevertheless, the farmers of
| this country believe that the principles
underlying trusts are wrong and that in
the aggregate trusts are a serious injury
to business and WELD power that will
present to human nature temptation too
strong to be resisted, except in few
| cases, to use that power with political
parties and legislative bodies, for i'm.
proper ends; in short, that the trust is an
enemy to the people and menace to the
| nation, there being some exceptions TO
\ prove the rule. Representative agricul-
| tural bodies have very frequently con-
demned trusts and asked for legislation
that would end them, or at the least.
would subject their affairs to such public
knowledge and control as would remove
| their power for evil. A representative
agricultural body has never pronounced
IN FAVOR OF trusts. The position of the
farmer as regards trusts is that occupied
by our economists and by nearly all our
population, hence, it is sanctioned by
scientific research and reasoning and by
the common sense. In accord with the
wishes of farmers and in compliance
with their requests. the Fifty-first Con-
greSs, which was the first Congress Re-
publican in both branches since trusts
hpH nSSnmpd -.
FASTENED at its first session to mass IL
bill to protect trade and commerce
| against unlawful restraints and monono.
| hes which declares that:
Every contract combination In form OF
trust or otherwise, or conspiracy, in re-
s sdrnnnt OF trade or commerce among the
hereby declared to be Illegal Every nnrsnn
VINO snail make any such contract or engage
IN any sueh comblnatton or conspiracy Shall
De deemed guilty of misdemeanor, and. on
conviction thereof. shall be punished nv a
fine not exceeding $1,000, or by imprison.
ment not exceeding one year, or by both of
court Va 'he
Every person who shall monopolze or
shall attempt to monopolize, or combine or
ttohspire with any other person or persons
| commerce among the several states
or with foreign nations, shall be sniIfy
| OF misdemean9r and on conviction thereof,
|
S5OOo or by imprisonment not exceeding one
year, or by both said punishments, In the
discretion Of the court.
That word .'person" or persons" wber.
| ever used In this act shall be deemed TO In.
clude corporations and associations existing
under or authorized by the laws of either
| the United States, the laws Of any of the
| territories, the laws Of any state. or the
| laws of any foreign country.
This act is SO comprehensive in its def;
milton of trust, which it made illegal.
that it was clearly the purpose of those
who made it law, that no trust should
escape.
Democracy and Trusts.
| Contrast with the action of the Fifty.
first Congress the action of the Fifty.
third Congress-the first one Democratic
in both branches since trusts attained
| to prominence in this country-whicb Mt
its regular session, put into the Golfer of
| the Sugar trust, by means of the Wilson
| law, a bonus of SIS, 200, 900 on the supor
| then in its hands; and by the same law
| made a profit for the Whisky trnst of
| about $1O,000,OO0 on the whisky with
drawn from bond after it became cor
| tain that the tax on whisky would no
increased and before the law went into
| effect and, in addition, the Wilson law
| increased the allowance for wastoro
| while in bond and heightened the bonded
perior from three to eight years. The
| Fifty-third Congress legislated against
trusts. but only those of which imnort.
| ers are members and which deal In i'm.
| ported articles. Domestic trusts have TO-
manned undisturbed by Democratic legis-
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