The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1896-10-31

wages paid to farm and factory labor
would amount to $75, OO0, 900 per annum.
Land and labor now devoted to crops of
small profit and of which we produce an
excess. like wheat, would be put to a
more profitable USE The $75,000,0OO
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 thansone hundred
million dollars of gold or its equivalent
have been kept at home.
Home or Foreign Wool, which?
All these advantages-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 n production of
the 200, 100000 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-
ton 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, win
have no difficulty in deciding which par
Will be all the easier and surer because
of the record of the candidates for Presi-
dent. Mr.. Bryan declared in Congress,
January -, 1894. at is immaterial in
my judgment whether the sheep-grower
receives any benefit. from the tariff or
voted for free wool, for the repeal Of the
sugar bounties and for the abrogation Of
the reciprocity arrangements. Mr.. Nc.
kinley, 1t Is needless to say, has been
and Is, in favor of reciprocity, just pro-
lection to wool and other farm products,
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 thnn another for defensive
duties 1t 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 n
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
they were 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 mud that in
the aggregate trusts are n serious injury
to business and WELD q power that will
present to human nature a temptation too
strong to be resisted, except in q few
cases, to usc that power with political
parties and legislative bodies, for inn
proper ends; In short, that the trust is an
enemy to the people and q 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 Mt the lenst.
would subject their affairs to such public
knowledge and control as would remove
their power for evil A representative
agricultural body has never pronounced
farmer as regards trusts is that occupied
by our economists and by nearly all our
population, hence, ii is sanctioned bv
scientific research and reasoning and by
the common sense. In accord with the
wishes of farmers and in compliance
with their requests. the Fifty-frst Com
gress, which was the first Congress Re.
publican in both branches since trusts
had assumed prominence in this country.
nastened at its first session to pass IN
bill to protect trade and commerce
against unlawful restraints and monopo-
lies" which declares that:
Every contract, combination in form of
trust or otherwise, or conspiracy. in rc
straint OF trade or commerce among tho
several states, or with foreign nations, is
hereby declared to be illegal. Every person
who shall make any such contract or engage
In any such combination or conspiracy Shall
be deemed guilty Of n mIsdcmeanor, and, on
conviction thereof shall be punished by n
fine not exceeding $4,000, or by imnrison
ment not exceeding one year, or by both or
said punishments In the discretion Of the
Every person who shall monopollze or
shall attempt to monopOlize, or combine mr.
cohspire with any other person or persons
e GO oncpone any part Of the trade or
or with foreign nations, shall be guilty.
OF mlsdcmeanor and on conviction thereof
pt PuHiSHtu ny Inc not exceeding
$4,000, or by Imprisonment not exceeding one
year, or by both said punishments, In the
discretion of the court.
That word person" or persons" wher.
ever used In this act, shall be deemed TO In
clude corporation and associations existing
under or authorized by the laws of either
the United States, the laws Of any az the
territories, the laws of any state, or the
laws of any foreign country.
This act is so comprehensive in its def
milton of n trust, which it made illegal.
that 1t 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. nj
its regular session, put into the Golfer of
the Sugar trust, by means of the Wilson
law, bonus of $4,000, 900 on the sugar
then in its hands; and by the same law
made profit for the Whisky trust of
about $1O,O00.000 on the whisky with
drawn from bond after it became Ger
tain that the tax on whisky would be
increased and before the law went into
effect, and, in addition, the Wilson law
increased the allowance for wastore
while in bond and heightened the bonded
pprior from thrpe N aubt wanna IN