Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1896-10-29

small profit and of which We produce IN
excess, Ike wheat, would be put to
more profitable use. The $76,OOO,OOO
each year would swell our domestic com.
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 advantages-the use of land,
the employment Of labor, the increase Of
domestic and of our circulate
ing medium. the retention of gold
would follow also from q production Of
the 25O.OOO,OOO 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 80 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
IT, should have his vote His decision
will be all the easier and surer because
Of the record of the candidates for Presi.
dent. Mr.. Bryan declared in Congress,
January Ii, 1894, 1T is immaterial in
my judgment whether the sheep-grower
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, 1t is needless to say, has been
n is, in favor of reciprocity, just pro-
lection to wool and other farm products.
n 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
II there is any one industry which appeals
with more force than another for defensive
duties It Is this. and to no class of citizens
should this House more cheerfully lend legis.
done. than to the million farmers who own
sheep In the United States. We cannot AZ
| f0Id as q nation to permit this industry to
longer crippled.
This shows Mr.. MeKinley,s regard for
N1e welfare of agricultural industries;
And MI. Bryan, also, may be judged by
his uttera1ces on the same subject.
Republicans n Trusts.
Farmers have been consistently and
persistently opposed to trusts. This hos
tility has been exaggerated in the voci-
ferrous and sweeping de~nunciations 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, n of producing and hand
ling large Quantities, made the prices of
the articles to the consumers less than
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they would be If the trusts were not in
existence. Nevertheless, the farmers Of
this country believe that the princinles
underlying trusts are wrong and that in
the aggregate trusts are q serious injury
to business and WELD a power that will
present to m nature a temptation too
strong to be resisted, except in a few
cases, to use that power with political
parties and legislative bodies, for i'm
proper ends; in short, that the trust il an
enemy to the people and a 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 leeislation
that would end them, or at the least.
would subject their affairs to such DubIic
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
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by our economists and by nearly ali our
population, hence, it is sanctioned nv
scientific research and reasoning and NV
the common sense. In accord with the
wishes OF farmers and in compliance
with their requests. the Fifty-first Con
gress, winch was the first Congress Re-
publican in both branches since frnsfs
had assumed prominence in this country.
FASTENED at it's FIRST session to mass IA
Dill to protect trade and commence
against unlawful restraints and monopo-
lies" which declares that:
Every contract, combination In form NJ
straint Of trade or commerce anon, Az, re le.
several states, or with foreign nation. is
hereby shs declared to be illegal. Every person
IN any such combination or Conspiracy shaii
be deemed guilty Of q mIsdemeanor, and. on
e ena nat Thereof. shall be punished By a
ment mot exceeding one year, or by bothS ~
court. ~ tue
Every person who shan monoro,,.. i.
shaI attempt to monopolize, or Combine or
conspire with any other person or persons
to monopoiize any part Of the trade OF
Of with foreign nations. snail sesnrai be xuifs,
OF a.m!sdemeanor and on conviction thereof
PAL pc punished BY dne not exceeding
year, or by both said punishments. IN the
DISCRETION Of the court.
WORD person" or spersOns." wher.
ever used In this act. shall be deemed to in.
clude corporations and associations existfnc
under or authorized by the laws Of eifheS
the United States. the laws OF any Of fhe
territories. the laws Of any state. az. the
laws OF any foreign country.
This act IL 20 comprehensive in lin def.
milton Of q trust, which it made ILLEGAL
that it wa clearly the purpose al thnse
who made 1t . law, that no trust shonld
escape.
Democracy and Iruses,
Contrast with the action Of the Fiftv.
FIRST Congress the action Of the Niffv.
third COngress-the first one Democratir
in both branches since trusts atfained
to prominence in this country-which 4
it's regular session, put into the cofer 81
the Sugar trust, BY means Of the Wii.on
law, q bonus Of $18,OOO,OOO On The snrsr
then In its hands: and BY the same law
made . profit for the Whisky tr,,st 81
about / 100000 on the whisky with.
drawn from bond after 1t became cor.
tain that the tax ON whisky would he
increased and before the law went into
effect, and, in addition, the Wilson Iaw
increased the allowance for wasfare
while In bond and heightened the bOnded
perior from three to eight YEAR,. The
Fifty-third Congress legislafed -asainsS