Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-10-31

small profit and of which we produce an
excess. like wheat, would be put to a
more profitable use: The $75,OO0. 600
meree by at least four times that
amount. If we had produced our own
sugar instead of gold having been ex-
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
have been kept at home.
Home Foreign Wool, which,
All these advantages-the use of land,
the employment of labor, the increase of
ing medium, the retention of gold
would follow also from a production of
the 25O,OO0,OOO pounds of wool that we
annually import under the Wilson law;
production that would follow from the
steady and continued aid of such protee-
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-
d dsnf E B isa4 declared in GongTeS
my Judgment whether the sheep-grower
receives any benefit from the tariff or
not l am for free WOOL He
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-
tectlon to wool and other farm products,
and such reasonable encoura cement of
out beet-sugar industry as other coun-
tries have found profitable. In con-
tariff on wool is what Mr.. Mckinley said
when introducing his tariff bill into the
House:
thnr fS
with more force than another for defensive
DUTIES It is this, and to class of citizens
lative assistance, where it can properly be
done than to the million farmers who own
10 as nation to permit this industry to
be longer crippled
This shows Mr.. McKinley's regard for
the welfare of agricultural industries;
ana MI Bryan, also, may be judged by
MS utterances on the same subject.
Republicans and Trusts.
Farmers have been consistently and
perslstently opposed to trusts. This hos
tlllty has been exaggerated in the voci-
ferrous and sweeping denunciations of
trusts by the Populists. The farmers of
thus 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
eraI proht have nevertheless, by reason |
OF tbs. economies of the aggregation of |
ca plt9l- the employment of best talent in |
directing, and of producing and hand
ing large quantities, made the prices of |
tne artlsieS to the conSuINerS less than
they We're before and probably less than |
tney Would be If the trusts were net in /
aXistence- Nevertheless, the farmers of /
THIS country believe that the principles |
underlying trusts are wrong and that in
he aggregate trusts are a serious injury
% BUSINESS and WELD power that will |
present to human nature a temDta tion to,
strong to be resisted, except in n few
Eases, to use that power WITH poIitjcaT /
parties and legislative bodies, for inn +
proper ends; IN short. that the trust is an /
'nemy TO the people and a menac e to the
nation, there being some executions; TO- +
,rove the rule. Representative agricui-
uraI bodies have very frequently con.
lemned trusts and asked for leeislatinn
hat would end. them or at the ieost
you'd subject their affairs to such, public Il
hha a;r , ana cantrol as would remove
tgrIcultural body has never pronnnnced.
u favor of trusts The position of the
armer as regards trusts is that occupied
y our economists and by nearly all orr
equation, hence. it is sanctioned Nv
erent1hc research and reasoning and, Nv
ne She common m 2, sense. In accord with the
a!SneS OF farmers and in comDUance
slIh the1r requests the Fifty-first Can
I9ss, which was the first Congress Re-
n3 up IN both branches since trusts
:1Ssened at its first session to pass ~ /
Ia to protect trade and commerce
Sst.,ast unlawful restraints and moanno-
es, Which declares that:
Every contract. combination In form, 80
faint of 0t trade er or eonspraey in
averaI states. or wisb 3m foraicn anon the
s ere declared to be Illegal. Every persan
\ any such combination or conspiracv sbsH
r asemed guilty of "a misdemeanor and on
onviction thereof, shall be punished nv oa
ne not exceeding $4,000. or by in'nr ~ a |
rent NOT exceeding one year, or by hcfh0 Of
lsIst- oe' the :
Every person who shall monopoIize or
a la. attempt to monspolize, or Combine, or :
|
among tne several ere trade atat OF
a an ions sn co snai be guilty
ian be punished by fine NOT excaadin, | !
ear, or by both said puniSbn uaGeeolnS one t
secretion of the coura- ~ Tue s
yer used in this act shall be tieemea w II,
uIe corporations and associations existino / {
re United States, rhe laws of snu " o eltf 1b
rrtor1es, the laws of any state or the lis
VS. of any foreign country
This act Is so comprehensive in,ifSsdaf. lie
ifIon of trust, which it made iIleoaJ L s
lat 1T was clearly the purpose of those i '
no made 1t lax, that no trust shoujd |. /
'cape. {
Democracy and Trusts Eu
Contrast with the action of the Fife S
rst congress the action of the Fiffy. 2
nrd Congress-the first one Democrat;o i |
both branches since trusts, attained L Z
prominence in this country-which Of
regular session, put into the coffer Of | q
e sugar trust, by means of the Wilson Z
w, bonus of SIS, 600, 600 on the s,1par I q
en- in its hangs; and by the same law =
,out $10,OOG;O0O on the whisky W;+6 |
avn from bond after it became CO.. |
in that the tax on whisky wonId he | r
creased and before the law Went into ;
creased the allowance for wastaee | {
bile in bond and heightened the hon1IeS \
rIor from three to eight years The |