The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1896-10-31

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more profitable use. The $7E5,ooo,ooo
each year would swell our domestic com
merce by at least four times that
amount. If we had produced our W
sugar. instead of gold having been ex-
ported during the past three, years..an
export that has widely hurt our indus
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.
Homo 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.
the 250,O0O,O0O pounds Of wool that we
annually import under the Wilson law;
q 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, 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.
9 9sn9ary MI &. B ays4' DECLARED aif IS im in Geng1fs IS
my judgment whether the sheep-grower
receives any benefit from the tariff or
not I 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.. No.
Kinley, it is needless to say, has been
and is, in favor Of reciprocity, just pro-
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:
If there is any one industry which appeals
with more force than another for defensive
duties 1t is this, and to no class Of citizens
SHOULD this House more cheerfully lend legis-
done, than to the million farmers who W.
sheep in the United States. We cannot af-
ford as a 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 we'll aware that there
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
| fhnv vQro hofOro md nrnho k1v lose <hor
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 a power that will
present to human 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 is an
enemy to the people and a menace to the
nation, there being some exceptions to
. prove the rule. Representative agricul-
: saral bodies have very frequently con-
aemned trusts and asked for legislation
that, would end them, or at the least,
knowledge and control as would reIoYs
their power for evil 4 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 81
! wishes. of farmers and in compliance
+! with their requests, the Fifty-frst Con-
gress, which was the first Congress Re-
publican in both branches since trusts
had assumed prominence in this country.
FASTENED at its first session to pass ~
Dill to protect. trade and Commerce
against unlawful restraints and monopo-
lies" which declares that:
EVERY contract, combination In form of
lrust or otherwise, or conspiracy, in re-
straint OF trade or commerce among the
sevefal states, OF with foreign nations, is
mere hereby She declared to be illegal. Every person
VINO snail make any such contract OF engage
IN any such combination or conspiracy Snail
be deemed guilty Of q mlsdemeanor, and, on
e con @dt ax thereof, s eaddo be punished BY a
ment not exceeding one year, or by both Of
court. " u
Every person who shall monopolize or
shall attempt to m%onopolize, or combine or
conspire with any other person or persons
to monopolize any part Of the trade or
or with foreign nations, shall be i
Of q misdemeanor and on conviction thereof,
s shadn be punished by fine not exceeding
S Sesgo' OF OF ~ ~ IMPRISONMENT nPPh sa,a not exceeding one
That word person" or persons" wher-
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 it's def
milton Of a trust, which it made illegal.
that it a clearly the purpose of those
who made it q law, that no trust sh0uld
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-which. ut
its regular session, put into the Golfer Of
the Sugar trust, by means of the Wilson
law, 9 bonus of $3.50 900 on the sugar
then in its hands; and by the same law
made q profit for the Whisky trust of
about $lO,OOO,OOO 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 wastare
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 import
ars are members and which deal in Inn
ported articles. Domestic trusts have re-
manned undistprbed by Democratic tleeis-
lation. Nc. effort has. been made BIZ the
Democratic administration to enforce the
antitrust legislation Of either the FIFTY
first or the Fifty-third Congress-, though
frequently reminded of its duty by, the