Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1896-10-29

WOu!u amOunI TO S$10,V0O,UlW FER 0eQum
Land and labor now deyetsd e crpl 9
excess, like wheat, would be- put to
more profitable Il use. Ne $$75 ,OOO, OO(
each year would swell our domestic com
merce by at least four times tha
amount. If we had produced our ow1
sugar instead of gold having been ex
ported during the past three years ar
export that has widely hurt our indus
tries and business-gold would have beer
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 commerce and Of our circulat-
ing medium, the retention Of gold
| would follow also from a production of
the 250,O0O,OOO pounds of wool that we
annually import under the Wilson law;
g production that would follow from the
steady and continued aid, of such protec-
surely 50 far as tariff legislation Is con.
cerned, the farmer, whether he regards
only his own interests or looks, beyond
mem to the interest Of his country, will
nave no difficulty in deciding which par
" should have his vote. His decision
OF the record of the candidates for Presi-
dent. Mr.: Bryan declared in Congress,
January ID, 1894, 1T is immaterial in
my Judgment whether the sheep-grower
receives any benefit from the tariff OF
not am for free WOOL He
voted Tor free wool, for the repeal of the
sugar bounties and for the abrogation Of
G1e reciprocity arrangements. Mr. Nc.
Kinley, it is needless to say, has been
and is, in favor Of reciproe city, just pro-
lection to wool and other farm products.
and such reasona BILE 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.. M cINinley said
when introducing his tariff bill into the
House: =
~ there Is any one industry which appeals
VIII more force than another for defensive
s Guties Is this. and to no class Of citizens
snould inns House more cheerfully lend legis-
!atlve assistance, where it can properly be
done, than to the million farmers Who own
ss neS 81 IN the United States. We cannot az
pc longer, crippled. ~ -
Ibis shows Mr. McKinley's regard for
the welfare of agricultural industries;
and Mr. Bryan, also, may be judged by
MS utterances on the same subject.
Republicans and Trusts.
Farmers have been consistently and
persistently opposed to trusts. This hos
tllaty mas been exaggerated in the voci-
ferrous and sweeping denunciations of
trusts by the Populists. The farmers Of
TINS country are we'll 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
ing large quantities, made the, prices of
the articles to the consumers less than
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 and that in
the aggregate trusts are serious injury
TO business and WELD a power that will
present TO human nature a tempta ion too
strong ts2a 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 executions ia
prove the rule. Representative agricul,
5 aa bodies have, very Frequently con
would subject their a1fairs TO ,snch publ,
X k1ng!w11edge and CONTROL az would remove
-
agricultural body has never pronounced
in favor Of trusts. The position Of The
farmer as regards trusts is that occuDied
by our economists and by nearly all OUT
population, hence, it is sanctioned by
scientific research and reasoning and by
ne sh common IN sense: IN accord with the
with their requests; the Eff y-frst Con
gress, which was the first Congress Re
publican in both branches Since trusts
nad assumed prominence in this country.
hastened at its first session to pass "a
bill to protect trade and commerce
a;gain,st uniaWtu! restraints and monopo-
hes" which declares that
Every contract, combination in form NJ
trust or otherwise, or conspiracy. in re-
straint Of trade or commerce among the
several states, or with foreign nations, is
hereby declared to be illegal. Every person
who shall make any such Contract OF. engage engage
In any such combination or conspiracy sha II
be deemed guilty of misdemeanor, and, on
%e Sdt she'll be punished
ment not exceeding one year, or by both Of
said punishments in the discretion Of the
Every person who shall monopolize or
shall attempt to monopolize; or combine or
fonspire with any other person or persons
TO mencpoi12e any part Of the trade
or with foreign nations, shall be guilty guilty
Of misdemeanor and on conviction thereof.
shal! be punished by fine not exceeding
5000, 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 10 In
clude corporations and associations existing
| under or authorized by the laws of eitheT
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 a 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-which. at
it's regular session, put in the Golfer of
the Sugar trust, By meanS ebf the Wilson
law, a bonus of 5000, 900 on the sugar I
then in its hands; and by the same law
made a profit for the Whisky trust of
about $1O,OOO,OOO on the whisky with.
drawn from bond after it became Ger.
tain that the tax on whisky would he
increased and before the law went INFO
effect, and, in addition, the Wilson law
increased the allowance for Wastage
while in bond and heightened the bonded
perior from three to eight years. The
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