Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1897-05-07

creased.
"The manufacturers of this section
are expecting great prosperity to follow
the enactment of the penang tariff law.
Will it come? If the present tariff law
will increase the capacity of the
people to purchase and consume manu-
factured goods, even up to their abso-
lutte necessities, then this measure will
revive business.
"If the present tariff law does not in
crease the capacity of the cotton and
wheat farmers to purchase and consume.
then your mills will close down again,
your labor will be thrown out of en-
ployment and unsold goods Will pile up
in your warehouses.
Look at this illustration. Today the
shoe drummer, the hat drummer, the
clothing drummer and, in fact, the
drummer in every line of business,
approaching the country storekeeper to
place an order for goods. The store
keeper tells the drummer that he either
is not ready to place another order, or
that he must place Il smaller order than
formerly.
"Ie explains that a part of the goods
bought IN his last order are unsold, and
that his customers are unable TO pur-
chase; and thus the iobber and whole
sale man are constantly receiving small
err orders from their drummers on the
road.
This information reaches the factory ;
the factory closes down; or, at best,
runs on short time.
This tells the whole story; here lies
the root of the trouble.
"How can it he remeded? 1t can be
remedied when the manufactures and the
farmer Join hands in enacting legislation
that will protect the farmer and the
manufacturer alike,
The 5000, 900 labOrers who are at
work or the cotton fields of the South
and the wheat fields of the West must be
protected against foreign pauper labor,
Just the same as the 100000 laborers
who are employed in manufacturing.
This must be done, or you will have no
customers for your goods.
I'VE need a true American system for
all American labor and American indus
try. Neither the democratic or republic
can parties have offered us this. They
both offer remedies that are cOntradlc-
tory. The gold standard and free trade
go logically hand in hand.
II say to you tonight that the repub-
/ lican party must either give up the gold
standard or it must and will come o the
/
| the people of this country have TO live
under the gold standard, then the manu-
facturers will welcome free trade. be-
cause they will be forced to seek mar
kets in foreign countries for their manu-.
featured products.
I'VE must increase the capacity of our
/ people to consume. equal with your ca
/ pacity to produce.
"IherefOre the farmers and manufac.
| turers of this country should ioir hands
on at least two great economic questions
! They should stand solidly for an Ameri
can system of finance. and for a Just and
equitable system that will protect al
American industry and American labor
This is the position Of the peoples party
1t is the only logical and the only trdC
American position"
In discussing the question of trusts
Senator Butler said -
The politicians of both the great ole
parties have agreed with the people thai
trusts are great evil in our body poll
tic. President Cleveland. in one of hi:
last messages to congress. grew eloquent
in denouncing trusts. but said that con
gress was not competent to correct the
evil: that it must be dealt with by the
legislatures of the various states.
The LeXow committee. in its recent
report to the legislature of New York
was equally severe in its denunciatiol
of trusts, but took the position thai
state legislatures were not competent t
deal with the evil: that it was the
province of congress.
president Mckinley in his Inaugural
address was equally vigorous and eo
quent in his denuncation of trusts. bu
offered no remedy, and held out no hop,
of relief, either through the state legis
latures or through congress.
lit is strange that it has never oc
Cured to any of these statesmen to lool
for the causes that produce trusts, anC
to point out to the people these cause
and to look for means to remove III,
causes.
ut must be patent to even an elemen
tary student of political economy. o
even to any ordinary clear-headed ant
observant man of business, that trust
are the direct and logical result of
monopoly of the instruments of com
merce.
whoever heard of a trust sprnginI
up and flourishing except when price
were falling? When the people are abb
to consume: when there Is a demard TO
the produce of the field and factory
when there is encouragement to men o
small means to Join their capital and in
vest in enterprises, then thousands o.
ten thousands of individual enterprise
spring up and prosper, and trusts ar
impossible.
IF we could tomorrow break the col
ner on the money market; if we coul
infuse new life into the veins of con
merce; if prices should begin to rise
nearly every trust in existence woul
2 crumble and vanish like fog before tn
l rising sun. That Is, every trust exceI
those that have been formed by colluslo
with transportation lines by receivin
rebates, etc. In short, the gold stanC
2 ard and monopoly of transportatio
: are the causes of this prolific growth {
= poisonous and destructive trusts.
, SENATOR ALIENS POSITION.
! A short while ago Senator Allen of n,
/. braska received resolution passed b
Rescue council l, American ProtectiN
D Igp,