New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1899-10-25

without experience or training, who will
practice at the expense of the lives Of
the poor devils, who have been deluded
into enllsting.
Small pox and swamp fevers are prev
alent. Such thing as sleeping on dry
grounG IS unknown to the boys at the
front. Hundreds of letters have been
received showing that if they can sleep
with their head at least, out of water.
they consider themselves lucky. The
rainfall is measured, not by inches bur
by the yard. The insurgents are as act
i've as ever and are accomplishing their
purpose in keeping our troops on the
move. The climate does the rest.
The alleged suspension of the censor
ship IS mere pretense in order to give
an air OF credibility to new batch of
lies inspired by the Administration for
political use before the election.
Bryan strikes the heart of the situa-
tion when he declares: 81 would not
barter the blood OF single American
soldier for the trade of all the Philip
piues." a %-~#.-~.
REPUBLICANS DEFEND THE TRUSTS.
Mark Hanna is soaring the Republic
an leaders by his bold and characteristic
defense of the trusts. He says that the
trusts are all right, natural and emin ent-
" desirable. He compares them to the
labor. organizations and says that he has
always been in favor of labor organiza-
tions. Hanna lies. He used every means
in his power to break up the Seamen's
union ON the lakes and drove down their
wages from $45 a month to $15 a
month. He used all the means in his
power and spent hundreds of thousands
of dollars to break down the Miners
union. In this fight, without destroy
ing the union, he succeeded in reducing
their wages over so percent, at the same
time advancing the price of coal, enough
to make up twice over every dollar he
had expended IN the fight.
"However," continues Hanna elf the
trusts are menace to the country,
what party better than the Republican
party can give rellef?''
| The trusts contributed twenty mill
ions of dollars to elect VIM. Mckinley.
They will stand ready to contribute an
other twenty million next year for the
privilege of writing the answer to Mr..
Hannas question.
Where will the twenty millions come
from? A comparison of the prices of farm
products now and four years ago, with
the prices of trust products, for the same
two periods, shows that the purchasing
power of what the farmer produces has
shrunk one.third. A similar comparison
between the wages of ofworking men, even
those employed by trusts, and the prod
ucts of the trusts, shows an even great
er shrinkage in the purchasing power of
wages. Wages have scarcely recovered
beyond the figures which held when Nc
Kinley took Office. Where is the ad-
vantage to either farmer or workingm M
it every slight advance which comes to
either is more than twice taken away by
the advance in prices which the trusts
exactf The farmers and workmen are
to be robbed to create the fund which is
to be used for their further oppression.
There is one consolation: The people
are going to know all about the trusts
and their methods 10y the time the next
campaign begins. Witnesses before the
Industrial Commission have been letting
the cat out of the bag. Nearly all of the
trusts are organized under the laws of
New jersey. Straw men are put up,
whose names are used to comply with
the law, requiring a certain proportion
of the directors of each corporation, to
be citizens of New Jersey. Five men are
named who represent nearly two billion
dollars of capital, embraced in seventy
| five trusts and fifteen hundred other
corporations. One of the witnesses,
James H. Dill, of New York, considered
one of the ablest authorities on corpora
ton law in the United States, made the
frank prediction that before many years
the Supreme Court of the United States
would declare the charters of large
majority Of these law-defying concerns,
null and void and reduce tile status of
their stock holders to that of ordinary
partnerships.
Such a decision can never come until
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