The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1899-09-01

of Great Britain, while even despised
Mexico-silver using Mexico, has since
1894, made such progress that on jan
nary 1st, 1899, 1t was stated in our
public prints that many investors be-
| lieve their investments safer In Mexico,
due to her good government, freedom
| from strikes and labor troubles and
threats from corporations, than in the
United States" Revival of trade in
Canada, Germany and Mexico, as well
as the United States, proves too much,
for the Republican party has nothing
in common with Germany, holds Mex
leo as horrible example," and till Ii
yields up a portion of Alaska, will not
be re-established on "cousinly" terms
with Canada. The business revival for
which so much Is claimed, Is naught
but the reaction succeeding a world
panic and a world famine. Such reac-
tions always come, are always marked
and are sometimes spasmodic. Busi-
ness revived after the panicS of '73, 'S4
and 'S7, but rememberl waves ride the
ebbing as we'll as the flowing tide The
existence of the revival fails as evidence
to establish the fact that trade will
continue. Proper conditions are neces-
sary to support and maintain 1t and an
increase in trade requires inevitably an
| increase in the medium thro' which
| trade is carried on. In this connection
we are informed that the balance of
trade is now greatly in our favor and
that the yellow metal, so far from leav-
| ing us, pours into our Golfers from
abroad. The balance of trade is in our
favor, but 1t doesn't follow from that
that our stock of money is increasing.
SO long as there are foreign investments
here, so long as great landed proprietors
here have their fixed residences abroad,
so long as our stocks and bonds are
owned in Europe, so long as it is neces-
sary for our great borrowers to procure
loans abroad that long will the rents
dividends, interest and profits be paid
abroad, and that long will our money
supply be drawn upon, or favorable
balance Of trade be swallowed UP in
cancelling an obligation due only for
the use of the strangers money
Concede, however, that we are in
creasing our stock of money; admit that
the balance of trade will continue to
supply to us a balance in gold. Is there
then any reason why this country may
not establish and maintain an Ameri-
can monetary policy? In this unde
veloped country, money is required to
establish, as well as to carry on, enter
prises, and If money must be borrowed
if interest must be paid, let it be bor
rowed and paid here, to be returned,
without decrease, again and again, into
the field of our activities and to be used
opement and in furthering the pros
perity of our own country.
The silver question is not dead, and
till men cease to think, till the Ameri-
can people are willing to take their laws
from Britain, till the Republican party
recognizes that not the existence but the
distribution of wealth makes prosperity,
till ease comes to the agricultural
classes, till a fair wage is paid to the
mechanic and till content and salts
faction come to those who toil-until
silver is restored to it's proper place in
the coinage-the Democratic party will
stand by the Chicago platform.
The money question is not, however,
the only issue in this campaign. The Nc
Kinley administration has developed
conditions and issues, which, were they
to become operative, would overthrow
all Democratic principles and make 1t
of but little Importance what kind of
a monetary system prevails in this
country" The very revival of business
of which the Republicans are so proud
has brought into a prominence not here
tofore attained by it, the Trust question.
During the year 1898 there were organ
lied in the United States, trusts with
a capital stock of nine hundred and six
teen million dollars, and in the first six
months of this year, other trusts have
been organized with a capital stock of
three DllllOnS CI uOlldFS. InuS III elBl-
teen months of Mckinley prosperity the
capital stock of the trusts organized ex-
ceeds the gold coin of the world, equals
one and q half times the currency of
all kinds of the United States, four
times the present bonded Indebtedness
of our government, and equal to one
fifteenth of the true value of the entire
property of all kinds in the United
States, on January 1st 1891. Every
thing, from pine lands to peanuts,
from steel rails to sardines," from
strawboard to sugar, from tin cans to
tobacco, from crackers to chewing gum,
from beef to bananas has been organ
lied into trust. They are nest of
wasps-a swarm of vermin which has
overcrept the land; like the frogs of
Egypt, they had gotten possession of
our dwellings and we scarce have "a
room for them. They sup in our cup,
they dip into our dish, they sit at our
fire."
The intended control of prices by
these instruments of greed and avarice
is a menace to the prosperity of the
country. The ability of these colossal
organizations to pit and play the labor
ing men and mechanics in one city and
at one of their plants, against the labor
ing men and mechanics in another city
and at another of their plants threatens
to bind and rivet the shackels of in
dustrial slavery upon our producers OF
wealth. The retirement from business
of the commercial traveleris an intend
ed and inevitable consequence of the
operation of the trust, and these men
who possess in a large measure the
business capacity of the country, will
be forced into other callings to make
living. Thirty-five thousand COM
mercial travellers have been retired from
the road by the organization and opera
tion of the tobacco trust alone, and in
this crisis, the party that really, truly
and honestly opposes the organization
of these enterprises, must appeal
strongly to these men for support. Not
only are these aggregations of wealth
intended to control prices and to beat
down wages, but in politics they threat
EN- to affect our liberties. In the state
of Kentucky, the trusts there, unmasked
and in the open have taken the field
against the Democratic party and the
Democratic ticket and when this ticket
is nominated and the lines are drawn,
no one can doubt that the monopolies
of this state will be marshalled under
the banner of the party now in power.
We are informed, however, by an emil
nent Republican who processes to know
his own business, that no political issue