The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1899-09-26

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who has come in contact with capital
in many shapes, who has had many
investments-not great ones, but varied
-, say that after my experience of over
OK vaa,~s of active business that it is
tbe only solution that 1 can see.
"I would no. throw away Mr.. Cock
rams suggestion az to publicity. If that
is a good thing, take IL in with the re 1T.
want protection for capital; 1 want
conservatism, and / want TIE people
who help the capitalists make what
they have, to be sharer and to find
protection. If capital is wise 1t Will
put it's arms about the working people,
bring them into council with them and
have their best efforts. Men are never
so satisfied as when they have been
sharers in the beginning of an enter
prise. Capital should have it's protec-
ton, and / am sure that no Democrat
means anything but conservatism, but
he wants to conserve the rights of
those who are not able to take care of
themselves as much as he wants to con-
serve the rights and ask protection 70.
that which he has earned. Capital as
well as labor must be protected, but in
the framing of our laws we must always
keep in view their execution. The mere
declaration of thing Is nothing, u1-
less behind II is honesty of purpose.
old phrase, think there should be
legislation for the doves instead of the
hawks, for the lambs instead of the
wolves. / would not under any condi-
ton, want to check industry, economy,
perseverance, alertness, brains-that
great combination that makes men
worth living, and stamps them as men
able to protect, able to watch over
their own, and then to devote a caring
and gentle hand to those who cannot
care for themselves.
"Mr. Cochran says he does not un-
derstand a trust. Decrying the efforts
of others to find what trust means,
to find solvent for the difficulties that
surround the people today that is as
surelr carrying us to financial fall as
anything is sure in this world, he goes
off into verbal pyrotechnics, paints the
lily, gilds the various subjects that he
touches with his beautiful phrases and
in the great mass of cloudy, misty stuff
he makes his escape to New York TO
be congratulated by trusts. It is n
doubtful compliment for a Democrat to
receive appreciation of Republicans
and of combines. Mr.. Cochran may
find enjoyment in the little patting on
the back he will get from some of the
eastern press and Hanna partisans, but
it is a passing thing. Results will con-
fuse him, or rather those he was sent to
Mr.. Cochran a charming man, We
know him to be of most unsettled opin-
ions, and frequently opposing his decla
rationS. A prettier speech, a higher
sounding one, better framed one than
he made against the income tax, could
not be found. He made it on Tuesday
for instance, and on Wednesday we
find him voting for it's passage and it's
execution. There is action facing words
deeds, wind.
"Mr. Hanna says he doesn't fear
trusts. OF course he doesn't. He is
like the man who says he is not afraid
of work, but can lie down and go to
sleep alongside of it. Mr. Hanna and
his associates are the benefciaries of
trusts and combines. He tells, as Il
| it were a great business achievement,
that iron and steel has gone u in
price. He dare not say that Republi-
cans have made prosperity by legisa-
tion-that they have brought around n
state of affairs where everybody can
make more money-but he picks out the
steel men, one with a capital of $780,
100000 and another Of heavens knows
what, and tells the people Of what they
have sent out of their shops. What
about the men who take it out of the
ground and put it in its working shape?
| They temporarily only are receiving q
| little advance in wages. Is anything
being laid up for them for a dark day
| for their winter-for what sane men
believes that the present condition can
continued An overpulse, a glut an
over production will as sure come from
| the artificial expansion in business as
night follows day. When the hard
! times do come again, and come they
| will, the workingmen will have nothing
| laid up. Hanna seems to congratulate
men because they are employed, be"
cause they are allowed to work today.
because they are getting little more
money than they did, and because they
| have an opportunity to do some work.
Work for whom? For themselves?
| No, for others. Is there any working
mems fund being provided? Is there
any fund being provided for the busi-
ness man or man who carries on bust
ness of a $1,000 or $4,000 year, who
know that when collections are bad
and hard times have come again, he will
| be the slave of money eXactions. Is
there any provisions for them? Any
provisions for the merchant, for the
general middle class of business men =?
not one bit.
! "Mr. Hanna does not fear trusts.
Indeed, he doesn't. Nor the men who
are associated with him in business.
| "One idea that Mr.. Hanna has must
| be a comforting one to him. This is
how the trusts are building up and get
| ting into form, and the working men
are under this organization and are
powerless to go elsewhere. Mr.. Cock
ran said in his speech he wanted COM
petition. What is so sitting then, if
am correct as to my ideas of what con-
stitutes a trust? Does consolidation
mean competition, or does it mean the
crushing of all competition. ] claim
that it means the taking away of all
competition.
"Mr. Hanna says that prosperity is
here, and here to stay. What a re-
futation of what he says in the stock
reports of yesterday-a shrinkage OF
$256 600, 900. If that Is stable, If that Is
firm business, If that means real values
then his conception of prosperity
here to stay and mine differ, as we
seem to differ on every other question
both polite and economic. l append
the stock table as evidence of what
say Read the depreciation of stock
since May 13, the date of the death OF
Roswell p. Flower. Does that NEAR
stability?
hest Lowest Net Actual
Year. Yesterday. Decline. Deprec.
1877 78% 5SA $26, ,215, 900
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