The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1899-10-24
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gathering its campaign contributions
from those great corporations, that
the farmers must expect that the ad-
after it was elected,
would allow the corporations to get
back out Of the people all the money
hey contributed to the campaign fund,
| say we warned them, but many did
not see it.
Well you know there is one beauty
about living in land like ours, under
a government like ours. A man can
keep his nose to the grinding stone
Just as long as he wants to, and when
he gets the skin all ground off of one
side he can turn the other side of the
nose for them to grind on. Whenever
he gets tired having his nose ground
he can take it off the grinding stone.
That is one advantage in living in a
country like this. Many Republicans
who did not realize what was going
on in 1896 now realize it.
OF course you do not know anything
about trusts here like we do in Me-
braska. Why there is a lumber com
bine that has raised the price of lum
ber in Nebraska, but of course it has
not here-or has lumber gone up here?
Oaughter.) GA voice: Yes, certainly
it has. OF course it has)
1t has gone up here too, has it? "a
voice: Why, certainly
Then of coure you are beginning to
realize that. Well, now, is there a
farmer here who has any stock in the
lumber combine? Not one. And yet
every farmer who buys lumber finds
out that lumber goes up. Out in our
country the barbed wire trust has
raised the price of barbed wire over
100 per cent, and I expect you will
hear Of it here after while-or have
you now? ....
"a voice: Yes.)
You have heard Of it now? So you
are not as much behind the times as
1 supposed you were (Laughter.)
An Example.
Well, now there is not farmer here
who Is a stockholder in barbed wire
trust. Is there a farmer here who has
any stock in the barbed wire trust? i?
If there Is let me see that farmers
hand. Not one. Well, now, l have
found that there is not farmer here
who has any stock In the trust. Now
Is there any farmer here who got
caught on the barbed wire when it
went up? daughter, applause and
cheers.) Now you see that is the end
that you always get hold of when you
come to the trust; you always hold the
hot end Of the poker. Oaughter.)
And how is it with the Republican
farmer, business man and laboring
man, the Republican in any depart
less he is connected with the trust? ?
How is it that any Republican can be
ignorant of what is going on, or II
conscious of what is going on, how can
he but feel alarmed at the situation as
you find it? Do you want to know
how bad trusts are? The trusts are
so bad-actually so bad that the Re-
publican convention in this state run
by Mark Hanna had to declare against
them. (Laughter.) Can you imagine
more severe arraignment of the
trust? Can anybody defend them when
Mark Hanna's convention does not
dare to defend them?
All, my friends, the Republican par
~ will denoupca tho truct In ito nlat
form and even it's leaders will tell you
that there are good trusts and bad
trusts. What is the difference between
good trust and a bad trust? The
good trust gives literally to the cam
paign fund. The bad trust is stingy
That is the only difference. Laugh
ter.) That is the only line that can
be drawn between the good trust and
the bad trust. Now If you want to de-
stroy the trust you want to get out of
the Republican party to do it. The
Republican party can not destroy the
trust. Some of you may be surprised
that the attorney general is not trying
to destroy the trust. Now don't you
know why? Because this aggregation
of wealth created the Republican ad-
ministration and does not the Repub-
lican administration read the Bible
and does it not remember the COM
mandment, Remember now thy Gre
ator in the days Of thy youth?''
(Laughter.)
The Republican party destroy the
trusts? Why, it would kill the hen
that lays the golden eggs. daughter }
And the Republican party would not
kill the hen that would lay silver
egg If it could get the egg. applause
and laughter.) Now do you want to
destroy the trusts? If you do you
must come with us to do it and not be
satisfied with putting the dollar above
the man. And now in all OF these other
questions, these domestic questions,
these old questions, the Republican
party is following the same vicious
principle in dealing with the new ques-
tions.
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