New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1899-10-04
WASHINGTON LETTER.

WASHINGTON LETTER. 81. t..
WASHINGTON. d. C.
The meeting of the Democratic Ma
tional Executive Committee at Chicago
last week was of more than usual i'm
portance. Action was taken looking to
perfecting organization in every Con-
gressional district in the United States
preparatory to the great struggle of 1900.
Que important feature will be the COL
lection of a campaign fund large enough
to meet the legitimate expenses of the
campaign. The Republicans will have
ten dollars to every one that the Demo-
Gratis can raise, but that dinroportion di
will not save the party of trusts and cor
posrationss from overwhelming defeat.
1t seems to be generally held that the
National Convention will go to one of
the smaller cities next year. St. Louis
has retired in favor of Kansas City and
Chicago, it is expected, will give way to
Milwaukee. The Executive Committee
took trip to Milwaukee at the invita-
ton of delegation from that city and
found there ample facilities for holding
a'convention in the way of al Exposi-
ton hall, fine hotels and the best of
railway and telegraph facilities. 1t is
pointed out that with the German vote
coming in body to the Democratic
party on the Imperialism issue the selec-
ton of Milwaukee, the most conspicu-
ously German city in America would be
a stroke of political wisdom.
BRYAN AND The CHICAGO TRUST
CONFERENCE.
Despite the efforts of the paid agents
and attorneys of the trusts, the Chicago
Trust Conference will prove of i'm
mense value to the country. In the first
place it gave the public an opportunity
to discover that every serious student of
economics recognizes the necessity of
graphing with the trusts through the
machinery of the national government.
Secondly, it developed the fact that Will
liam J. Bryan put forward PROPOSE
ton for the control of trusts which was
Immediately accepted by the individual
members of the convention as practi-
cal and constitutional method of deal
ing with these gigantic industrial com
binations. His plan which has been
considered in previous letters, dealing
with government control and regulation,
has earned for the Democratic leader the
confidence of extensive business inter
ests whose very existence is threatened
by the trusts but which had been led to
by the capitalistlc press that Mr.. Bryan
was merely an agitator, unable to pro
pose practical solution of the evils OF
which he complained.
Between the Chicago Conference and
the St. Louis antitrust conference
which Immediately followed, some in.
teresting facts having been gathered fol
public use. For instance, the steel and
iron trust advanced the wages of few
of their more skilled employees fifteen
per cent but they advanced the price OF
their products one hundred per cent, in
| amount actually more than ten times the
advance in wages. A dozen other trusts
are similarly fleeing the public with
small sops thrown to their workmen in
about the same proportion. Of course
when the campaign comes on, these
trusts and their hired newspaper organs,
will shout about the splendid advance
in wages but never say word about
the millions they have exacted erom the
public through force AMI arbitrary ad-
vancss in prices. But the day of reckon
/ ing is coming. All signs point to such
Overwhelming alignment of the farmers
and wage workers against the trusts il
the next national campaign that the Re.
publican party will be buried out Of
sight. There are rural sections in The
middle West where there will be so few
Republicans left that the G.. O. P. viii
scarcely even a skeleton organization.