Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1899-07-20

| the hotel. No he replied gravely.
He was squeezed oEt some time ago.
and two or three other landlords have
tried it and given it up in disgust and
at loss since you were there.
WHAT'S the matferT / inquired He
answered: "The hotels hest paving
business is the drummer trade. BY
reason of the trusts so lnany of them
have been thrown out of employment
that the hotel business has ceased to
pay expenses" There you are. There
are on an average dozen hotels in
every county in America There a-e
perhaps 100 counties in every state Il,
territory on the average making 81
600 landlords all of whom win become
| active recruiting officers for Demoera-
cy in 1900, and that. TOO, whether they
are Democrats or Republicans, and
your average boniface has clientele
which he can control.
The foregoing conversation with a
sensible, truthful, cool headed BUSH
ness man set me to investigating
little on my own hook | belong
to the Baconian school of inductiys
philosophers and started out to see
what | could sec. The livery stable
business is in close touch with tho
hotel business. as the same set of per-
sons to a large extent patronize both.
As a rule, when one prospers the other
prospers, and vice versa. So / went to
friend who runs a livery stable AMI
said, How are you getting on?" "Busi-
ness is very slack in our line ne re-
piled. What's the cause5' | inquired
He answered: "The best trade of the
livery stables is the drummer trade.
and the trusts have about busted that
Consequently we are in a bad way
Now, let it not be forgotten that the
liyerymen are about as numerous as
the hotel men, and every one of them
with sense enough to feed. curry, har-
ness and drive a horse VIII be found
shouting for Bryan in 1900 Nor must
it be forgotten either that livery sta
bic men have good deal of political
influence. They haven't money enough
or leisure or perhaps the desire to go to
Europe. like Mark Hanna. and hobnob
with the nobility and swagger set gen
orally, but nearly every liyeryman in
the land controls from one to dozen
votes besides his own and will control
them against the Republican party,
which fosters the trusts, which is
breaking up his business and reducing
him to bankruptcy.
WfdoSnrend nf4eanfeuf
But behind all these are the gro
GERS, and the farmers, and the butch
ers, and the dairymen. and the coal
dealers, and the wood haulers, and
the woodchoppers, and the draymen,
who furnish the supplies and do the
work for hotels and livery stables.
There are others-the railroads, for
instance, and the "busmen.r The
drummers are the best steady COM
pany and most profitable customers
for the railroads and bus lines. Their
business is also curtalled by the trusts
in throwing drummers out of employ
ment They, too. are getting their eyes
open, and we may confidently count
on large re-enforcementS from their
ranks.
The other night on sleeper heard
fippant young chap explaining to an
elderly gentleman-both strangers to
mellow prosperous he was. He said
that he owned large block of stock
in a rolling mill which six months ago
was worth only 3J cents on the dol
lar, but it went into a trust, and sud-
denly the stock popped up to IT'S cents
on the dollar | pat in my jab unin-
vited long enough to inquire as to the
prosperity of the people who bought
the goods and wares manufactured by
the trust "Oh." replied the cheerful
young mai. ''it has been pretty Id
tough on contractors and builders who
Lad made contracts for building
before the rise in prices, and some of
them have been forced to the wall.
But nevertheless he was happy as a
clam at high tide His stock under the
benign and fructifying Influences of
the trust had scared from So to 175.
If the men all over the country who
have to pay higher prices in order to
make trust stocks so skyward ever put
on their studying caps and set their
thinkers TO work, Mark Hanna won't
carry ten states in the Union in 1900.
Havemeyer Hit the BuIIseye.
Mr.. Havemeyer can now sympathize
with poor old King Lear in his famous
remarks on the subject of ngratitude.
If the whole truth could be ascertain
81 t,.,-o ~ ,4o,,ht that tho s.,seyo,.
trust was the most liberal of all the
army of liberal contributors to Mark
Hanna's camp chest in 1896. When
the Dingley bill was being eoncoeted,
the sugar trust was one of the pet OBJ
jects of the Republican majority in
congress. Now that IIavemeyer blurt-
ed out the truth about the tariff and
the trusts. I've is persona non grata to
the wnole tribe OF pap suckers. Iney
are vying with each other in saying
bitter things about him; but one thing
cocksure. Hayemeyer hit the bulls
eye in his testimony before the indus
trial commission. and. what's more,
his evidence cannot be obliterated
from the minds Of men or III any man
ner explained away. What made him
do 1t, know not. bat he did it in jam
up good style, and what he said he
said in a way to cause il to stick TO the
memory like bur. In the meantime,
Republican tax eaters win dash their
eloquence in vain against the great
truth that "the tariff is the mother of
trusts"
The Party of Bluffs.
The esteemed Globe Democrat of st.
Louis thick aud thin Republican or
gan, recently made this sage editorial
utterance: democrats are yociferous
ON the subjects of trusts as if they had
just made new discovery. The Re
publican party has not waited until
the present time to speak out and TO
act on the matter. OF course the best
time to deal with an evil is at the out
set. This is precisely what the Repub-
lieans have done" Then The CD.
proceeds to quote a Republican plat
form aud to glorify the Republican
party for squelching trusts. i'll face of
the fact that just in proportion as Re
publieans have control, do the trusts
wax, multiply and grow fat THE
best time to deal with an evil is al the
outset Very true very true. Solo
mon in all his glory never stated a
more potent truth. and that's precise
" where the Republican party fell