St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1900-04-21
FARMERS AND TRUSTS.
The Issue That Most Concerns the
Producers of Our Nec-
essaries.

| That the trusts directly affect the
| producers of the country, particularly
| the farmer, is so plain that blind man
can perceive it. This is the way Judge
George w. Beeman, of Indiana, puts
| it:
''The farmers of this country are the
| people who are most and more directly
| affected than any other proportion of
| the electors.
sThe farmer is affected as d producer
and as a consumer. He goes to bed at
night with prices about as follows:
Wheat, 10 cents; corn, 25 cents; pork,
$3.50 per hundred; barb wire, two dol
lars; nails, two dollars per hundred;
and well pipe 211a cents per foot.
ssHe awakes in the morning with
prices about as follows: Wheat, IS
cents; corn, 23;pork, $4.25: barb wire
five dollars; nails, four dollars; well
pipe, 20 cents.
His house has not been burglarized,
but he has been robbed by trusts which
are multiple of thieves by robbers.
and there is something strange about
wheat goes down it travels by tele-
graph, if the price goes up the report
goes by canal, but the farmer regard
less of party affiliation, If properly ed
ucated as to the effect of trusts on his
interests, will make itpossible to return
to the legislatures and congEess a ma
jority of representatives who will be
honest and patriotic enough to enact
laws that will control the trusts and
we will be safe in leaving the manner Of
control and regulation of trusts in the
hands of such chosen representatives.
only the blind can fail to realize
what the real issue now is, whether the
trusts and corporations should rule the
governTnentorthe government regulate
and control trusts and corporations"
Mckinley and Lincoln.
On Lincoln day, 1900. William Nc
Kinley sent the following congratu-
latory dispatch to the Chicago i'm
perialists:
Each succeeding year our citizens
have seen with clear vision how great
was Lincoln's contribution to the
forces which make for the welfare
and perPetuity of the nation, and ev-
cry occasion which commentaries his
life is an incentive to patriotic serv-
ice. Accept my best wishes for
most successful and inspiring meet
ing this evening.
WILLIAM M'KINLEY.
Ty,
Abraham Lincoln uttered the follow
ing prophecy. which is being fulfilled
by William Mckinley and his i'm
peria1istic followers:
II see in the near future crisis
arising that unnerves me and causes
me to trembIe for the safety of my
country. As a result of the war, cor
porations have been enthroned and
an era of corruption in high places
will follow, and the money power will
continue to sway by appealing to the
prejudices of the people. until all
wealth is aggregated in few hands
and the republic destroyed. / feel
more anxious for the safety of my
country than ever before, even in the
midst of the war"
1t is to be remarked, by the way
that the republicans these days, with
their subsidy steal scheme, with their
proposition to tax Porto Rico without
representation and to erect tariff be-.
tween that island and the rest of the
,ountry, with their plan to admit the
unsavory Quay into the senate. in vio-
1ation of the precedents of century,
with their eowardly sop to bimetalIism
in the financial bill and with their neg
leet to take any position on the trust
question, are making lots of capital
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