St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1900-10-13

usual sight will be presented to tho
people of West Virginia. From the
same platform and advocating his elec-
tion Senator Wellington, republican,
of Maryland, will speak, and urge his
republican friends to vote for Mr.. Bry-
an. Senator Wellington in the senate
denounced the imperialistic policy of
the president, and, being man of firm
convictions, he has now taken the
stump to advocate the election of
man opposed to his own party, but who,
Senator Wellington says, is right on
the great questions of the day. There
is no longer any doubt as to the e1ec-
toral vote of West Virginia and Mary
land, both of which states four years
ago were placed in the republican col
umn.
Work OF the Trusts.
If any man is really looking for light
on the great questions of the day, and
particularly the trust question, for
which the republican party stands; let
him ask his wife or his mother how
prices of articles controlled by these
past few weeks. Manufacturing es-
Establishments controlled by the trusts
have been shut down and men thrown
out of work, while on the other hand
the prices of everything these trusts
make have gone steadily upwards.
One of the most striking instances
of this remarkable result is found in
the price of sugar, an article that is
necessity and which every man must
have on his table. Since May %, the
price of granulated sugar has gone up
from $500 per 100 pounds to $6.15, the
last increase having been made August
80. This the increase to the wholesaler
and the increase to the consumer is
correspondingly greater. This trust
applies the screws to the consumer of
it's product whenever it thinks the time
has come to squeeze the public and Sc
cure more funds for the millionaires
who own the refneries.
This is the ninth raise the trust has
made in the price of sugar sinceit OBJ
tanned absolute control of the market
about three months ago. This last
raise means an added tax to the house
holders of the United States of more
than $50,O0O,O00 a year, and every dol
lar of it goes into the pockets of the
trust except the thousands of dollars
that have been contributed to the re-
publican campaign fund. The trust
can well afford to contribute to Man
ager Hanna, for were it not for the re-
publican tariff there would be no trust
and no control of sugar. It is a fact
proven by statistics that the people of
this country, by reason of the high
duty on sugars, pay twice as much for
that article as do the consumers of
sugar in Germany and England. The
republicans profess to be the friends of
labor and claim that these trusts en-
ploy labor and pay it handsomely. It
is another welI-est blished fact that
less is paid for labor in the American
refneries than in England and Ger
many, where we hear SO much about
underpaid labor. A movement is now
on foot to close down some more of the
alleged independent" refneries and
reduce the production. Then the price
will be showed up another notch. All
of this is cheering to the voter and he
may well be asked what he is going to
do about it.
Voters are asking themselves this
question. They will answer it when
they come to cast their votes in N Novem-
Der. Mr.. Bryan is explaining daily the
fallacies of the republican claims about
the trusts and proving that the only
effectual method of exterminating
them is to vote ticket that will elect
men pledged to curb them and make
it impossible for combines to control
the necessities that the laboring men
must have. The voter who is now
thinking for himself refuses to longer
have his wages cut down on one end
and his expenses put up on the other.
It is the republican policy, and if
followed to its logical conclusion will
result in the laboring man having no
wages and being unable to live in the |
sweat of his brow at all.
ADOLPH PATTERSON.