The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-08-31

and it is true. that Gin a government
where the people rule every wrong a.
be righted, and every evil remedied,
eminent is impaired and might is sub
stituted for right there is no certainty
that any question will be settled cor
rectly." This is in fact the keynote to
the speeches. its main emphasis and
thought-to unite the people every
where in a sturdy, determined purpose
t. uphold the fundamentals Of free
and enlightened government, to guar
lantee the perpetuity OF liberty, and TO
give assurance to the world that the
great republic shall stand in spite OF
lconspirators and the enemies of the
people. Millitarism would ruin the
country, burden the farmers, rob the
people generally, and threaten their
liberties. Europe applauds the admin
~istration in its strides towards despotie
power and grasping imperialism. Nom
larchies hate republics and naturally,
for they teach the opposite of personal
governments and exhibit practically
the blessings of reedom and manhood.
Liberty, prosperity, contentment, hap
lpiness are the things not most in favor
in monarchies.
Mr.. Bryan favors wisely the best Of
all taxes-that of the income. He IA
vors arbitration of disputes between
lcapital and labor. He favor also d.
rect taxation. a labor bureau presided
over by a abine officer. an effective
Interstate commerce law. and is alike
Opposed to the single gold standard.
government by injunction and black
list, Chinese labor. trusts and the con-
troll OF the business. money and politics
of the country by rus He likewise
offers some argument designed to prove
that the present prosperity of the farm
ierS is not due to a republican policy,
but to good crops and high prices arts
ing from conditions which no political
party a control. His treatment of
the prosperity contention of the gold
men and republicans is plausible TO say
the least. The prosperity is from God
and not from the rotten. republican,
lrobber party. The United States have
had for three years or more by reason
of the abundant crops and the scarcity
abroad that led the European countries
to buy largely of our crops 1t Is
as he says, a certainty that already the
decline has set in. and much to the
modification and regret Of the McKin-
ley-Hanna crowd of blowers and spend
ers. The republican party is yet In
power. 1t has control of everything,
and yet the prosperity" is waning.
Why this? Can not the party that
Icreated it, as the blowers contend,
keep it agoing? Why not? Is 1t hard
er to continue than to create? Facto-
ries are closing, production is lessen
ing, and right in the face Of republican
control in all departments. Mr.. Bryan
is always satisfactory when he dis
icusses at length the tariff and trusts,
those awful agencies and implements
of the devil to rob n Cypress all sorts
and conditions of people.
Let us give a sample here of the
tariff and trust working together. Mr..
Bryan does not touch it. People must
have sugar and pay whatever the trust
lords say they shall pay. The vile Ding
ley tariff tax-the one now on and
grinding the faces of the people-has
a high tax on sugar to keep out Ger
man and other products from under
selling the trusts. The Philadelphia
Times says:
1.-The price of raw sugar is high
cents a pound. The price OF refined su-
gar has been advanced ) cents. or
$40 net, a margin of one .LAt and four
hundrethS on a pound.
1t was never claimed. wen in the
tariff hearings, that the cost of refin-
ing sugar is more than half a cent a
pound, and it is generally conceded to
be very much less. Even this would
leave a profit on the present price of "a
cents on a hundred pounds, say s64, 800
on the daily output of 10000 barrels.
This foots up some $40, 600, 900 a year,
a low estimate of the profits of the
Sugar Trust"