The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-10-19
THE WORK UF The TRUSTS
The People Tired of Their Reign Will
Vote For Bryan.
IMMENSE DEMOCRATIC CAMS IN CITIES
In the Rural Districts the People Have Not Felt
The Despotsn e the Trusts and Here
There Have Been Cal For
Mckinley.
ATLANTA Journal.)


Indianapolis, Ind, Oct. 14.-Never shall
l forget the strange feeling of depression
which came over me when travelling in
Cuba Just after the Spanish war. | saw
against the horizon in every direction the
naked, forlorn. desolate ruins of the
buried sugar mills. Something of the same
feeling comes to me as / travel through
Indiana, for everywhere 1 turn, almost,
l see the shattered windows, the smoke
tories closed by the trusts.
Not long ago the little city of Aurora
was happy and flourishing. 1t contained
a match factory, brewery and dis
tillery. All three were absorbed by their
respective trusts and one morning the
town awoke to find that each center of
industry had been closed. Hundreds of
men were made idle through no fault of
their own. small merchants found them
selves almost bankrupted through lack of
customers and the enterprising citizens
who had contributed some $4,000 or $12,-
00O to induce the match factory, not then
left in the lurch. This experience is not
uncommon. In Edinburg, south of In
dianapolis, a starch factory has been shut
down by the trust and four dry goods
stores are empty and for --a~A In Craw-
fordsvlle wire and nail mill is idle. in
Terre Haute a steel plant is closed, every
where through the State are factories ar
bitrarily shut down because the trusts de-
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CURED in daily consumption.
Make no mistake about it, These object
lessons are not lost upon the Nottingham
If he is employed in factory controlled
by p trust. he does not know at what
minute the distant owners will send the
order which will shut down the factory
and force every employee out into the
street.
What is the effect of this condition upon
the political situation in the State? 1t is
so plain that no man. except a fool, can
fail to Sc it. 1t will increase the Bryan
vote in the cities to a remarkable degree.
The laboring man, not knowing when the
trust will summarily compel him to be
idle, aware that his wages have not been
raised and especially conscious of the in
crease in the cost Of living. will in very
large degree, vote against the party I'M
der which the trusts are fostered.
If the vote on the 9Th of next November
could be confined to the cities. Bryan
would carry the State by an overwhelm-
ing majority and his vote in those places
where the iron hand of the trust has been
laid most heavily would be almost unani-
mous.
The Democratic managers are very
wisely making the most OF this condition
Of Affairs.
They are bringing home to the people
with plain, everyday illustration, the in
iquity of the trusts. | listened a few
nights ago to John w. Kern, the Demo-
cratic candidate for Governor, speak for
two hours to an audience of 800 people,
mostly workingmen. in the little city of
Columbus. His address was almost en-
tirely devoted to the trusts. In graphic
style he pictured the drain upon the
meagre wages of the workingman which
the trusts effected through higher prices
for sugar and the other household neces.
stiles and how the farmer was bled when