The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1900-10-12

me of the stockholders of the starch
company, resides at Nebraska City
md publishes paper, THE Con-
He listened to Bryan
weeping condemnation of his COM
,any and in tho next issue of his
PAPER replied as follows;
Bryan assumes and asserts that the
starch factory is not controlled by people
Of Nebraska City. In this he deliberately
tells an untruth. The same men who orig
mated the starch factory control IL now.
Those who now employ the labor are rest
dents of Nebraska. They never did. as
asserted by Bryan, close down the factory
and throw helpless operatives out of en-
ployment. From year to year they have
enlarged the works and put more money
into Nebraska City. The men whom Bryan
had the efrontery to warn the people of
Nebraska City against, are the men who
with theirfriends built the starch plant,
lost $4,000 during the early years of starch
making in Nebraska. but who. without
State aid or Interference, put another $780,
600 into n continuation OF the starch maxi
ing experiment and ~ ccessfully esta bshed
this industry in Nebraska. They have re-
newed here cereal mills and in the last two
years PIT 10000 into them, paid out in ten
years several millions OF dollars to farm
erS for corn and oats to be manufactured
into goods right here in Nebraska and en-
ploy 300 and 400 men and women and at
good wages. One OF the men whom Bryan
denounces as an enemy to the community
gave the city free library: another donat-
ed beautiful park, and all have shown by
their works rather than words their inter-
est in the prosperity and happiness Of the
people OF Nebraska City.
These are the men who suggested and
organized the United Starch Company and
accomplished in a lawful way the consolida-
ton OF other companies, with the Argo
abs )lutely controlled by property owners
in Nebraska city. They bought stock in
the National Starch Company until phey
and those acting with them con-
troned that company. That Nebraska
city interests control the National starch
Company is evident from the fact That JOY
Morton is chairman OF the executive COM
mittee ana Carl Morton % director
When Colonel Bryan knows more about
the trlth he viii know that the people of
Nebraska City are not In favor of the de-
slguct.on of the company operating the
local factory. Auegedly u lisa trust lc-
gaIy 10 is not Bryan and his attorney
general know this. They know, too, that
the suit against the starch works wa, in
spircd by pc. ral, personal and other con-
s.deration~ than "a regard for the law. II
it was NOS, why delay: If they il-eud to
compel men who own property and bring
money into the state to vote their ticket
or .elyc, why not act promptly now and
demonstrate theirimperialism:
The National Starch Company is not a
trust. as that term is legally defined by
the court of appeals OF the state OF New
York in the case of the people OF New
York, respondent against the North River
Sugar Refining Company The action
brought against it is designed to annoy IL,
put it to expense and also prove that Bryan
and his political associates are inimcal to
Industrial plants which pay wages to hum
dreds and work up millions OF dollars of
raw material each year. 1t is notice for
capital to get out of Nebraska ana keep
out. 1t Is Punishment for many wage earn
ers now in the State.
As the National Starch Company is law
fully formed, doing legitimate business,
meeting It's obligations promptly ana deal
ing fairly and justly with iull il would be
foolish corporation TO pay one cent to de-
fend its rights in an unfrendiy court into
which fusion politics has dragged it for
purel5 partisan purposes,
Disaster Is desired by Bryan. He cannot
live politically without calamity. When
God and Nature have this year made dis
tress impossible by kindly giving good
crops, health and prosperity to the people,
Bryan and Smyth propose artificial calam-
ity by legal process. 1t is essential to fu-
sion success, For that purpose these two
men would sacrifice capital, labor proper
ty, wage earners and Nebraska City itself.
They are twin dynamos to generate dis
content, to paralze prosperity and shatter
thrift. They are mere monographs of
POI itical piracy in the city of New York
which has corrupted and robbed that mu-
nlcipality for Il generation, Their chief
hacker and cashier is Croker the plumber
err the black leg and outcast. And this
brace OF phllanthrQpists have the supreme
audacity to appear in Nebraska Cityas an
nointed prophets ana protectors and adj
monish the people of this town to beware
of citizens WAC for forty years have been
faithfully at work to build upa prosperous
community, These self-uppointed
guardians of the economic ana manufac-
turing welfare OF Nebraska City ask you
10 vote for them-to vote for the destruc-
ton OF Ne brusla City--for desolation in
stead OF thrift, for silence and solitude
where now the hum of whiTlng wheels
Che rattle OF machinery ana the songs Of
cuntented industry are II constant
symphony Between these jouneymen
exhorters for discomfort and disaster on
the one hand and the men ana interests
who have established youl best industries,
choose ye.