Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-09-07

meant TOUT years ago. IT you nave any
doubt about this you go TO some trav-
cling man, who, in 1896, thought that
all we needed was a Republican adj
pinistration and then lost his job be-
cause his house went into a trust. and
he can tell you something about the
trusts.
You Ask the Laboring Mon
who works for trust and sees the trust
suspend production in order to keep
prices up, and throws the burden of
keeping prices up upon the idle employ
es. who must wait until the surplus is
worked off.
Charles R. Flint, prominent defend
er of the trusts, made a speech at Bos-
ton year ago last May, and the pa
pers said he had an exceedingly SYM
pathetic audience, composed almost eX-
clusively of Boston bankers. He went
on to defend the trusts, and one of the
great advantages that he saw in the
trusts was, that whenever there was a
Sine in any one factory the trust
could close down that factory and do
the work somewhere else. OF course
you people here know nothing
about such thing, but you may some
time. "a voice: Down at Benwood, at
the Riverside, we do.") Know about
it now? Wherever you find that the
trusts have closed down a factory be-
cause of differences with employees, or
for any other reason, you might ask the
employees what they think of the pros
perity argument and
The Full Dinner Pail Doctrine.
Isn't 1t strange that any man who
works for wages can be so blind as not
to see that when a trust controls a
great branch of industry, every one who
works in that line of business IS at the
mercy of the man who stands at the
head of the trust? Isn't it strange that
any man who works for wages Ioes not
see that? And yet, when you ak TO
people about the trusts, the only an
swer the Republicans make is that
there is great prosperity, but it is al
ways some one else, in some other
county.
had an experience myself in this
line within a week | did not hear OF
it when / was at home, but when
haa come down East saw in the New
York Tribune that l myself had be-
come abundantly prosperous because OF
an oat crop. There was a statement in
the New York Tribune which purported
to come from Lincoln, Neb., and stated
that / had 100 acres in cats, and that
the land had brought forth abundantly,
and that the yield was forty bushels TO
the acre. 1t stated that | had sold my
oats for thirty cents per bushel, had
obtained about 81 400, and then follow
ed the statement that that was about
twice as much as had paid for the
land, and then, with that as basis,
this paper went on to explain how
1t Was just "A sample.
of what was going on on the farm, and
my property was used as an illustration
of the general prosperity OF the
farmer, and upon that prosperity the
Republican paper predicated the state
ment that the farmers were going 10
vote for the Republican ticket. | want
to give you the real truth, in order that
you may see how much exaggeration Is
necessary to support the prosperity ar
gument. My farm contains 80 acres,
instead of 120. They multiplied my
farm by four l have only five acres
in oats, instead of 100. They multi
DllEu IudL ny LNtubg AlehN1 AACN
threshed my oats yet, so | do not
know what they will amount TO; but,
my friends, l shall be glad if my oat
yield is forty bushels to the acre, when
they are threshed, but the worst of II
is they are only worth q cents in Chi
cago. and l will have TO pay the freight
from Nebraska to Chicago. So you
see that my oat crop is not what 1t is
Dragged up to be.
But that is not all CA voice: What
is your remedy for the trusts?") Let
me finish the oat illustration first. My
whole oat crop if 1t amounts to forty
bushels to the acre, and is sold at 20
cents per bushel, will amount TO $40,
and the land, instead Of costing me s.
an acre, as the paper said, cost me
Over 500 an Acre,
so you can see how much truth there IS
in it. and there is just about that much
truth In the talk you read here about
prosperity in the West and the talk we
read about prosperity here. If you Will
take Dunns report you will find that
every month in 1900 shows more failures
than the same month the year before, and
1 read to-day in a Republican paper pub
lished in Pittsburg an extract from the
Iron Age saying that the decrease in the
output in the iron furnaces is now 5000
tons per month You viii lind that they
are closing down factories, and this
mornings paper told Of the cutting down
Of wages in a town not two hundred miles
from here. You read, a few days ago. at
Fall River. in Massachusetts. they were
circulating a petition amongst the owners
of the mills TO cut down the wages ten
per cent. You can read the papers and see
that all the talk that you can see in the
Republican speeches about the enormous
prosperity of the country is not true. II
1t were true. you would enquire what
brought on the prosperity. Suppose is
was all true, and suppose you could trace
IL all to a Republican administration.
There are questions that are greater than
full dinner pail, and when Republican
tells you that because your dinner pail is
full you ought to vote the Republican
ticket, tell him he Is making an argument
that ought to be addressed to an animal
that knows nothing but 70 eat and has
no higher ambition When a Republican
says that the only question 70 be consid-
cred IS whether you have enough TO eat,
he is dragging the laboring man down 10
the level Of the animal When the hog
trough IS filled. the hog is satisfied: when
il is empty, he squeals. That IL the Re-