The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1900-10-31

and their sales Of the class Of tickets used
/ Dy travelling statesmen.
You constantly assert that the So
called trusts have advanced prices Of the
articles that farmers buy much more than
the advance In the prices OF farm pro.
ducts. From Oct !, 1859, 70 Oct 1, 1900.
I the prices OF many articles largely manu-
/ factuIed By sO-ealled trusts tell greatly.
while IN the same time the products Of
the defeneeless farmer show an advance.
corn, from 40 cents to As cents per bushel:
/ hogs from s4.65 TO $3.50 per hundred; cot
/ tom from z 5-I6 cents to 10 rs cents per
pound; wheat, from rs cents to - cents
per bushel; cOttOnseed, from 81 to 81. 80
T per tom hay, from u cents to s. cents
/ Per 100 pounds, and hops, from Is cents
/ TO Is cents.
''You talk OF the President sanctioning
slavery and polygamy IN the Sulu Archi-
pelago by treaty with the Sultan, when
you know that the only reference to eth
1 or OtsthOss subjects IN the agreement was
/ q provision by which slaves might pur-
chase their freedom. You also know from
/ public records that the President, on re-
celpt OF the agreement, Immediately in
struoted Its trainers to notify the Sultan
that it must not besc0nsidered as giving
/ consent to slavery, which would be i'm
possible under the constitution, and that
steps were Immediately taken looking 20
a recommendation to Congress for obtain
ing their freedom.
You ara constantly talking about the
so-cailed trusts as contributors to the
Republican campaign fund. when sou
know that the sworn testimony submit
! ted to Congress shows that the Sugar
Trust was heavy contributor to the
/ Democratic campaign fund, and that the
chairman OF your own National Commit
/ tee IS the head Of the most cOmpIets
monopoly in the United States, the
! Hound Cotton Bale Trust, while Mr..
! Croker and other leading Democratic
managers who are now supplying your
/ party with funds organized the most Op-
/ pressive trust known to the people, the
I Iammany Ice Trust.
The EFFECT OF PROTECTION.
"You sheer at the fun dinner pail, :
and say that the Republican party thinks
the Workingman is all stomach; yet you
know that under the low tariff law
which you helped to enact the working
men Of the country were reduced to great
er suffering AMI want and reliance upon
charity than at any other time in the re-
membrane of this generation, and that
In short thFee years under Republican
protection they have bean given more
general employment and at higher wages
than ever before as shown by the official
figures eff the Department of Labor.
At Kansas City you said; To-day the
government can take the son from his
! mother or the husband from his wife and
stand them up before gun, while in
time OF danger it cannot lay its hand
upon wealth and make it bear It's share
OF the expenses You know that every
man who enters the military EerVice OF
| the government does so voluntarily, and
that in the late war with Spain and that
IN the Philippines the volunteers were
vastly mora than were required; while
II you will examine the receipts of the
government under the war tax you will
see that the largest items Of the tax col
Looted are from the business classes.
AT Indianapolis and Minneapolis you
said that the Republican party wants a
standing army Of 100000 men tor the pur-
| pose Of establishing a fort near every
large city and Eupprsssing by force the
discomfort that ought to be cured by leg
! islatlOn. Yet you know that the act in
creasing the army to 100, 0J0 men, which
! was passed By Republican Congress and
signed by a Republican President, prO.
i Yidss that the army shall drop back to
/
year, while you also know that Repubh
can legislation in behalf Of labor since
the election OF President Mckinley has
ended the dis3oDtsnt which existed as
result Of the tariff legislation Of your own
party, and in which you actively partioi-
patsd.
You had good deal to say TO the
people OF Indiana and to the farmers
! every where about the Wire Nail Trust
] md hc md
! Standard Oil Trust, and the Copper
Trust, and the lin Plate Trust, and as
serted that they were controlling prices
Of the articles which the farmer must
have. Yet how is it that If they are all
powerful there has been a drop IN the
past year of from 10 to 80 per cent in the
prices of iron and steel and wire nails,
and lumber, and leather, and tin plates,
and glass, and many other articles man
ufactured by trustsY
You meet every reference to the Tam
many Ice Trust with the evasiVe and in
accurate statement that the Republican
| governor OF New York and candidate Of
his party for the vice presidency has
neglected and is electing to prosecute that
| trust, when you know from his own
statement, and must know from the pub
lie records that an action for its diss0lu-
/ ton IS now in progress and being fought
at every step by the Democratic stock
holders Of that organization, who are
meantime furnishing funds for the sup
port of your campaign in New York and
elsewhere.
These are a few Of the inconsistencies,
eVasiOns. and misleading statements
which you are every day repeating to the
thousands of voters whom you address.
The conclusion Is irresistible that they
are deceptive in fact whatever may be
their intent. AS one who would not ses
the high honor Of q presidential candidacy
1uced to the level Of demagogy and de-
ception 1 respectfully urge that you ex-
change your present methods for the con-
sistent and honorable course which char
aoteIized your discussions in Congress
and in 1895, and which gave you the re
spect Of all men, no matter how much
they might disagree with you in the
principles you presented. -