Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1900-11-15

ly use. have had transferred to them
still more wealth at the sole expense |
Of those who produced, or of those
who are to consume, the same food, |
shelter, clothing, or other necessities |
and wants Of mankind: it means ell
ther lower wages and lower prices to
the laborer and the producer, or higher
cost to the consumer, or--what is more
likely--both of these results put to-
gether.
Standard Oil stock yesterday went
to 605, an increase of 125 per cent.
within a week. AS result of this
wizard transformation, Mr.. Rookie
feller went to bed one night last week
and woke up the next morning ten
millions the richer. In the interval
he had done no manner of work: per-
chance he said his prayers, but there
is no evidence as to how far above his
bedpost they ascended. And yet when
he awoke he was worth ten millions
Of money,-with all that this vast
sum will buy, with all the advantages
it will confer,--more than he was the
night before. Some one created it,
not he. The owner of the land In
which his wells are sunk will receive
less for the oleaginous product Of his
farm, and the widow who by lamp
light tolls with the needle to keep soul
and body together will pay more for
her midnight oil, in order that Mr..
Rockefeller,-who tolls not, neither
spins for it,-might wake up so much
richer than he lay down. And this
but illustrates the whole field. Since
election the price of salt has doubled,
that of meats has advanced % per
cent, breadstuffs are considerably
higher, sugar is sailing skyward, and
all of the prime necessities of life are
fastening to share in the increased
prices, and hich--remmber--is an
increase to the consumer only. 1t in
no wise reaches the laborer or the pro-
ducer. The laborer who works at the
salt well, the stock raiser who
rears the beef, are not in it for a mo-
ment.
1t will be noticed too that the things
which MI Rockefeiler's kind of folks
mostly have to buy instead of sell, do
not share in the skyward tendency of
prices. Diamonds and seak.skn
sacques have not advanced, neither
have wages or farm lands.
All this is but another way of say
ing,--what every one already knows -
| t. H. ts
alone which have participated in these
abnormal and unconscionable in,
creases Of wealth, and that the bulk
of the people,-they who are the real
and useful creators of 1t, do not share
in the result at all. And this again
Is only different way of saying, that
which every honestly thoughtful mar
knew before--that the election of Nc
Kinley Is to enure to the benefit OF
the trusts and their manipulators, a
the expense of trust-ridden and az
already trust-suffering community
and that the former are to have ant
to hold, as the lawyers say, a fret
hand in plundering the people, for al
long time as they,-the people, e,--shal
see fit to continue In power a trust
owned administration, or to vote TO
trust policies.
This conclusion is apparent from
and may be read In, each days repor
of the doings in Wall street, where oi
Monday of this week the stool
transactions reached the amazing to
tai of 1,67l,22o shares, beyonc
which figure the ticker wal
unable to keep up and quit work.
the actual transactions for that da.
amounting to 100000 shares and up
wards
The administration papers do no
hesitate to boast that the trusts are ol
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