Richmond daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1876-1904, 1900-11-24

1T Of Porto Rico. But the Republican
Senate did not adopt the amendment
o9stSo oS Senator Jones, VINO wAS Stie
of the Trainers Of the Kansas city Plat
form. and il the Chairman OF the Bryan
National Campaign Committee
Representative Richardson, permanent
Chairman OF the Kansas City Convention.
aud Chairman of the Democratic Con
gressional Campaign COMMITTEES, also
featured himself in the last session OF
Congress by has attitude to trusts and
mon0plios He offered series of joint
resolutions aimed against them one
provided FOR the abolition OF duties on
sugar and molasses produced IN Cuba
and Porto Rico and brought into the
United States. After consideration hy
the Ways and Means Committee IL was
moved that the resolution be reported
back to the House with an adverse rec
ommendatton. on this motion Mr..
Richardson voted in the negative. From
the adverse report Of the Committee 4
become law the sugar consumers OF the
United states would derive ne psnvnt
whatever from II, but that the sugar trust
would be better on by the sum of four,
teen million dollars year more. ana
that sugar growers of the United states
would be deprived OF a large measure
of the protection necessary TO the MAIN
tenanee ana growth OF that important
From time 10 time each OF the great
leaders" who manufacture STUFFED trusts
70 throw mud a. and worse iesl ,s.a,roa
ton. har shown his hand. Yet they
cover up their tracks by ignoring his
tory and attempting TO place the btaAtt
upon the Republican party, which mas
a long record of work in the interest or
the iaborer and against monopoiies
Effects of Combination.
That all combinations OF capital are
harmful to the worlsingman is dis
puted fact. That is the reason the he
publican party has declared against
constitutional prohibition of the con-
centTation of capital
The United States Department of La
Dor made public July. 1900, the result OF
a careful investigation of forty.one
trusts and Industrial combinations Inc
report was prepared by Professor J. w.
jerks OF Cornell University, the trust
expert of the United States Industrial
Commission, and the material was col.
lected by special agents and experts OF
the United States Department OF Labor
As far as statistics were avsilaoie ,
report shows in general a greater numper
Of persons employed ana ngneI w. ,ee
paid I'm the same establishment aIter the
combination than before
of fourteen establishments giving re-
turns nine show an increase IN ths
average wages of superintendents ana
forernen. four show decrease, anu III
one there has been no change. Out or
tbSse fourteen companies ten were form
ed the years 1898 and 1888, so that com
pariSon of conditions before ana AFTER
IN seven cases out of the fourteen tho
wages of travelling statesmen increase.
in Two they decreased; ana IN one 'h ~
remained the same; IN Two easss
travelling statesmen had been empIoyea
by the companies entering IN the cou1pi-
nation, whereas after the cofnpihatI9h
was made such men were put TO work.
In one case in which travelling statesmen
had been employed by the separate com,
"a MES thatr services were dispensed
with after the combination
The average annual wages OF skiiIed
la horers have increased in ten cases ana
decreased in two. The average annual
wages Of unskiiIed laborers have IN
cres sed in ten cases, decreased IN oiis
and remained the same in one. after the
cornbirla tion. Taking the employees as
a whole the results show that OUT OF
twelve cases reporting there had been
an increase, of wages in nine cases ana
a decrease In three. Taxing ali employ
eee collectively in each of the thirteen
combfnations reporting. there have been
bat two cases of a decrease IN the mum
her Of employees and but one case oil a
decrease in the total annual wages paid-
That there are combinations that an
tagoufze the interests Of the NORTHWESTERN
and even the entire nation the hepuoh.
can marty has always conteDded, ana
these II has always strfved to suppress
In no country upon the globe does inc
welfare of the WoT kingman receive as
much attention as It does in the United
States. Laws 10 better the condition of
to time so that IT may be said that as
far as legislation can effect that end the
toiler f. protected a great deal more
IA the United States than In any other
country.
TO whom honor for this is due is
shown in the following resume
The Cooley Trade Prohibited-Tbis law
was passed February 10 1852; amended
February 2. 1863. and further amended