Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1900-07-09
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England and all over Europe. They
were there before they were here. Of
more than five hundred witnesses
who have testified before the indus
trial commission only one claimed
that protection is the father of trusts,
and he was bred-in the bone demo-
crat, the president of the sugar trust,
which involved the enactment of the
Wilson bill in scandal, and before he
concluded his testimony he asked for
more protection for refined sugar and
after he concluded it he tOld members
of the commission that he was sorry
he had said what he did about the
tariff. The weight of evidence is that,
so far from its being true that protec-
ton promotes monopoly, it. promotes
competition and is the surest guaran-
ty the country can have against exor-
bitant prices. The greatest So called
trust in the country is the Standard
Oil Co., but none of it's products are in
any degree protected by the tariff.
The trust which has come as near as
any other to monopoliziEg product
is the American Tinplate Co., but it
now has at least six competitors, some
of whom are charging their works,
and when it advanced prices it could
not exceed the rise in its raw material
and wages, and the cost of tinplate to
the American people is now about
SO, GOO, 600 a year less than it was be-
fore the Mckinley tariff made the
industry possible in this country.
So far as trusts involve any danger,
the republican party proposes to sub
ject them to publicity and TO every
wholesome restraint and regulation
that can constitutionally be enacted.
When the republicans in congress at
the recent session made an attempt to
amend the Constitution so as to gain
more power in this respect, nearly
every democrat went on record
against it. Now am not SO unrea-
sonable as to claim that the republican
arty makes no mistakes, or that all
ur prosperity is due TO protection or
the gold standard, or that the demo-
y
for I remember that Shakespeare said
"Sweet are the uses of adversely"
But history proves that all the serious
reverses which have come to this
country have resulted from demo-
cratic juggling with the revenues or
currency and all the gigantic strides
of progress have resulted from repub
lican principles and republican con-
troll
But more than ten years ago our
vast int ernal trade surpassed the ex-
ternal commerce of all the civilized
nations combined by more than go per
cent. Not only has this home trade
continued to advance by leaps and
bounds, but our foreign CONNIE has
gained fast ter than that of any other
nation. In recent address at Phila
delphia, Senator Aldrich of Rhode
Island showed that the domestic
exports of the United States increased
42.4 per cent. during the last ten
years, while those of England increas-
ed lis per cent. and those of Germany
1873 per cent. During the fourteen
years ending 1899 the value of the
domestic exports of Great Britain
increased s99, 1000, 900, those OF Ger
many s212,OOO,OO0 and those of the
United States S47S, 000,0 600. During
the fiscal year closed last Saturday
we imported more material for man
ufactures and exported more manu-
features than in any former year.
For the first time in our history we
exported more manufactures than we
imported. The aggregate, when the
returns are all in, is expected TO reach
1926, 00O. 900, or about $50, 600, 600 more
than for the year before, while our
total foreign trade reached in round
numbers 1000, OO0, 900. The PhiladeI
phia platform says that 'tno single
fact can more strikingly tell the story
of what republican government means
to the ountry than this-that while
during the whole period of 107 veal
from 1890 to 1897 there was an excess
of exports over imports of only 1888
OBS, 497, there has been in the short
three years or the present republican
administration an excess of exports
over imports in the enormous sum of
81 ,4S3, 537 ,094. During the thirty years
of protection, 1860 to 1880, our popu-
lation doubled, our wheat and corn
manufactures doubled, our coal prod
net increased eleven times, our pig
iron product twelve times, and the
mileage of our railroads more than