Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-10-13

there are no trusts. In the Senate he
said there are bad trusts, good trusts
and Indifferent trusts. There is q di-
versity of opinion as to whether we
have trusts OF not. Between the years
of 81 and '95 the Standard Oil Com
pany paid out twenty-five per cent of
it's capital stock in dividends; in 81.
thirty per cent; in '9S, ~thirty-one per
cent, and in "99, thlrty-one per cent
again
These trust magnates have the peo-
pie by the threats. Why, in the State
Of Ohio / have found hundreds of fac
tories that have been closed down as a
result of these combines"
He then cited the case of a baker who
was kept busy supplying the demand
for biscuits, until finally the trust, the
New York Biscuit Company, cut the
prices gradually to such an extent
that his business was crushed out. He
also spoke of three Independent oil
operators who had complained during
the past weeks that the Standard
Oil Company had cut down the prices
of this product that they had lost
heavily in the business. Now. as to
The Sugar Trust.
You can, no doubt, remember, when
sugar sold for three or four cents a
pound, but since the combine absorbed
sugar, it has gone up in price TO eve
cents a pound.
How can you compete within rich
wealth and perfidy? Now, this admin
istration stands for this. 1t protects
them, and if in this campaign they fur
nish the same amount of money for
protection, don't you think they will
receive it, for let me assur you that
the masses have Jneir eyes open.
The trusts destroy individual ef-
forts; they take out of business the
merchants and manufacturers Of
smaller capital. So all owe the Unit
ed States these are the conditions that
confront the people and are being up
held by the administration
AS to the question of tariff, he point
ed out that Porto Rico had 81, 500, 900
in its treasury. They had an agree
ment with Spain that after July l,
1898, they should have absolute free
trade. Now what are the conditions
there to-day? 1t Is this: A tax OF 15
per cent. is placed upon everything
that comes in anu goes out of that is
land. They say that this money viii
be used for educational and other ben
eficial purposes, >ut let me impress you
with the idea that 1t will be used to
pay the salaries Of Governor Allen,
who has gone down there, and Others.
There is no question but what
Dewey was in consultation with Aguin-
aldo at Hong Kong before he went to
Manila. 1t is also on record that this
government furnished the F~ilipinos
with six thousand arms. How have
we treated the Filipinos? Why, we
have shot free trade and Christianity
into them. Do you think that 1t Is
possible that those people whom Spain
tried to conquer for years a ever be
overcome? How many Americans do
you suppose will meet their
Death BY Bullet
or disease in that climate before those
natives are subdued?
Let me tell you, all those brown
and yellow people, if they are con-
quered, will be pitted against the labor
of the Caucasian race and the artisan.
Such a only be the case under our
constitution. And if all the secret
documents were known, l am certain
that the Republican party could never
carry a State in this country. | have
seen the original agreement between
Mckinley and the Sultan of Sulu.
There are two copies, n in English
and the other in Arabic. The news
papers asked to see this agreement,
and they were handed --e copy in Ara
bic. 1t provides that the Sultan and
his subordinates are to receive large
salaries. 1 love the American flag as
we'll as Mckinley. My father died at
Antietam, and his successor also died
for the honor or that flag.
"It is useless for me to call atten-
ton to the other issues. They ask
why we do O speak of the income
tax. Everything is taxed excepting
money, and the dollar is held above the
man. They speak of the full dinner
pail. They have such little con-
sideration for the intelligence of the
people that they think it is only nee
essary to appeal to their empty stom-
achs? fCheers.)
He next referred to the depressing
strike situation in the coal regions Of
Pennsylvania, saying that the miners
were unjustly forced to buy their own
powder at an exorbitant price. These
conditions must change, and if this
form of government is perpetuated
you are responsible for it. We must
settle it with the ballot"
A year ago last November
In southern Idaho.
he continued, there were ten lead
mines in the Couer d'Alene region.
The capitalists got hold of them. If
the employees OF --ese mines work
there continually they can only endure
it for ten years, for the poisonous
fumes of the mineral at the end OF
that period will invariably cause
death. Those two companies COM
bined and later a strike ensued
and their powder house was blown up.
Now is the question as TO how much
crime there was in that. You or I 10
not approve of sucn = thing, but what
were these poor men to do? Then
came the military forces and arrests
were made. These men refused re-
ligious succor TO the men in the bull
pens, into whic- e4ey were landed.
Their wives were even insulted by the
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