The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-09-01

tees show the presence of Mr.. oxnard, I
chief lobbyist for the sugar trust, and,
his advice, which was sobeycd whenthe
Customs tariff was Imposed on COM
merce between Porto Rico and other
ports OF the United States. "a parallel;
is drawn between the Porto Rico bill
and the British colonial System, show
Ing that the Rep blican party prefers
the British colonial systenitto the. Re-
publican territorial systemtot the Uni
ted States. {S't y,
Trusts.
Part five treats OF trusts, giving a,
list OF those, Institutions and giving the
remedies Proposed by each party. It
gives the'IecoTds OF the victory. In Con-
gress of the armor plate trust when,
that body,abdicatedit its control over, the
subject OF the price Of armor plate and
gave 1t over to the. secret rys of 1 the
navy. This littdid In the. faee;of the fact!
that the United States has been COM
PEELED to pay $500 n ton for plate which
was being sold by the same trust to the
Russian government at $500 ,ton.y
There Is a chapter On the dscrimlna-
ton by the railroad companies In favor
OF the trusts. which gives them abso-y
lutte control OF the prices OF all the.
products dealt in by them. . The. ship
subsidy blu for the ship-bnildlng trusts
Is reviewed. 5s5 s
The Money Question.
six IS devoted to the money
question. The first chapter is a record
OF Mckinley's broken pledge for inter-
national bimetallism and demonstrates
by the speech OF Senator Wolcottg and
by Mckinley's message in favor, of the
Indianapolis gold standard plan, that
ansinternational agreement for bImet-
tnlllsm was only prevented bya treach-
erous blow by Mckinley himself. when
1t was on the eve of contamination.
Senator Wolcott quotes from the,
speeches OF members OF the British
ministry. and these quotations demon
strate this fact. The interesting state
ment is made that during Mckinley'si
administration Secretary Gage has,
coined b3,o0o,0oo OF 'tifty-cent clipped
dollars. all OF which are preserved by
the gold standard act as q legal tender.
MI. Gage has Just expressed great fear
that II Mr., Bryan Is elected he would
cause these $1,000. 900 OF Gage dollars to
be paid out OF the treasury as money.
An analysis OF the gold standard, Ma,
tional bank. anti-sreenbacSsf financial
bill Is given, mainly from the speech OF
Senator Teller, together with. Senator;
Chambers protest against the same.
The relations Of the Standard Oil Ma
tional City Bank New York, with the
treasury department and Its purchase
OF the old New York City custom house
are fully set forth. It Is shown that
this healthy institution Is an annex Of
the treasury department.. and paid the
United States eyer s3.O00,0co for the
custom house. by keeping that amount
in its own possession. as part OF It's
own non-lnterestj bearing government
deposits: also that the title to the
building remained with the United
States by deferring the payment of the
other small portion of the purchase
money indefinitely, in order to- cheat
the state and city Of New York out Of
legal taxes.
Labor and Pension Legislation.
Labor organizations and the treat,
ment they have received from the two
great parties respectively form the
subject OF important chapters. = The.
chapter on pensions shows that not
only the pension act in favor of the
soldiers has been construed greatly to
the 2d!sadvantaSe OF thousands OF
them, but that the present commission
er perslstently disregards new act
passed expressly 10 do away with such
mlsconstructions. Other minor subjects
are dealt with. The text book will be
found to deal with all the living issues
OF the campaign and to truthfully show
from the record the attitude OF each
party upon them. Writers, and speakers
will find in It abundant material to aid
them In their labors. and references to
sources OF Information from which they
can make further investigations"