Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1900-08-10

| ueIVlng IN MS papers and books at his
desk In the rear of the store and did
not hear Zechisl Jones come in.
at appears to me, Uncle Josh, that
you air mighty deep thinkin' this morn
ing. L might of packed off the store
and you wouldn't knowed it," was
Zeke's free and easy sslutatiOn.
"Y es sir, Zeke, I'm sdoin' what every
voter ought to do this year. I'm a try
in to understand what I'm vOtin' for,
and who I'm vOtin' for. You see |
take the Plymouth Republican. You
know John Siders prints that paper
Well, knOwed John back in Elenoy.
and l know him now. His paper is jest
John in print. John sees everything
over a hide partisan nose and
believes in the doctrine that the king
can do no wrong The party is his
king. Did We ever read, Zeke, of the
prisoner In the French bsstile, who was
kept in prison for twenty years, and
was only allowed to see the daylight
through a two-lnch hole? Well, sir,
when he got out be would look at the
sky, but he could only see two-inch
spot of blue. He saw everything
through that pesky hole. Well, John
Siders, he sees everything through atwo-
inch republican hole 1t makes him
narrow between the eyes. He says in
this weeks paper that the county will
be ruined if Mr.. Hanna is not elected
president agin."
Il didn't come in to argie about John
Siders, Uncle Josh, I'm gittin' inter
ested in them trusts; they air pinchin
me jest now, and | want to hear more
about them
"N hen you was In last Saturday,
told you how they leyied tax on you
and put the tax in their pocket. That
amt the worst of it, Zeke. You have
ambitious, bright boy; what air you
goin' to do with him 2"
"He's got notion of goin' into busi-
ness. He says farmin don't pay any
more, and he wants to get out into the
world and try his hand"
"That's it, Zeke, that's it. Well, the
time was when a bright, ambitious
young man could do that. There was
fair field and an open race. We used
to say, The race is to the swift and the
battle to the strong But, Zeke. under
trustridden system of business, every
chance to do business on your own &C
count is held by the trusts. Individual
enterprise, and individual exertlOn in
an independent business, Is monopo-
lized by trust. Let's jest illustrate by
cases you and l know Of Ye remem-
Der few years ago your boy bought a
homemade bicycle. made by Under
wood & Walls, at Plymouth. Well,
they started wit small capital. Any
body with small sum of money could
make bicycles. | told you the other
day that the American Bicycle com
pany was expressly formed to squeeze
out these men with moderate means,
and it did. You might give your son
$4,000 and tell him to go into the man
ufacturing business, and he would have
to git him a powerful magnifyin' glass
TO find line thot amt in trust. Your
little $4,000, Zeke, wouldn't buck
million-dollar trust very long. Your
boy can leave the farm and go into one
of the trust shops and work. That's
what it's comm to under the trust sys-
tenn. Employers on one side and en-
pl0yed on the other. Zeke, that's Brit
ish. not American. DO ye know that
boy becomes mere machine then? In
penitentiaries men go by number. No.
"a means Jim Smith, but nobody knows
Jims name; he is 81. Over in Pull
mans shops, if your boy should get
job there, he'd be, fer instance, No. So
not John ones, son of Zechial Jones,
and he'd not be known except by num-
Der. Zeke, this here is death to re
public when your boy and mine is num-
bered by trust; he is their property
They say to him, No sc, you vote fer
Mckinley, or quit It's fer our interests
and if you expect to work to our inter
ests you vote as we tell you Zeke,
Abe Lincoln wouldn't have stayed with
party which is supported by that kind
of business.
"Zeke, did you ever chance to see that
picture called The Man with Hoe p
Well, sir, he stands lesnin' on q big hoe,
and lookin more like a sullen dumb
brute than a man. A Teller has writ a
poem on it, Zeke, and it's comm to
that stage when there'll be millions like
him. When you grind men down so
that they can barely git enough to live
on and go by numbers, their children
can't be educated, and then good bye
republic and all hail the empire"
"Well, Uncle Josh, must be sgoin'."
"Good-dsy, Zeke; good-dsy, neighbor.
l aint done with tslkin' with you yet.
This is mighty interestin' campaign
to a man who loves his flag more'n mis-