The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1900-05-17
tn. Condition ofI..,,or

now knOWn tnat the GOVefnIleUt cdu
cut largely under contract prices.
The Condition of Labor.
There is no denying the fact that Ia
Dor is not in as satisfactory a condition
as the expOnents Of prosperity would
have us believe. 1t does not respond to
the Mckinley prosperity and the full
tin pals of the perambulating speech
President are limited to meta
phOr and to the comic Republican
press. II SO prosperous, why these
strikes, bOycOtts, lOckOuts. etc? Per-
haps there is prosperity, and labor is
TO obtain small portion
Of it, but mt this present writing there
are no indications that it Is receiving
what 1t should receive and what it is
to receive according to the pre-
of Mr.. Mckinley and the
benevolent trusts. There never was a
time when, and there never was a ma
ton that has increased in its Industrial
to such a gigantic extent
as have the United States. Such an
increase should have attached to 1t the
element Of prosperity as necessary
adjunct. But labor is not rising up to
the level of this wonderful prosperity,
and its unrest is caused by its struggle
to break through the restraining crust.
But this means resistance TO labor. 1t
is deprivation Of the good things at
upon the startling era Of trade
expansion, and when we seek for the
obstacle in the way of labor, the OBJ
stacle which 1t is striving to surmount
by the only means in its power. to wit.
strikes and bOycOtts, We find 1t in the
trusts and combines and also in capt.
tai in the sense Of ex-Speaker Reed
that is to say, capital which is not
money, but expansive credit commonly
known as shares Of stock" 1t is fig
ured by the New York Journal. and 1t
Is a fact, that the capital stock Of the
combines now drawing percentage
thereon out Of the people amounts to
ten thousand million dollars. This Is
capital, and it Is the capital which is
against labor. We know that
it is not money, for our circulating
medium does not amount to One-fifth
Of that capitalization, but We do know
that that capitalization is turned into
wealth, drawing to
itself the total amount of our circulat-
ing medium as its profit, and this add
ed to the other multiplications Of our
medium, or our actual mon
ey, compels one dollar Of actual money
to perform the work Of three hundred
and thirty dollars Of credit money. No
labor in the world and no combination
Of labor can successfully fight against
this burden. The only remedy Is to re-
turn to the people the power to create
money which they have been deprived
Of and to destroy the criminal aggres-
sors upon their finances.
Imperial Extravagance.
There is certainly enough conclusive
evidence to demonstrate that the Uni
ted States treasury is being depleted to
keep up the extravagant expenses Of
an official style proper only to an i'm
partial regime. In his report upon the
Bacon resolutions demanding infOrma-
ton concerning government expendi-
lures in Cuba, Secretary Root seems
inclined to throw the blame upon ex-
Secretary Alger-that is to say, Secre-
tary Alger having inaugurated the sys-
TEN Of making enormous allowances of
money to officials In Cuba for mere
purposes of Official dignity, continues
In his footsteps and winks at the viO-
latiOn of law involved. 1t is q little
curious that such AN idea could have
found lodgment In the brain Of an
citizen. whether In a private
or official capacity. Though there
should be no independent action ON the
part of a President Of the United States
fO- which he could not he held respOn
sible, yet such has been and Is the con-
tinual conduct Of Mr.. Mckinley and
all the members of his cabinet since
the Spanish war.
Our occupation of Cuba Is not an
occupation. 1t is the personal
occupation Of the commander in-chief
Of the army of the United States. True.
he is the President of the United States,
but in his disbursement of fabulous
fees and In sancti0ning the expenditure
Of enormous sums Of money to his own
official appointees in Cuba, he is not
acting as President of the United
States. nor as an official at all. but as
cOmmander-in-chief who has no su-
perior, not even Congress. II Gems.
and Ludlow were allowed thou
sands of dollars beyond their official
il Col Bliss, the collector of
customs, received a special allowance;
II Director Of the Post RathbOne re-
ceived an additional allowance, and
others received large sums Of money
for house rent, horses. carriages and for
luxurious paraphernalia, the people of
the United States have a right to know
they or the Cubans pay this
If it comes out Of the Cubans,
It is simply robbery. and II out Of the
treasury of the United States. it is alb
unwarranted by law for the
very reasons specified by the imperial
lists themselves. that they are not there
rs the United States.
Antitrust BOsh.
Has the time arrived when all OF the
people can be fooled all the time? The
great party Of trusts seems to think SO,
'Or 1t is making preparations to deceive
hem by hypOcritical assurances Of
anxiety for the public welfare owing to
is own creatures the trusts. The
Times puts the matter in
he following clear and expressive
fashion:
Are the American people such fools
Is that they cannot see the impudence
If antitrust utterances from the
mouths of men who are owned and Op-
rated by the trusts; who owe their