Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1900-11-02
REPUBLICAN HYPHOCRAcY.

The Baltimore Sun in scattering |
article on trusts and the deception and
mendacity of the Republican party inl
regard to them says in part: ."
1t is obvious that all these conflict
ing Republican stories about trusts
cannot be true. II, as Hanna and OGn-
ers declare, there are no trusts, then IT
follows that they cannot be doing the
vast amount of good which other equal
Iy conspicuous Republican orators
claim they are doing. If they do not
exist thew cannot be making all the
comforts of life cheaper for us. On
the other hand, if they do exist, and
thew are doing all this good In the
world. what do other Republican spell
binders mean by claiming credit for
the Republican party, as Mi. loose
welt. for example, does. for having done
all it could to curb them and being
ready to go further, and even to amend
the Constitution for their more perfect
restraint and repression? We will not
waste time trying to reconcile these
utterly contradictory Republican as
sertions. Every one of them is false.
and to reconcile three lies, each OF
which gives the lie to the other two, is
a plain imposslblilty. 1t is mere lying
| to saw there are no trusts. 1t is mere
living to say that the present Republl-
can Administration has ever lifted It's
finger in an honest attempt to enforce
existing OF secure the passage OF new
laws against the trusts. 1t is mere ly-
ing. also. to say that the mOnOpOllSt1c
trusts have benefited the people either
by cheapening the cost of their COM
modities or in any other way. And it
is more than mere lying-it is rank
hypocrisy and deception as well-tO say
THAT these trusts have been organized
or are conducted with the slightest in
tention to reduce prices or to benefit
, the general consumer in any way, or tt
E do ANYTHING except make their owl
expenses as small and their own earn
ings and profits as large as possible
, crushing all competitors with one han(
+ land Fleeing all consumers with the 9th
er.
OF these three Republican campaign
I lies about trusts the last is the worst
' Conclusive proof is at hand, in col,
e figures that bear official and unblase'
witness, that the trusts have not Onl
not lowered prices to the America
UuO IofO NSoucSAy AeNACS
: them. and are at this moment fOrcln
J. the people of this country to pay NOR
for their goods than they are sellin
;. them for to European buyers, ate
e paying freight on them across the Al
y lantic. Lead, sold to American buyer
O by the Lead Trust at $40 per. IL
. pounds, is sold to British buyers a
;. 1854 per 100 pounds, and the trus
u pays the freight over. Wire and viii
j. nails of all kinds are bought by tt
o English farmer and mechanic from th
. American Wire and Wire Nail Trust
:" at prices ranging from 50 cents to ST.
per 100 pounds less than the America
q farmer and mechanic can buy then
Is lAmerican-made steel, iron ore, til
plate. cement and long list of 9TH
~ articles are all sent to England al
is sold there by our alleged benefactOr
d the trusts, at lower prices than the
, will permit the American buyer
- have them for. @f
} The Leather Trust, controlling Il
l. production of boots and shoes, h;
~ steadily increased the prices of tho
n very necessary articles since Januar
!" 1899. The Glass Trust has done tt
y same thing with glass. The Rubb
"a Trust advanced the price of rubber
le per cent. during the year 1899, and
is still maintaining it far above the pri
10 before the trust was formed. TT
prices of cotton goods were also rails
ID so per cent. by the Cotton Goods Tru
H. between January and December of Ia
year. The Salt Trust makes the dai
:" farmers of New York and the Eastel
IL States generally pay 81. 40 per barrel +
IN their salt. In 1897, the year McKinl
ne began his trust fostering administl
ton, it only cost them 81. 10 per barr
The Borax Trust charges Americ'
consumers II cents a pound for
monopolized product. 1t sells it to E
1T ropean buyers for 81 cents pound.