Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-10-27

would be absolutely p0WerieSS. II was
a pro-trust, and not an antitrust,
amendment Besides the government
would have had the power to dissolve
every labor union in America. 1t
Would be found that it wouldn't work
against the trusts. but it would against
the labor unions The Democratic
party says to put on the free list every
trust-controlled article; squeeze the
water out of the stocks; and do away
with special privileges. What is
The Foe of Honest Toll.
The foe of labor is private monopoly.
Down in the gladiatorial arena, Nero
fought and always won, because he
was clothed in impenetrable armor,
while the gladiators were naked and
weaponless. 1t is not naked capital
that labor needs to fear, but capital
clothed in impenetrable armor. The
Democratic metnod-"equal rights to
all. and special privileges to none'-
is the only method that can help the
masses. We believe prosperity should
be, as Lincoln said the length OF
mans leg should belong enough to
reach from his body TO the ground.
1t should be long enough to reach the
ground where the common people
dwell The value of a mans wages is
measured by what it will obtain OF the
necessaries of life.
DIR. Sample asked those in his audi
ence who were getting higher wages
than in 1896, measured 10y the cost OF
Lying, to raise their hands. Not hand
went up. He said he had asked the
same question in South Dakota, and
one hand went up. He talked to the
man, who told him he was out of a
job in 1886. Then he asked his present
vocation, and the man mumbled inco-
herently, but the speaker was Informed
that he was a Republican postmaster.
DR.. Sample then told very appro-
pirate story, after which he gave a
few
Prosperity (o Facts.
He said that on August 18th c. P.
Huntington died in New York, leav-
ing an estate valued at $4,000, 900. On
the same day thirty-Seven men, women
and children were buried in the Pot
ters' field in that city. He told of the
condition of the poor in New York, and
emphasized the fact that even the
poorest parents try to save the final
disgrace of interment in the Potter's
Field. In 4oJ9, 2,755 children and g.
OH adults, making 4,767, were inferred
in the Potters' Field. They did not en-
joy so much prosperity that they were
baptized in it, to say the least.
Henry Frick, the partner of Andrew
Carnegie, stated upon oath that Car
negie's daily income was $6S,000. The
President of the United States draws
only $4,000 year. Carnegies income
in single day is $4,000 more than the
President receives in year. Does he
earn it?
John D. Rockefeller's income was
per cent. on a billion dollars-$40 ,000,-
900 year, or 5000, 100000 in five years.
If Adam began to accumulate 500 a
day, for 300 days year, in 5000 years
he would have accumulated just $780,
100000, or $20,000,000 less than Rock
efeller's income in five years.
Democracy stands for government
of the people. by the people, and for
the people; Republicanism for a gov
eminent of the people, by the trusts,
and for the plutocracy. They say the
Democratic party is in favor of .ne
trusts the same as the Republican par
ty. Why, then, are the trusts not in
favor of the Democratic party? They
name only two out of the four hundred
trusts, the cotton and ice trusts; the
cotton trust because SenaNr Jones
owns some stock in it; and the ice
trust, because Judge Van Wyck, Mr..
Croker and others own stock in it.
why did not Governor Roosevelt tell
all the facts? There are fifteen direc-
tors of the ice trust, all Republicans,
and the manager is Boss Platt's son.
by Reason of the Trusts
we are in the Philippines. We are
there for the same reason that Great
Britain is in South Africa. Hobson,
the celebrated author, went to South
Africa with all the prejudices of a
Dritisher, and wrote a book on the
South African question, in which there
is a chapter on For What Are We
Fighting?" Hobson says 1--WE are fight
ing to enhance the speculative profits
, of the mine works, and to enable the
mine owners to get workmen at low
wage" We are in the Philippines for
: the same reason. Chinese labor is
paid from to II cents day, and the
product will be placed in competition
with American labor. Because capital
desires special privileges then, we are
in the Philippines to-day.
DR.. Sample said ne did not wish to
be misunderstood. He was never an
office-seeker, and never expected to be.
He was born and bred a Republican,
and voted for Garfield, Hayes, Blaine
and Harrison. In 1896 he left the par
ty, but it was not on the currency
question. He saw that there was on
one hand tendency toward the CEN
tralization of wealth and power, and
on the other hand a determination to
preserve the rights of the people-Mc-
!, Kinley the champion of the former,
and Bryan the latter. He was still a
Lincoln Republican, but not a McKin-
ley Republican. 1t was impossible to
be both at the same time. He sug-
gested as symbol for the Republican
party statue of a tall gaunt figure,
with one foot on Porto Rican and the
other on Filipino; one hand filching
from the pockets of the people, the
other filling the pockets of the trusts;
and from the mouth streamer bearing
the inscription, What are you going
to do about it?"
Republicans say imperialism is a
nightmare. l don't care for names.
Question of Nomenclature.
A rose would smell as sweet by any