Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1900-10-18

them. They can get things at store
at double prices; they can Pay S2.T5 a
keg for powder worth III. 25 and in rro
protion for other things. But the net
result Of all miners work is said to
be in cash at the end of the month
about 81.
"Mark, who knows the owners and
manag rs of the Coal Trust, which are
this ooal-carrying railroads IN the an
thracite reg ons OF Pennsylvania hopes
TO settle this great trouble, which In
ordinary times would defeat party.
He goes to his friends, not in Penn
sylvania, not Wilkesbarre or Scranton,
where these miners live, but Mark
Hanna goes down into Wall street. to
the heads and controlling forces of the
great railway corporations, and at his
pleading they agree to advance the
miners wages 10 per cent provided any
reduction they make 10 their powder
shall be counted as part OF that 10
per cent. Then all the trust newspapers
gleefu!ly announce that the strike is
settled.
"Brt 1T is not. And the men in
Pennsylvania, who have been little
better than slaves, insist that their
organization shall be recognized; that
agreements shall be made for them by
that organization, aud that they shall
not be compelled to pay outrageous
prices as they have done to the trust,
which by raising the price Of warmth
causes the people to shiver.
"What is the effect of all these
trustsH Why, fellow-ci citizens, thew ave
barring the door to all the avenues of
individual enterprise and work. The
trusts are making it impossible almost
for young and energetic man, no mat
ter il he mas a reasonable amount of
capital, to start out on independent lines
to achieve success and a competence by
his own exertions. They are making
clerks and underlings of competent
merchants; they are driving them on
to take somebody else's orders and
lowering the standard of manliness in
| that way.
"This is no overdrawn picture Of the
| evils of trust MANAGEMENT. AS long
as everyone il sIeculating, as long as
everybody believes that money is to be
made the buying and selling of stock
and materials will continue, and fioti-
| tious prosperity will apparently exist.
But when, as they must, hard times
and business depression occur, then
throughout the country the mills and
factories will be shut dGwn, throwing
| a large and increasing number of men
out OF employment without the per-
| sonaI cares Of solicitude for their work
men which has heretofore existed
where independent manufacturers con-
trolled the mills.
"Then, indeed, will the evils of the
trusts become manifest They have to
some extent been manifested to us
right here at home. In New Castle
the Tube Trust has purchased the old
| TasKer mills, and now they are shut
down, presumably for good. How
many men have been thrown out of en-
| p oyment by that | do not know, but
know that by the last census taken at
| New Castle that town has less inhabi-
tants. has less active, intelligent work
ingmen employed now than even IL
| years ago.
81 know, too, another factory right
in Wilmington. managed and operated
by one OF our we'll known citizens,
| which has been bought by the Glass
Earthenware Pipe Trust. That, too,
is shut down and big placard upon
| the buildings proclaims that the prop.
erty is for sale. know that other con
Germs have gone into these trusts, and
do not know that a single working
man or single working woman has
had his wages raised or been benefited
by such action.
1.-THE Republican party in its plat.
form declares that it is opposed tC
trusts. Mark Hanna says there are nc
trusts, and yet every trust in the coun.
try favors the Republican party. The
owners and managers and responsible
heads will all vote the Republican
ticket. The Democratic party says in
its platform what the Republicans say
that it is opposed to trusts and mo
nopolies, and yet every trust and mo-
nopoly is opposed TO the Democratic
party. Which platform is honest anc
which il fraud?
"But the Republicans tell you they
will give you full dinner pail; they
say they will keep your stomaohs full il
you will work 10 hours II day. The
black slaves of the South, before thu
war never complained of having al
empty dinner pail. They had goot
clothes and they had their children
carefully housed, fed and developed
Yet in this year OF our Lord A. ID
1900, the best thing the Republican
party can find to promise to the indus
trial white slaves of the trusts is q, full
dinner pail. The white men of thu
Middle and Northern States are prom
ised what the slave always had"
This speakers drove to Prettyman'
Corner, where they held rousinl
night meeting. Mr.. George Reynolds
presided. Messrs. William L. Sirman
nominee for State Treasurer; Thoma
]. Gray, Walter NJ. Hearne, William
j. West and David Rath. nominees TO
the House of Delegates. and Peter j
Hart, nominee for sheriff, were ais,
present. Mrs. William g. Gray enter
tanned Mr.. Ford and the other speaker