Lewiston daily teller. (Lewiston, Idaho) 1900-1901, 1900-11-02

~ 'A N'A'' eaS uCIuOCIdtS say there
has been no prosperity within the last
few years and endeavor to arrav the
people who are not rich against those who
are well to do, in face of the fact that
three-fourths of the men who are reputed
mlllionaires in the United States have
made their money within the last gem
Grafton. Still the democrats say that a
man had better chance years ago than
he has today. -Four thousand years ago
the old pessimistic Babylonian thought
times were better in his youth than in
his old age, yet Babylon was a great ma
ton for one thousand years after he died
and was not in the height of its glory
when he wrote.
We are not going to the bow vows if
the republicans succeed, as the democrats
tell US. We are not going to be eternally
and forever damned if the democrats
succeed this year, but we do know two
things positively. We know that under
the present wise and statesman-like ad-
ministration of the republican party, we
are going ahead, and if there is no
change we will continue to 60 ahead.
Business men know what to expect from
the administration and the world knows
what to expect. The common people"
OF whom Mr.. Bryan pirates, know
that what to expect if the republican adj
ministration continues. But all is con-
lecture if the democrats succeed and this
conjecture will lead men to conserva-
lively curtail all operations in which they
are engaged until the democratic policy
is shaped. If it is shaped in the manner
now forecast by the democrats them
selves we will have a repetition of the
last democratic administration and will
see the army of the unemployed march
ing again across the continent menacing
our free institutions. Do we want such
things? Yet we can expect nothing bet
ter if the laboring man and the farmer
and every citizen is to believe that he is
ill treated now and that he will have bet
ter opportunities under democratic ad-
ministration.
The question was asked week ago,
How will the democrats raise the wages
of the laboring man, the price of wheat
and down the trusts9 The question has
been unanswered to date. A reply has
been made to the effect that the farmer
and laborer will have better opportuni-
ties than they enjoy at present. How?
Does the man who replied mean to say
that the laborer will have better oppor-
tunity to live when there will be a
smaller demand for his products on &C.
count of the wholesale closing down Of
manufactures?
And the question about trusts is not
answered except to deny the statement
made by the writer relative to trusts in
England. Notwithstanding the denial it
is true that there are great trusts in Eng
land and in every country in the world.
The first trust was organized in 1865.
The greatest increase, however, has been
in the last few years but the democrats
do not say how they will stop the forma-
ton of combinations Of capital. Unjust
combinations will be stopped by what
ever machinery the nation possesses
whether republican or democratic admin
tration and the sensible people Of the
country know it. But the stoppage OF
combinations in general cannot be him
dered as it is world movement. A tenn
porary halt has been called in the craze
for industrial combination and the matter
is being studied more carefully at present
than was the case even two years ago.
The halt, if there is republican victory,
will continue until more is known of the
real effects of combination and if bene-
fetal the movement towards combina.
ton will go on until the world reaches
the heaven of the socialists. If combiua-
tons are not best there will be no more
of them. But this we know, that if the
democrats succeed there will be wild
scramble in the direction Of combination
in those industries which now have