The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1900-02-28
BRY ANS CHANCES.
The Trusts Are Driving Thous.
ancs to the Democratic Party.
so SAYS JAMES cREELMAN.
Ne Declares that the Crushing
Power Of the Corporations
is Hurting the Repub-
iican Party.
iican Party.

la recent issue Of the NeE lolk
journal Mr. James CreeIman, who has
been travelling extensively over the
Northern snG Eastern States, says the
rushing power of the trusts 50 un,
scruru!ously exercised is forcing the
mali dealers and manufacturers out OF
he Republican party into she Demo,
>.ra,ic party. Here is tire letter Of NJ.
$'rce!nan in full:
The most sigpiican, fact revealed
:.y Nr. Bryans tour through the east,
,rp states is that thousands Of small!
business Hen aud manufacturers VIII
supported Mckinley in 1896 have de-
.,idcd to support the Democratic party
,a;s year. \ moro significant move
rnen, c4; hardly be imagined. This
,ueaos ,s.&t the crushing power exerted
l.y the ,rc>ts is driving the vie':uss Of
this all-epgulipg, sapaeious system OF
cen,raiiza,ion out of the party domln-
a,ed by Mr.. Mckinley and Senator
siaana, the open agents Of trusts aud
,jnGicatcs.
Fer the first time the trust issue has
become .actor-probably controlling
!ac,or-ia practical poli,ic<. not only
ii the west and south, out also IL the
EAST aeG particularly IN New 1olS.
While Seaator Hama Is arranging With
The trusts for a campaign fund Of
twenty-five million do.iars-that IS
said to ;e the estimated sun-Mr.
Bryan has been receiving assurances
from hundreds and hundreds o. bust.
tess men who opposed him ia 1896
hat they will aid him now is self de,
tcuse.
There is but little real opposition in
she country 10 corporate combinauoDs
aad trusts formed and operated for the
purpose oi reducing Necessary expenses
aud solving the problem Of cheap aud
iuie!sigent distribution. WoIkmen
aud CONSUMERS alike recognize that or
SANITATION AID system are necessary CO.
Iollsrics Of cheap production, and that
With reasonable opportunity for COM
letition the genera! public will ultl-
rna,cly ge. the bent Gts. But the cry
WHICH mugs from state 10 Stale and IN
cseascs in volume and intensity every
:eek is a CRY against system Of abso'
lutte monopoly, backed by government
fayoritism, which is crushing out sD'all
rrcprletors, shutting the gates of op
so.tuni,y and converting large aud
:.upor,slt body of hitherto indspeud-
D:,t blsiuess men into SHARED EN-,
,.nyes. The change has been swift
asd almost nelseless.
Ii every city and town are to be
EnuEd scores Of hired men who, only
Two Years ago, were IL business on their
ewn account. These men were help
less 10 r,sist the overpowcnng weight
OF the .5ust s. s,em. Les apy man IN
any part Of the country Investigate this
statement IN his own community. The
great daug,r which threatens the coun-
.ry IS tina, no mau will be able to en-
gage IN any uf the businesses controlled
BY trusts unless he does so as hire
lirg, and that, Nth competition dc.
s.ru,ed, tho prices Of necessarles OF
life will be fixed arbitrarily by the
uusts, without restraint.
80 10 any store il your nels lshoorhood
avd ask whether the trusts have re
auced prices The rapid risse in the
srices within the past Year Is startling,
stuost ircIedlble. Senator Hams
says publicly that the trusts are doing
good BY lowering the cost Of manuEac-
lure anu distribution That is true.
The Journal has said tie same thing.
i, Is ! part ef the order Of progress.
Organization and systematic economy,
whether by trusts or otherwise, must
cheapen Manufacture. have failed to
6ud any nan whose opinions on any
subject are not worth hearing who Is
Wiling TO say that it IS not good
thing to lessen the cost Of producing
apy necessary Of life. But Senator
Hanna has uolhiDg to say about the
fac: that the trusts have become SO
powerful, 80 RUTHLESS, that, whlle the
cost of manufacture Is growing less, the
piice to the consumer Is Increasing.
The startling rlse in tie pIlce OF ar
;ieles Manufactured BY trusts complete.
II uuua>ks the gigantic industrial and
commercial conspiracy Ehich IS bleed
ing the whole country. No man Is safe
now. No mau dsres to interfere With
the pillage. Within one year the trusts
have nearly doubled in power and IN
perfection Of organisation. Yet the
prices in the retail stores everywhere
are going up and up and up. Ii you
are not already aware Of this ask your
wife, your housekeeper, your butcher,
your grocer. This is the moss over
whelming thing on the whole social,
POLITICAL or1econonlic landscape. This
u IS that is driving tens of thousands,
if not hundreds Of thousands, Of new
recruits 10 the democratic party.
Monopoly stalks grimly on the ashes
Of competition.
These arc not theories-they are
plain facts ! personally know that
even important bankers have informed
MIR. Br>an within the past few weeks
that they are no longer independent;
ths, they feel the enslsvlng, humlllst-
ing clutch of the great trusts and syn
d,cs,es, forcing them this way and that
agains, their will. The business COM
mupi,y is losing it's independence; the
trusts, with a newly awakening reslls-
alton of power, are raising the prices
OF everything they msnufactu1e; III
small towns and villages clerks are TAX
icg the place OF pzoprietors.
President Mckinley and Attorney
General Griggs are sympathe,lcsIly ln-
active. They know that the supreme
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