The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1901-10-26

UocH ueuOuHceu dnu HDuseu Us uls-
turbcrs and worse from every stump
and IN all the partisan press.
And put the question now TO the
two senator's from Ohio, TO answer TO
the people of Ohio in plain, unequiv-
ocal terms, do you approve tho prin-
ciples enunciated in these speeches
delivered September 2nd and Septem-
ber 9Th by President Mckinley and
President Roosevelt, and will you aid
to enact legislation in the next con-
gress of the United States to carry
them out and to put them in force?
Let us have an answer, yes or no.
| The trust and the strike fairly re-
present the natural results of re-
publican policies. When few men
begin to make enormous fortunes
! by having laws made for their own
private advantage, then the trust and
the strike, follow and go hand in
hand.
First, republican congress enacts
prohibtory tariff law, that puts all
of the people not in that particular
business entirely in the hands, so far
as prices are concerned, of those who
are. Then the combination of these
few into the trust follows quickly
and naturally. Then up go the prices,
/ not of labor, but of the articles pro-
tected by tariff schedules, and the
people are helpless and can do moth
ing but foot the bills.
The steel trust capitalized at bill
lion and a half of dollars, and deciar-
ing dividends upon this enormous
capitalization. is selling its steel pro-
ducts in Europe at so ton less than
il is selling them TO the people of the
United States. This is true of every
trust article manufactured. Every
farmer knows, rs does every other
working man who is either produ-i
Ger of professional man or mcr-
chant, that the prices of trust COM
modities have doubled and trebicd.
There has been no such correspond
ing advantage to the wages of labor
and the profits of the ordinary busi-
ness and professional man.
It is not surprising that we read of
trust magnates returning from Euro
peen vacations, engaging upon ship
board in games of poker at which fab
ulous sums of money were won and
lost. OF one iackpot--whatever that
is-of $4,000, that was opened by the
president of the glass trust by pay
ing $685. to draw a card, which we
are told he did with so much nerve
that there was not the tremor of a
hair. ..........
Every mans money in America who
Inl ,x,r ,,y;t /,
year went into that jackpot, but the
trust magnate got it all.
The president Of the steel trust,
about the same time, bought a block
Of ground on the riverside drive in
New York for million dollars, where
ne proposes to build a two-million
dollar palace in the near future.
Another trust nabob. with the wave
Of his hand. directs a state legislature
to make the insanity of wife a
ground for diynrce.
A year or SO ago in our own and q
neiEhboring state. another trust pres.
ident was participant in a some.
what similar proceeding, and in both
instances the American people have
had Haunted in their faces tales OF
lavish wedding gifts, gifts of millions
including costly works of art by old
masters-how aesthetic your trust
magnate does become in such q little
while--every dollar of which, in the
shortest possible time, has been filch.
ed from the pockets of the American
people through prohibitory tariff
laws and trust combinations ard ex,
actions.
= This all may be prosperity. The
!, republican idea of prosperity. 1t is
uot mine nor yours.
D The steel trust exists and flourish.
es, as do all its kind, in defiance O!
the Sherman law, framed and pushed
to passage by John Sherman; it does
/, !, business In Ohio in defiance of the
: Valentine law. The republican attor.
!, ney general Of Ohio recently, during
the strike, demanded that it pay the
statutory fees required to be paid by
every foreign corporation doing bust.
ness in Ohio.
.. 1t treated the demand of the attor.
y ney general with silent contempt
And now we have a remarkable opin.
, 'ou iioii the httoihey general, dt tHis
: late day, that after all 1t need not
, pay, that the law does not so require
/ have no quarrel with men OF
, wealth who become so in fair com.
petitive business with their country.
=. men. But when, by act of congress
, tariff schedules enable few men tC
: organize monopolies and trusts tc
. take at will other peoples money
, who, because of this same law, are
unable to help or protect themselves
we have the right to know the means
; and methods and results of this sort
. of legislative looting, and to compel
, the repeal or revision of any law OF
laxs that roola .uch iptnlara bla cno.