The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1901-11-01

because they control the manufactures
products and the article to be sold
as well as the raw material. BY this
method of business prices on manu-
factured goods have increased, the con-
sumer is obliged to pay the increase and
the trusts get the benefit, and labor Is
powerless with these combinations aud
unable to assert itself No increase of
wages results from this, and no divi-
sion of the profits thus realizel Is male
with labor and his employment is SIM
ply at their mercy. They control tho
value of the manufactured produc s
absolutely and labor has
NOTHING TO SAY.
They have the right to close this mill
and that mill without consulting labor
and the day is not far distant when
the people will wake up and realize the
condition of affairs, that these insti-
tutions are managing and controlling
for the benefit of the few at the ex-
pense of the many, that they are doing
business on inflated values and watered
stock.
! This is supposed to be free coun-
try and each given a like opportunity
| in business and no favoritism is
to be shown, but alas fear
that II we were to write con-
stitution such as would properly set
forth our present condition of conduct
Ing affairs that we would not recognize
it as the constitution of our govern
ment. 1t will be necessary for us soon
eri or later to return to Democratic
principles. to the principles of the
founders of this government that we
have acknowledged that we are free
and independent nation, that in busi-
ness matters the law of supply and
demand we
| REGULATE ALL THINGS.
LET well enough alone" not the
"well enough" that we are now enjoy
ing. Let there be an equalization CT
the burdens to be borne and the taxes
to be paid; let the indirect tax be levied
as far as possible upon the luxuries
and not upon the necessaries of life.
If possible lift the burdens car
ried by the laborer whose means of
livelihood is the most irksome. Toll
ing daily and earnestly for the suD-
port of himself and family the reward
he should receive should be an earnest
of his good work
/ This so-called business stimulator has
produced the conditions that exist in
this. that the manufactured product
thus produced is sold to the consumer
at less price in foreign markets than
at home. Think of this situation
whereby we manufacture the article
and our home people pay therefor 4
price far in excess of what 1t Is sold
in foreign lands and yet the expense
of marketing the same aboard Is far in
excess of what it is here. Again a
discrimination is made against home
producers, in this, that certain goods
imported into this country on which 4
DUTY IS CHARGED
, and collected If manufactured here and
shipped aboard the duty thus paid is
: repaid and rebated. To illustrat TAX.
sole leather" with a duty Of Is per
, cent. this is refunded in case of expor.
! II manufactured here, thus enabling
, the sale of the manufactured product
J aboard for less money than here. The
, manufacturer If he has completed the
making of the article, 1t is an induce
ment to sell it aboard, because he there
by gets drawback or rebate of the
tariff, thus Disseminated against our
home merchants and consumers. We
/, should not forget how many consume
! and how few manufacture and produce
and when we are dealing out special
! favors to manufacturer we are there
by depressing a large majority of our
/ people.
THE TRUE SOLUTION
: of the situation and how to abolish
: these trusts, which we all desire, Is
J to strike at the very origin of their
, existence, not to destroy business bu.
! to stimulate 1t, encourage 1t ON legi-
Q innate lines, to revise the tariff law
= to so shape it that all business will
have equal opportunities before the la "
r and that special privileges be granted
: to none, thereby destroying the influ
ence of the
POLITICAL TRUST"
!, as well, that has been for ing itself up.
: on the people for years. Never was
!. there time in the history of our gov.
/. ernmert that citizenship should BIZ
measured by higher standard thar
today. We are told by Senator Hanna
= that he is not to retire from politics
! and standing alone this statemen
.. .. might be doubted, but when he further
: couples with 1t the statement that h.
a Is going to
a REMAIN IN POLITICS
4 until he sees his friends Foraker an;
n Nash" elected, 1t Is quite evident tha
}. he intends to remain some time, be
: cause their election has been postponed
for many years to come.
. = Our foreign policy has been revolu
. tionized aud we no longer require o.
: demand the consent and approval o
Y people which we add to us. but w
: have adopted maxim that "migh
n makes right" that power is absolute
4 and principle sinks into insignificance
il That war can be waged at will when
1 ever we desire to annex certain ter
L ritnry to our country There was