The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1902-08-01
CONGRESSMAN FLANAGAN
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work-they incorporated themselves.
The most powerful of these corpora
tions found competition expensive
why not make the whole profit they
asked. So they consolidated. No
small concern could fight the trust so
created-it was driven out of the
business or was forced into the con-
solidation; and after a series of or
ganizations and reorganization we
find the entire trade in the hands of
one concern-a monopoly. When this
has happened we have this remark
able condition: The Government, at
the demand of the monopoly, taxes
all the people who use the article,
solely for the benefit of that monopo-
ly. In other words, the Government
fixes the price which foreign compel.
itors must charge, which price, the
millennium not having yet arrived, is
prohibitive. A partnership is formed
in which the Government is the most
active partner, and the monopoly
pockets all the profit. The monopoly,
at once fixes the rate of wages and
the price to the consumer, and thus
has established leyee on each bank
of the stream of wealth, keeping il
in the course which empties into its
Golfers.
The time is too limited for me to
further elaborate and is it necessary?
You are all witnesses. Compare
prices of most commodities today
with the former prices of the articles.
Are they not from 20 to 60 per cent.
higher? and remember that machi-
merry has steadily cheapened the cost
of production. What has been the
percentage of increase in wages? In
few industries 10 per cent. per-
haps, in nearly every industry with
which you and.I are familiar, none.
Last year I was on the grazing
plains of the great West. The
drought had burned the grass and the
cattle were dying. The farmers and
ranchers had no food and in some
cases no water for their cattle, and
they had to sell them at any price
they could get, but to whom? The
Beef Trust. The Trust had unlimit-
ed resources; it carried the cattle
over the dry spell. Since then the
grass has grown; the farmers have
wanted cattle to fatten and to restock
their farms. There was but one own
er-the Beef Trust. The cattle of
Canada, of Mexico, of the great pam
pas of South America could not be
bought. The tariff wall prohibited
competition with the trust, and today
the consumer of beef-yes, of all
meats and foods-are paying tribute
to the Beef Trust. We shudder when
we hear of the bread riots in Europe,
yet we have witnessed meat riots in
New York City, the metropolis of the
Western Hemisphere.
The power of taxation is the true
test of sovereignty. We possess it if
we will but exercise it. These mon
tion. Let us modify them. That is
can be evaded, CT will be found to be
by withdrawing the special privilege
which created them-the tariff.
By it's high walls they were fos-
tered. By lowering or levelling these
walls they will be shorn of their
power for i'll. In the case of Cuba
they have shown their power, in de-
fiance of popular opinion, in defiance
of justice, in defiance of the demands
of the President of the party SO pecu-
liarly theirs Let the whole people
assert their power!
1 have dealt at some length with
what | regard as the paramount issue
| of this campaign, as it more nearly
touches our daily lives and welfare
than any other, but l have not for
gotten that there are other issues of
the most vital importance that strike
at the very roots of our Republican
form of Government. Owing to our
limited time l shall not discuss them
now, but shall do SO during the cam
paign.
| In conclusion l wish to exhort every
| Democrat to stand shoulder to shoulder
il this fight Complete your organ
ization i'll each town, see that the
issues are discussed with and under
stood by every voter and there will
be no doubt of the outcome of the
campaign.
From the convention report of the
Times, Of Elizabeth, considered
pretty good Democratic authority in
Union County, we quote, when the
motion was made that the rules of
former conventions govern the Wash
ington gathering, Chairman Moody
was about to ut the question, when
Michael Riley, a dapper young dele
gate from Morris County held aloft
his hand and beckoned for recogni-
ton. He said:
"It seems to me, Mr. Chairman,
that this report of the committee is
very indefinite and fiimsy one.
We are organizing a new district
here and we should have something
more explicit in information as to
how we shall proceed. would like
to know what the report really
means.
Mr.. Moore was on his feet before
the Morris county delegate was
finished and quickly got the eye of
the chairman.
"The gentleman from the hayseed
district cannot be Democrat, hotly
replied Mr. Moore, "or he would not
bubble over this report Warren
county has turned out as good Demo
Gratis as ever lived in New Jersey and
the rules that have been good enough
to govern the Warren men in the
past ought TO be good enough-and
they are-for this new district. -
Not to be squelched, the Morris
County delegate still insisted that