The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1902-11-03

IA SoAtiusiOA, lcetIditS foldlt dBu u eu-
eral legislation, fixes low the price of la
Dor, places high the cost of living, satis-
fies the ayarice of its promoter. and inn
pedes the general law of supply and de-
mand. There is not an industry in this
country today that is not owned and op-
Grated by some gigantic trust or combi-
nation, and they are slowly but surely
converting the working man into an in
dustrial slave. Crush out this CONNER
cial deformity. Crush it on election day
by voting the straight Democratic ticket,
and help smash the trusts"
Robert s. Hudspeth attacked the Ding
ly tariff bill and denounced the trusts in
an eloquent appeal for Democratic votes.
He showed that the conditions of the la
boring man and even the commercial
man is worse today than ten years ago,
although the Republican party through
its speakers has claimed an advance in
wages due to the protective tariff
while it is true," said the speaker that
wages have advanced in the past ten
years, SO has the cost of living. Our
Republican friends, the enemy, fail to
mention this fact. The average wages
of today are a little less than per cent.
in advance of wages paid ten years ago.
The cost of living now is actually 40 per
cent. more than it was ten years ago."
NATIONAL ISSUES.
w. Hepburn Russell mad a brilliant
speech in which he dwelt entirely on ma
tional issues, numerically fiayed the
trusts, the tariff, and the Republican par
ty. The speaker is Southerner by
birth, brilliant New York lawyer, and
although the chairman of the Greater
New York Democracy, an appointee un-
der Mayor Low, as the Commissioner of
Accounts.
Continue the Republican party in
power" he said, ''and you will rue the
day. They talk of the full dinner pail.
Its the boast of the G. o. p. Have
the Pennsylvania miners had a full din
ner pail for the past five and one half
months? The protective tariff has been
the cause of this strike, causing one of
the most awful calamities this country
has ever had to contemplate.
'sIr. Havemeyer, the sugar king, tes-
titled in Washington, D. c., before the
Industrial Commission that the Dingley
tariff was the father and protector of
trusts. The tariff is the direct cause of
the abnormal increase in the cost of liv-
ing, in tie price of all materials and
foods. Why steel, manufactured in the
United States is sold ten per cent. cheap
er abroad than at home. Is there any
reason or right in such condition of af-
fairs? The people of this free country
ought never to permit tariff which in
creases the prices of goods for home con-
sumers while permitting foreign coun-
tries to purchase the same at reduction.
Vote the Democratic ticket, my fellow
Americans, and check these infant in
dnstries in their unjust career.
ATTACKS THE TARIFF.
John NJ. Hodges attacked the trusts
and the tariff in a brilliant speech, and
declared them the bane of the country.
'.Show me a trust magnate,'' he said,
''and I'll show you a Republican.
The Republican party is the protector
of the trusts which take the bread from
the poor mans mouth, the ciothes from
his back and the warmth from his body.
Combination of capital is for the benefit
of few to the detriment of the many
Continue the Republican party in power
classes in this country, the very rich and
the extremely poor. Vote the straight
Democratic ticket, and thereby help
smash the trusts, remove the protective
tariff and make this country what ma
tions have been led to believe we are, a
free and united people"