The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-10-31

Anthracite coal went up before the re- cent strike from $3.35 in 1850 to S450 in 1902. but bituminous coal has gone down from a range of s550 to $6 in 1857 to $2.S5 in 1902.
 comparison of retail prices by the Massachusetts bureau of statistics of labor shows that for the thirty years from 1872 to 1902 the retail price in that state for wheat flour had decreased from $1075 per barrel to $5.20 per bar rel; of coffee, from 34 1-2 cents to p cents per pound; of granulated sugar from 12 cents to IA cents per pound; of New Orleans molasses from 70 cents to S-4 cents per gallon; of roasting beef from 19 cents to F 1-2 cents per pound; of butter from 39 IA cents to 30 IA cents per pound; cheese from 17 1-2 to 16 cents per pound; of hard coal from $925 to $6.65 3-5 per ton; of brown shirting from 13 to 3-4 cents per yard; of bleached shirting from 16 cents to 3-4 cents; of prints from Ii S-4 to 6 cents; mems heavy boots sS.94 per pair to $1.99 12 per pair; while there was a slight but very slight advance in the cost of pork and of potatoes.
 In the year 1901 there were 6,358, 723 separate savings bank accounts in the United States with deposits amounting to $2,50f, ,094, ,5S0. In 1901 there were B. 739,657 separate farms, with an average of 1465 acres to the farm--a little more than one farm to every nine persons of the rural population of the United tSates. The value of the farm property was over twenty billion dollars. Talk ing together the savings banks ac- counts in the towns and the farms in the country there are owned by the plain working people almost an average of farm or a bank account for every family in the United States. This steady increase in the earnings of labor as compared with the earnings of capi- tai has been accomplished in spite of the fact that we have been continually adding to our population by the immi- grafton of the poor of other countries without means and with the lowest earning capacity, to the extent of ST. 249,3T since the year 1850. More signifi- cant than all else is the fact that we have commenced this new century with over seventeen million children in school in the United States and over fifteen million of these in the public schools. The capacity of people for self government is shown by it's ability to reject violent and destructive remed- ies and to proceed patiently with prac- tical, common sense, separating the good from the bad, and checking and suppressing what is bad while holding onto what is good.
 The republican party proposes to fol- dow this course; to regulate and curb and suppress the bad trusts rather than to destroy the good and the bad togeth- CT, and with them the prosperity which brings such beneficent results to all our country. The only federal law to &C., compIish this result-the Sherman act was passed by republican congress against democratic opposition. The president has suggested an extension of the law. The attorney general, af- that it can be extended and made more far reaching and effective. So far as it is possible to ascertain the attitude of the democratic party-that party is again opposed to the effort on the part of the federal government 10 regulate and curb the evil of trusts. The democratic candidate for governor in our own state has put himself on record in violent op- position to what he calls 'the astonish- ing centralizing policy of the republican party"
 The continually recurring contests be- tween capital and labor are necessary part in this great process of indus trial development and distribution of wealth. Of course there are wrongs committed, but these are continually being remedied and just results are con- tinually being wrought out. If you will look back at the condition of the railroad business at the time of the Debs riots. then consider the relations since established between the railroad owners and the associated trainmen, you will see striking illustration of the progress to which I refer. When our president undertook to get coal for the people by urging the substitution of peace for war in the anthracite region MT. Hill in New York and MT. Olney in Boston condemned him; but I have an idea that the people of the country do not agree with them.
 What does the democratic party pro- pose to do, if the people of the United States put the power into its hands, to remedy these industrial evils? It has made two proposals. The first is to re- wise the tariff.
 It is easy to say that the tariff needs revising. In the nature of things, time must call for changes in every tariff law, because it is a fixed statute ap- piled from day to day to constantly changing conditions. But in consider ing the making of such changes it is important to keep two things in mind first. that if a tariff law has, on the whole, worked well, and if business has