The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-10-31
THE "sOHMER" HEADS THE
LIST OF THE HIGHEST
GRADE PIANOS.
S0HMER
PIANOS
Sohmer Building, o; 1n };,, s.,..r S,w
9Th Ave. cor. 72d st. York


,hoes ranged from. 81 rs to IS per pair,
in 1901 they ranged from IS cents to e21, cents
per pairi
In women's dress goods. cotton alpaca
has gone down from a range of from q to
M cents per yard in 1850 and 1851 to III
cents in 1901
Cashmere fell from to-. cents in 1881 to
!. 60 cents in 1900 and 1901
Anthracite coal went u3 before the recent
strike from 81 rs in 1850 TO - SO in 1907, but
bituminou~ coal has gone down from a range
comparison oi retail prices by the Nassa-
chusetts Bureau OF statistics OF Labor shows
Tn" retail price in that state Tor wheat -four
mad decreased from $40 rs per barrel TO IS 20
per barrel. of coffee, from ss1, cents TO ~
cents per pound OF graduated sugar, from
/? cents to 50 cents per found OF New Orleans
mola-ses. from 70 cents to ~. cents per gallon
rcr pound Of butter from sal, cents 10 so.
cents per round. cheese, from i7Ii to 10 cent.
p"r pound. OF hard coal, from 50 rs to 1895 IS
to o., cents per yard. Of bleached shirting.
from 10 cents to s.. cents .! rrints, from
T., cents st, to cents nts mens heayy boot.
WAS - slight, but very slight. advance in the
co., OF pork and Of potatoes that every
dollar Of the wage Farmers paw would. in
ia12. buy far more beef and -four and coffee
and sugar and uolnsses and butter and cheese
AID milk and cggs and clothing than IL would
The PLAIN PEOPLE AIRY RICHER
Tho results OF this process is diffusion
of wealth among our people. the contempla
tons OF which make the colnparati vely few
large fortunes seem OF trifng importance
Ia the y"Hr 1901 there we're s,?5s,72S separate
savings bank accounts III the United States.
win deposits amounting TO s?,S2, .no,, $50
These were not the u ccoun's OF milhonalrss,
but of the people VINO, according to our
American standards. We call Ioor. These
SIX million and odd dcpositors were, Of course.
chiefly in the. towns. where savings banks
Were accessible. 90 out into the country,
and YOU find that IN 1901 there were 5.7ao6st
IA "A A
acres to the farm-a little more than ore
iariu to every nine persons OF tie rural popu-
nI @" he tn fr S Ms,s great S% ,P
by cash tenants and only pSr cen, Ev man
9TeT or Ms over SHl9r o. tn" far"
Taking together the savings bank accounts
m The towns and ne farms IN ihe country,
almost an average of farm or a bank sC-
count Tor every family ~ the nltsd States
There were in 1901 i4ssi.t'3 life insurance
policies outstanding in the country IN the
regular Insurance companies The total
INSURANCE" under them amounted 20 S,56?.-
scented money laid up by people who were not
rlch. for provision against old age or for the
wife and child Tho assets OF these insur-
au"e companies amounted to 81. ~? .+i4,l73.
All of tui- was owned by these fourteen million
policy holders. In addition 70 this there
were 2.72j.?2l persons who held policies in
assessment companies and fratsrnal societies
and $50. ia3 who held interests in loan and
building companies " ith tje5 81 s66 of assets.
This steady Increase in the earnings OF la Dor
as compared with the earnings of capital.
this wonderful diffusion of wealth among
~" men who work with their hands has been
accomplish ID IN spite OF tho fact that We have
been continually adding 20 our population
bv the Immigration of the loor of other coun-
tries without means ana with the lowest
earning Capa city. TO the extent of 1929. 81
sine" tho year 1850, and these continual adj
ditions AZ the bottom OF the scale OF pros
peritv and earning power have con tinuHlly
Kan fNI.sf. ia IN in 1f
popular wealth.
More significant than all else is the fact
that We have commenced this new century
Wit over seventeen million children in school
In tho United States and over fifteen million
of tho" IN TIE public schools children OF
respecting people, looking mp 10 no superiors
and masters OF thei own lives, children
we'll fed. wei! housed, we'll nourished look
the omen cateways of boundless oppor-
tuluty ia this free republic where the high;
enterprise and whore not wealth nor birth
nor social position. but the personal quail
ties of the man himself, whether he he rich
or poor. are 'he sole title to the highest dis
t'nction and the greatest power.
Sor AUTOMOBILES, BIT FARM WAGONS.
cvii~, forget The sTcater good The auto
~" farm wagou-' Is the important question
let rs keep our faith in American Institutions
and dral with the evils that are before us now
and mr." to com. hereafter. along the lines
OF the sane hcne1cent system which has
dealt successfully with every phase Of the
our past The capacity of people for self
government j. shown BY its ability TO reject
violent and destructive remedies and TO pro-
coed patiently with practical. common sense.
.eparatir the good from the bad, and chacl1-
ing and -uppressing what is bad while holding
on to what - good
FEDERAL REGULATION OF TRUSTS
The Republican party proposes to follow
this course 10 regulate and curb and sup
press the bad trusts rather than destroy the
the UoI PROSPERITY Sr which bring. such bcnef'tr
results TO all our country The only Federal
aT 70 BY ;"' Repabean
1. saT S
actively and with what succession results
he is engaged in the enforcement of that law
The President has suggested an extension Of
study, has given his opinion that IL can be ex-
tondrd and made more far reaching and
,nootlve.
DEMOCRATS IN OPPOSITION.
SO far as il is possible to ascertain the atti.
tude Of the Democratic party. that party IL
again opposed to the effort on the part Of the
Federal Government to regulate and curb the
evil of trusts The Democratic candidate for
Governor in our own state has formally put
himself on record III violent OPPOSITE ion to what
he calls the astonishing centralizing policy Of
the Republican party" He said In his speech
at the Manhattan Club last week;
less to regulate their own affairs and that
Federal control is the only means Of pre-
venting the abuse az corpsrate power Il
stigma which comes with Ill grace from
citizen OF New York. whether he be the Presi-
dent OF the United States or no. The fountain
cannot rise above its source, II the intclli-
rence OF our people IL not adequate TO cope
with tho corporations which they created and
10 submit them to Droper restraints. then II
is doubtful II the iutell genCc OF the people
Of otrer States, combined in the Federal
Congress. is adequate for such mission
For my part, | believe that the State of New
York, the Empire state of the Union, and all
her sister States are themselv yes cara BILE OF
dealing soberly and INTEL gently with the
great interests that have been bern out of
the enterprise. foresight and energy Of their
people
So, speaking through the voice OF ito chosen
standard bearer. the Democratic party In
this State At least, Is against any Federal
regulation OF corporate combinations
THE sTRr0oLR MUST NYrps NE.
The continually recurring contests between
apital and labor are necessary part in
this great process OF industrial development
get what il thinks to be It's share nd ma tuTaly
differing about the proportiopS There il no
occasion TO groan or to wiring Dir hands or TO
be alarmed over the process. IL is natural
and healthy and "A process OF industrial i'm
pToVcmcnt Oi course, there are wrongs
committed. IN Just fla bic and Irritating things
are done upon both sides. but these are con-
tlnuhllv being remeded and lust results are
continually being wrought out We are In
the habit Of saving that the interests OF cap
ital and labor are one; or that they are re-