Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-10-15

didate who adopts the Iowa republic
can platform as his own can be and
yet go to Congress and fold his arms
so far as trusts are concerned no
matter how numerous or aggressive
they become, provided only that they
leave only one little Pickering ray of
competition burning somewhere in the
backwoods of the United States, for
they must quench the last of these be-
fore they come within the range of
the anathema so carefully written in
the Iowa republican platform.
If we keep on feeding these cor
morants with protective duties until
they become monopolies we might
just as well quit right now, for the
weakest of all of them will know
enough to keep its head off the block
that Iowa republicans have prepared
for its decapitation.
1t is no tenderfooted policy of this
character that democrats propose.
They can see the horns of trust
before it becomes full tiedged mo-
nopoly, and they propose to break
them off before they have penetrated
the vitals of the American people.
For one, l frankly concede that
am thoroughly impressed with the be-
lief that these great combinations of
capital in the form of trusts as distin-
guished from monopo,ies seriously
threaten the welfare of this nation,
and would therefore as soon at least
as anyone of them becomes strong
enough to injuriously increase the
price of commodity, necessary for
the sustenance or comfort of our peo-
pie. reduce the duties on that COM
modify to at least revenue basis, and
would not at. present interfere with
the duties on any other commodity,
the cost of which to our own people
is not enhanced by the action of some
trust.
QUOTES TRUSTS DOUBLE PRICES.
! In this way would try to make it
certain to every trust now in exis-
tence and to every one that may here
after be proposed that this govern
ment is their enemy, and that it pro-
poses to do everything within its
| power to discourage their existence,
and everything it consistently can to
! encourage individual enterprise.
In this connection let me call your
attention to some articles of necessity
that are being manufactured in the
United States largely believe by we'll
organized trusts. and sold at wholesale
for consumption by our own people at
one price, and for export to foreign
countries to be sold to foreigners at a
substantially lower price.
! The following are wholesale prices
for which the articles named are sold
by the same manufacturers for do
nestle use in one case and for expon
to foreign countries in the other:
You pay for one hundred pounds of
galvanized barbed wire, $3.50. The
foreigner pays the same manufac-
turer for the same wire, s2.25. You
pay for one hundred pounds of paint
ID barbed wire. $780, The foreigner
pays for the same wire, $1.S6. You pay
for one hundred pounds of plain wire
$500; the foreigner pays for the same
/ wire. $1.37h. You pay for one dozen
nahu saws " TO u inches. SlS.o4;
.ne foreigner pays for the same saws
sl4.ez. you pay for one dozSn gallon
cans. ohoWhake axle grease, $o.4o;
.he foreigner pays tor tne same. s4'oo'
lou pay iof eAlhher $ standard Drill
NO. ioV' s4.so' the lorelsher pays LOT
the same drill $500. You pay for city
rehned porax per pound, w cents; the
foreigner pays iof the same porax'
1s cents. WV pay lor Remington
| .yPeWrltef' SlVIoo' the i"re'sner paws
TOT .ne same W
lor ~ linen ga
i pouius'
.he sa' s.s,s.s
Tsa 10.
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the foreigner pays Same wire
Sl.o4. You pay for one Domestic sew
ing macnlne, $2O.oO; the foreigner
pays Tor the same machine, SlS.25
You pay Tor one hundred pounds Of
wire nails. $2.O5; the foreigner pays
FOR the same nail $l.37. You pay fol
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