Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1902-10-31
MT THE BAD TRUSTS.
Root Says, In Revising / arif,
/ But Don't Hurt Independ-
emit Concerns.
DON'T LET IN FOREIGN COMBINES
In the Operation OF Killing OF TIE
Local Combination Democratic
Idea Would sTirg Industrial Ruin
and Idle Labor.

had come % attend q Republican
meeting, the principal speakers be-
ing Mayor Low, Governor OdelI and
Secretary Of War Root. Secretary
Root said in ~art:
What does the Democ-2t!c party
propose to do, II the pc - 9. tt
United States put the W - into
their hands to remcdy 80 ind.
trial evils and annoyance "4.cl LaTe
come along with our gro-t prosperity?
They have made two proposals. The
first is to revise the taris.
Now, what aces the Democratic
party propose? Does il say, We as
sent to the principle Of protection
and ask the people Of the United
States to commit to our hands the
revision CT the tarl-- in conformity TO
that principal?" Far from it. They
avow their unrelenting hostility to
the Principle CT protection and ask
that the people OF the country put in
their hands the revision Of the tariff
in order that they may revise the
protection out az it, and repeat the
experiment Of Mr.. Cleve- and second
administration, when, according 10
Mr.. Gompers, present CT the Ameri-
can Federation Of Labor, put three
million American worknen to walk
ing the streets without work and
without bread lor their families. 1t
is not a revision OF the protective
tariff, but the destruction CT the pro
tective tariff upon which tae people
are to pass in voting for members
of congress next Tuesday, and with
that destruction would disappear, nee
essarily, the conditions CT our pres
ent prosperity.
Would Ruin A.. With Trusts.
The specific ground upon which the
Democratic party now says that 1t
should be permitted to revise the tar
iff is that the tariff protects the
trusts. Observe that they do not pro
pose to confine themselves to Cuttin !;
off the duties upon the articles mad
by the trusts, but their remedy is :"
destroy the trusts by dragging then
down in the general ruin. But con,
slider their proposition regarding the
trusts by themselves. The manufaC
turing trusts are protected by the
tariff in common with all other pro.
ducers of similar articles, and the
census of 1900 showed that less than
Is per cent of the manufactures
product of the country was made b.
trusts.
If the duties which protect the
trust-made articles are unreasonable
high, then they ought to be reduced
as to all the producers without any
reference to the question whether
they are made by the trusts or not,
and if the duties are reduced as to
any Of the producers they must be as
to all. You do not hurt the trusts
by such reduction unless you mak5
the reduction so great that it will be-
come improbable to manufacture the
articles in this country. If that is
done, you can kill the trusts, you can
close their mills; you can turn theiI
laborers out of employment, but you
close the mills also Of all other pro-
ducers Of similar articles, and you
substitute for domestic production OF
the articles the importation CT for
eign articles. AS the production CT
foreign articles is in a very great
measure controlled by trusts, you sub
stitute a foreign trust for an Ameri
can trust.
Steel Combine Not a Monopoly.
The latest and greatest combina-
ton, the United States Steel corpor'
alton. was supposed to be an over
whelming monopoly, but the stats
tics Of the American Iron and Steel
association for last August show that
already in the year 1901, independent
companies produced over 81 per cent
of the iron ore Of the country, over 81
per cent of the total pig iron, over
40 per cent CT the Bessemer steel
rails. over 81 per cent of the struc.
tural iron. over 4. per cent Of ell
rolled products. We forget the Cam
bria Steel company, the Pennsylva'
MIA Steel COMPANY, the Bethlehem
Steel ccmpan" anl the Republic Ircr
and Steel co~pony and scores OF
other great establishments, with hun.
dreds Ct mills and furnaces. Compc'
tition is growing: new plants are be-
ing equipped. The Union Steel com.
pany is building the Crucihle Steel
company is building. tie LaClawanna
Steel company is building OF Buffalo,
in our state, a tnlT" million DO ~
plant. Are YOU going to ruin al
such independeGt industries for TIE
purpose cf furnishing TIE Trusts or
are you going to help tho"' in their
! competition b. wise regulation. AM
seeing to it, if neeL be. that the biz
concern is fair to the smaller ones
Are YOU going 10 eav r. the worr.
men in tho tn Plato mills. who have
lust cut the;" OWE wagRs to maxi
comretiticr with foreign producers
poss;ble "Tou arn wor,-ing for e.
trust. We ere eoing to make YOU
sacrifice useless and throw YOU OIL.
Of work By cling the tarif' = as 70
bring in p fo~eien r"r~no;i' - and
drive vcur o71pl0"e~ CIT + }Ls:neSs
because it is a trust?''
Declared It Unconstitutional.
Mr.. Root then referred to tie "Snr-
ond proposal of the Democratic
party, contained in the plank Of tina
New York platform. adopted while
the anthracite cCel strike was ct its
height, and now famous as the .coa!