Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1903-07-03
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done by the press agents who are
booming President Roosevelt for the
1904 republican nomination.. They are
portraying him as heavyweight
trust fighter who is smashing the
trusts right and left. They tell the
people that Wall Street is dead against
Roosevelt, and ia Matching all kinds Of
schemes to prevent his nomination.
They are even inventing ingenious
stories about the postofice frauds,
scandals and oorruptions, which they
hope will not only divert we'll
deserved blame for this state of affairs
from the President, who has permitted
it to go on for two years, but will try
to make political capital out Of it for
him. They now say that some Of the
principal rascals Of the manywho were
plundering the postof6ce were con.
spring to prevent the Presidents
nomination next year.
In these simple and absurdways they
expect to beguile thevoting population
of the country, and according to their
own assurances, they are succeeding.
Let us see what kind of fights the
President has been making against the
criminal trusts of the country and In
the interest of the ""pla1n people. !"
about which his touters are 80 loudly
prating at present. The President's
reputation as a trust smasher rests
largely on two court decisions
obtained last year. The Beef Trust
was enjoined by the courts and the
Northern Securities Co.. q railroad
combination. was declared illegal in
the United States Circuit Court. In
neither case can any benefit to the
plain people be detected, even by the
aid of the most powerful microscope.
Both Of these trusts are continuing to
fix prices and rates that the people
must pay, and it may be said right
here. that no decision under the Sher-
man law has resulted in permanent
benefit to the people. The net result
has been that the trusts have changed
their form but not their substances.
No court decision has permanently
lowered prices or rates, or taken the
hands Of the trusts out Of the pocket
Of the people. Nor is 1t probably
that court decisions will ever remedy
the evils of trusts while We have
high tariffs and other specialprivileges
which give monopolists power and en-
courage combinations and trusts. We
must somehow overcome these
privileges before we can.
hope to get rid Of the evils Of the,
trusts. But the President has set his
face against any change in the trust
fattening tariff. He even stopped
of. on his recent stumping tour, to
help srangle the poor little "Iowa
idea'' which feebly declared that
tariff which shelters trusts should
come of. If people call this trust
busting they are easily satisfied.
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Milk sugar forms the basis of the
baby foods. It is, therefore, most
necessary product in thousands of
and 1t should be as cheap
as possible for, unfortunately, most
babies are born in poor HON 90 where
the parents must struggle hard to get
sufficient food even of the poorest
quality. If there is any industry that
should be fostered and protected, it is
this industry in our homes. It would
certainly seem cruel, almost inhuman.
to legislate to make the price Of baby
food nearly double what 1t should be
and thus to put it out of the reach of
millions of little unfortunates. But
this is just what our congress did
when 1t. in 1897, put duty of five
cents pound on sugar Of milk.
The Casein Co. Of America not on.
~ controls the Natl onal Milk Sugar
Co., the manufacturers of milk sugar
industry of the world.
It is now selling milk sugar in this
country at 1415 cents and in Europe
at 91z cents per pound. It m anu
features it here, principally In New
York and Illinois, and exports it to
other parts of the world. The diff
ference in its foreign and domestic
prices is exactly the amount of our
tariff duty. The milk-sugar infant
gets it's protection at the expense of
the human infant. We are sacrific ing
human infants on the altar Of pro-
lection. We are putting the dollar
above the man. Yet our president is
trace suicide" without
suggesting lower duties on food sand
all Of which vastly increases
the cost of living and thus starve and
freeze our little ones and greatly in
creases the death rate.
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