Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1903-01-15

If it has been proved that like ar
ticles. partially governed by American
trusts. sell for much mo : money III
nontariff countries, the natural con
clusion to make is that the way to deal
with offending trusts is not to take Off
the tariff upon American commerce
and industries. which would knock the
prop from under prosperous nation,
but to legislate carefully upon the mat
ter and bring into subsection any man
or set of men forming a corporation or
trust and force them to provide the
public with such commodities as are
necessary to the peoples welfare at
the smallest possible prices. 1t would
be a gross mistake to tamper with the
tariff. While not hurting the trusts
materially it would throw out of posi-
ton several millions of American Ia
borers.
Can it be possible that women have
FORGOTTEN the agony of 1892 to 1897 or
that men would willingly leave their
families again and be compelled to
seek work in vain in other places, as
was the case in those years? Thinking
people cannot forget in six short years
the unspeakable horror of Grover
Cieyeland's last administration, caused
by wicked reduction of the tariff
The fact that during the late coal
strike no Democrat in position or out
raised his voice against the outrageous
treatment of our coal miners by the
coal operators demonstrates that they
do not care so long as they have plenty
of campaign material The Democratic
leaders cried bitter tears of regret
when they heard that Theodore Roose-
Welt had forced the operators to come
TO Washington and made them consent
to arbitration upon the strike trouble.
The worSingman can draw his own in
ference as to which are his friends
Democrats or Republicans.
It was the unexpected panic during
Cleveland's reign that caused the wom-
en- to wake up to their positions. For
the first time they saw that politics
had everything to do with their com.
fort and happiness. They commenced
10 inquire the cause of the trouble.
Many men knew as little of its effect
as their wives. They began to COM
pare the prosperous years under pro-
lection with the free trade slump and
made up their minds to put William
Mckinley in the chair. Never have
we known such prosperity or such uni
versal satisfaction of the workingmen.
Mothers why should you cavil at the
price of your children's shoes or at the
food that they eat when you have more
than enough money wherewith to buy
them? Why do you complain, o house
wife, that your servant girl asks 81 or
So more a month than you have hereto
fore paid? Don't you remember, dear
lady, that eight years ago times obliged
you to discharge your servant because
of financial shortage? Do you not
know that it is always a sign of pros
perity when the servants suddenly see
that their services are in demand every
where? If you want to grumble about
the beef and sugar trusts, go ahead,
but think well before you chop down
the tariff that protects your husbands
earnings and makes your home COM
forts and happiness. Don't scold about
the signs of prosperity, such as few
dollars added to your servants wages.
or, in fact, any money that you pay out
and that goes into the pockets of labor.
Such things should not distress you.
Demand, if you will, little grumbler,
proper legislation as to illegitimate
trusts and corporations, and sensible
people will be with you. But do not
argue for free trade as Il cure for ag-
gregated capital, for that means de-
terioration of American industries and
will not help the complaint.
GRACE MILLER WHITE.