The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1903-12-31

the treaty of 1916, which alone assures
the peace and progress necessary for
of the canal.
The fake republic of Panama can
guarantee neither peace nor progress.
Its purpose is continuous blacllmail Of
the people of the United States.
Our PerpIexed President.
When the tariff is being discussed
everywhere and when it is expected to
be the question at issue between the
two great parties next year, we should
expect to find some recon-.
OH this important subject
i'll the Presidents message. 1t con-
tains not a word TO guide us; it does
not even mention the word tariff.
Why? Has the President no opinions
or ideas on this question. or is he
afraid to talk on it? Is he undecided
in his mind and is he hesitating to
jump either towards protection or free
trade?
\ year and half ago lie was talk
ing tariff revision and tariff commits
sion. Last spring he left off talking
on both Of these subjects and was re-
ported to have Joined the ''stand-pat-
ters," after a conference at the White
House with representatives of the Pro-
tective Tariff League. just before he
started OH his western trip. Is he ST.
lent because the protected interests
told him then that if he continued to
talk tariff revision they would defeat
him for the nomination next year, as
was reported?
Back in the eighties Mr.. Roosevelt
was a member of the Golden Club of
England and of the Free Trade League
of New York City. 1t was said that
in some of his speeches he expressed
Il willingness to die for free trade Is
he silent because his free trade ideas
are returning to haunt him and to
make him undecided? Is it not clear
to him that. with the great protected
trusts of to-day preying upon us, pro-
lection is now far more of curse than
1T was fifteen or twenty years ago? Is
the great steel trust making itself so
obnoxious that he is silently consider
ing special message advising the re-
mOyal of all tariff duties that protect
it? This would be grand. We could
forgive the apparent oversight i'll his
message if he is saving up big blow
for this hated TObber trust. We could
not forgive him if the omission was
due to OverwOrk with his White House
incubator of South American repub-
lies. We care but little for abroad"
but we are much concerned about the
steel trust right here at home. We
want to see its plundering career
stopped. Free trade in steel will do
the business. Why, Mr. President,
don't you talk tariff revision again?-
Byron w. Holt.
Monopoly Prices.
Nearly every, one in the United
States has felt the extortion Of the
beef trust and many family only has
meat once or twice week in conse-
quence of the high prices eXacted. The
poor in the towns and cities thus suf-
fer whether in the Eastern or Western
States. If the farmers and stock grow
ers We're the beneficiaries of this high
price of meat, there would be an indi-
rect compensation to the workers of the
cities, for agriculture being unusually
the increased necessity for
necessities of life and also
luXurieS by the farmers brings more
demand for labor in the business and
centers, and hence bet
ter wages and living. But the farmers
and stock growers are grumbling that
the price of cattle and hogs is lower,
while the packers combine is charging
more for their products. A letter in
the Mitchell. Neb., Index from former
Senator H. C. Stewart says:
by glancing at the market reports
we notice that about the middle Of Oc-
tOber the price of hogs was $3.50; and
that the price at the same date a year
ago was S7.20, or loss to the producer
Of $1.90 per cwt. Retail dealers who
handle Omaha meats in the larger
cities Of the State report that the pack
ars are charging 10 to Is per cent more
for dressed pork now than year ago.
Result: The packers by controlling
both the buying and selling prices are
able this year to buy hogs at 40 per
Of
more. making profit of 55 per cent
over and above their profits of one
year ago.
Now. how about cattle: About the
same date i'll October this year good
beef steers weighing loo pounds sold
for $40; same date a year ago the
same quality of steers sold for S6.2i,
,r S1.5O more than this year. Dressed
meat is II per cent higher this year:
20 they are buying cattle on foot mt 30
'er cent less and selling the meat at Is
Der cent more. making n net profit Of
t. per cent over and above their pro-
its of a year ago
Without doubt this state Of facts
.Xists in other Western States and in
he other packing centers. Kansas City
md Chicago.
Attorney General Knox has ample
'unds and legal aid TO investigate these
.XtOrtiOns of the packers combine. but
le will have to change his tactics from
he glOved hand to the mailed fist by
this unlawful combination
lnder the criminal section of the Inter-
;tate Commerce law instead of the in
JUNCTION proceedings he has commence
d under the civil section. The trusts
laugh ut the Knox way of
lighting them.
Roosevelt at Gettysburg.
Mr.. Roosevelt has accepted an invita-
ion to deliver next years Gettysburg
Memorial day address. His boundless
.gotism does not shrink from compare
on OF his literary style. jejune, banal,
liffuse and often ungrammatical as it
is, with the classic simplic-
ty and fiawless precision of one of the
,reatest masters of English
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