The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1904-10-14
Gov. SPRICGS ON
CAMP AICN ISSUES
Former Executive Of Mon
tana Says the Labor
Vote Will Be Heavily
in Favor Of Par
ker.
TARIFF REVISION POPULAR
Thinking Voters Of the West
Turn. to the Democratic
Party for Relief From
the Trusts.

NEW YORK, Oct IA, 19O4.-Former
+ Governor A. E. Spriggs, of Montana,
who a, few days ago brought to National
Democratic Chairman Taggart a state
ment from the Labor party in Montana,
telling Of their decision to vote for Judge
Parker this year and to use all their in
fluence in getting all organized labor in
other states to do the same, is one of the
firm believers in the prediction that the
labor vote will be in the ma jority for the
Democratic ticket this year.
Il have been out among these laboring
men for two months not only in my own
state" said Mr.. Spriggs, but in Colorado
and Nevada. What is true in Montana
is equally true in the other two states
and the trend of labor all over the. coun-
try is toward the Democratic party,
Judge Parker has placed himself on rec
ord. The documents of the Court of APP
peals over which he presided show how
fair his decisions have always been to-
ward the laboring man.
'sThe revision of the tariff is prop
osition which / find that the thinking
voters of the country are seriously con-
sidering in determining which way they
will vote. This is particularly so in
Kansas and Iowa found These states
are demanding that even the Republican
party shall enter Immediately upon a re-
vision of the tariff. It IS due to no par
| ticular calamity howl but to the fact
| that the farmers, who compose the great
bulk of the voting population of this
state have learned that the tariff pro-
tected trusts are selling their goods TWEEN
| ty-fye per cent. cheaper in the Argentine
Republic and in Germany, than they are
in Iowa and Kansas. They do not, think
| this is right, and have made up their
minds that it must be stopped. The
overpowering trust influence of Kansas
| is that of the great beef packing houses.
Mr. J. Ogden, Armour was reported in
| the eastern newspapers a few days ago
as stating that he was highly satisfied
| ton. But the ten or fifteen thousand
men, who earn their daily bread by work
ing for the beef trust in this second
greatest packing district of the world are
| far from being satisfied with the admin
istration of the beef trust, fostered as it
is by the heavy tariff schedules The
state of mind of the workingman at the
present time is one of desperation. They
went into the recent beef strike, believing
that they were right. Their small sur
/ plus earnings. however, were soon ex-
hausted and they either had to return to
work or starve.
They are now at work But they are
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/ affairs which eompels them to pay forty
per cent more for their living expenses
now than they had to pay eight years
ago. All of the undetermined prosperity
/ of the last six years has brought an in
| crease of wages to the people of these
/ packing houses amounting to only about
welye per cent. But while ii, has; been
/ granting this meagre increase of wages
| the beef TRUST has BEEN steadily and re-
1 lemtlessly increasing the prices of the
necessities of life, which its workmen
We're forced to purchase.
Although the beef trust is today
/ charging forty per cent. more for meats
at retail than We're charged eight years
ago the cattle raiser is not getting any
more for his cattle now than he. did then,
as the price of live cattle has been prac-
4 tically stationary for the past four or fse
| years. The cattle producer does not
share in any of the high prices of meats.
j That the district issabsolutely under the
control Of the beef trust is further evi-
/ denced from the methods employed by
the packing houses to placate public SEN
timent. The prices Of meats are raised
very slowly almost imperceptibly. Now
and then the people wake up to the fact
that the total increa So has been very ma