The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1906-12-07
POINT TO CONSIDER
REPUBLICANS CANNOT EvApE re-.
POSSIBILITY.
Whether the Tarin or Railroad Rebate
Evil 10 the Mother Of Trusts. the
Party in Power Has Done Much
to Foster Them.

President Havemeyer OF the sugar
aust stated 20 the Industrial commits
sion in 1898 that the tariff is the
mother OF trusts. but now comes the
belated opinion OF Attorney General
Moody that not the tariff but the
railroad rebate is the mother OF
trusts" Whichever OF these impor-
tant Republican opinions Is the right
one is not OF much consequence. for
All impartial investigators are agreed
that the tariff and railroad rebates
are both closely related 10 trust plum
dering and either may well be the
mother and the other the father OF
these predatory corporations. But the
chief thing is TO remember that the
Republican party has been standing
pat while the trust fostering was in
cubating and now the trust infants
have grown 10 the stature OF giants
the Republican party is still continu-
ing TO prevent legislation that will
take from the trusts the monopoly
they enjoy through tariff protection.
There is no escape for the Repub-
lican leaders. from President 10 state
legislator. from the fact that since
coming into power in 1897 and enact
ing the Dingley tariff. that the trust
era has accompanied that trust-foster-
ing law Nor can il be denied that
since the tariff was so greatly in
creased in 1897 il has been accom-
panied by a similar advance in the
price OF nearly all commodities. until
now the cost OF living. according 10
Dun's and Bradstreet's index figures.
is close upon 80 per cent. higher than
before the Dingley law was passed.
AS the Republican leaders have
taken all the credit for any advantage
20 business from the trust boom and
have even attempted 10 appropriate
the blessing from favorable seasons
and resulting good crops. they must in
return be- held responsible for the
enormous increased cost Of living and
rhe great loss 20 those whose incomes
have not kept pace with their in
creased outEo. TIE Republican lead
ers must also explain 20 the farmers
why the price Of wheat and other az
ricultural products has fallen under
the trust fostering tariff. which they
have assured the farmers was TO pro-
tecr them as well as the trusts As
long as poor crops abroad apparently
kept up this Republican deception. by
making a demand for our surplus
wheat and other farm products and
their price naturally was advanced. the
Republican theory. that the tariff ben
Gifted the farmer appeared 10 the IN
thinking 70 have good grounds for be-
ing really responsible for prosperity
But that Republican idol has been
shattered By the reduced demand for
wheat and other farm products and
the fall in the price
II is therefore incumbent on the Re
publican leaders who have been go
ing up and down the land claiming
that prosperity is due 70 the tariff. 10
explain this breach in the tariff walls
that has allowed the low priced farm
products 10 get into the tariff fort
ress alongside OF the high priced
trust products They must also ex.
plain why the trusts are 70 continue
70 have monopoly under the high
tariff law and the farmers shall stili
be forced 70 sell AZ prices fixed in the
free trade markets Of the world in
competition with the surplus Of other
countries that have like products to
dispose Of
revision Of the tariff is obviously
demanded 80 that the trusts shall
lose their enormous protection and the
cOnsumers-farmers and other people
aiike-will be protected from paying
the high prices that the trusts are
protected BY the tariff in imposing on
all the American people