Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1907-02-22
THINGS ri CONSIDER.

The National Brokerage company,
representing all the independent window
glass manufacturers Of the country,
recently met in Pittsbur :, Pennsylvania.
and unanimously agreed to ehut down
work and lay Off men till September,
alleging that il is necessary to curtail
the production in order to keep up
prices.
The representatives Of the steel fac
tories not long ago did the same thing.
and paper mill representatives u few
months ago stopped mnny mills. Thus
the prices Of glass. steel and paper are
kept up. Every commodity which The
people use is controlled by Il trust and
prices are still going up.
Angle.steel, which is used in making
buggies, il going higher every day, and
and email mau mtac,urers the country
over are ont Of this steel. But tho mills
that turn it ont are clos cd down till
next June, because the executive board
OF tho steel trust says that the market is
oyerstocked.
Cutlery IL advancing every week, gu
Is china ware; %crocKery, furniture,
glassware, wall paper and paints are
sliding upward in price. Cloths, but
tone, muslins, sheeting, cassiu. eres,
shoes and so forth and 20 on, all are be
coming Gearcr.
Farming implements, lumber, pumps.
IpuunnG lnGItFnprn ta@na nd .Is.....
rates are changing every month, but the
change is iii every instance higher and
not lower.
No wonder the masses Of the people
ace Get for Bryan in 1908. They believe
he can check the Entertainments OF the
trusts. and they are bound to be tor him.
no difference what he says, or what he
has said, about the COVER nment owning
the railroads
Relying upon President Roosevelt to
curb the trusts and check them has left
a large minority of tho voters in the
plight Of men deceived. The many
rich democrats i'll the east and few in
the west, who have been, or arc now,
sneering at Bryan and "Bryanism,"
would better seriously consider the
burdens which the trusts are imposing
upon the country and prepare their
minda for the heroic measures that the
democratic party must adopt to better
the present and rapidly growing worse
conditions
There's u storm coming, The massee
arc disappointed III Roosevelt. Ton.
gress is growing more o1.ravagant, and
tho trusts more arrogant. Initiation OF
the currency has made money cheap,
II the second section OF the seven fat
years close upon the heels OF the fret
section has helped along the phenomenal
continuance Of the phenomenal prosper.
ity which sol in abont the middle OF the
summer IN 1897 Gold discoveries and
foreign wars have doomed things. Blu,
the increase Of wealth has gone into
million dollar castles for the Schwabs,
the Harrimnps, the Clarks, the Aldricbe
the Morgans aud Hills.
The necessarire OF life have risen in
Pr'cc ioTly per cent more tina have the
wages and s~nlaries Of the masses. and
the trusts arc absorbing the substance
OF the people who work. Tho consumer
must pay too much toi what he must
consume.
This is o the cry OF nm alarmist, bu,
the sober expr, ssion OF u conservative
who wns Tor Tildon in 1876 and Tor
sound money and sound democracy over
since. II is the opinion II an observer
who liz in touch Will, tie rich and be.
longs to tho poor-tIir judgment OF n
man in fair circumst tnces who is max.
rnR bic living with his hlude and his
bend; ma RING 10 build for those
around, tId Tor otlicrs SGT to follow
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