Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-01-30
ALL SUFFER ALIKE
NO CLASS EXEMPT FROM TRUST
ExToRTIoN.
Recent Little Furry" Has Shown In
Stronger Light she Bogus Pros
perity That Is the Repub-
Iican Party's Boast.

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All classes Of citizens are suffering
In this boosted era Of Republican
prosperity, and If the recent trouble
was, IS our Republican contempt
rarieg declared, only a little furry"
what will a real Republican panic do?
The farmer has discovered that the
little furry" has prevented the cot
ton buyer and the wheat buyer from
having money to buy the crops; that
the price Of farm products is falling,
while the price Of the tariff-protected
trust products is still at the top notch.
The workingman finds wages declin-
ing and factories either running on
short time or closing down, with but
in the price of what he is compelled to
buy. The railroad men, the telegraph
operators, and other employees of pub
lie Utility corporations, are threatened
with a LAY of" as winter advances,
and but little saved to keep the gaunt
and hungry Republican wolf of pros
perity" from the door. And yet the
Republican leaders in congress, and
out OF congress for that matter, stand
pat and sing their monotonous song of
let well enough alone" and advise us
all TO join in the chorus. Under this
joyless Republican symphony, while
the tariff still protects the trusts and
not a trust magnate, a malefactor Of
great wealth fhntuh hn nooY H. 80
prevented from continuing his plumber
ing, every me is suffering but the ia
vored few.
How do you like it? Will you still
vote to protect the trusts and indorse.
the Republican policy of leaving we'll
enough alone?" Do you think Presi-
dent Roosevelt can be a real reformer
and not even recommend to congress,
the reform of the tariff that protects
the trusts, which is the chief cause
of prosperity for the few and panic.
for the many?
Are you farmers satisfied with the
bogus protection the Republican tariff
pretends to give you, and do you real
ly believe that the tariff on wheat and
other cereals has added one cent a,
bushel to the price paid you?
If you get two or three cents a
pound more for wool, you more than
pay it out again in dearer clothes. If
you grow sugar beets, and the tariff
tax on imported sugar makes such
beets a dollar a ton higher, the sugar
trust gets 1t back from you in higher
priced sugar.
Do you ~workingmen still believe the
tariff tax on iron and steel and glass
and all other manufactured products
protects you and adds to your wages
shortens your hours of labor? Is a
carpenter or bricklayer or painter pro-
tected by the tariff? You know they
cannot be, but their wages are higher
than their brothers who produce tar
Unprotected products because they
are better organized and have thus
been able to secure better terms and
shorter hours from employers. 1t was
the tariff, therefore, that pro-
tected them, but rather plundered
them, for all alike have to pay the,
Tariff tax to the trusts in high prices
for their products.
There is another class of workers
who are especially robbed by the tar
III and have no particle of tariff pro.
lection, and that is the storekeepers.
md their clerks. The trusts cuts.
Town their profits, and in many in.
stances dictate the price they shall
'ell for, and thus reduce profits. n
very naturally their clerks suffer by
mall wages and long hours.
Then there are those whose in.
are fixed and do not increase
the price of trust products advance.
MI such have through the increased
OF living had the purchasing DOW
OF their incomes reduced over so
Ter cent. in the last ten years, or since
he present tariff law has been on the
tatute books.
SO all these classes suffer from The
arlff that our Republican brethren
oasted produced prosperity until this
anic took the wind out of their sails.
they wonder what has struck