Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1908-07-08

IVA When the American farmer is compelled 10 pay tvic
ss much tor his agricultural implements as The foreicr
farmers pay Is il not the tariff val-shutnc out the
competition OF the foreign manufactrer enabIe.
the Harvester Trust to make this discrimination aoa;ns h
American farmer?
Isn't the same thing true Of every other article whose
price controlled BY Trust? Is not the Tariff the Il.
ospensabe bulwark behind which these voracious Trusts
are organized9 Does not the Steel Trust force value
s billion dollars pf waered stock and bonds BY reason &c
ts monopoly? And isn't this monopoly the child Of the
tariff which shuts out foreign competition?
but the Republican leaders say thai the Tariff benefits
the farmer and the laborer.
Let US return to the Statistical Abstract of the IJrted
otaes tor l9O5 and search for the people who are get
ting the benefit OF increase in wealth The national
wealth is now put at $ll0000OO0OOO Ii increases ii
ne 51e Tase rate ot tour per cent This is S440O
Y Who gets itp
Uncle Sams Official reports for 1905 show that after
paying tor material after paying wages and after allow
ing eight per cent interest the capital invested the
manufacturers got S2672000O0O
his is nearly three times the whole oross rn
sof Great Britain!
lhe entire increase in national wealth having been
andth Tariff barons having got fhe above
enomous sGce Of il there left for everybody else to
divide among themselves. $1728O0OOO0
IA Now let us see who got that
Wen the little old railroads got cea- Of all items &c
expense andSinerest the Of $327000OOO
Deduct that from what we had left after the tariff bar
0ns got theirs r and we have 100000 10 divide ont
he modest national banks returned their net profits
o1zhOVU,OOO and we will lei It 60 at that
Deduct this and we still have left ST. 100000 d b.
divided among the remainder Of the 8000000O people Of
the country.
The savings banks report modest surplus fund and j..
divided profits amounting to $238OOOOOO,
When we have sliced off Their share from what We had
lett above, our remainder is $1026O00O00
losay nothing Of their annual dividends The State Banks
a trnl NJ a.l II r
S490O0000O 80 -
Allowing these institutions to make Of with their Ind
savings we now have left only $536OOOOO0.o divide out
amDpg 1T Z ~ !, the peoDle1no already mentioned
ne Lie Insurance Companies reported NET s,rnlis
ot SS53OOOOOO, The Fire and Marine Insuranc Com
spanies reported net profits Of $l4OOOO0O
Add these and We have $34z000O00 which We must
subsac from The 100000 which was left after he
little old State Banks got theirs
Having substracied accordingly We 6nd tbat o. no.
have Slo9OOOOOO to divide out among all the re o be
folks. excepting those already mentioned
put there are the Accident insurance Companies tbev
seem to have cleared $40O00000 in 1905 And Llovds
end nef-insrance companies appear 10 have cleared
goody pile AS We are not certain vs. IL me exact s,n
VS. VII leave out the latter and simply deduct the S4O
100000 to cover both
his being done, have only $l590OOOOO Ieft TIL
'ns measly sum have reduced the annual increase IF
ready named s
Out this remainder must satisfy the Pullman Palace
car Company and the four Bic Express Companies and
the MegtpackeTs end the Building Loan Associations
4 ne 4 american News Ipmpany-whch is one a the
greediesl and most despodc Of all the Trusts.
by the time these corporations have GOT theirs noth
ng remains tor the farmers and aborers excepting about
sncnGh to ve on, and are not Bit surprised when
Ye turn to he reports the Agricultural classes and 6nd
nas ,ney ggs practically none o hepcrease of the "a.
ANUFACTU CORPORATIONS AND
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