The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-12-18
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business improves. also does poll
tics

! business improves. also does poll
tics.l
The most noticeable and significant
thing in New York today. mentioned in
a chapter last week is the pronounced
Improvement of business. As at New
York there is a barometer which indi-
Gates the stage of trade over the whole
country, the signs and the situation are
indeed gratifying. This notwithstand-
ing the fast approaching political cam
paign and national conventions and
elections of 1912 and the pending
session of congress. with its I'M
certain tariff bills, which, how
ever may be vetoed by President
Taft if they should be such as to pre-
sage, in his level head, any disaster,
destruction or even handicap to bust
ness and commerce of the legitimate
sort under legitimate reguIations-an
no other sort of business should pros
per or be given encouragement
Wooden mills all over New England
are today suddenly resuming and run
ming full time Three thousand opera
tives are concerned in Rhode Island
Two days ago was the first Saturday
several great mills have run for twenty
months. In three towns mills are all
syndicate is buying up idle wooden
mills, promising new machinery and
operation by New Years. In Connecti-
cut. it is said in New York today. there
is neither an idle mill nor an idle
weaver with many mills running over
time heavy expenses, and not operat
ing nights, as well as days. only be-
cause of lack of help There's your
fr1n dinner nail COMING a
With the meat packers deprived of
British trade because the English
hesitate to buy their steaks, muttons
and kidneys of big butchers under sus-
picion there is promise Of an immediate
fall in the cost of living to Americans
to whom all good meat just now looks
alike, whether cut by a freeman in the
shambles or with the shackles menac-
ing him, even as he has menaced the
consumer and the producer. Railroads
show over million increase for No
vember. B. & O. wants $4,000 tons of
steel rails quick other roads ditto
Three thousand tin plate men began
work today. The Pullman company
puts on 1000 new men this week and
1000 January ,. It develops there are
remarkably few unemployed. Business
men are making optimistic predictions
One shrewd one says business condi-
lions in New York are so per cent bet
ter than in October.
Taft is not very popular in New
York today. but you can't tell about
these corporation representatives who
dominate things. They are fekle
without consistency, conscience or
ences. The same identical classes and
individuals who are today slipping
kindly words askance at Roosevelt
and even praising him since he said
recently that big business should not
be destroyed, but regulated. The very
same thing Taft evidently believes in,
but possibly did not say in those
words, one short year ago at the close
of the failed Stimson campaign for
governor championed by Colonel
Roosevelt, fresh from Africa. These
same people said that the colonel had
been obliterated, wiped off the map.
He is on their map again in black
type. But they are slippery, these Wall
street fellows and big interest men
and none knows this better than T.
r., and Taft. too. The Wall streeters
are at heart for Harmon all right
publican to Democrat. They are no
respectors of politics or statesmen.
They thought Wickersham would be
their tool. They are fooled and mad.
They don't even speak to him civilly
in the New York clubs. They snub
him. That's so.
This writer would like to predict
that Taft will yet have some of these
higher-ups in Jail within year where
a few of them ought to be. They
thought they were above the law;
could evade it. It was for the poor
man, the little fellow to be imprisoned |
Only a few weeks ago Morgan and his |
crowd almost defied the government |
Think of it, Morgan, as representative |
of the great, great interests. he is |
bowed down to, kowtowed to, as if he |
We're a king in a kingdom and he is |
in our moneyland. This money bust |
ness in New York as a center is like !
a tremendous monopoly 1t is hoped !
the government can regulate it. It
has its grip on everything and it's !
crushing or creating power is stipend |
Gus. No one can be in New York in |
touch with this sort of thing and fail |
to see it.
The little man. of whom there
should be prosperous armies in this |
country, has an awful handicap. Nor
gan or his allied interests can say
whether he lives or fails.
Ability and even considerable capt. |
tai are not so often the essentials to |
success. There is needed so frequent
ly now a pull with the money trust
that can overcome great ability and
ordinary capital.