The Greeley tribune., 1912-10-24
States Should Be Allow
ed To Regulate Their
Own Trusts, Resourc-
es And Business.

S"A AIuSIS, NeSOuIC-
es And Business.
there and brought it home and saw
ed $500 ! met a man at the Balti-
more convention from the Philip
pine Islands who told me that he
stopped off at Hong Kong and
Dousht some shaw-nit underwear.
he came to Montan. and visited his
prother' They We're in their shirt
sleeves and found his brother wore
sha|-nit underwear and they COM
pared prices. He said he paid the
equivalent of so cents of our money
IN Hong Kong, while his brother
pald so cents out here in Montana
made in America. | could keep on
giving such instances. These peo-
pie only pay s3S0,00O,0 into the
Treasury each year The trouble is
It does not go into the treasury. If
they paid on the articles made in
America the same tariff as those
which do actually come from abroad
instead of $50 million it would have
been five billion and $50 million
last year that would have gone into
the treasury. Where did the other
five billion dollars go to? The man
who weaves the cloth only gets five
cents a yard, we have to pay $1.O2
tariff on it. Where is the other 81
cents? Have you got it? II you
have wish you would give it to me,
1t is my money not yours.
Who Gets the Tariff?
Il have here piece of Melton
cloth made in England which l will
leave with the committee. The tariff
duty is 234 per cent of the original
cost. 1t only cost 80 cents in Eng
land, when it got here it cost $1O4.
Why you could pay the man who
weayes the cloth in America his five
cents and let him do nothing and
then hire the manufacturer to just
go over to England and buy this
cloth, pay him as much for buying
1t over there as it costs him and
then il he would bring it over here
and sell it to you you would save
one-third of the cost on your cloth
began to inquire why they sold
these goods made here cheaper
abroad and they said. to get rid of
the surplus. Then they began to
build more mills in Indiana to make
more surplus and I said stood for
a system of taxation that would
make them sell the surplus at home
and the product abroad. A wire
manufacturer at one Of my meetings
in Indiana said If he could buy his
steel billets at Terre Haute, Ind, at
the same price the same Terre
Haute steel sold upon the wharf at
Liverpool, England, he could sell his
product to the farmers in Indiana
100000 less in year, giving his
hands 100000 more and distribut.
Ag 100000 more among his stock.
holders. But what is the use OF
talking about this thing? You must
not expect miracles. We don't want
mechanics troubles and disorder,
but We do want to get down to a
square, decent. honest basis with
reference to the things we are CON-
PEELED to buy and we are going to
get there without causing trouble
1t may be little while coming but
it must inevitably come down.
"The socialist says the republican
and progressive are right. This is
an evolution, an outgrowth of mod
ern business conditions, that the
trust is come to stay. that it must
inevitably exist. and he says il
these gentlemen are to control af-
fairs with their great wealth to the
detriment of the SO million people
OF this country why not let the gov
eminent take them over and contro
them for everybody?
Salvation Is Democratic Party
Can our republican friends
answer that argument? You canno,
stick your head in the sand like al
ostrich and think you are safe.
do not want socialism in this coun-
try, ! have vital interest in the
Old fashioned democratic party. il is
the only salvation of the republic
it fs easy to enlarge or increase our
expenditures: how are we going to
cramp back that is the trouble.
What are you going to do when
you have increased the desire for
happiness among so million people
who do not know whether they are
going to come out square on the
3lst of December? Give them a
chance to satisfy their desire. What
Will you do in the congested dis
trfcts which 263 laboring men are
sleeping in every 100 rooms. where
only 40 per cent of the heads OF
families are able to keep their chill
den. and they must work them in
order to keep the wolf from the
door?
Real Homes Make Happiness
My mission is to tell you to re-
turn to the ideals of the fathers, to
the equality of all men before the
law, not equality physically, not
in mental attainments. but
equality in chance and in the oppor-
tunity to be happy. Young men do
not have an equality of chance. He
has not even a chance to stay and
be near his mother-in-law. l knew
a young man who was crushed to
death by one of the trusts. The
real thing in American life is to get
on. not. to get all To make peace
fuI, haDpy cOntenteQ men and