The Cairo bulletin., 1912-09-19
CHARGES STEEL
TRUST FAVORS
FOREIGN TRADE
Marshall, in Speech at Springfield,
Declares Japan Buys at !.
50 per cent Discount
MANUFACTURER DISPLEAsED
Would Fave Business a Certainty
Rather Than Dependent
Upon Tariff Laws
MANUFACTURER pIsPLEAsED
Associated Press Dispatch.


Springfield, Sept. 1S,--Here in
the early home Of Abraham Lincoln,
Gov. Thomas r. Marshall, of
Indiana, vice presidential candidate
on the Democratic ticket, in his
speech In the Armory, tonight, de-
clared the martyred president was a
Democrat at heart. His declaration
startled his audience.
Because of the lateness OF the ar
rival of his train, he was at once
taken to the armory. and after a
short introduction began his speech
in behalf of the national ticket In
outlining what he said he considered
a good Democrat, he said
In every heart throb Abraham
Lincoln was Democrat, although he
never may have voted the Demo-
cratic ticket"
1.-The tariff schedules of Chi
country, which have produced ~,
strusts and monopolies. have beer
t.aacted by species of log-ro'Iin &,
nHd the nevor-andinr changes IL
these eehodtlas aya halrire one ra.al
ard harming another without ri irh'
This produces the real cause o. tn
unrest In business conditions
''The manufacturer Is coming +
realize that ii is to his interest tc
have peaee and certainty and to hav
his business divorced from the til
kering of government; that the s'p
of the benefit to one man has hee
equalled by the sum OF injury t
others; that the legislation ha
been local in its character
people have laughed over the ar
tlcle in 8 Septembe~ magazine o
en- industry wherein trust maa
nate procured tariff duty of 3
cents on single bananas in order tha
Jimmie might build glass houses .
the barren farms of New Englan
and raise bananas
Exaggerat on Not Ridiculous.
But the eYaegeration was not
ridiculous after all Very much tn
same thing has been done. An IT.
dianian cot under the Payne-Audric'
umbrella because he could not rails
pineapples without assistance. Ever
fevor-stricken child must pay nor
FOR pineapple that this man ma
he enabled to raise them Tt
lemon growers of California obtair
cd oue-half cent per pound tariff O.
lemons and thereby closed the mil
ut Bangor. Me-. which turned or
the material for lemon boxes, as tn
italian lemon grower retailed on tn
N0y manufacturers A boost for
big man under this system has al
ways been knock for the little fe1
low.
"Once inoculate man with tn
right Of special privilege and 1t goc
into every drop Of his blood r
thinks he is perfectly justified
taking it wherever he can get II
and LEGISLATORS think they are eCua'
~ justified in giving it whenever
Is asked Take this example, II yor
please. Of the virus that is in or
system under Republican rule i,
the state of Maine the Bangor
froostock Railroad paid 100000
year tayes BY legislative anthor
itv s95 900 Of this money was re
hated to the railroad under conditio
that the railroad should haul tt
troaNs of Maine free Of charge y
the event Of war with Canada. Ur
der the Democratic administratio
this graft stopped and the railroad
was told that in the event of we
regular rates would be paid for tn
transportation of troops.
Favors FOREIGN Countries.
special privilege will not tres
its own people as decently at l.
treats others The United State
steel corporation sold its armor plat
at Portsmouth, England, for the Jan
anese navy at fifty per cent OF tn
price 1t CHARGED the United State
government, and don't blame n
for doing 50. A government TIM
hands an industry blpdgeon witt
which 10 knock down its own citl
gems oueht, itself to be knocket
down This is one bit of easy none
that do not begrudge the United
states Steel corporation.
''Thc control of the trusts b,
stand-patter and progressive, as
proposed by their platforms, is proc
tically the same. From the text o.
their platforms no sermon can b,