The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1916-10-19
HIGH PRICE DUE
TO DEMOCRATS
Promised Lower Cost of Living,
But 1t Has Gone Up.

WASHINGTON, d. c., October II
the high price of gasoline, which af-
fects the owner of every automobile in
the country as well as all business
houses which use gasoline trucks; the
high price of print paper. which has
affected every newspaper and publ
cation in the United States, particularly
the owners of the smaller newspapers;
the high price of binder Irvine which is
costing the farmers millions of dollars
all these increased expenses affecting
millions of our citizens and costing
them billions of unnecessary expense,
is due to the Wilson administration and
the Democratic party. declared Rep
resentative Halvor Stevenson, Of
Minnesota, in a statement here today.
The Democratic party promised
economy and gave US extravaganza. 1t
promised lower cost of living but it has
gone up and is still going up. 1t prom
ised to curb monopoly but the Demo-
Gratis have pulled the teeth out of the
anti trust law by the Clayton act to
such an extent that we are now in the
grip of some of the most rapacious
trusts in the world.
When | sought to get the Govern
ment to prosecute them for violating
the antitrust law the Department of
Justice could not find sufficient evidence,
although the Secretary of the Interior,
the Bureau of Mines, and the Federal
Trade Commission investigated the
subject and reported there was no
natural or economic cause for the in
crease in prices and it must be due to
monopolization.
THE paper trust has gradually raised
the price Of paper so that settlers who
furnish the pulp wood have been paid
the same old price but the manufacture
mas doubled the selling price.
"The latest product of Democratic
legislation and policy, the binder Irvine
trust-the Commission del Mercado de
Henequin Reguladora of Yucatan-con-
trolls absolutely the worlds sisal supply
out of which binder Irvine is made.
This trust was organized by the mill
tary governor of Yucatan and was ap-
proved by Carranza. 1t was financed
in the United States with approval of
the State Department. Norman Lind,
whose father, John Lind, was sent as
President Wilson'S personal represen-
tatlve' to Mexico is its American repre-
sentative. This trust has already
doubled the price of binder Irvine. In
the state of Minnesota alone it has
raised the price from 30 cents to cents
and refuses to quote prices for next
season lower than 10 cents. Minnesota
farmers use approximate $4,000, 900
pounds of Irvine annually, and this
means an extra tax of at least ten
cents an acre or more than a million
dollars on the farmers of this one state.
This money, wrung from American
farmers, will not go to the poems of
Yucatan in increased wages but to
Carranza. 1t will help him buy more
arms and ammunition with which to
murder Americans.
1.-The Democratic party has imposed
extra taxes on the people amounting to
$500, 900, 900 per annum. They have
created more than $4,000 new offices.
involving a permanent burden on the
tax payers of $4,000, 600 per annum.
They are great for economy when
out of Office, but in power they are
more than extravagant-the are prof
hgate."