BEiO
CRATIC RECORD ON
THE TRUST QUESTION.
Every Line of Legislation Now on Our Statute Books
Was Placed There by the Republicans, and
the Democrats Voted Against a Consti
tutional Amendment to Regulate
Them Only Four ialonths Ago.
Hos
tile Democratic National Chairman Tried
Help the Sugar Trust Facts from the
Congressional Record.
Ever? line of legislation now on the statute books of the United States directed
nsainst trust and unlawful trade combinations was placed there by the Repub
licans. That there is not more stringent law against them is the fault of the Demo
cratic party.
The last occasion on which the parties, as represented in Congress, went on
record on the trut question was on June 1, lVHKi.
On that day a final vote was taken on a constitutional amendment to grant
Congress power to "define, regulate, prohibit and dissolve trusts, monopolies and
combinations, whether existing in the form of corporations- or otherwise."
It requires a two-thirds vole of Congress to submit a constitutional amend
ment to the State I-cgislatures for ratification.
The question to so submit it was lost bv a rote of l."il veas to 1.12 nays.
OF T1IK YEAS 141) WERE REPUBLICANS AND ONLY 5 WERE DEM
OCRATS. The live were Campbell of Montana. Naplien and Taylor of Massa
chusetts. Scudder of New York and Sib'.ev of Pennsylvania.
OF THE 132 XAYS, ONLY TWO WEKK It E I I U L I C A X S, Lour and Me
Call.
Richardson. Lentz, Sulzer, Kuppert. Salmon and all the other professional
"trust killers" voted XAY. They declined to give Congress the power to grap
ple with the Trusts. The Democrats indulged in spasms of virtue for two days,
denouncing the trusts, and then voted to continue them.
In one of Mr. Bryan's recent speeches he gave the Republican remedy as the
final one he would adopt, in ease he was elected and all other means failed.
In other words. Mr. Bryan admits the value of the Republican idea, but
wants to try other measures first. He has not said what those measures are
to be.
Some trusts operate all over the country; others, like the Xew Y'ork Ice
Trust, operate in a single city. The requisite power to reach each and all and
bring them within the Federal law, WAS DENTED II Y A MARGIN OF 36
VOTES. ALL DEMOCRATIC.
Denouncing is one thing. Doing is another. Mr. Bryan's trust denunciations,
in view of his party's reconk promise no better than the prophecies he made four
years ago; and as a prophet Mr. Bryan has not succeeded.
Senator Jones and the Sugar Trust.
The Democrats made another brilliant pro-trust record during the same
session of Congress Representative Richardson of Tennessee, Democrat, tried to
assist the Sugar Trust by offering a joint resolution to admit Cuban and Torto
Itic.in sugar free of duty.
The remission of that duty would have amounted to about $2o,000.000 a year,
and the Sugar Trust would have benefited to the amount of at least $15,000,000
per year. The controller of the Sugar Trust is Mr. Henry O. Havemeyer, Demo
crat. Mr. Richardson's proposed gift to his friend Mr. Ilavermeyer was smoth
ered in the Ways and Means Committee of the House. This was done by the
Republican members of the committee.
It was also proposed by Senator Jones, Democratic national chairman and
Mr. Bryan's manager, to return the duties paid on Porto Rican sugar and mo
lasses, not to the Porto Ricans, but to the persons who paid these duties.
Tli is amounted at the time to $1.4S7,Ku6. Had the scheme succeeded, the
American Sugar Refining Company and A. S. Lasallcs & C,0-11 Part. .f the
tame concern, would have benefited by a direct gift of $1,250,774. This is the
first instance on record where a direct gift was intended to be made to a trust,
and the Democratic manager. Senator James K. Jones, wished to make it. This
was also prevented by the Republicans.
The money was not to be returned to the Porto Ricans, as the duties paid
now are. but to the Sugar Trust.
All the facts are printed in the Congressional Record and are a part of Amer
ican history.
"DEAR BOY' LETTERS, NO. 9.
My Dear Boy:
You say that you are tired of working
for old man Skinner, and are thinking of
going West this fall, where wages are
higher. You ask what I think about it.
Well. I have no objection to your going
West, but T don't want you to go till after
the election. This is the first time in
your life that you ever had an opportu
nity to exercise your right as an Amer
ican citi.eu in voting for a President of
the United States. I don't want you to
lose your vote for the following reasons:
1. The only possible chance of the elec
tion of Bryan comes from the over-confidence
of Republicans. It makes me sad
to hear a man say, "Oh, McKinley is
going to be elected, anyhow. There is no
danger. I have arrangements made to be
in California in November, but you won't
reed my vote."
Especially do I regret to hear talk of
this kind among some of the railroad
ien. If any class of men ought to come
up unanimously to the support of Mc
Kinley and the Republican party, that
class is composed of the railroad men of
this country. Four years ago there were
thousands of cars sidetracked, no build
ing and but little repairing going on,
and general stagnation in the railroad
business. Now new roads, new roadbeds,
new cars, the roads crowded with trains,
full time and better pay bless the rail
road men of this country. And it vexes
me to hear a railroad man say, "I would
have to lay off a day to vote, and I guess
I'll not do that. There will be plenty to
elect McKinley without mi.". Well, if
by any possibility McKinley should be
defeated, just such men as that will have
themselves to blame.
2. No American voter has any right to
stay away from the polls or to lose his
vote if it can possibly be avoided.
My son. you are one of the sovereigns
of the United States, and you have no
more risht to neglect the duties pertain
ing to your high calling than the Emperor
of Germany has to neglect the govern
ment of that mighty empire. To vote is
a matter of inestimable privilege, and
also a matter of earnest, conscientious
dutv.
Two years ago you enlisted to fight for
your country as a soldier, bnt the sur
geon turned you down and would not let
you go. I sympathized with you in the
bitterness of your disappointment. I
knew that love of country led you to
enlist, and I was proud because you
wanted to go. And 1 think that the sur
geon was a little over-particular, lou
would have made a good soldier. But I
want you to realize that you serve your
country as truly when you cast an honest
ballot as if you were a soldier in the
field. Perhaps you can do more good
with the ballot than you could with the
gun. Your country did not seem to need
you as a soldier, but your country does
need you in the realm of citizenship.
3. No matter how long you may live,
you will never have an opportunity to
vote for better men than this year. Wc
have a magnificent ticket. McKinley
and Roosevelt! What a superb combina
tion! They are loth statesmen and both
heroes, one of the great Civil War and
one of the war for the deliverance of
Cuba. McKinley. steady, earnest,
thoughtful, calm, kind and faithful;
Roosevelt, impetuous but eflicient, brave
and dashing, with both moral and physi
cal courage. Was there ever a better
ticket or one which more thoroughly com
mands the respect, the confidence and the
affection of the American people?
If you don't stay and vote you will be
sorry for it twenty years from now. Make
some sacrifice for your country's sake.
Oh. my hoy, you must not go until the
election is over. And when in November
the ballots fall
"As snowflakes fall upon the sod.
And execute the freeman's will.
As lightning does the will of Clod,"
Cast your vote and then sleep sweetly
that night, with a sense of dutv faithfully
done. YOUR FATHER.
The Foolish Calf.
When Senator Hanna spoke at Youngs
town. Ohio, recently, he told a story of
a calf that left its mother to run after
a steer. Secretary Heath has taken up
this idea and developed it into a cam
paign poster which very artistically de
picts Senator Hanna's idea. The calf is
seen chasing the steer in the distance;
the cow is in the foreground sauntering
quietly home, while the boy stands with
uplifted fist shaking it at the calf, say
ing, "You little fool, you little fool, you
d d fool, you'll be sorry when supper
time comes.
The picture is entitled "The Foolish
Calf, or a Iesson to Labor," and stand
ing by a fence in front of a cottage are
a farmer and a woman, the man with a
full dinner pail in his hand. This poster
is sure to catch on and is likely to be a
good vote getter.
When Senator Hanna arrived in Chi
cago this week it was shown to him and
surprised him. He had no idea that Mr.
Heath had been developing his story.
Germany's Need of Expansion.
The vital need of Germany is the ex
tension of its market. Bismarck saw
that the surest way of accomplishing
this was through "expansion." Hence
Germany's aggressive "colonial policy,"
which has already given it New Guinea,
several slices of Africa, part of Samoa,
the Solomon group, Kiao Chau in China;
made it eager to get the Philippines, if
it could; and caused it to pay Spain a
big price for the Caroline Islands, which
the United States left to that country by
the treaty of Paris.
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i exports m&-m
i Si 3do.v 1 -,v dl J -'MmH up I fw&gg&
a exports mmrm
MI; MANUFACTURES
EXPORTS
OF
MANUFACTURES
In 1895
$183,595,743
In 1900
$432,2S4,36
"It Sort
o' Looks as
PERKINS.
CALIFORNIA SENATOR
ON OUR EXPANSION.
Astounding Growth of the Trans
Pacific Trade.
Reasons Why the Pacific Coast Will
Cast Its Electoral Votes for
McKinley and Roosevelt
(By George C. Perkins. United States
Senator from California.)
No portion of the country Is more im
meuintely concerned in sustaining the ex
pansion policy of President McKinley
than the States of the Pacific coast.
While the South produces the cotton
which is being shipped in such enormous
quantities to the orient, while other sec
tions are sending manufactures of every
description, the coast is sending .across
the Pacific its own rlour, fruits and man
ufactures. Besides this, we are handling
the ships in which the exporting is done.
Our own manufactures have ranged from
mining and other machinery to a com
pleted five thousand ton steel man-of-war
for the Japanese government. Every
line of industry has benefited and we ex
pect by the establishment of closer com
mercial relations to increase both our
population and prosperity.
The Pacific coast has long been on the
edge of the country. To-day it is the
center of the American transpacific trade.
We have reached out beyond for busi
ness. We can control the trade of the
Pacific. That is why we are all expan
sionists. The growth of the transpacific trade
is a matter of very recent years. Not
more than ten years ago the Canadian
Pacific Company established its first line
of transpacific steamships. Prior to that
there were six steamers plying from San
Francisco in the Japan and China line.
They brought from the orient tea, mat
ting, silk, rice and the endless line of
articles that are imported from Japan
and China. They carried back silver in
the form of Mexican dollars and bullion,
some provisions, and flour which was tak
en along for ballast as well as to fill up
the cargoes. The establishment of the
Canadian line primarily for military
purposes and secondarily for traffic,
threw a good many San Franciscans in
to mourning. To them, they thought, the
end had come. San Francisco was to
lose its Asiatic business. Then followed
in rapid succession the establishment of
new lines from Portland, the Puget
sound ports and San Diego.
Our merchants awoke. Instead of six
steamers plying from San Francisco the
number has been added to. The demand
now is for larger boats and better boats,
and the trade from the Pacific slope is
many times what it once was.
The incoming cargoes are much what
they formerly were, but the exports In
clude every conceivable article of Ameri
can produce and manufacture cotton
goods, electrical goods, bicycles, cotton
literally by the trainload, alcohol by the
trainload for use in the manufacture of
smokeless powder in Japan, agricultural
implements, canned fruits, canned vege
tables, canned meats, almost everything
that the mind can conceive. And the de
mand on the steamship companies is al
ways for room and then for more room.
What is true of the Asiatic trade is
equally true of the Australian. The
Oceanic Steamship Company is -about to
add three C,000-ton vessels to its fleet
and to begin steamer connection with
Tahiti. I am assured that the available
freight carrying facilities of the Austra
lian steamers are engaged for months
ahead.
These are the material evidences of
trade expansion. The sentiment of this
Pacific coast is overwhelmingly In favor
of closer business relations with the ori
cnt. Wo Jo not favor Riving up the Ha
waiian Islands, which have been devel
oped by California capital; we do not
favor Mr. Bryan's policy of surrendering
the Philippines.
GEORGE C. PERKINS.
San Francisco, Cal.
Poll on the Illinois Central.
On an Illinois Central train a few days
ago a poll of voters was taken before the
train reached Chicago, with the follow
ing result
For McKinley.............. 215
For Bryan ..................... 20
Total voters on the train 235
if I'd Have to Expand."
BLUM.
GERMAN -AMERICAN
FOR GOLD STANDARD.
Is the Paramount Issue of the
Present Campaign.
Eryan's Bogies, Imperialism and Mili
tarism Cut No Figure with the
German-Born Voters.
(An Interview with August Blum.)
Mr. August Blum, cashier of the First
National Bank of Chicago, intends to
vote for the re-election of President Mc
Kinley. Mr. Blum is one of the best representa
tives in Chicago of the type of Germans
who have gained, in this country, the re
spect of fellow American citizens, for in
tegrity, industry and ability. He was
cashier of the Union National Bank; but
after the recent absorption of that insti
tution by the First National, he was
made cashier of the First National. He
is generally recognized throughout the
West as a leading banking authority, one
whose judgment in connection with the
various complex questions that come be
fore every banker is almost infallibly cor
rect. In politics he is a Democrat, and was
always a prominent supporter of Grover
Cleveland.
The following are questions put to Mr.
Blum, and the replies he gave:
Q. Would the election of Bryan benefit
the business interests of Chicago, of the
whole United States, and the Gernian
American citizens particularly?
A. The election of Mr. Bryan would,
in niy opinion, be a great misfortune to
this country, and therefore to Chicago,
and therefore to German-Americans and
to every other kind of Americans. Amer
ican citizens of German birth are not a
class by themselves.
Q. What, in your opinion, is the para
mount issue of this campaign?
A. The paramount issue is that which
is in the people's minds, not ixt the party
platform nor in the speeches of leaders
necessarily. There is one thing in which
we are all vitally concerned, and that is
the inviolability of the country's standard
of value. For .a quarter of a century we
have battled for it. At the last moment
to surrender to the enemy would be the
height of folly. I know of no other is
sue comparable to this one in importance.
Talk of imperialism is disingenuous.
Much as we may differ about the desira
bility of the Philippines as- a colony, we
occupy them now and largely through the
help of Mr. Bryan. The thing is done.
Q. What do you think of Bryan's
statement about the recent German loan?
A. It is very difficult to follow the tor
tuous road of Mr. Bryan's utterances.
Four years ago I tried persistently to un
derstand his utterances about the stand
ard of value, but I gave it up at last in
despair. To cotfstrue our ability to ab
sorb a foreign loan, as evidence of bad
times, is decidedly Bryanesque. We
could not loan money to foreign govern
ments if we were not in a prosperous con
dition. When Mr. Bryan undertakes to
prove the contrary it may give hiui pleas
ure, but It will not convince any one.
Q. Do you think that this country has
prospered during the last four years as a
result of Republican policies?
A. Yes; the couutry has prospered dur
ing the last four years. The best, in my
opinion, that can be legitimately said of
the policy of any party is that it does
not stand in the way of normal business
development which would mean prosper
ity. That can be said of the Republican
party. During the last four years free
play has been given to industry, frugality
and to the natural productiveness of the
country. There has been no attempt at
interference by tampering with the stand
ard of value, which would have meant
destruction of prosperity."
Q. Do you think Bryan is a safe, solid,
wise enough man to be President?
A. I answer this with a most emphatic
NO.
Q. now do you think German-Americans,
as a class, will vote in the presi
dential election this fall?
A. They will vote according to the dic
tates of their conscience. I have too much
confidence in the good sense of my coun
trymen to be doubtful as to the outcome.
REMEMBER!
The Party (Democratic) stands
where It did in 1896 on the Mon y
Question. TV. J.. Bryan, Zanesville,
O., Sept. 4.
I HOW SHALL I VOTE THIS FALL? f
Am I a Republican, Democrat or Populist?
Let mm reason with mys -If and yon.
Snppose for a moment lam a farmer and lownorreit land.
Five years a-ro 1 farmed ICO acres out west. Times were ba t, crops
were poor, ray wheat brought only 40 cents a bushel at the farm
and. my corn only 18 cents. IS "Was cheap -r to bura corn in the
stove than to buy wood or coaL B waved enough wheat for seed and
sold the rest, but didn't set enough to paj the storekeeper what 1
owed him, and could tei no more credit. 1 owed a big payment on
my farm machinery. Thank heaven, the aent of the Harvester J
Company extended the time on my note for another year. That
saved my home end the lives or myself and family. J
lbat was under Clever-nil's Democratic Administration.
Four years aao McK nley was nominated for President. It was
n happy omen for the tillers of the soil all over the country.
In 1KOG my crops w re good. My wheat and corn, cattle and
hogs brought good prices.
1 paid off the storekeeper, settled with the Harvester Company, J
took up the mortgage on ttie homest -ad an.l commenced to live.
Another year and three more years have gone by, and I am still
prosperous. So prosperous, in fact, that 1 have almost forgotten
the hard times before illiam McKinley came to be President of
the greatest Republic in the world. i!ut 1 luve net lorgotten that
I have a piano in t .e hou c, that two boys have been fitted for col-
leg.', that my wife and daughters are well dressed, and that the old
man himself is taking life mighty eay.
Prosperity has increased the siza of my waistband, and 1 guess
lam ju,t good enough llepul;ican to vote once more for Major
J McKinley.
WHAT SAY YOU ? J
SHOUP.
MOUNTAIN STATES
TURN TO ftl'KINLEY.
Prosperity the Cause ol
Welcome Change.
the
No One Fears "Imperialism," While All
Are Proud of the Records Made
by the Army and Navy.
(By George I,. Shoup, United States Sen
ator from Idaho.)
There are many reasons which impel
the voters of the mountain States to sup
port the nominees and the policy of the
Republican Party this fall. One word
more than any other explains the position
of our people in this support and that
word is confidence.
The record of the Republican party is
a record of fulfilled promises.
The first act of the party after its re
turn to power was the enactment of the
Dingley tariff law, which again placed us
on a protection basis.
Take for example the benefits which
have accrued to my own State, Idaho.
Among our principal industries are min
ing, cattle and sheep growing and farm
ing. The great lead mines of the State are
working every man possible at wages of
$3.50 per day of eight hours. During
the three years of President McKiuley's
administration the value of the lead pro
duced in the State was $14,114,003, while
during the last three years of President
Cleveland's administration the total value
was only $7,S00,151.
Our sheep have advanced in price from
$1.15 to $2.50 per head, a gain to the
people of the State of over three million
dollars in the value of the sheep alone.
In the year 1890 the wool clip of Idaho
v?aa valued at $442,CS5, while for the
year 1900 it is estimated that it will bring
to the wool growers of the State $2,
320,000. A very conservative estimate of the
number of cattle in the State is 500,000.
They have increased in value on an aver
age of $13 per head, making the cattle
men at least seven and one-half million
dollars richer than they were three years
ago. The increase in the price of horses
of $10 per head has also added betwes
one and two million dollars to the wealth
of the State.
The voters of this State and of the
other mountain States are not blind to
these facts, and on election day they will
give earnest evidence of their confidence
in the party whose policy has so enriched
and prospered them.
We of the West are proud of the
achievements of our army and navy in
the war with Spain. The patriotic posi
tion of the Republican party in declaring
for the retention of the territory so gal
lantly won from Spain appeU to our
people.
They do not fear "imperialism," for w
have never met an American who was
an Imperialist. I am in receipt of let
ters from many men who have never vot
ed anything but a Democratic ticket, but
who will vote for McKinley and Roose
velt on this issue alone.
You can count on the electoral vote of
Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Utah, Wyo
ming and perhaps Montana and Colorado
for McKinley and prosperity.
GEO. I. SIIOUP.
Boise, Idaho, Sept. 23. 1900.
PACIFIC COAST PROSPERITY
The Pacific coast has had a full meas
ure of prosperity in the past four years
and the calamity cry raised by the Bry
anites only excites ridicule.
The leading Bryan paper of the coast
is the San Francisco Examiner, which is
under the same control as the New York
Journal and the Chicago American Its
"Want" columns show that the wage
earners "there have plenty of call for
their services. On Sept. 1, the Exam
iner's "Help Wanted" columns had ad
vertisements for the following:
HELP WANTED.
Male 2,554
Female 231
Total 2.S05
On Sept. 21 the same paper had adver
tisements cailiug for the following:
Male help 2.0C1
Female help COG
Total 2,427
Prosperity has visited the coast in earnest.
HEWITT.
EX-MAYOR SQUARELY
FOR REPUBLICANS.
Supreme Court Would Nullify
Any Imperialistic Ideas.
Every True Deirocrat Can Take No
Other Course Except to Vote the
Republican Ticket
(By Abrnm S. Hewitt of New York, for
merly Mayor and Member of Congress.)
The political situation at this time is
of a very different character from that
which presented itself four years ago. At
that time it seemed possible to maintain
a distinct Democratic organization, based
upon the fundamental principles enun
ciated by Jefferson, and which had con
tinued to govern the party in all previous
presidential elections. The recent con
vention held at Kansas City has, how
ever, rendered all such expectations hope
less. The party which calls itself Demo
cratic is in reality Populistic, and based
upon doctrines which, if carried into ef
fect, would produce political anarchy.
Y'ou ask whether I believe in the coin
age of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1.
You might as well ask me whether I be
lieved that an ounce should be made to
pass for a pound in the ordinary transac
tions of commerce. The ratio is a false
ratio. The value of silver measured by
gold is, as every one knows, not 10 to 1,
but 32 to 1. The proposition of the plat
form therefore is to declare that fifty
cents shall by law be made equal to one
dollar.
You ask me whether the present admin
istration is likely to establish an imperial
istic form of government over this coun
try or in its new possessions.
I answer that the Constitution of the
United States is too strongly intrenched
in the affections of the people to permit
its possible violation by the administra
tion, and that if such an attempt were
made, the Supreme Court of the United
States will surely interpret the Constitu
tion in the spirit of its founders and for
the preservation of the constitutional gov
ernment, to which we owe our stability
and our prosperity.
You ask whether a Democrat, by voting
for McKinley and Roosevelt, could be
considered false to the interests of Dem
ocracy. T answer that I do not see how
a Democrat who is true to the interests
of Democracy can in the present exigency
take any other course than to vote for
the Republican ticket. I propose myself
so to vote, and I do this because I am a
Democrat who feels that Bryanism and
all that it stands for is diametrically op
posed to the principles of the Democratic
party, as they were enunciated by Jeffer
son and as they have been construed by
all the great men who have led the Dem
ocratic party np to the time of the hold
ing of the unhappy convention of ISOtJ,
when the old organization was broken up.
It is certainly a lesser evil to continue
the government in the hands of the Re
publican party for the next four years
than to encounter the perils which would
confront us in case Bryan and his follow
ers should have the opportunity of put
ting in practice the insane policy to
which they are committed.
ABRAM S. nEWITT.
EUROPE FOR BRYAN.
Americans will be pleased to learn
that the French press has followed
the lead of London Truth, and Is
solid for liryan. Henri Itochefort,
editor of L'Jntransf geant, declared
ed!torl-lly on September 20th that
if Mr. Bryan be elected the expan
sion policy of Mr. McKinley will be
struck: from American politics for
years to come. Libre Parole goes
fur'her, Raying :
"The results in the elections in the
United States on the Oth of Novem
ber interest our future destiny. It
in for us that liryan is Working.
Ma 'e a criminal by Imperialism.
McKinley conspires against Franca."
All true Americans should note
that Bryan is working for the inter
ests of Europe not of the United,
States.
tt.
its.
til
Polk.
