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DOMINATED BY TRUSTS
Labor Is at the Mercy of the
Great Combines
OAH BE STAEVED INTO SUBMISSION
Alarming Featnres of tlic Poivcr of
Monopolies Towss Wiped Out nt
Their Will Coercion Used to Get
arcKInlcy Vote Threats That No
Longer Scare
Special Washington Letter
It is not in the coalfields of Pennsyl
vania alone that a trust is showing the
country how It proposes to treat those
dependent upon it for employment
Grant a suburb of Chicago has prac
tically been wiped out of existence by
the dismantling and removing of a
plant owned and controlled by the
electrical trust The 900 employees
upon whom 3GC0 people depended for
support have been told that there will
never be any more employment for
them in the town of Grant The week
ly pay roll was 14000
With the dismantling and removal of
tbe factory the employees are obliged
to look elsewhere for work This
means that the merchants are left
without customers Grant will short
ly become a deserted village
This ability to curtail and deny em
ployment at will is one of the most
alarming features of trust domination
of the country A trust can give the
men at one of its branch factories only
three months work in the year if it
chooses It can keep competing pants
idle so long that the value of the
entire surroundings is depreciated
Then they can be bought up by the
trust at a merely nominal figure
Workmen can be starved into accept
ing any terms of employment that the
combine offers
If an employee offends a full fledged
trust he will have to get himself a
new trade or leave the country The
trusts will blacklist him so that none
of its factories will give him work
Mr Bryan in his speech at Indian
apolis before the National Association
of Democratic Clubs pointed out that
the trusts are anxious to have a big
standing array not to control the In
dians the fewer Indians the larger
the army desired but to repress any
discontent of workingmen Said Mr
Brjan
Does the workingman ask for more
wages He gets a big standing at my
Does he ask for shorter hours of
labor lie gets a big standing army
Does he ask relief from the black
list He gets a big standing army
A dozen reasonable requests of labor
were mentioned and to each of them
Mr Bryan showed the Republican an
swer is a big standing army And this
because the trusts desire it to control
discontented workingmen
The trusts are doing their best to re
elect McKinley and are making a gi eat
display of contracts having at the foot
a clause providing that they are void
In case of Bryans election If they
were actual contracts it is doubtful
if such a stipulation would hold in law
The fact is that the orders and con
tracts are secured by trust agents
with the understanding that they are
to be used merely for Republican cam
paign purposes
It is perhaps a good thing that the
Republican party identifies itself so
fully and squarely with the trusts
Every inau who votes for McKinley in
this campaign knows that 410 is voting
for an extension of the great power
already wielded by the trusts He
votes for a repetition of the essential
features of the miners strike in every
trust controlled industry He votes for
coercion instead of a free ballot He
votes for the dismantling of prosperous
i towns He votes for exorbitant pi ices
on every necessary of life He votes
for the impoverishment of the farmer
and wageworker
The trusts are not to exercise coer
cion as successfully as in lSOG In
stead of submissively promising to
vote for McKinley Avhen shown the
contract Void if Bryan is elected
the wagon workers are collecting lists
of trusts which do this The names of
the trusts are being widely circulated
Citizens without regard to party are
making the only protest which can
touch a trust They are refusing to
buy goods manufactured by trusts
which coerce employees There are
many articles of trust manufacture
which are not absolute necessities The
consumers strike the trust on a tender
point by this refusal to purchase It
may dawn upon Hanna and his col
leagues after election that a repetition
of the tactics of 189G is only making
Democratic votes Then too some
manufacturing plants are promising
their men permanent idleness if Bryan
is elected
This Is rather a stupid threat to make
to an intelligent people Everybody
knows that no manufacturer who is
making money is going to close his
place of business because McKinley is
defeated The same threat was made
in 1S9G yet after Bryans defeat hun
dreds of firms went out of business
The election of McKinley could not
give them a day of grace if they had
not managed their business profitably
Hanna is disappointed to find that
the striking coal miners thoroughly un
derstood his attempt to settle their
strike until after election When the
operators under Hannas suggestion
offered them a 10 per cent advance in
wages the miners asked to have the
scale signed with the union just as is
done in the bituminous coalfields Thia
would pledge the coal trust to keep up
the slight increase in wages for a year
They refused to recognize the union
and the miners are pluckily fighting
the battle of all the wageworkers of
the country against trusts
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TAKING EMPIRE
STEAiaHT
Triumph of McKinley Means
the Establishment of
Imperialism
An idea is nursed by quite a number
of anti imperialists that their fight
against empire can go on with good
prospects of success with Mr McKin
ley in the White House for a second
terui Let us vote for McKinley they
say and destroy Cryanism forever
Then we will destroy imperialism
Such men suffer themselves to be de
luded in order to escape from a trying
position
The re election of Mr McKinley will
settle the fundamental issue He will
regard his victory as an indorsement
of his record and his policy his party
will take no backward step the Phil
ippines will be kept as an American
dependency and even the supreme
court will be influenced in its decisions
on constitutional questions by the
wishes of the people concerning Amer
ican territory as expussed at the
polls To anticipate any other resuit
from Mr McKinleys re election is the
dust n nuMise The triumph of the
iri siutut 111 this conti t hvus the
nal and Irrevocable establishment of
the American empire
Doubtless an anti imperialist senti
nent will continue to exist after that
v election an anti imperiaist party
ay even nppial to the people for sup
Mrt But after this contest lost such
and such a paity will be in
the academic and feiiie pqsition of the
anti imperialists of Great Britain
It is high timp that ant
stopp d postponing their light until a
112 e convert rt d comf ta le sea
son If they wish t prevent the estab
lishment of an empire they must act
at once They must chouse definitely
and fer all time at this election The
pr fy to paralyse
aiiMi in itx 1 aney iil never r turn
The conditions Of the present choice
are far from gratifying but as they
are made so must they be met
The anti imperialist who hplps to
make Mr McKInKy preside nt a second
time must thereafter take his empire
straight Springfield Mass Republic
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Sir Hanna made a speech recently in
which lie said that there are no trusts in the
country Are jou going to start a man out
to destroy the trusts who says there are
none You know that there are trusts and
that they arc able to raise the price of what
jou buy and if you are producing raw ma
terial which they have to buy they are able
to control tjie price of what you sell them
and they can control the wages they are to
pay You know of these trusts Why does
not the Republican party destroy them
You hae had a Republican president for
three and a half years and you have had
three sessions of congress comene and ad
journ yet the president has not recommend
ed one specific moasure for the destruction of
the trusts W J Uryan
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Mr Lincoln once said The United
States cannot exist half slave and
half free It is eqnally trne that
Porto Itico can have no well heing
one third Spanish tradition one
third military despotism and one
third Foraker compromise What
ever relief is to he siven this island
congress should give at once Rob
ert E Pattison
John P Altgreld to Yale Stndenta
Young men life is before you Two
voices are calling you one coming
from the swamps of selfishness and
force where success means death and
the other from the hilltops of justice
and progress where even failure
brings glory
Two lights are seen in your horizon
one the fast fading marsh light of
power and the other the slowly rising
sun of human brotherhood Two ways
lie open for you one leading to an ever
lower and lower plain where are heard
the cries of despair and the curses
of the poor where manhood shriv
els amj possession rots down the pos
sessor and the other leading off to the
highlands of the morning where are
heard the glad shouts of humanity and
where honest effort is rewarded with
immortality
If consrreRs can establish an extra
constitutional power in the Philip
pine Islandsand govern as it pleases
it can establish fifty different forms
of power in Just as many different
places as it can secure by the n e of
brute force and might W J Bryan
The Syndicated President
Where does Mark Hanna turn when
he starts to raise the enormous cam
paign fund which he warns his sup
porters is essential to the election of
Mr McKinley Does he go to the peo
ple Not at all He goes rather to the
full money bags which have been
made rotund by McKinley bounties
McKinley subsidies McKinley con
tracts and other McKinley benefits
contributions from which are not
merely tithes from favors received but
the expression of a lively hope of fa
vors to come What word can more
accurately describe a presidency ob
tained by this means for these ends
than that employed by Mr
syndicated presidency New Tark
World
There are tiro reanu which lead
men in this country to want a large
standing army One is a domestic
one the other is connected with our
foreign affairs What domestic rea
son is there for a large army to
protect us from the Indians Xoj
the less Indfans we have tha more
array the Republican party wants
That fa not the cause Why do they
want it 0 that they can bailda
fort near every large city and use
iae army to suppress by force the
discontent that ought to be cured
by remedial legislation TV J Dry
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MARK HAOTA
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How He Would Punish Lead
ers of the Striking
Miners
Mark nanna is reported as saying Jn
Chicago that any man who would put
a straw in the way of a settlement of
the great coal miners strike now pro
gressing in Pennsylvania should be
taken out to the nearest lamppost and
hanged
If Mr Hanna means that the Repub
lican coal operators and their financial
backers in Xew York and London who
have made a bogus and barren offer to
the 90 cents a day miners of a 10 per
cent increase of pay or rather of a re
duction in the price of powder should
be hanged we can only reply that he
knows them better than we do and is
better able to measure their deserts
From nannas antecedents however
we are inclined to believe that1 he
wants to hang the leaders of the min-
I ers union for daring to assert that 90
cents a day is not enough for a man to
support his family on and that the mil
lionaires who are wallowing in wealth
made for them by the miners industry
ought to be willing to allow the miner
a living wage out of what he earns
Hannas remark may seem extrava
gant but it has a great deal of mean
ing We have Scriptural authority for
the saying that out of the abundance
of the heart the mouth speaketh
Four years ago it would have seemed
Incredible that a president of the Unit
ed States would use the regular army
to arrest law abiding miners and hold
them as prisoners on the charge that
they belonged to a labor union Yet
that is just what McKinley did in Ida
ho less than two years ago It may
seem like the ravings of a madman for
Hanna to want union men hanged be
cause they stand up for the rights of
their fellow men Yet the election of
McKinley on Nov G will be a direct in
vitation to just such a tragedy before
another four years are over New
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Expansion means extension of our consti
tutional sjstcm together with extension of
our territorial area
The Filipino war is a barefaced cynical
war of conquest
Spain could not delher a sovereignty she
had morally forfeited
The more successful we arc in making the
Filipinos our subjects the more will our tri
umph corrupt our morals
A Democracy cannot rule other people
without destroying the very reason of its
being
Imperialism has introduced one of the
most insidious practices of despotic govern
ments a censorship of news
Imperialism If this warfare is kept up
we must expect sooner or later enforced
military service
Trusts Twenty fhe men with their vast
wealth can lie up this country Carl
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Authorities Against Roosevelt
Those- who know including President
Scliurman and Admiral Dewey have
given testimony showing that Govern
or Roosevelts classification of the Fili
pinos with the Apaches is not at all
correct If Aguinaldo and his country
men are so bad as Roosevelt paints
them in the west how did it happen
that the good President McKinley of
fered them commissions in the Amer
ican army as no less an authority than
Perry S Heath Neelys sponsor says
he did Did McKinley think that
American soldiers should be led by an
Apache chief Utica N Y Observer
The laboring man nslcs for arbitra
tion and gets a large army he asks
relief from government by injunc
tion and gets a large army he asks
protection from the blacklist and
UVs answer is a large army he asks
for shorter hours of labor in order
that he may hnve more time with
his family and for the development
of his mind and his answer is a
large army he asks for representa
tion in the presidents cabinet in or
der that labor may be protected and
his answer is a large army W J
Bryan
Nearsighted Republican Lenders
There is work for a good oculist
among Republican leaders Mark
Hanna recently declared there are no
trusts and yet the Republican cam
paign committee is flooding the coun
try with buncombe antitrust literature
nnd now comes Teddy Roosevelt de
claring there are no idle men in the
country but plenty of work at good
wages for all in spite of the news
which has filled the newspapers recent
ly of shut downs half time strikes and
other labor troubles Augusta Chroni
cle
Why is It that no Republican
knows any thing about the Standard
Oil trust or the sugar trust or the
salt trust TV J Bryan
Whistling
Hanna is on the other tack now and
says that apathy is dispelled What is
the cause Is the money coming in to
his satisfaction or does he think that
pessimism Is a bad card to play Bos
ton Traveler
k have been criticised because 1
suggested they -wanted to tax the
people to support 100000 men in
Idleness and I am accused of saying
that oar army is idle Let me ask
those who desire to criticise thnt
statement What does the army
do The Republicans say that the
Philippine war will soon be over
and what is the army going to do
then It simply kills people that is
all It is better to have an idle ar
my than it is to have one shedding
blood all the time Yon Republicans
who do not like- to have an idle
standing army must find something
for the army to do and ytm hail bet
ter take my view of it because vrhen
your army Is employed It means war
and bloodshed and the only excuse
that It will not be idle is that it
mast be engaged In the proscCQtltm
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Roosevelts Double Found In
Mark Hanna
BLUSTEEEE OF THE PIEST TOD
Prom a Shrewd Political Manager
Into a
He Has Been Transformed
Braggart and Hurler of
TVlia a Bad Case of
Limber Jaw
A few weeks ago the cowboy govern
or of New York started out on the
political warpath with a series of
blood curdling yells such as put to
flight the Spanish armies in Cuba and
which he expected would throw the
Democrats Into hop Jess confusion and
panic But his ludicrous antics and
foolish denunciations frightened the
1U publicans instead of the Democrats
and Dr Hanna was called in to lower
his temperature1 and to reduce his
tongue action to the normal rate of
speed Although the job was not an al
together successful one it was as good
as could have been expected consider
ing the subject and the Republican
paity breathed a sigh of relief at the jt
thought that Teddys wild western
tongue would wag more gently for the
rest of the campaign But from Dr
Hannas own recent utterances it
would seem that in reducing the pro
portions of Teddys tongue he must
have grafted a considerable bit of it on
his own
There is scarcely any other theory
which can account for the complete
transformation which has taken place
in him recently From a shrewd crafty
and comparatively quiet political man
ager whose actions spoke louder than
his words he has suddenly become a
political braggart and blusterer of the
first water or rather of the first wind
with an irrepressible desire to be talk
ing and posing all the time
All the silent oily Hannaesque qual
ities have disappeared and all the
Rooseveltian characteristics of fierce
bravado and unmitigated contempt for
his adversaries have taken their place
It might almost be Roosevelt In Han
nas clothes He is eager to orate he Is
dying to meet his opponents on the
stump he fairly rushes into the arms
of every interviewer who comes along
and he fairly out Teddies Teddy as a
hurler vof epithets and invective In
fact we have in Dr Hanna and his
impatient patient two political Dromios
whom it is difficult to distinguish apart
except when they are labeled and who
are furnishing the amusement features
of the campaign to the Democrats The
Democratic party has a right to think
Itself lucky when the Republican
tional convention presented it with -
Teddy but a special prayer of thanks
giving seems demanded when the gods
send them a second Roosevelt in the
person of the once politic and unctuous
Hanna
No Democrat can read his recent
speeches and the utterances in his
Cleveland interview without a feeling
of sincere gratitude to the manager of
the Republican national campaign If
he will only continue on this line until
election day he will go down in polit
ical history as one of the most efficient
allies of Democracy His elegant de
nunciation of Mr Bryan as an ass Is
an overwhelming piece of logic that
will convert many doubtful voters
while the humor of his description of
the Democratic nominee as a man
burning up with the desire to hold of
fice will appeal irresistibly to the risi
bilities of the whole nation especially
when he adds Democratic politicians
all over the country are promising
party workers all kinds of positions I
dont know how many cabinet posi
tions Bryan has promised but I guess
he will have to create several new
places if he expects to make good his
promises
There was a time not so long ago
when Dr nanna himself was said to
have such a burning desire for office
that he had money to burn which he
did burn in order to get it and ac
cording to current reports there is
such a burning desire at present on the
part of Dr Hanna and his friends to
hold on to office that they are feeding
the political furnaces with all the
greenbacks and other highly combusti
ble fuel they can lay their hands on
If Mr Bryan were to continue the pol
icy of Dr Hannas friend McKinley
he would not have to create any new
places to make
good campaign prom
ises Mr McKinley has already cre
ated several and they are all
kinds of positions so that It would
be easy to satisfy all varieties of taste
But one of the very best things that
Dr Hanna said of
Mr Bryan was con
tained in the concluding paragraph of
his interview
In regard to Bryans and Crokers
claims that there is no opportunity for
the young jnen of the country that is
too utterly ridiculous to discuss seri
ously Bryan is not very old yet he
seems to be pretty successful notwith
standing the fact that he is an office
seeker and has no visible means of
support He seems to be able to get
enough to live on very comfortably
To sneer at a man because he is poor
and liken him to a tramp because he
makes a modest living by the honest
exercise of his intellect instead of by
corralling factories and industrial es
tablishments and making other people
work for him will appeal with erent
force to American srainafJilps in thr y
C000000 ballots or so cast for him four
years ago Mr Bryan had very tangible
ahd visible means of support and the
wildness of Dr Hannas recent utter
ances suggests a fear on his part that
these visible means of support will be
teejy increased at the approaching W