The Scranton tribune. (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, October 09, 1902, Page 4, Image 4
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I'lIILUIN. Election day, Nov 4! The let option of the voteinns itt "Washington this fok Is evidence that pome one ahont the city lomombeis the CVl-lltS Of '61. Nothing to Do but Walt. MR. MlTCHIiLlS 1 election of the ptosldent's ptopo sltlon to have the mineis 1 Mill 11 to v. oik pending the icsult of a thoioiigh investigation Of mining conditions Is not unexpected. It vva fot"f-h irtnwptt In his call to Hie locals to adopt lesolutlons pltdging continued loyalty to the union's ele mniuls. Appuiently hoth parties to the sttlko have now tinned away fiom the public deiirind as voiced by the ptel deiit for .1 pionipt settlenient to aeit national Mifleiing and disaster. Tills Ieaes the situation whoic- the piesident found it. except that more troops have been placed In the Held and the tension of feeling on both sidrs has been Inei eased It is lepoited, though unoflleially, lint the piesidpnt has in xlcvv a fm ther effort to secuie a le sumptlon of coal mining. It is said that lip is seeking to Induce the opei atoi.s to giant aibitiatlon by com panies, ;hls to taKe place before com missions of liis .selection and to be be tween emplojcis and loimer employes illicctlv. While this would 1 cirnii e the opei.ttois to go only a shoi t st"p 1-e-J ond their offei to accept ni bitiation of l-oIIIhv giievaiiee-, bv the loc il (ouits, It does not appear that it would offci any tmpt.itlou to Mr. Mitchell and his boaid of achlseis to lecede liotn what is evidently the main consider ation in their mind the full 1 (.cognition of the national mine woikeis' union, which would Insuit Its continued con trol of the labor in the Aineilcan coal industry. Unless the opeiatois have become convinced that they can affotd to giant this leeognitlon a possibility open to doubt after what they said last Tiiday lu only view possible to take of the situation is that the fight will go on, the public having to adjust i(elf to It ns best It can. Undoubtedly tli pres ence In the coal llelds of tioops, suf ficient to ji'otect not only evety miner who wa.it.s to woik but also his home and family -will ievo.iI whether the number of such iuiiiei.s is huge or small. This ret. elation cannot he looked .for immediately; It cannot come until theie Is p-oof of the effectiveness of the piomised piotectlou. But at latest the otisl" of the stilkc Is neat at hand. A foitnight'.s patience should. It would seem, disclose which way the battle Is to go. That being tine, there Is nothing to do but wait. The heaw diaft upon our foiests In the uual dlstilcts again calls attention to the fact that .systematic tteo plant ing in this countt y has been neglected too long. A Little History. WIIT.N the Sheiman mul tilist act was pending, the Demociatic paity in con- j giess denounced the bill ni j"1 volitional v said It would affnid m icnuily, and clcilaicd the conect th)tg would be to adjtiHt the tin Iff fo as loilivito foielgn competition. Just be fotij the bill came to a wite In the liciuje. tlie Demon utlu leadei, William I.. WHsWif, who" was of the committee, np'pplntiiil' In 1SSS to examine the tt list , iiucbilQu, and who Hlgned the tepoit sas'tng In effect that the tn.sk of deal Inijwlth tiusts wiih to.o gieat for his pnlt'y. niul lecoiuinendlug that the e publcanr paity deal with It, and who nubjeu.ucnt!y bet-.iims the author of the Wllson-aonuan bill, uiado u speech do nojinejjig the pending measiiie. He de cla(fdthit it would seilously uftfct the biif.l)if()H ,uid piopeilt or tjie fount iy, and what was moie, the lights mid lib ertlcs ol the people. He openly took tho position that the fedeial goern nienCUould not deal with ti lists, and that their icgulatlon was a duty which wou'lij1 have to be peifoimeil by the i-aiious states, Nine eait. later a succeshor of Mr. Wilson n Deiuocuitle leadeislup, no 'ess a peisonage than Wllliaui Jennings Bryan, speaking at Ue Moines, took diametrically the opposite ylew, "I my," he 'said, "that the Mate cannot lcil with the tniht, because H cannot light beyond Its own boulcis. Tne rtt IoimI governinent it. the only foicethat :un teach Into all UnTbtutes and pluc-k tho ovll wherever It may he found it ml annihilate It." As a matter of fact, the Homiutlrntt party sides with Mr. Urynn an against the late Mr. 'Wilson! but the fnct thnt tho Deinooiney could neither while In power nor while having no fuither te Hpoiislhlllty than to innlte faces at what their nppouxntH 111 e doing agiep upon n method or iippioaehlng tuist evils migguits that the fuitlipr solving of his pioblein will have to bo left to Re publican statesmanship. J. Pleipont Moigan will pve r.0,000 tons of coal to the poor of Now Yoik. The coutilbutlon of Mr. Moignn's crit ics has not been announced, How Socialism Would Work. Til Illtll are nhimdnnt warnings fiom experience against the o.poi Intent of "public owuet sltlp of public utllltles,"Mlow' so sttpiiiiouly demanded In this coun tiy by Socialists, other misguided pei sons and deinagogiies. One Is found In a recent tpport of John K. titrndy, our consul geneinl at 1'iirlS upon the Kieneh rallioads, which me inn by the government. Fiance has seven times as many Inhabitants to the .squat e mile as the United Htiites lia, so that lallioadlng In Fiance ought to be easy and cheap, but It Isn't. Although the Flench loads Inn car can led two-lhlids as many passengets as weio can led by the 1 un loads of the United States, they dung ed ."6 cents a mile as against i 07.! In this country. The Fi each Height inte Is double the Aineilcan. The toads of Fiance aie making money but they tne not giving the people of Fiance u fair inn for their money. Also the wages they pay me Inciediblj low. The best engineer gets only $,o a month and SO per cent, of the lallwav em plo.ves tecehe less than a dollar a day. A lesson equally interesting In its way lomes fiom Vlctoila, In Austialln, anothei cotintiy wheie government owneishlp of laiho.uls pteall. The mlnistiy found It absolutely neeessaiy lecpntly to cut down expendlttties. and to that end It 1 educed the pay of per sons emplcned by the colonial govern ment. At once the lallway employes stiuck. The members of the leglslatuie became alaimed at the opposition of tlie public emplojes and .otcd against the mlnistiy. Theie was nothing left Tor the lulnNtiy but to dlss()ip the session and appeal to the countiy, and tlie piemler is now begging the electois to stand by the government and to pie vent their own seivants fiom paialyz ing the adiuinlstiatlon, including a sus pension of lallway tnifllc. It is lepoit ed that the mlnistiy Is being well sup poi ted, and the opposition is said to be demoialled; but it is also said that tho campaign is pioeeeding lgoiouhly, and tlie public senants and the labor paity nip secietly combining to oppose can didates wlio faoi lelienchment. They aie opposed to lunning the load on business piinciples and want to be pen sioned bv public taxation. Just imagine our coal mines being inn bv the government either of Har llsbuig or Washington. In addition to an S-honr day mid two months' leave wllli pay each yeai, Satuulay half holldajs and uniforms, if any gioup of inlneis wanted moie pay a demand and a still.e would biing It, undei penalty of the paity in power losing the labor vote; and theie would be milk and honey In the coal fields until' The geneial public got sick of such unbuslness-like business and came down haul on it, and then all this non sense would be done away with. For while It Is tine that Uncle Ham Is a generous eiriplo.ver It Is also Hue that he has a keen eve ami a long mm for the man who steps on his coins or crowds him to the wall. The 1'attison boom appeals to have collapsed with the closing of tlie agil cultuial falls. Quite Well, Thanks. cSeuetniy Shaw at Boston,) WS .Mil; making w outlet fill IndustUal ptogiess, not withstanding the evils of whlih we complain, lu 100 ye.us pi lor to the election of Wil liam McKlnley we had sold abioud mote than we had bought abio.id, and had for our tiulchiuent a balance of tuide of $100,000,000 to show for thh 200 veal"-. Hut since 1S'17 we have sold moie alnoatl than we have bought nbtn.id, not at the rate of J100.COO.000 In 100 yeai!-, but mote than $100,000,000 per annum. Not $100,000,000 In 100 jeais but $J,SOO,00O,O0l) lu five yeais. In Ml. McKinley's tpeceh of accept ance of his Hist nomination he declined that "It was wiser to open the mills for the unlimited employment of Ameilcmi labor than to open the mints tor the unlimited coinage of the w 01 Id's sllvei," The mills have been opened and no Anieituni In this vear of giaco seeks emplovment lu vain, What Is the le sillt'.' We inautifactuied moie last jear than nil the shops mid nil the ftutoiles of any other two 1 unit tiles on tho fate of tlie em III, by mote than $.1,000,000,000, Our people consume moie food, wear better clothes, live lu moie c omfoitahlo homes, and enjoy better educational ad vantages tlin'ii any of whltli the wen Id hems leioul, Our niatkets me the envy of all nations, and our pioductivo capacity the astonishment uf all peo ples, Our hope must bo the pieseiva tlon of that which is deshable and our aim the consummation of vet gimider achievements. We must neither close our eyes to the evils that coal 1 out us nor loiget the blessings we enjoy, It Is euily In thu inclining yet. and we are an Infant na tion. Thu day Is full of piomlse, and that which It, and has been, is but the earnest of that which Is to be. Senator Ilaniia's statement befoie an Ohio audience that never ugnlu will ho Hill fin olllc?, Is piobably coneet; but we date say he leseives decision In cast) the olllce should make up lis mind to 11111 foi him. One of tho most dlstusslng leatiurs of the coal stilkc Is the fact that It has afforded uu uppoi (unity for the Intro duction of a now hi ami of tliesome btage jukes. King Leopold continues tp att like a comic opciu comedian lu icul life. Secretary Sbau) on The Trfosf Problem Huston, Oct. 3. BUI'Oltll AN Immense audience to night Beet Mai y of the Ti enmity Leslie M. Hhaw (IIhciih0(I tho tuist pioblein. lie pointed out that tho method 01 Initially adopted bv which com peting cottccnis framed a co-opeiatlvo alliance was tlnotigh the agency of a liuslee. That Is, competltols In ceitiilii lines, finding their methods mutually im Mitlsfueloiy, appointed a tliislee, to whom was tinned over the pituliirt of their hoV etal coiieeins. Ily this means the liuslee was placed In contiol of the enlliu out put, and could die late both the volume theieor and the pike tlieiefor. At tha end or the veur ptollts weiu divided ac folding lo 11 selledtilu ngieecl Upon at tho time of tho oigaubatloii. Tills condition led lo Hie enactment of thu Slieimnn antl-titist law, which piovldcil Hint "Uveiy conttact or coniblnatlou In tho fonn of tuist 01 otheiwlse, or conspiracy, in lestialnt of Undo or commeito among the seveint states, or with foielgn ni tlons. Is heicbv (Related Illegal," etc. "Kveiy pei pun who shall make any such conduct, or engage In any mich t elimination lie consplincy, sliall be deemed guilt v of 11 mlsclcmeiilliu," etc, "eiy pel sun who shall monopolize, or attempt to monopolize, or cuusplic with any othoi petson or poisons to monopo lize any putt of tho tiade or commeico among the seveial states, or with foielgn nations, shall bo deemed gullly of a mis demeanor," etc. "12voiy coutiiict or combination In tho foim of tntst or otheiwlse. or consplincy, In lestialnt of tindo 01 commeice," olc, "is ncieii cletl.ned Illegal ' "IJveiy pel sou vho shall inuko any such cniitiad, or engage hi tiny such combination 01 consplincy, Is deemed guilty ot a mlsdcnipnnoi." "Anv piopeity owned under any eon liact or b any eombliiatlon. or pm sunlit lo anv consplincy Hind being the subject theieof) mentioned In section one of this net. and being In the toinse ot tiunspoi tntlnn fiom one state to nuolliei, or to n foielgn count l.v, shall be foifelted to the United States, and mny bo seized," etc. ' "Anv pei on who shall bo Injiued In his business or piopcitv bv any other pel son or cmpoiatlon by ipiisou of nnv Ihlng foi bidden or declined lo be unlaw ful bv this act nuiv sue tlieiefor," etc. "The woid 'pel son.' or 'pel sons,' vvlierc ever used lu this net, shall be deemed to Include coi pointions and associations ex isting under or nuthmlzed by the lnvvs of eilhei the United State?, or the laws of anv of the teultoiles. or the laws of any state, 01 tho laws of any foielgn country." Sherman Law in Operation. This law. Mr. Shaw B.ild, put tuists of the oiiglnnl tvpe out of business. It em od the onllie evil ns It then existed, with the exception that It left untouched the disposition, which has existed in tho human bicust foi some conliuies. to os. cape competition wlmucver possible. This disposition bus led to new methods 101 accomplishing Hie snne lesnlts The Sheiman act had not been on the statute books veiy long when some one conceived tho idea that a gieat coi pota tion could bo otgnulzed which should own moie than one concern, or plant, or fao toiv. Under this method competitois sell to laige coi pointions cicated tor the piti pose, usually taking stock In the new 01 ganlzalion sullicient to cover Hie pileo agieed upon foi the plant sold. This method continues at the pie-uit time. It will lie leadlly seen that tho picsont method Is 111010 dilllcult to leach than the foimei. Men aio peimltted to own two luims lo opeiate one, and to keep the othei Idle. They tne pel milted to own two con! mines lo opciato one or both as they please. Shall thev not bo peimltted to own two giist mill-., or two foimdiies, oi a dozen bilck v tu (Is or woolen mills, and opeiate one ot all ns thev please; and If not wheie siuii the limit be placed? This Sheiman net was pnssed July 2, 1V)0 On Jlaich I, ISO! the bltheito ml 1101 ltv paitv came into contiol. Theli platfoim declined specifically against tuists, and piomised additional laws for theii leiiadv. Rut It is easier to diaft 1 evolutions for political conventions than It Is to chaft laws foi .statule books. Th it Democratic congiess convened In special session Immedlatelv nttei the in aiigiuatlon of Mi. Cleveland, icmnliied In sesblon all sunimei, leconvened, nml went out of existence by lapse or lime; and It anv gentleman picsont can point out a single piovlslon or law. enacted bv that congiess. for the piotcitlon of the people against ti lists, combines and monopolies not nheady contained in the Sheimnn nuli-tiust itt, T will thank him to name tho piovliinn. That congiess slniplv 10 enncted in abbievinted foim most or the impottant piovisions of the Sheiman law, and In veiv nenlv the Identical language. I am glad to give them eiedit loi that. But the r.icl lemnlns that the ablest, the biondest-minded. the mo--t conscientious men in the Demociatlc p.nt.v binned mid night oil berore thut John Sheiman act and aiose as fiom theli knees with the etneulatlon: "It cannot be Impioved" I am not expiesslng the opinion that It cannot bo Impioved. I onlv state that that was the conclusion 1 cached by tho Domoeiatlc paitv. Sincci tho passage of that act twelve ons ago, moie than l.JOO. men, about ecpiallv divided between the two gieat pa 1 ties, have been elected to congiess and lo tho United States senate. And moie than twice that niimbei have been defeated, either In convention or at tho polls and eveiy one ot them has been ambitious and eveiv one has known that If he could mid paiaginpb. llr.e, sentence, plunge or woid lo the Sheiman act to mnko It moie, diastlc 01 to lender It moie easv of entotcemrnt, his political for tunes wPin ass'iied And It Is al'o safo to sav that no one has lulled lo give tlie (Uiestlon most cmcful coiisldetallon. Muuv (r them made theli pie-conventlo'i canvass on that Ii-sup, and piomised (but In veiv geneial teims. he It lemaikod) to piomptly solve the tumble, lint not one of them, of either pnity, lias been able to define the thing mine speclfUally than John Sheiinau defined It, unci no one of all that number Ims been able thus far tn ptopose a lemedv 111010 effectlvo then the lomedv contained In tho act ns It left the pen of that old statesman liven that gH'tit oiatoi, who hns twice led tho opposition foues in 11 national campaign, was himself four ve.ns in congiess; but what he lias said on the ttust Issue Him a bis letlienient far exceeds all ho did on the tuist subject while In congiess. Theie aie now pending In tho fedeial emu ts seveial cases bised upon nllige-l violations of the Hhcimin act (I do not let nil any biought under nny DenioenUlo ndininlstintlon), mid I Insist thai If evi dence can be found In establish the fnets alleged lu the declarations. Ibeie will bo no dlfllcultv about the decisions Tho c lunge against the packets Is that they have advanced pi lies In nuiaiiiiuce of an unlawful combination and have testialu ed Uncle lor thu purpose of making tills possible That Is exactly whnl tlie Shoi luan law fm bills. It Is not nil offense to ask or iccelve excubltant pilces for a thing Smith and Jones may hi lug theli milk fiom Connecticut to Hosiou, anil each ask and sell at the sanio ptlce, nml thut mice ma) be exoibltant, without violating tho Sherman atf Hut let Smith and Jones agiee to sell onlv at a given pi Ice, and their milk can be conlls cated, and Smith ami Jones sent "ovei Hie )oad " If tho packets hnve romblned or c mi splieil, and this fact can be proven, then woo lo tho packets. The contest, us undei stand It, Is lo be fair and maiilv and lo 11 finish; but II is evidence that will deal the death blow, If It Is denlt In town meetings and political coiiven tlons, sentiment Is evei.v thing nml evi dence counts for nmhlng; but In tho cniut room ev lilenco and not sentiment pro vails. And In this connection I want ( uilcl that II will be veiv dilllcult to diaft an antl-titist law that can bo etifoued without pi oar that It bus Innn violated A gieat mnny pnplo hnvo diafted poli tical pliitrouns who seem lo hnvo Inst sight or this fact Remedies Consideted. I now deshe to look at some lenicctles thut have been suggested, I'lomiueiit is that of piihllcltv And )it I think no 0110 expects this to be a complete icmedy for cvei.v phase of the tuist piolilem, It Is expected to be a piotcitlon uguiust Hell lions capitalization, and to disclose, lu nmn.v Insluuecs at least tho lent chuinc tor and Inside opetations of the concern, mid to Invite competition, It ought to do these things at least If 101 notations mo compelled to make public tho details or their business, the actual money tost of their plants, pilies paid Mr mateilal, opeiatlng expends, Including wages, plices obtained lor modiict, both gioss nml net pioflts. It will bo a (oiiHlaut Invi tation to enteipilso and c.tplt il. of which we have an abundance, to engage lu competition This Is tho icmedy so earn estly lecomnu'iidcd by our wise nnd con bcieiitlous picsldcnl The Tiee Tiade Cure. Of couuci tho opposition p.uty comes foiwuid with Ita llme-liouoicd panacea for all Ihinnehtl nnd Industrial Ills. It hinges till evils to the ptoketlve litrltf, nnd as n icmedy for all evils It demit litis tho tenioval or all pioteetlvo tnillTs. Tho trltBt being an iidmllted ovll, ttimit ncces. sntlly, fiom n Dcmocratlo Btnndpolllti bu occiislniieil bv prolectloit, nnd tho tent d.v must, m com so, be tho lemovnl ot protection, Tho best way to iloteinilno Iho wisdom or n lemedy Is to innlte application tlletc of to specllle Instances. II thole Is a mo nopoly or nny kind in the United States It piobably is the Hlandaicl Oil company, nnd .vet Its sticiess has been In no miite nor dependent upon the tnillT. Piotec tlon, tlii'iii Is not the cause or tills mo nopoly, and lr not the muse of all mo nopolies then Us lemovnl would not t-ino nil monopolies. Nor Is the tin Iff tho cattse of evety re cent nilvance lu pilces, Cittile pt-tioleiun, on the fiet- list, went riom Ui cenls per bin 1 el In-Noveinbei, 1.S97, to $1.30 per baiiel In November, 11)01, an advance or 100 per cent. The wholesale pi ten or stiiiiilaid Rio corieo advanced Horn u renlR In August. 18SS, to over ! tents In August, 1900, fullv fio per cent.! cholco Ja pan tea advanced Tioin 1S'& cents In Au gust. 11X11, to !M tents In August, YMi, nil adviiiico or 4" per tent.; law silk ad. vtinred W per cent, between Jiniuaiy, lsss, and Jantlrtty, 1!HK: law colttm at New Voile advanced 0" per cent, fiom October. If'lS, to October. 1W0: sisal hemp, fiom Mexico, ndvnnceel L-'fl per cent, fiom Apill, 1SH7, lo Apill, !.'; pig tin uil viincpil 140 per cent, rrotn Mnith. 1S!7, lo Match, 1!00. All or these ine on the rioa list, mid many othcl.s mlglit be addo'l Neither ato ti lists tonllned to coiniti l.s that puistio tho protective policy. Only tblity ilavs ago, at a ttatles tinloti lon giess In London, lesolutlons weio passed clepiecittltig tho "giowth or gigantic cap italistic tuists, with their enormous pow er or controlling pioeltictlon," In moie vlgotoiis language! and suggesting moie diastlc and irvolutlonaiy lemeilles than t have seen anywheie on this side or tho Atlantic. The next Industry of Impoitance which tho people gcneially claim to bo a trust Is sngnr leaning. And heie ngnln we mo tuged lo lemove the tailft that wo may hnvo lnci eased competition. Tho 1 ate on lellued sugar Is $111" per linudied piactlcally two cents a pound. On law sugar It Is piactlcally n cent a pound. In view of the fact that the Unit ed States pioduces only ei limited por tion or Its sugar, the tmlrr lnci oases tho pilce to tho consumer. It Is theiofote a levenue mensine as well as encoittage ment to the boot sugar Incltisttv, whlcli arfoiels the only competition with which tho sugar icfineiles aro tonfionteel. Theso lellneis pay to the government, in loiinil mimbeis, fifty million dollais pci an num duty on Imported sugar, lr the liti iff was lemovcd the lesult would bo pil mtnilv 11 saving to the sugar lellneis or that amount per annum; which thev could keep nnd still give tho people sugar at piesent pilces, or they could loduce the pilco or sugar a cent per pound nnd make the same ptoflt they do now. And In thnt cent the sites on which beet liiffiir ractoiles now sinnd would be vvoith moie ns laini lands than ns sugar plants, and the lellneis would have no competition, actual or piospcctlve doubt the wisdom of following advice when the blow lecommendcd will be sure to fall with uiiiioiis effect upon compet itois of alleged monopolies. AVe uio fic(iiently tlueatened with over production, and against this we must nl wa.vs piotoct bv Incieaslng our mnikels as far as possible Tint other count! Ics nlf-o have ovei production, and riom this soul to our iudustiles me sine to be ci ashed unless ptotccted. Does anv one suppose anv It on Inclustiv In tho United States could have survived an Inundation Mom limopp occasioned by iccenl busi ness stagnation in some localities on tho continent but Tor tho tin iff? The Repaid llcan putv- watches pilnimllv thnt thu American lahoier shall have employment. It Is piobnble that dining tlie lust xeai or two fiee Uncle in li mi would hnvo cheapened the pioduct to the Ameilenn consumer, but a million nnd a halt people, red and clothed dlrectlv bv wages paid bv the vnilous iron and steel mnnurnc toiles, would have betn again begging In cad. Unicasonable pilces aio nlwavs objectionable, but writes unieasonablv low aie moie obieetlonable and riuught with gieatei hai dshlps, pilmarily to the wnge-eninei. and. secondly, to all thosa who supply the wage-enrner's necessities, than pilces uurensonablv high. Do you lemember that Picielent Ibniison said again nnd again (for tlie I--siip lu Issj w-as high pilces) 'Theie is such a thing, gen tlemen, as having pikes too low" But the nubile did not heed the warning and we had foui veais or low pikes Do j on want to ttv this p.pcilmpnt again so soon? We will have pilces low enough as soon us the supply ennuis the de mand, and the 111111 kod tin eat or a fhange or economic nollev nlwavs has had the effect to cheik demind moie lapldlv thnn nuvthlng else. Todav tonsumeis uctually bid against each other. The Tree Silver Cure. The Demociatlc paity has another lem ed.v besides a levlslon of the tailff, and that Is. "Tho Tiee and unlimited coin age or sllvei at the lallo of Hi to 1 with gold without the aid or consent ot any other nation whatevei." I am of tlio opinion ihnt this would bo moio effect ive. It possible, than a lemovnl ot tho tin Iff. I also think the lomedv would be moie peimaneat, for it would ceilnlnly ciush out that lestless Ameilcan entei lirise which is the leal sscat of the dis ease. I do not think nnv countiy on a silver basis was ever tioubled with tuists; vet I am not piepmed to letomnieud it. Sometimes Iho remedy is woise than the disease. Anothei lemedy Is a constitutional amendment which will give congiess uu tboiltv to deal with tuists, combinations and monopolies, wheiever located, 10 gaidless of state lines Indeed, Repub licans In congiess voted for such a meas 1110 once, hut It failed to pass. And whv'.' It takes a tvvn-thluls vole in both Ijouses to pass a mensuio for a constitutional amendment, and the Republican paity was not tint stiong. When the 10II was tailed one lone Demoeiat voted with tho Republicans. Natural Remedies. Now, a suggestion with lefeienco to mitiii.il and evolutional y icmedles I Mippo.su moie obleotiou has been maelo and 111010 unti-tiust sentiment cieated bv icason ot tin- United States Steel cm poiatlon than any other one tnncein. I confess Us oiganlatlon Htnggeied me. 1 hnppened to bo at the time tlie goveinoi of a gieat state, and i wondeicd if I could oiiglnuto soinu law thut would piotoct two nnd one-half millions of tlio best men and women in tho vvoilel Hut I was uiiablo to foi inula to one sallsfuc toiy even to invscll'. Thoiefoio I ap pealed to my Demociatlc ri lends tluough out the state In something like .1 bundled campaign speeches. I had no difficulty In finding plenty 01 these bietlueii who could formulate an antl-tiitst it-solution, so I asked them to foinmlate an mul tilist law. I piomised if they would sub mit ouo to lecomincnd It to the leglsla tuie of my state. Hut none was pio Edited, Slme then I havo Investigated .some what, and 1 havo dlstoveted 11 lew facts which aio quite a consolation at least to me. Ono is tli.it tho United Stales Steel tmpnratloit piotliictd only 410 per cent, of tho lion 010 dug in tills country timing the veur 1'Kil, It tuoduted '.'! per cent, of the pig linn. Ml:: per 1 out ot the steel Ingots nml castings, ,r-o.l per cent of thu lolled pindiicts, such as .steel i.ills, Htiuc ttual shapes, nl.ites. rtc , and who, mid I1S8 per cent of tho who unlls, This pio pmtlon Is less than it was a e,ir ago lu this connection 1 might add that this paitlcular cmpoiatlon on Its own motion makes public many mid peihaps, all tho Impoitant details or lis business. Includ ing gloss and net piollts. Its lecelnls lor the jear ouelhig Juno JO, I'lo.'. doilved fiom the h.i In of linn ami r-tcel and tho gmss earnings of Its ttanspoitatlon com panies, vvem In 1 omul nuinhem S"i0.(ioi),Wi0, and the net pioflts of tho uincein wero something HKo $130,000,000. It tllcuofoie made a net pioilt of .'(! per cent, not upon Us capital, but upon Us business riom tho 010 bed lo tho finished pioduit at the (loots ot its ractoiles. Competition in Sight. I iccngnUo that theio me Home people who will Insist that steel pioduitb no fiom 10O to loo pur cent, too high, but ir theso publluhtd icpoits can Im idled upon, a leducllon of "i pc-i cent would exhaust all the piollts of thu tontoiu Hut oiitedng this Is high, theie Is some consolation to bo ili.iwn ft 0111 this enoi. minis amount of business Tho loipoin tlou owns Its own 010. mid it thu elm u puvH out for luboi, dliectly ot Indliecll.v , eveiy dollar except what It pas In l-i-to. eat nnd (llvldeuds, It follows then that this ouo tomoiii paid dining iho oar endlng June 30, 300.', dliectly or Imllicstlv, over i 100,000 000 for luboi And vvluit be came of this money? Most of Its was spent pihnuillv foi food and lulnient mid mnteiial to build homes Tills food came f 1 0111 the wheat llelds of Minnesota and the Dvkotns. nml fiom the glazing llelds of tho moimtuln states, and Horn the funnels' stalls lu the com belt. Tho mn teiial for inlment came fiom tho cotton fields ot the south mid fiom the sheep laiithcs of tho far west, but it all came tlienco by way of tho luctoiles of New lingluud and tho Atlantic Mutes. Nor is this all. The fauueis who iccclvcd this motley for food piodticts, for cotton nnd Tot wool, spent It In tttin for labor or tor building miitetlnl, for cnipeto, or cloth ing, or but bed rite, or nails, "or other ar tlclcs of consumption. The mills which giotind the wheat, the packers who hilled tho beeves nnd tho hogs, nnd the fnctmy men who pioeluped tho cloth, paid nt least Ki per cent, or their gioss lecelpts lor la bor. And so these millions went on and ami and mi, nnd me going still. They have clipeicd mnnv homes. They hnvo brought rood to those who were starving six voniB ago, and they have helped, hi a measiiie, to mnke us ail ilch. Hut what has tho cmpoiatlon done with Its net profits? It tins paid II In Inleiest on Us bonded Indebtedness and In dividends on Us stock, Thn stock of this 1 oipmatlmt Is held by moie thnn IS 000 peonle. So this piolll Is thus divided and Hiili-dlv Ided. And what do these stockholders do Willi HV They, too, hnvo been reel nnd clothed. I speak ot theso things only to show thnt tho entile prollt has not been lost. Theie me compensations, even with high prices. Wp have at least kept the money with us. It hns not gone hence, and labor bus to eelved, pel Imps not Its due pinportloli, but moie thnn If tho money hud gone abroad. Hilt I believe competition Is In sight. Last your the entire rolled lion nnd steel pioeluets of the United Stutes wits 12UU0, UOO tons, of which the United Stntes Steel corpoiiitlou piodiieed less thnn r,l per cent. The Lneknwunnii lion and Sleel company Is building a plant uent Hurrah), costing $J(! 000,000, nnd IheV propose to be able to pioduee n million nnd a Minu ter tons per annum. The Independent concern with whlcli Mr. Flick Is con nected Is being Inciensecl to a t.'O.OOO.ODO plnnt. T have a letter riom James Swank, seeietaty or the Ameilcan lion and Steoi association, In which be savi that when the plants now In ptneess of consti notion me completed the ctipncltv of this coilli ti v will be fully ".l.uoo.OOO tons per annum; you can eliuvv your own 1 niiclustnns. In mv lodgment we mo to h.lv o competition, and it will bo tho kind the Ameilcan peo ple have learned to nppieclate. It will be Ameilcan competition, nnd our own nitlsnns will not be foi cod upon tho stiect again to beg while foielgn milkmen stip nlv the limited needs of a pualved coun tiy. It nnv one should be disposed to ebniac toilze what T have said ic a defense of existing conditions, let me eouect him once and lor nil. I am not In favor or ti lists, nor of monopolies, of nnv kind oC foim, nnd I sec much of evil, us well ns some measiiie of good. In the tieuel of Indiistilal affairs. Rut 1 um moie nni ions thnt mv son shall be taught to face conditions Mite a man thnn to be told he Is whlnped nnv how. mid thut the best thing for him to do is to lie down nnd cry, And I vvutit to sav to you, mv good Demociatlc filend. Hint It von nllow the calamity howler to 10b vom son or his hope, nnd teach him that whoever un dertakes gigantic cnteipilses, pspeclallv If he Is successful. Is n scoundrel, and whoever finds emplovment for a thousand men Is a thief, nnd should lie tlnd em plovment for 10,000 ho Is a lobber. von will he spaied Hip humiliation of ever seeing 011r son's name on the stulloneiv or in the list of dlrectcns of any busi ness enterpilse. Will Regulate Themselves. lixlstlng laws against ti lists me being vlgoiouslv enrol ced. This polltv must be continued, and the laws themselves must be lclnroited wheiever needed. Hut there aio some things that must be pciinlltpcl to icgulate themselves. A few yeais ago lalhoads expetlmcnted with dilfeient widths of tiuck. Some loads built as wide ns six reet. Hut that was round too wide, and rour reet eight and one hair has become the staiidmtl. Diffeic-nt weights of l.illio.id lion have been tiled 1 think as heavy ns UVpound 1 ills lu.vo been laid: but expeilence hns shown Im pound to be about the maximum piactleal weight. One bundled and tvvenry-toii lo comotives have been tiled, but thev have been found too latge. The st.ulonatv en gine that wus the wonder at the centen nial exposition in 1S7R had a capacity of 1,400 hoi so povei. Theie 111 o now mnnj locomotives In successful use legisteilng 1.10 hotso power, while piactleal si 1 tlonary engines have giov.n tiom 1 WO to 11.000 hoise power In a qunitcr ot .1 centuiv. The sl7e of stenmshins is now being inei rased Tlie ships engaged in foreign commeice that enter New Yoik haibor coi iv thiee times tho average ton nage of those engaged in Hip same tiade tblity onis ago. while ships ten times s latge as this aveiagc nro In pint ess of consti uction. Thisp max- prove too huge, or otheis mav bo built linger still. Theio must neccssiiiiiv ho a limit somewheie, nnd expel ience will deteimine the piac tleal maximum. The amount of capital to be emploved In u cinpoialloii has been wonileiliillv Incienseil in late ve.-is. An excess of a thousand millions has been leached. This mav move too laigi Time will tell. Hut I doubt If tlie government can piofilnbly dictate elthci the width ot the Hack, or the weight of the lion, or the slzo of tho ship or tlie capital to be em ploved in an Indiisti.v It can lequho tlie laihoad to reuce- its light-ol'-way. and thn common cntilcr to cxniv goods for all at a common late. It can demand that th" big ship shall not 1 tin down the small one. and tint it shall give silling vessels the light of wnv. It mav and must enloice the piesent law. which loiblds combina tions, tonspliniles and monopolies, nnd it must sUengthen eveiv weak plnee by ad tlltlnnnl legislation. It should Invite com petition among Ameilcan pioclueeis, but It should nevei tlnow wide out doois to the piodticts of pootlv paid Utuoneans or the piesenee ot pooilv paid Asiatics. Explained. At tlio pension bin can it letter was le ccntly lecelvcd fiom n pPiiMonei In Illi nois, biij lug: "I am now getting a pension of SM a month. Recentl.v the Loid has piospeu-d me-, and I do not think 1 should gel so much money," Tho letter sluggercd the bmraii. An in vestigation was oideieel, and tho exam iner wiotu back: "I have the honor to liifoun vou Hut tlio pcison who applied for a udiictlou of pension Is now hi tho Insane usvliim at this pline, and lias been lor some time. ' - Aigonnut. The Crane Store Opportunities pre sented ror a peep at what Mistress Fashion Has consented to approve for Early Fall, Take Elevator at 324 Lackawanna Ave. Atlantic City, The temperature at the AGNEW, On the (leach, In Clielici. Atlantic Cltj, Tuesday win 470, lively appointment of a modern Hotel. 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