Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, October 6, 1900, Page 6

— | Pa Te: REPUBLICAN PROTECTION OF TRUSTS REPUBLICAN TARIFF of 1897 protects princi- pal trusts with duties ranging from 30 per cent to 150 per cent ad valorem. : WM. McKINLEY appoints his Attorney-General from New Jersey, where over 1,000 trusts of $8,000,000,000 capitalization have formed in three years, and enforces the anti-trust laws against mot a single trust. REPUBLICAN CONGRESSMEN (in. concert): “Congress is powerless; the president is powerless, under the present. constitution.” S.R. VAN SANT, Labor Day, 1900: “The states cannot control; they have different interests.” Mark Hanna: “What harm can those trusts do the people of this country?....I say they are not trusts. If they are, prove it!” WIRE TRUST LEVY Trust Organized, New Jersey, January, 1899. Capital Stock, - : $90,000,000. « Plants Cost, - : - 20,000,000. Monopoly and Water, - 70,000,000. Profits of One Year, - - — 15,000,000. PRICE OF BARBED WIRE WHOLESALE AT MINNEAPOLIS. January 1, 1898, $1.85. January 1, 1900, $4.25. Trust Levy per 100 lbs., - - - $2.40 Increase in Price, - - - 130 per cent. Export, 1899, 240,000,000 lbs., at 40 per ct. off, home price. SLAVERY |{WHAT TEN —OF THE— THE DAIRY Ss VS. McKINLEYISM BIOGRAPHY OF THE TIN TRUST. Planted by McKinley Tariff, 75 per cent Protection Nursed by Dingley Tariff, 70 per cent Protection Tin Plate Trust (New Jersey), Capital- ized, . . ; . Tinware Trust (Nat. E. & S. Co.) . : National Tin Plate and Stamping : 20,000,000 Advance in Tin Plate Prices, : . 75 per cent Advance in Tinware, . 20 percent to 500 per cent Advance in Tin Plate, : 4 125 per cent TIN STRAITS, 100 LBS. November 6, 1896, $12.95. July 27, 1900, $34.62 Increase, 167 per cent. FURTHER DAIRY AID Rise in Wood Tubs, f 50 per cent Rise in Salt, . 10 per cent to 25 per cent Exports for year ending June 30, 1900: Oleomargarine, ‘ ‘ 150,005,748 Ibs. Butter, i ‘ A 18,262,238 Ibs. Oleomargarine and Trust Prices Follow the McKinley Flag. Oleomargarine Bill Killed by Republican Congress. $46,000,000 30,000,000 REMEMBER THE TRUSTS! © WANTED-OFFICIALS TO ENFORCE LAWS ATT’Y-GEN. MONNETT (who fought the trusts in Ohio and was turned down by Hanna-McKinley bosses), Labor Day address, Sept. 3, 1900: “Vote down every congressman, take away the seat of every judge, remove every governor, defeat every member of the legislature and send to oblivion every councilman who violates his oath of office and fails and neglects to enforce the existing laws. You have Laws enough now in the state and national statute books to electrocute every monopoly and destroy every trust.”’ WM. JENNINGS BRYAN: “Tue AmerRIcAaN PEOPLE CAN: GET RID OF ANYTHING THEY DO NOT WANT—AND THEY SHOULD GET RID OF EVERYTHING THAT IS NOT GOOD.” LUMBER TRUST TAX Dingley Tariff on Lumber, - - 1897 Price Raised Since 1896, - - - 6 Times Amount of Raise, per M. feet - - - $3.50 On Minneapolis Shipments, 1899, alone, - $1,725,412 Wages Raised, - - - 10 per cent Prices Raised, - Pei. Ss - 33 per cent Trust Tax Beats Wages by 23 per cent. BUSHELS OF MINNESOTA WHEAT BUYS, WELOLHSA TLE JANUARY 1, 1898 JANUARY 1, 1900 | Ss COAL TRUST Kerosene, . 101 Gallons 56 Gallons Sugar, - - 157 Pounds 104 Pounds Salt, - . - 9} Barrels 5 Barrels —_—— Lumber (2x4) - 728 Feet 418 Feet ig ; Wire Nails, - : 4; Kegs 1: Kegs Address of United Mine] | Barbed Wire, - 435 Pounds 183 Pounds Workers of America, Sept. 13, 1900, representing 134,- 000 union men: “The aver- age wages of the anthracite miners for many years has been LESS THAN ANNUALLY. During that period of time the cost of] The above does not includ many of the necessaries of Chinese difficulty. Annual Cost of Army Establishment, Grand Total Cost in Time of Peace, life has been increased over | Above enormous cost meas nesota, Iowa, Wisconsin, Nebraska and the two 20 per cent.” Dakotas. $250 | Annual Cost of Navy Establishment, 1900, - - = SUMMARIZED FROM GOV. LIND’S ACCEPTANCE SPEECH. 1900 + + $150,060,000) Products of the following states, 1899, acco fe MINNESOTA 75,000,000 Harn —S eee Bushels. Values. - - - $225,000,000| Wheat ......... 68,000,000 $37,000,000 Conn x35 ++ 31,000,000 —_7,000,000 * 1owa e expenses growing out of Waeats vow o. .7. 18,000,000 —_ 10,000,000 CORD: fas bias oki 242,000,000 55,000,000 : SOUTH DAKOTA ured in products of Minne-| Wheat ......... 37,000,000 _ 18,000,000 55 Gallons, 50 per cent 53 Pounds, 33 per cent 4: Barrels, 45 per cent 305 Feet, 42 per cent 2¢ Kegs, 65 per cent 302 Pounds, 70 per cent AVERAGE LOSS IN PURCHASE-POWER OF WHEAT, 50 PER CENT COST OF MILITARISM AND IMPERIALISM IN FARM CROPS The grand total of crops of all of the above named states as above.$221,000,000 Or Not Enough to Pay for the Annual Expense of Our Army and Yavy Under the SINCE THE HANNA- McKINLEY DYNASTY One Day’s Work Buys 25 per cent less Sugar. One Day’s Work Buys 40 per cent less Oil. One Day’s Work Buys 33 per cent less Lumber. HRINKAGE rding to reports of Secretary of Agriculture NORTH DAKOTA Farm 7 Bushels. _Values.|_ One Day’s Work Buys 30 Wheat . +. 51,000,000 26,000,000 ee WISCONSIN to 65 per cent less Hard- Wheat . +++ 11,000,000 7,000,000 EBRASKA ware. Wheat . + 20,000,000 10,000,000 . Coral ost sess 224,000,000 —§1,000,000 Average Cost of Work- ingman’s Living 25 per cent PROTECTED HARDWARE, “INFANTS,” Average Protection, Tariff of 1897, 45 per cent. THE 45 PER CENT IRON AND STEEL “INFANT CLASS." Federal Steel 'Cosess.ods sete 2% New Jersey 1898, $200,000,000 American: Bicycle:Co) ....ciessie sins one ba 1899, 30,000,000 American Car & Foundry a 1899, 60,000,000 American Iron & Steel Mfg........ Pennsylvania 1899, 20,000,000 Am. Smelting & Refining New Jersey 1899, 65,000,000 American Steel Hoop ... ie 1899, 33,000,000 American Steel & Wire . ie 1899, 90,000,000 American Tin Plate 1898, 50,000,000 1899, 30,000,000 1899, 59,000,000 1899, 80,000,000 1899, 25,000,000 1899, 55,000,000 1897-’99 180,000,000 Total Iron and Steel “Infants”............ 1897-'99 $977,000,000 Average Dividends for 1899, six per cent. Total Profit of Hardware Trusts............ 1899, $58,600,000 On a capitalization two-thirds fictitious. SOURCE OF DIVIDENDS ON WATERED TRUST STOCK. Price’ of Nails.23332.25 43g aoe SAL Es 100 per cent Increase Price: of Barbed: Witeiisi....a. eee ues es 125 he ee ~ Builders’ Hardware.:.:...:..saeaeeeours AST nee “ Mechanics’ "TRopls.i.5:0 4 eee TOMO Pep Gs stale “ Farm Machinery . 00.556 sc<0sle os 20to 50 * * “ Structural Iron ..... 75 to 100 “ « Tinware (average). 73% 4 “ Pie ron’. os ji 12 # 38 “ teel Billets .. Ree 130 “* “ “ General Hardv 25xto i508 « 5 All since the inauguration of McKinley. REMEMBER THE TRUSTS! Imperial Regime. Increase. Sugar rust stock o.oo. 5 oPceara peg eies seo ets $75,506,000 Dividends, 1894-5-6-7-8-9, per annum .... .... -12 per cent The Republicanism of John D. Rockefeller is second only to that Six Year’s Dividends .... -$54,000,0c0 | of Mark Hanna, and it pays Tariff Protection, 1899. tee eeeeeee 75 per cent Havemeyer: “The mother of all trust: the customs tariff bill.” McKINLEY AND SUGAR TRUST PRICES. March Athy PRO 7 cos) oid wo sso Aisin cis ioe Wm. McKinley Inaugurated. April 1, 1897, Sugar at wholesale; ...............5 $3.47 per 100 Ibs. Specialy Session 08070... oe acihithe vicec sss Dingley Tariff Enacted. March 4, 1898, Sugar at Wholesale ............. $4.99 per 100 Ibs, Jan. 1, 1900, Sugar (at Minneapolis)............ Pel tae aa May 22, 1900, Sugar (wholesale) .............. BO eee tes, May 23, 1900 (Sugar (wholesale) ............... Bes0 ee ee May 26, 1900, Sugar (wholesale) ............... RH AOe cana May 31, 1900, Sugar (wholesale)................ iB Onn ste ce June 1, 1900, Sugar (wholesale) .......,........ Ghosts fe June 14, 1900, Sugar (wholesale). . Bite eis Cees June 26, 1900, Sugar (wholesale) July 5, 1900, Sugar (wholesale), . July 9, 1900, Sugar (wholesale) .... Sept. 1, 1900, Sugar (Minneapolis) ..... Sugar Consumption of United States .... ~ 5,000,000,000 Ibs. Rise of. tex.per Ib: ‘equals... es. . s.50 +++ $50,000,000 Campaign Fund Rise, May-July, 0.8c.. ++ 40,000,000 April 1,:1807.te:Sept..2, TOO: 2150.5 eis cet oa sag 54 125,000,000 Minnesota’s Sugar Trust Tax (130,000,000 Ibs consump- tion.at 2c tise over, O07 ‘prices).'+.....s% Jaa ti. Lo 2,600,000 HOW TWINE FOLLOWS McKINLEY (Prices from U.S. Treasury Bulletin.) Date. Manilla. Sisal. March 4, 1897 (McKinley’s Inauguration) .......... 4c. 3K%e. March 4s BOB io oe Wes a traci oc ores oe eee 4%ec. TAc. March: 4) 1800,5.6 i rst< snes ae aig pera a Fc: March 4, 1900-........ 14% gc. Increase in 3 years, 250% 188% The McKinley colonial policy of subjugation of the Philippines is in part responsible by paralyzing the production of Manilla fiber, and two New Jersey trusts organized and protected under the McKinley dynasty do the rest. In Minnesota under Governor Lind’s administration of the State Twine Plant, competition has in part broken down trust prices. Standard Oil Trust Dividends for Three Years cece 33 per cent. ee eee 30 per cent. eit 33 per cent. +». .$110,000,000 Se 36,300,000 i Lge cir Saver NGEN Pi ce dk cat eats 105,600,000 U. S. TREASURY BULLETIN PRICES Per gal. in bbls. Per gal. in cases March 4, 1897 6.3c 7c March 4, 1900 oon ‘ 9.90 II.10. Increase’ three years... 006.00... i++++3-3C, Or 52% 4.1c., or 59% On production of 2,500,000,000 gallons. ae 3c. per gal. increase equals bonus of ............0.00005 $75,000,000 4c. per gal. increase equals bonus of ............ . + -100,000,000 Republican Attorney-General Monnett, of Ohio, who fought Standard Oil Trust, was deposed by Hanna-McKinley bosses. _ IMPERIALISM vs, SCHOOLS, Expenditures of U. S. War Department for TQ00% eens $150,000,000 Expenditures of U. S. Navy Department for 1900 cea acon $225,000,000 Total for 1900 School Expenditure of U.S. . ool dxpenditure OF TS. ci ys. sae e w icce aa 194,020, Militarism Exceeds School Expenditures by ‘over 22a orients Total Cost of U. S. Government, 1899 ............ 66 000,000. Total Cost of U. S. Government, 1896............ eae Excess for Imperialistic Policy ...........0..00., 317,000,000 Equal to a per capita tax of $4 per head or $20.00 for each voter. For Minnesota the imperialistic tax is $8,000,000, which is over three times the taxation to support state government and all state in- stitutions. : we