Show JiOBK BOnT T BlGTaUSTS j Supplementary to what has already been add on the subject of the great trusts or pinized under the shadow of protection EimeMctall not new perhaps but Inter citing may be gtven The American hoolboy gets his slate from a protected tfnst which bali advanced the price 30 per cOne and sends Its best school slates to England and Germany We buy our lead pencils of protected trust which charges us more than double what it charges the foreign buyer The war duty on linseed oil was 25 cents a gallon and was prohibitory prohibi-tory MCKINLEy advanced it to 82 cents and tbd linseed oil trust advanced the prico of oil from 8S to GO cents Jn England the price is i 34 cents The amount cottonseed cotton-seed oil and petroleum sold as linseed oil under the shield ot protection is a matter to which tho cKiNLET law gives no heed The white lead trust which controls 00 per cent of the production of white lead and envoys u prohibitory duty of 73 per cejit charges Americans 050 perhun dred pounds but sells the same article to Ciinudlans for 370 per hundred Pig lead Is sold in Canada by another combine which has 77 per cent protection at 18 per cent less than Americans must pay for It The pinto glass trust which enjoyed pro cction to the tune of 141 per cent under the War tariff and has still inoreunder the cKIXLEY act has puid dividends as high 111131 per cent The furnituremaking in austry which employs 100100 men and makes 6125000000 of worth furniture annually an-nually protested against this outrageous duty on glass which It consumes but it was ii i vain The glass trusts appear to be particular favorites of protection The makers of window glas began the formation oftheir trust vbile tho MCKINLEy tariff was being manipulated by the ways and means committee com-mittee and before the bill had been re porte l they advanced the price bf glass flvo times For its benefit the war tax IIn window glass was raised to an average rate of over 130 per cent As a mark of especial favor Mr MCKINLET had his bill amendea 1n the secretSe slons of the conference committee so as to require the importers im-porters to use the smallest packages known to the trade This arbitrary restriction amounts to an additional duty of about 10 per cent < Attrust in table glassware was formed some time ago ucder the 60 per cent protection pro-tection accorded by the MCKISLET law which was an advance ot 20 per cent over the war tariff And this in the face of the fact that glassware can be produced fully as cheaply in this country as In Europe tbo Wheeling glass underselling the cheapest cheap-est German manufactures in the South American markets For a great many years says Mr BuTTEnwonTH a prominent Republican American citizens have paid a higher price for American copper than the same article the production of our own mines sold for in other uatlons while it cost tno producer less than the product of any other copper mines on earth This under a 00 per cmt tariff The same authority ehys one of these copper monopolies hRS taken from the people not less than 0000000 la dividends in twenty years oti an actual investment of 1250000 In a recent spaech delivered in Congress it was said In the manufacture of agricultural Imple meats and other articles used by the farmers no end of monopolies under the name of trusts and other disguises have been organized The manufacturers of the springtooth harrow which has driven nearly every other harrow out of the market sold their patents for a term of fifty years to a central corporation and boUod themselves to sell harrows only as agents of the trust Thus an absolute monopoly unformed un-formed covering the Whole length and breadi L of tile American Union One of the parties of I this despotism became tired of It and sought I to be released The matter was carried Into the court over which presided a righteous judge who said Thero is nothing to prevent this defendant at any time from raising prjc Cat C-at will It Is hard to conceive how a monopoly could bo more flnnly Intrenched or bow competition com-petition could be more effectively strangled Such is the harrow with McKixLcr on top of it under which the farming interest est of the country bas been placed An Iso I-so wo might go on describing one robb league after another organized under the wing ot protection to prey upon the American people |