Show j ABOUT TRUSTS In every Democratic ncwflpnper will be found two things nowadays and we suspect that the changes will be rung upon them every day up to November The first Is a denunciation of trusts the second Is an appeal I to workingmen working-men to show by their ballots the detestation de-testation that they feel for tho part under which combinations intended to restrict business to create monopolies to limit production or to control prices etc have grown up That such combines com-bines have grown under Republican rule faster than under Democratic rule Is clue solely I to the fact that since the Republican party came into power three years ago last March quite 500 000000 has been added to the money oC the country and quite as much more that was locked up In strong boxes during Mr Clevelands last administration adminis-tration has been released and has entered en-tered fn nhe channels of business But never mind that I wag of another mater that we desired to speak and to call the attention of organized labor to We wish to ask 11i ton every labor la-bor union to pick out their shrewdest members and If necessary to call in bright lawyers to help them and see If any law that they can frame against trusts cannpt bo Invoked to smash theirunlons Down deep Is not one object ob-ject of 0 labor union to restrict the business of men For Instance a union of carpenters or masons fixes wages at a certain price per day But times are Gull and there are other men who will work for half a dollar or n dollar a day leas money than the union has fixed What happens The union I serves notice that such men must be stopped on PenaltY of a strike I this is refused and the strike comes and does not suicecd then a boycott is ordered or-dered Now under an antitrust law what could prevent the union being proceeded against for conspiracy to injure the men complained of and tho merchants against whom the boycott is instituted And1 if proceedings are begun under such a law charging that the union Is seeking to monopolize not a product but the Jabor which Is at the very foundation of all wealth what defense de-fense could the union offer Or If the other clause is attacked and a union Is charged with seeding to limit production produc-tion and to control prices what will be 1 their defense I Standard oil Is given away until some one In tho oil business is crushed and that can be attacked what will prevent attacking a labor union under tlje same law Is any form of perishable property a precious as Is a mans right to earn a living for his little children by honest labor Is not the capacity to earn a living aright a-right higher than any right that attaches at-taches to Standard oil or Ice or the malting of iron and steel We commend this view of the case to lie skilled workingmcti of the land and suggest to them to consult counsel and get an opinion as to whether any I law to restrict trusts could not be Invoked In-voked to crush their organizations I Is all right to get out and howl against trusts but what remedy can be suggested 1 sug-gested sWord that will not bo a doubleedged I |