Show THE GROWTh OF mUSTs One of the moat surprising things In Mlitics Is the steady growth or trusts and monopolies in the manufacturing lines It dkl not seem so strange that they should ping up Immediately after Mr HAR MONS election nor that they should multiply after the passage of the Mo CINLEY bill but that now when every tieg points to the overwhelming defeat of Himiibox for reelection It would seem the tpltalists should go a litle slow The explanation ex-planation probably is that although the Democracy will on tha4th of next thev otly about eleven months off be repre sated in the executive mansion the combi nitious may still have power enough to keop the present tariff duties Intact Until He Democracy is firmly established in the cgislative as well as the execatiys branch ol the government there will be the temptation to organize these trusts to destroy competition to Increase the prices of commodities and to keep down the wages of Industry Scarcely a week passes that we do not bear of the incorporation of one or more of tkcso organizations Last week we hade had-e absorption of the SPUECKIES monster sugar refinery which had so long held out csd the development of a fifty million rubber rub-ber trust to control the entire business of waterproof goods These great enterprises are the product of tao example of u vast number of manufacturing combines Their capital stock is generally three or four limes the amount of money actually put in When rivals spring up or stand out against them they aro undersold until they can skid the pressure no longer To compete with a big trust whether makes crarkers or watches or umbrellas or coffins or what not has ceased to bea privilege of tho American citizen All the patents for improved machinery are in tho hands of the monopolists and the alldevouring corporation corpor-ation is as despotic and remorseless as death They run their establishments when they please to and they close them when they plcsse to regardless of season or tho necessities of their employees When the market is overstocked they discharge dis-charge their workmen and open up when there Is a conjunction of a good demand acd a willingness on the part of their hands reduced to want by enforced idleness to work at reduced wages Thero is hardly a necessity of life that this czarlike spirit of greed has not besieged be-sieged and forced to surrender from the I agricultural implement to the scnool boys I slato and pencil Tbo effect must be to raise the price impair the quality and impoverish im-poverish the labor which introduces it Quality is impaired partly because Into the I manufacturing business arc thrown men who carry to It no skill experience nor aptitude and who are attracted thereto I I solely by the inducements presented by immense im-mense profits It i by this way that we I sometimes bear of the failure of on overstocked over-stocked factory managed by tho son or nephew of some rich moneyking of New England or Pennsylvania But such instances in-stances as we have scan do not deter ather capitalists from combining and taking part in the vast work of raising up in this country a manufacturing monarchy to devour de-vour the peoples harvests gather in the fruits of their orchards and vineyards and enslave their toil I |