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Show creasing the Remand and, of course., advancing ad-vancing trie prices To "do tliir thousands thou-sands oLhouest laborers must be thrown, oiit of employment, thousandicj. iami lies-must pay the coal of the npuculiiou auil thousands of 'children, iu- couee-qneuce couee-qneuce must go hungry. All this merely, mere-ly, to-satigfy the avarious monopolists who . are already too rich Iuwordly goods. We are far from being socialists and do not believe in equalization, but this high-handed form of cutting off the natural supply of necessities to suit tho fancy ol a few capitalists, cannot be accepted ac-cepted in this age of reason, enlighten meat and independence. It is stjid that trusts are but a defense against labjr organizations; that manufacturers found tie employees, becoming a strength and their only protection was to meet them with their own -Weapons. Then let toeSect dler with the cause. Labor unions are. almost thing; of the past; Ihey claim no strength' and con-tlneal con-tlneal bickerings among themselves has reduced their Influence, bnt thjS trusts remain and grow stronger daily, while the innocent have to suffex for the deeds of malcontents. Commercial Tribune . -r-t'- - Trusts- It is of little use to argue the question of trusts in relation to the dealers. TL.ose who have gWen it a thonghc will tell yon that combinations are but ,1 mild form of robbery, which, although they may not effect ths dealer diriotly , crowds the consumer to the wall a d sooner or later reverts bock to the originator, orig-inator, and that too, through the wholesale whole-sale and retail dealers. Trusts are formed on a basis that is littlp less than a crime, the principal object in view being to lessen the supply thereby in |