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Show TRUTH. hearted county chairman, which ap- THE peals most strongly to the sympathies of the audience. REAL DANGER THE OF TRUSTS. & Why and How the People Should Seek Sousas famous band will appear at A Reform. Nov. the under 10th, the Tabernacle In the October number of the Cenof George D. Pyper. local management Mr. James Bates Clark of CoAfter the flattering reception accorded tury to Sousas band by the musical royalty lumbia university discusses the quesof Europe, it is small wonder that the tion of dangers to be apprehended organization has been receiving an from the trusts. We abstract as folovation during its present American lows: tour. The most positive check on the S S Miss Emma Lucy Gates and the greed of the trusts that has developed the comSymphony orchestra will give a grand is potential competition concert at the Salt Lake theatre Oct. petition of the mill that is not yet 20th. built, but will be if the trust becomes to of A program exceptional merit too extortionate. What we need to lovers of classical music is promised. find out is whether this check is suffThe original date of the concert was Oct. 10th, but, for business reasons, icient protection for the public. Can a postponement was made to Oct. the trust double prices without pass20th. & San Toy, the Chinese musical play with which James T. Powers in his original role of Li, will soon be at the Salt Lake theatre. The company is said to be large and effective with a pictorial display of costumic finery rarely seen upon the stage. HARRY LE GRANDE. o LADIES WANTED. A bright, energetic woman wom- ans work. Permanent position. Old established business house of solid financial standing. Salary $12 to $18 weekly, with expenses, paid each MonExday direct from headquarters. penses advanced. We furnish everything. Address, Secretary, 620 Monon Block, Chicago, 111. ing this danger line? If it cannot and as a rule it cannot can it still add a burdensome percentage to what the public otherwise would have to pay? To the latter question we can safely answer, yes. In the political field, the trust, working for its own pocket all the time, is the great force towards corruption. It must thwart the will of the people to accomplish its purpose in business, and to do this must control political organizations. It must own the bosses. The original political machine, backed by the modem trust, or the trust with the power of the old machine put bodily into its hands there is a combination to be dreaded. There is no mystery as to what the people ought to do. It involves some 13 and also changes and consncutional. If the peolegal ple only act wisely, the trust danger will become almost nil. The redeeming fact is the limit now put upon trust exactions by nature, not by legislation. This is the result of potential competition, by which the trust is deterred from much extortion, which, in its own interest, it would otherwise practice. The. aim of the people shoulo be to make this power of potential competition act earlier, to make the limit on trust exactions narrower. Trust smashing is as impracticable as undesirable. We want action that will cause the power already checking monopolies to limit them more closely; this will make the people safe, not by killing the predatory beasts, bui by training them for useful service. The public could then thrive under the regime of consolidation. TLis.can be done only by legislation, in framing which care must be taken that the trusts do not twist the law so as to be outwardly drastic, but really impotent. There are at least four things to be done. First, we must stop discrimi nation l-- rtilrcadf. in favor of the big shippers; equal carload rate will have to ?e established. Flooding a locality with goods at prices to crush a competitor there, must be stopped. Also the plan of selling one kind of goods at a cheap rate to crush competitors who make only that kind and to force theip to seli out, must be put an end to. Both these steps are hard, but must be accomplished if we would be free. Finally, there is the factors agreement the refusal to sell to a dealer at a living price unless he will promise not to buy from a competitor. It is a hard road democracy must travel to regulate the machine-smashin- g, . cut-thro- at ITS n trusts; but it must travel by that road or i:j farther and fare worse. socialism as an ever-prese- Then-- . nt i:-nativ- The real danger is that the people may not unite. There are now two opposing parties, neither promising a tolerab.'e result. There are those who e unreasonably hope to keep the competition alive. There are those who have no faith In regulation and are drifting into the growing socialistic camp. One of the greatest trust dangers is this abandonment of a hard but sound policy for an apparently easy one. Regulation of monopolies is not possible without a definite victory of the old-tim- people over political machines backed by corporate wealth. Trusts are here to stay. If the people can but unite they will win, and in winning will redeem the trusts themselves. In the interim the country may suffer both Industrially and politically. There is coming the long hard fight in which honest wealth and honest labor will be on one side and monopolies on the ether; the powers of honesty are the gerater. The one policy is to keep alive the essential power of competition, to have prices, wages and profits governed by the play of the forces which formerly acted freely, but which have become inefficient because the government has not enforced the "ules of the ring. We need a fair field. o A phonograph is a machine that talks, and every married man firmly believes that he secured one on his wedding day. 6 Try the Shepard Go. on collections. ram In connection with the Rio Grande and Colorado Midland, the three great trains daily to the East, with equipment and service of the highest grade. t Clef) mi No. 6 ( Si. Ltils Special si. Louis From Salt Lake 8:50 m daily; from Denver 2:00 pm. Arrive in St. Joseph 9:30 a m; Kansas City 11:40 am. Arrive in St. Louis 6:50 p m. No. 2 ( ail Mm Special From Salt Lake City 3:15 p m daily; From Denver 4:15 p m. Arriving Omaha 6:45 a m; Chicago 8:0(1 p m. Note: The daily standard through sleeper, Salt Lake City to St. Louis, leaves Salt Lake City at 3:15 pm. Daylight ride through scenic Colorado, arriving Denver 4:00 p m. with desirable stopover interval at Denver until departure of tbe Eastern Express from Denver at 10:35 p m, arriving at St. Louis the second morning No. 4, Eastern Express . . . . From Salt Lake City 8:05 p m. daily; from Denver 10:35 p m, arriving Lincoln Omaha, St. Joseph ai d Kansas City next afternoon; St. Louis and Chicago the second morning from Denver. evening? for St. Through tourist sleepers leave Salt Lake City at 8:05 p m for Chicago and Boston every Friday and Saturday m 8:u5 Thursdays for p Louis every Friday evening, with daylight ride over the Rio Grande through scenic Colorado; also at Midland. Chicago and Boston via Rio Diverse routes to the East are allowed with theae rates, but the Burlington, with its own rails and its own through train service between Denver and St. Louis, between Denver and Chicago can offer with its own railroad as great a variety of tours as can be offered by any other combination of routes. There is education in travel. It is an education to tide a thousand miles over the Burlington Route. No tour of the East is complete without the Burlington Route as a part of it. Grande-Colora- do -- Iv&tCS Low n j r JLVCry t J 1 tlCSQ&y allCI I riilay Address the undersigned for tbe most desirable r ites, routes and train service. Describe your trip to me: let me advise you tbe lowest rate and tbe greaiest possible privileges. R. F. NESLEN, General Agent. 79 e. WEST SECOND SOUTH STREET. SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH. A |