Show ONE GIGANTIC TRUSTS TRUST-S kln of the report that the Standard Oil company and several other leading trusts are about to form themselves into one great corporation with 1000000 capital the Philadelphia Ledsor says It in not yet confirmed but it is not impossible and scarcely Improbable The tendency of the business world is toward the concentration of enterprises in few hands and their conduct on a large scale with a correspondingly great amount of capital There need be nothing surprising in the suggestion that the managers of the Standard Oil company having been enormously successful in the conduct of that corporation cor-poration rand having increased the scope of its operations until they em brace the whole world and there seems1 to be no further room for expansion should turn their yet unsated ambition to other and still greatir projects aM dream of ultimately monopolizing every ev-ery branch of Industry It is a perfectly per-fectly iogical step for them to take j and If they do not take It now they may be expected to do so at any time in i the future unless congress steps in i and by the enactment of proper laws puts an end to the growth of the whole I system of trusts which now threatens to grasp all the bUiness interests of the country The formation of such a trust mayor I may-or may not be in contemplation but I If it shall be formed it will only be a short while before it will increase itsI I capital so as to take in practically aH the business cCncerns of the country That wouldmean the complete subordination subordi-nation of the people to the money power And that Is the tendency of I things today The extra session of congress I con-gress was dominated by it the trusts I having substantially dictated the various vari-ous schedules of the tariff bill The I statement of Senator Cannon as to the influence cf the trusts in forming the I tariff law fully warrants this assertion Matters have reached that stage where a conflict between the trusts and the people Is almost inevitable It is quite probable that they will continue to grow in power and insolence until the people ctf very necessity will be compelled com-pelled to assert theCr inherent rights for their own preservation When that time come the trusts will have to go as all tyrannies have to go before the wrath and power of the people |