Show UNIONS AS TRUSTS jN 1 A MEETING M T NG AT T EUREKA R EI Wednesday W VV evening ening v Hon H on C CC CC CC 1 C Goodwin editor of the Salt Lake Tribune made a not notable notable notable able speech As reported by b the Tribune he lie said he lie had supported silver for twenty years but hut that conditions have changed ard ald it is now the peoples duty tp support the Republican Republican Republican lican party part The d ch ug in conditions to which IK lit referred is understood so well ell in Utah that his motives for deserting silver need not be discussed d at all aU He went on OH o 0 sa say however BRYAN IS NOT RUNNING ON A PLATFORM IF TRUSTS ARE PROSECUTED THEN LABOR UNIONS MUST BE PROSECUTED BECAUSE THEY ARE ALSO TRUSTS As a discovery discover in iii law Jaw and economics this declaration deserves de deserves deserves serves to rank with Senator Scotts Scoffs immortal eulogy of the thc Stan Standard S an anCar Car dard Oil trust as a philanthropic institution Take for instance e the Brotherhood od of of r Locomotive Engineers or the firemen or trainmen They have been in ignorance all the time that they had pad a monopoly of their business bus ness that they the are operating op rating in re restraint restraint of oft trade and are liable liable to be indicted and have things done to tem diem if ii they persist in maintaining their trust There arc ae ar the th other r unions too any anyone one of which s must be classed ac according according according cording to Judge wn w n with the Standard St Oil say or Mr monopoly or r the Sugar trust And on his theory President Pr Gompers of the American A Federation of Labor Lab r deserves tb to rank with Rockefeller ner himself as a trust magnate Of br course the ta of prosecuting labor unions as trusts is b tommyrot futile piffle pi eany anything thing one may choose to call it If f unions were violating ing any law lr M F attorney general m would have discovered d the fact long longO ago O and aid prosecuted thesis them th to a finish although he has never been able to see a a real trust long enough to get it into court for serious trial triaI r l If unions were trusts the miners of Pennsylvania would have got nothing g but hut indictments when they struck because cause b the coal trust was WS as starving them and their families The effort to make the labor unionists believe they are arc all n Hayea eyers and Rockefellers and is interesting as asan aa an example of psychological catalepsy but it will not scare the unions Or help the trusts much hereabouts |