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Show The King and the Trust. Combination is found to be a mightiet ; principle in the economic game than competition. As well oppose handicraft to machinery as the scattered efforts of individuals, with their limited resources and consequent lack of staying power, to tho trust, which knows how to control con-trol every avenue of transportation, to undersell its rivals and to hinder them from receiving supplies and from loading load-ing or unloading the goods they may have in hand. Under the decreed commercial com-mercial regime of the Middle Ages prices and qualities were fixed, in a rude way doubtless, by the whole community acting through its rulers. When the "ring and the trust" have spread like a network over the land as in regard to Borne commodities they have done alreadyprices al-readyprices and qualities will be determined, de-termined, not by the people, who can but wait with oriental submissivenoss till the fiat has gone forth, but by syndicates syn-dicates representing shareholders! A email oligarchy of wealth, at the summit sum-mit of which are enthroned the great railway kings and their satellites, will have thus put the free American democracy democ-racy under its feet. Free? Why, certainly, cer-tainly, free to vote for the candidates Bent to congress by theomnipotent "trustees," "trus-tees," whose commercial mandates will there be converted into law. Rev. Will iam Barry in Fornm |