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Show t;:;sts ani tahikks "Trusts and high tarilTs go together, ' says our free trade contcinporary, the lli rnlil. ( ontimiing it cays: "Eastern papers ir.form us that the bitfftest combination com-bination ever made in the iron and gteel bn .innsg in this country was or-gan'ed or-gan'ed in Boston on the Ud instant." 1 When the I'eninerats 1 to beaten on ; every t urn in their ranipaiirn as;iinst 1 the pr,,ti.etive tarilf, they lly oil' th'J . handle and ipp.'al to public prejudice 5 t trusts. It is adiiiiited by peo-j peo-j pie of both parties that trusts are an l evi1. biu, f.s has often been shown, the I tarilf is net responsible for thciu, and 1 the public will not condemn one because be-cause of the other. If trust relied iiniin the tariff thera would be no such oraniati'-ii as tho Enijli. h sr.lt trust, one of the most grinding in the world. Another of 'he worst trusts inex'ntonea is the Knbsh tin-pinto eombiiiation. i'y no sp. cies of reasnninu can cldir of tluMe be eoiinni'ted with the tarill. The trmt, in lact, is au English idea, 1 and is has attained its mo.-,t complete j di wlopiuent in that free trade laud, j In our country tile greatest mouopo-! mouopo-! ly uf this kind that we have is the ! Standard Oil combination. Tho tarii'i j C'Uinot be held responsible for it by any sort of reasoning, and yet it is 1 y long odds tho mo-t outrageous that exists in the United .States. Tlio Standard Oil trust, organized in au in-dustiy in-dustiy that, is in no way depondent upon tho tarilf.is practically invincible. So strong is il that the authority of stall's is humbled before it almost as readily rea-dily as the iiivi'i't).-ts of individuals. It does not coi, line its operations to this country but reaches across the ocean and puts its manacles on the trade of foreign lauds. We are told that the richest oil Melds in the woild have recently re-cently been opened oil the shores of the Caspian sea, but Russian operators declare that they are powerless in the hands of ttaa American combination. combina-tion. Attain, if the "biggest combination ever made in the irou and steel business busi-ness has just been artauged, what does it signify? The M 'Kin lev law made considerable reductions in the iron and Bleoi schedules. Tho duties on manufactures manu-factures of iron nnd steel are lower than they were under tho old tarilf, but this is followed by the organization of tho "biggest combination" ever known iu that line! If we are to believe that there is an essential relation between the trust and the tarilf wo must conclude con-clude from this that the lowering of one is conductive to tho growth of the other. The rule, then, would be not that "trusts and high tarilf go together" but trusts and low tarilf. lint ns a matter of fuel the trust is not dependent either upon protection or free trade, an 1 neither is specially conducive to its operations m compared com-pared with the other. The trust is a;i evil, which, like the pauper labor d.lli-eulty, d.lli-eulty, must be dealt with independently. independent-ly. Someway can be futind to suppress sup-press it, but tho people of the I'nited States will never be foolish enough to slab their industrial system because a an e il practice on tiie part of those who may bo engaged in any of its branches. |