Show TRUST TENDENCY WORLDWIDE There were a good many reasons why 11 Bryans antitrust campaign did not make much of J impression upon the American voters In the last national na-tional contest In the closing weeks of the campaign the silver leader prac tically abandoned the Issue of Imperialism Im-perialism uid concentrated all his oratorical energies in an assault upon the Industrial combines In spite of his extraordinary effort he received a smaller ISOC popular vote than he did in ISOCThe principal reason why the Democrats Demo-crats could not wage a satisfactory antitrust an-titrust campaign was the popular realization re-alization of the fact that many of the claims made against the Industrial combines as being opposed to the Interests In-terests of the laborer and consumer were fallacious The people studied the trust question for themselves and i they learned among other things that the combines paid good wages and I that very few of them were monopolies monopo-lies But another reason why the Bryan antitrust campaign did not harvest a large crop of votes may be found In the I widelydiffused knowledge of the fact I that the present tendency toward combines com-bines Is not peculiar to the United States alone but is worldwide I has claimed that the tariff was the mother of trusts and hence the combines must be the result of our Governmental policy of protection But it was soon learned that monopolistic combines flourished to a greater extent in free trade England than in the United States Following is a list oC some of the principal trusts of Great Britain as published In a recent number of Bradstrcets Brdstreets S NooC Name Concerns Capital l Salt Union limited I 2000000 United Alkali Co limited 13 G000000 r P Coates limited 1 6500000 English Sowing Cotton Co limited 15 27uO000 Fine Cotton Spinners and Doublers limited 51 C000000 Bradford Dyers 2 1500000 Yorkshire Indigo and Color Dyers 1 600000 Bradford Coal Merchants and Consumers S 0000 Yorkshire Wool Combers IB 2500000 Unitcjl Indigo and Chcmi Unic I S 2oOXK Calico Printers CO 9200000 Wall Paper Manufacturers 2 S 4200000 Ynl United Velvet Cutters 1 SOOWO Unied British Cotton and Wool Brll S ers Colon 16 2ioO000 S Total 32 JEiGSOOOOO Although Mr Bryan persistently ic I erred to trusts as monopolies none of the combines so far formed by the manufacturers of this country had succeeded suc-ceeded In monopolizing the production I of any particular Commodity In Great Britain however it is 1 claimed that the borax trust tho oil and coke combination com-bination the wall paper company and the thread trusts are absolute monopolies monopo-lies One of the concerns in the above list is said to control the worlds out t of sewing cotton put l sewing colon J the tendency toward combination is worldwide the trusts In this country coun-try can hardly he ascribed to protective legislation or to conditions peculiar to this country Chicago TimesHerald |