Show QUIT THEORIES GET TO FACTS The Bols Capital News in response to our call for evidence that other trusts are retarding c West besides the Sugar trust In Its raid on the beet sugar Industry names the Steel trust and the Standard Oil trust It says the Steel trust Is taxing the public of the West ns well as the East on every pound of its I r product lised But the Steel trust does not and cannot fix the price of its I products there are so many Independent Independ-ent producers that tills is impossible It Is true that these products arc higher than they were In Democratic times when there wasnt money enough In the country to allow of fair prices for anything any-thing and industries were all at their lowest ebb We all were at that time i demanding the remonetlzatlon of silver l for the express purpose of changing that condition of affairs The Standard Oil trust is also charged by the Capital News with hostility to the West In raising prices and dplayfhg the opening of new sources of oil supply but it gives no instance and no figures We believe on the contrary that if anyone any-one has an oil well for sale and can I demonstrate Its value he would not I likely find any better bidder for it than the Standard Oil company The Capital News should give facts not theories we dont care anything about Its theories the-ories or its fears l let us have something practical some actual conditions or else be done with contention More pertinent per-tinent yet we say that these things were they true have no bearing on the raid the Sugar trust threatened on the beet sugar industry that we sought repel It IB a queer notion that because somebody has a suspicion that the Steel trust and Standard Oil trust are hostile to the West we mustnt protect our beet sugar industry until we can at the same time thwart nil the trusts The West has had too much of this theorizing the-orizing iLls time to get down to busi ness The notion that we mustnt cor l rect anything unless we can correct everything Is too impracticable for ordinary I or-dinary use |