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Show THE MONEY POWER. In the trust investigations that are going on the fact that has been most conspicuously present- ed is the lsck of comprehension on the part of the questioners of the tremendous power of capital in . '. 'the handa-of -men with-arewt- btirrsv-Ordinary business men with small capital are like captains in war who command a regiment or brigade in an enemy 'a country. They move cautiously always, keeping in mind that they can call up no reserves in esse of defest, and the chief effort is always 1 1 hold their position ; whereaa the Napoleons who are moving on in their conquests are not making arrangements to keep close connections with thair base and 4 line over which, in caaa of repulse, they may retreat, but confident of their power they press on, and if here and there some little com- mand has to be crushed, they are not troubled, and if here and -there some brigade of their own is crushed they are not worried, so that their main advance is not impeded. In this conquest their army ia made up of dollars, dol-lars, which they use as a great captain uses men in war. When he decides that a certain flank must ' he turned or a certain height must be taken by assault, as-sault, he is intent only on the movement and the lives of men do not count with him, so that his point is carried. , And when the bungling government steps in and ssys it looks as though there were more free booters than honest soldiers in that army and the host must move no longer on that line lest some wheat fields or gardens be destroyed, the advancing advanc-ing army ia for the moment halted, but when night comes the order is given like Grant's in the wilderness, wilder-ness, "At dawn you will move by the right Hank," and the war Is not stayed. In civilization man is helpless without money. When a combination of ' men obtain an abnormal amount, they become well nigh invulnerable. |