Show TRUSTS AND COMBINES the press reports show that trusts and combines are being formed every day da dispatches indicate that they are arc increasing at an alarming rate the coal trust has been denounced by the courts the sumar sugar 0 trust by by the public press in general the pittsburg organ of protection says that Car coal trust controls 70 I 1 per cent of the tha trade the prot protection action organ 0 of f salt lake says that a trunk trust has been formed to raise prices and reduce wages tile the cordage trust was denounced by a 1 I petition of nebraska farmers to con congress 0 ress 1 there is a copper trust a petro petroleum leun I 1 trust a wire trust a match trust a I 1 wall paper trust a type founders trust a button trust and even a biscuit trust and there are hundreds of others that thai is not all trusts are arc forming every day I 1 why what is the object of their formation 9 to it regulate production and control the market rut but that is not all kven even republican organs admit that trusts are arc intended to raise prices and reduce wages trusts are becoming a power in tho the land they are becoming an important factor actor in politics tile the legislation that protects them is the kind of le legislation isolation they are bound to have whom the republican party can not capture through C the sophistry of its writers writer and sand speakers sp carnagie Caru agie and the others 1 will ill try to buy trusts are combinations of corporations po rations formed to raise prices and reduce wages val es and yet that ic greatest republican state 3 ill an all james G blaine said in 1 1886 that trusts are arc private affairs avith which neither president cleveland nor any private citizen has a right to interfere but cleveland did not interfere with the them and they combined against him and used their means and manipulated their workmen to secure his big defeat in 88 68 when wannamaker passed the II Ir arrison hat these trusts chipped in quay used the soap they thus acquin acquired ed upon the bloc blocks ks k s of five which dudley marshaled and Den benjamine jamine took his seat protection was almost doubled and so eo was Carria Car gics fortune lie ile has now non retired from active business but he be still feels grateful to the party which protected him so BO long and well his millions will be devoted to the pleasure of their roi sessor and the party which assisted him to amass them how long before the masses the common people of this country will awaken to the truth and see sec whom protection protects |