Show TRUSTS AND TRUSTS the i salt alt lake tines times is stupid enough to assert that trusts tire an evil but the tariffs fis no not t cespon responsible ible for thorn them the proof of this profound discovery is that in england under free freb trade thele is a halt lybalt trust and an all english 0 tin till plate combination 11 there is also aho lit an english ugar sugar trust and it is odd that the protection parrot did not name it also the difference between tile english trusts and the sanio same trusts in this country is this the english I 1 tin till plate trust rust sells tinned plate at about per box while tile american trust charges about the english Engli sli sugar trust lias has for years sold refined sugar for aj 1 a pound while the he Anie american rican sugar 0 trust charged cli arged 8 or 9 cents there is st still ill tile same ine american sugar trust in operation that there was a year ago but it charges exactly two cents less for su sugar ar now than it did then the reason bein being C that tile lie tariff lias has been reduced two cents but the protection parrot urges urges that the standard tail ard oil trust of the ii united states i is not protected by ann any I 1 tax on oil therefore this is another proof that the tariff does not aid trusts in iii this case tile the parrot fails to mention the fact that this trust lias has to sell oil ns as cheaply to americans as to foreigner and hence does doca not have the disagreeable features that the tariff fo feied trusts have lave any cause that limits tile supply of all at ame enal enables iles the alio formation of a trust that can call control its price in ili the ease case of if coal oil nature lias has limited the supply of oil 1 wells ells and by securing 11 control of a large ni majority of these wells the oil trust can call control prices price in the case of ill all the other Anic american rican trusts tile the tariff limits the supply and enables the fori formation natio n of alie tru trusts ts the alic trust rust is now authorized by law to to char charge c americans 2 cents extra for tin till or 4 I 1 a cut cent extra for sugar or pl 14 l extra for steel rails or 7 extra for or pig ilic iron or GO cio cents on oil the dollar extra for wool clothing clo hing C arid and so on if in any case the trust fails to exact the full pound ata of flesh the law lav authorizes it is eiliv 1 because lei 1 I 1 1 boulle r ii 1 I 1 in ta tj u s I 1 ness has withdrawn from froin the trust and I 1 s fighting 0 b it for a time such stich a firm is goon bought over hoac cr and up goes goes prices a again ain A biter wiktur who can call detect no difference between in an engliski Engli sli sugar trust selling elling refined humr sugar n at 44 4 cents and lit an Anie american rican sugar C trust telling selling it at S scents cents is just the sort of follo follow w to enlighten liis his readers with the as assurance urance that tile the tariff is not responsible for trusts tt it is the ii name tine trust that eliat these simple fellows object to not the fact that addid by tho the tariff the abineri cin trusts charin charge e americans a 1 higher I 1 price ericc than they charge I 1 ta foreigners 0 these protection editors a assure their dupes dupe s that if the Allie american rican re rc finers had merely exacted the 8 cents a pound the tariff permitted them to exact without it at the same tinie time callino calling 1 themselves nelves a trust the Anie american rican people would have lave been quite content to pay tile blackmail tax till dolay doday doomsday democrats on oil the other land hand believe that it was the protection theft of several cente on each pound of sugar that constituted the chief objection to tile trust anit ami not the name naine trust at all in a name the protection theft by any other name naine would hurt just as much as it aws when the thieves thieve call elves a trust |