Show TRUSTED AMERICANS ix IN HIS article published some time ago in the contemporary review mr robert donald says an american must deal with trusts all through his life if he is a native of new york state a trust will nurture him with milk which it buys from the farmers at three cents a quart and sells to the people at from seven to ten cents a quart when he goes to school his slate is furnished by ar another arrither trust which has raised the price of school slates 30 per cent and thanks to protection sends its best slates to england and germany if the american boy wants a lead pencil he must apply to a trust which charges americans one and a third more for pencils than it asks from foreigners the american boys candy is indirectly affected by the sugar trust and his bis peanuts are doled out to him through the medium of the peanut combination billat IOD if the american has a taste for canvasback duck the baltimore trust which has control of that delicacy will supply him when he has finished the duck another trust i ix it t ready with a ato took okpick dick for even such an insignificant industry as toothpick making has not escaped the trust schemers the american may continue his progress through life using trusted envelopes wearing trusted overshoes warming himself at af trusted stoves and patronizing other crusts trusts which control indispensable commodities should illness overtake him a castor oil trust will do its best for him and as the duty of per cent on castor oil ensures in an absolute monopoly it will charge very highly for its medicine even death does not free the american from trusts they pursue him to the grave there is a coffin makers ring king in new york which has raised prices to the trust standard there is also a trust in marble which has increased the price of tombstones thus the american citizen who is surrounded on all sides with accommodation mo dation trusts through life may be buried in a trusted coffin and commemorated by a trusted tombstone |