Show T TR TRUSTS sis It is claimed clain e. e ll by republican l' l pu defenders of trusts that by cone com om combining binin bining their plants blunts under one oue general head manufacturers are uro n r. r I I 3 r 1 1 I I I 7 enabled to cut down the tho cost o of production and tho the result will wil make make the prod product cf of their the r mills cheaper for the tho people There Th ro is no qu question stion b but t tl hey cheapen h apen the tho cost of production hut but how about the benefit to the people I Do they cheapen the price charged tho the consumer for their manufactured t goods These questions ons are arc sometimes brought home to tho the people so forcibly that even those i whoso whose partisan zeal will blind then their eyes eye to existing facts must face faco them Take rake ha barbed bed wire vire for example A few few months mouths ago barbed wire was selling for per hundred pounds It is now selling selling selling sell sell- ing for about 75 per hundred Is the barbed wire trust making its product cheaper for tho the consumer consumer con con- sumer Answer r this question for yourselves es you farmers who wish to fence your lands this spring As it is is with barbed wire vire so so it is ib in in greater or or less les degree with every article controlled controlled controlled con con- trolled by a n. trust When they think tho the people will stand a n. little littlemore littlemore more moro squeezing they put on tho the pressure and every person who uses any of their manufactured goo goods s must pay his portion of their unearned profits The Ther people people- will vill awake after awhile to the tho danger that threat threat- at- at f jens ns S them from this source an and they will vill throw it off but every hour dour tho the trusts are a are e allowed to exist adds to their power and adds t to tho the misery the people must endure before they become freed from the tho monsters monster |