Inter-Mountain Farmer | 1902-09-02 | Page 4 | Why Trusts Flourish

WHY TRUSTS FLOURISH. Mnny people worder why the great trusts of the country (aiinot be downed The chief rensou It because what the trusta do In n large way Is precisely what the mnjorltj of business men try to do In a smaller way accoidlng to (heir mean nnd their abilities The coil merchant who In winter, when the mads are bloiked and Iho thermometer Is nt icro, snjB "find help the poor.' and then to his clerk taja, "Advance the price of coal n dollar a ton," Is simply sim-ply working his own little trust. Mr. Jones of Arkansas cried his ejes out for joaie over the Inlqultj-of truMs, but it the first opportunity established one of his own thit covered the entire co'tton belt Miles nnd Horb of Texas were furloua intl-trust men They found oil nnd at once became monopolists only exceeded by tho Standard OH company. com-pany. Ux-Senators Tow no nnd Pettlprew suddenly chinRcd Into warm ndvocatcs ot the omnipotence of money after thej had each made some fortunate speculations specu-lations Mr. Hrynn himself Is working a trust He Is running a newspaper and expecta a mighty subscription list, not on the excellence of his Journal, but upon his reputntlon ns a continuous candidate for the Presldencj, nnd his lip-love for all the poor and oppressed who can vote Tho labor unions lire tiusts They clilm special privilege for working men, and among those privileges is the privilege to bojeott any worklngman who will not Join their order. Ooodwln's Weeklj'.