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Show Most Dc-spitlo of Tiusts Of all the trusts in the 1'nile.l Stntea that nhlcli coutiots atithrn lie ena Is the most ahsolut, and the least te-spnnslble te-spnnslble The t-ti.ndi.id oil cmpan, while It tlxes pikes doea not own all tin oil llelds It innnot tut off the supplv The beef trust Is nierclv the lau.st trade, in the maiket Mllllona of pounds of beef nie handled bj lull, lu-ll, p. nil. nt deal, is The steel trust la iinl one of many manufactuiirs of Inn It owns mines nnd ships and Is the en aiest single tnnnufaetmer of s'nl but If li .listd Its plants the inuiitrv would lint be leffwlthout steel of nnv kind The cnnl trust, however. Is absolut. It Is p. i haps the only trust thnt clues not owe Us eMsttuie to patents will, li Is absolute When it masts opcratlnna not n ton of nn-tlir.uli, nn-tlir.uli, cool can be mined Where It do, a not own tin m ue-i it oonttnls tha trnnsportntlon fnrllltles and Its flat la law When It has nothing to nihltratn there are nn Independent -oncerna that i an have anmelhlng tn ..rhltrate Competition In itspeit to anthracite coal la-amnthere 1 It Is not strange that In the twentieth twenti-eth lemurv the American people are looking askance nt this Industrial roll, nt the sixteenth century It la not surprising sur-prising that they are lomlng to challenge chal-lenge not only the nioial but the legal right of an body of men to ixirclse tha despotic powers of absolute in,, nop-olv nop-olv no matter where oi how th, y acquired ac-quired tho tlt'es In their prnperti If a lallrond tompnnv Is a qunl public lui- nluln whose nffalis in he legu-I legu-I -ted b tha peoplt It w iuld s.-em u i. the business or mining anlhrailio oal was of soni inmrrn to the public pub-lic aa a whole, and thnt It wna time tha public 1. gun to manifest lis iippiecln-tlon iippiecln-tlon of its rights- Delioli Fiet Pi ess |