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Show THE TRUST TYRANNY. "We have heard much of the chaos of State Socialism lately, but nothing whatever of the nihilism of private monopoly," says the Freeman's Journal of Sydney. Australia. "That is, perhaps, per-haps, because Australia is too youn&- to experience the oppressive evils which curse her cousin across the Pacific. That monopoly is a grinding tyrant jn the Uniled Ptstes we know, but the Immensity of the danger we can-sttitvcly can-sttitvcly realize at this distance. Yet we may learn from those who bear the burden. Speaking at Toledo (U. S. A.) the Rev. Father O'Brien declared that the greatest danger he could see was the anarchy of wealth: " 'The Union was saved and slavery abolished by an army of poor men, fiuyi the generals down to the privates, who risked their lives for the flag. Now we seo the wealth of the country in the hands of a few men. The agricultural agricul-tural and mineral resources of our magnificent country have been cornered cor-nered by a few men with money, and every bite of meat we take is doubly taxed by the beef trust. In pagan times the man who Would corner provisions pro-visions to raise the price of living would be put to death. That was good, natural pagan justice. The millionaires million-aires who have cornered our provisions and raised their price on the working people deserve the same fate. The American workingmen are patient, but will not submit to the tyranny of wealth .forever.' " |