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Show DENOUNCED TRUSTS. Mgr. Cannon Says the People Are in the Jaws of Big Monopolies. Lockport, N. Y Oct. -6. Right Rev. Mgr. Patrick Cannon thrilled St. Patrick's Pat-rick's congregation on Sunday by denouncing de-nouncing trusts and the coal operators in particular. In announcing the collection col-lection for the parish annual coal fund he said, in part: "Most people nowadays in the mad race for wealth have lost sight of true principles of popular government. It is all very well to shout about liberty on the Fourth of July, but the people of this country have little more to do with the actual government of themselves them-selves than have the people of China. The volunteers bl'" lly follow their political po-litical leaders. l : ,v will awake some day to a sense of their peril, but then it will be too late. It might almost be said it is too late now, when they are v r in the jaws of gre3t monopolies which j are crushing out their industrial life. Remember these things; never work I backward. You are tamely permitting j the shackles of industrial slavery to . be riveted on your limbs. Arise and f assert yourselves. Follow neither leader nor party whose principles do not , square with justice. Let the politicians ' know that you and not they control the destinies of this great republic." ,! Speaking of the coal strike, Mgr. - Cannon added, with flashing eyes: ? "It is terrible to think that, such a : state of affairs can exist Jn a country : so rich as ours; let poor people have ? cold and starvation staring in the face. The millionaires rul? this country to- i day.. The common people are merely the fools to obey. There seems to be j nothing to prevent 'the trusts from ; raising meat, to $1 pr pound and coal to $20 a ton.) It is high time for the people to opm their eyes to the true situation, meanwhile praying to God f(T a Xkc?dyl. ending of the coal fam- , ' ine." j |