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Show ,. The tarllt reformers at various times have been agitated by what they c&ll the copper trust. Finally thcydlscov-that thcydlscov-that copper ore is on the frco list and most of them ceased to use this particular parti-cular illustration, though they slill proclaim that the tariff Is the mother of tmsts, thus conveniently forgetting forget-ting of course that It this Is true, then in this case of the copper trust we have a creature that comes Into the work! without a mother. At the same time they might explain the window glass business. It Is true that there 1s a company that the newspapers speak of as the window glass trust, but this company lack9 so much of being a monopoly that the competition has been of the keenest sort for year,s. And yet In the Mc-Klnley Mc-Klnley law and In tho Wilson-Gorman law and In the Dlnglcy law the duty on window glass has been very high. Notwithstanding this it has been Impossible to form a trust or a combination of any sort that would picvcnttho liveliest of competition. Here 'arc two cold facts of moro than ordlnaiy Importance In the business world that ought to be known to everybody two facts that, standing alone, are suillclcnt to take the pith out of the theory that the tariff Is the mother of trusts. And theso are but two of numeious facts, all giving the direct lie to this tarill theory. Rut what has tho tarilf reformer to do with facts |