Show THE TRUST MONSTER not the scrutiny which trusts have received in the resent constitutional conventions suggest d that is something more serious in the quenion que tion than mere newspaper news piper buncombe in getting at lie root of a difficult problem there ie nothing so effective as a god definition A trust per e is one thing and a trust considered with ita components accessories p les motives methods resources results etc is something quite different men to t o very best intentions may unite their genius and capital in the accomplishment of a great and useful enterprise which could not be achiel ed by single effort this is what in their best sense trust companies might be on the contrary men engaged in the importation manufacture shipment or sale of a given staple of trade with the most despicable of intentions may combine their equipments and resources for the purpose of obstructing not en hancich commerce in that particular line in to limit the supply block up I 1 lie normal course of competition and compel the consumer to pay for the article price alie trust may choose to dictate to him this is what in the usual eduse of the term trust companies are tue man who engages in a trust is not a benefactor and cannot be the stuff sa not in him to contribute anything of estimable value to any people or institution he is essentially gormand to the innermost centre of his soul whatever ciapa within reach of his ample claws ia raked forthwith into his belly or hia pocket which he worships with a veneration quite M absorbing as the appetite appa tite of a bog for its arge there is no anticipating his methods or strite gems to hia selfish iea he will conceivable cei vable there is no liim where there is the chink of dollina to attract his predence pretence pre tence the en cliant menta of money to get make his being ai subtle as the etli erial fluid and lilic the spores of infection nothing save a coBBum ing fire is a barrier to his insinuating influence it is not always that even this agency will enair ly w ipe him out there Ss not a or institution in america tod ly tint is not under his hada this Is a pompous way of putting it bat stae the tact in any other form aad he is an infectious blight jast the pa lie no elections no legislation no courts no officers that he may not dictate upon matters that concern hia peculiar business ho cm walk soar or grovel like a or a worm with perfect sin unity and ease it his purposes require it an effort to stay the animal would be no more than to shut op this of the trust from places where personal him we have aprong fears that if he is ever controlled it will bo by the bocra process of annihilation reports progress on the tower of the school it ia whispered that mac woula like to to the pinnacle whose completion bos cost him such travail in spirit but fears to lest some inattentive workman should walk up and nail a nag to him |