Show WHAT IS A TRUST Bad and GoOD Features pointed Out Possession Not Destruction The Remedy Dr By H D Froehlich St Louis Mo Io What Whal is a Trust ThIs is 15 n a question whIch n a great greal many are ure to an answer n a question that Ir if answered correctly would bo be mot met In a different manner mannor than It Is at present When the word trust Is mentioned to the lie I average worker he Immediately thinks of something that lint will grill take hIs job I II away and closer to llou And that Is as far as the he goes I Pelt Petty and Interested capitalists cap knowing the tho working class neglect to fathom such questions for themselves dope thorn them with the tho idea Iden I that the trust Is tho rho originator anti and perpetrator of tho damnable condl condi conditions lions besetting tho ho working class rhese demagogues and middle class classmen classmen men tell the workers that to better beLter theIr conditions they must destroy the trust Do t these heso petty grafters really explain what the trust Is Or Ordo Ordo do they toll lell the workers why combination tion and concentration come about They know too well Nell that the tho trust ns as such as an of economy Is not against the Int interest rt st of the working class from wage sIn slavery ery the tho product of oC industrial growth A Product or of the Times Vh Is it tha various elements ad the tho smashing of at the trust Wb Is It they would stay star the march or of civilization One thing only drives l I thorn thom to advocate such destructive prInciples theIr material Interest The small business man cannot com compote compete pete pote with the tho gigantic corporation and as a consequence Is being driven driven en into Inlo the wage slave class cines That and no other reason renson makes him take up destructive measures Let us see whether or not t the he cor corporation Is such a dreadful organization tion that It must be smashed amash 1 First Flut or of nil what forced this co bane into existence Competition c H Hand t tand I and competition only Up to bout about thirty years ago competition was con the life ot of trade trude hut but it Il soon proved to 10 he be the death of trade Com capitalists soon discovered that It was not to the rho best interests hs or of trade to underbid one another and It did not take them long to find Ond f frem n rem remedy for or competitIon That remedy was the combination the trust Th The capitalists In order to make business and investments safe saCe began to corn com bine the different companies Into the trust a as we have hac It today oda The Stand Standard Standart art ard on Oil company compan for instance con troll every factory of oC in hr which articles made from petroleum are manufactured and so 0 far the com compan pang pan and all other lar large e combInes have hav proven that they are tre Ing machines lI and profit makers And for tor profit only will m the tho trust and mn ma machinery chinery be used under n a system of rate ato ownershIp o of the machinery or of WenIth production Unconditional Surrender Necessary For the working class the trust un under under der the present system h hag nothing to offer On the contrary The Improved machinery throws out or of em employment po thousands of at workingmen Each nf new laborsaving moans means privation in the homos homes or of sands of oC workingmen It Increases the tho Gront groat army or of brIni bringa into In Into to existence child la labor or n a curse CUrg that will staIn society as long as the cap capitalist system lasts We e c can n see ee that the trust u as an In Instrument instrument strument of economy conom Is a good thing but as at present controlled is 18 an In InJun injury jury Jun and curse to millions upon mil millions millions lions of the human race The Tho principle prin ciple on which the trust is 18 organized that or of saving labor Is correct and would be a blessing to society I if so ape ap applied plied It can save the nation or sink It All depends upon tho rho for which It Is used But because e the machine pr the trust Is used against humanity nt at present that does not that they ho must bo be destroyed No o The They still remain or become good things for or so md and should be used for Cor that pur purpose pose ThIs Titis can only be done when tho trust the tho property of oC the pee peo pip pie to be used for Cor tho of oC the tho people under the tho Ce Cooperative Commonwealth Com The Cooperative Commonwealth cannot ho hes brought about b br by r oo for or m Is morel merely patching I To lo patch up the capitalist l t system is hr Impossible because It Is rotten to the core The l Surrender of oC the capitalist class cass to the working class clan as advocated b by the Socialist Labor LaborI Party and nothing short of oC that wIll I make the large combines o of bene benefit t to the people |