Show TRUSTS trusts as they are called appear to bo be of modern origin and that to the protective system which has been the policy of the united states for a hundred years or so they owe their existence la Is absolutely false A trust is deflated as a legal cone consolidation oil ol 01 properties a legal concentration of control such good democratic authority as ilon william L kilsoo representative in congress Can gresa from west virginia said A trust is the latest and most perfect form of combination among competing pro dwiers to control the supply of their products product in order that they may dictate the terms on which they shall sell bell in the market and may secure release from stress of competition among themselves ilia tori cally it the trust grew out of the greatness and the necessities of the standard oil combination bo so it seems that trusts were practically unknown during the nine ty five years when this country was no under der protection bat but it if it bo be true that the tariff creates trusts trusta as the Damoc democrats rats taking their cue from cleveland assert where asked hon ilou david B henderson representative from iowa in the last congress do you yo a get the four leading trusts of this country the standard oil trust the cotton seed trust the anthracite coal trust and the whisky trust the greatest es t and most powerful in the country 7 have they any parent are these four great democratic trusts bastards bis tards they have no protection none whatever there ta Is no tariff daty on any one of them and yet to lay they are the giant trusts of the republic Ra public answer this gentlemen when you yon talk of the tariff being the father and the mother of trusts |