Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-04-01

Intelligence, greatness and guarantees oil
permaneucy. II affects those who send
forth the men and women by whom, in
the next generation, the business govern
ment aud progress OF America will be
carried on. The Crust" takes the money
OF those whose earnings are used in the
struggle for living, in the common
school education Of their children,
and in the small sccumulstions which
are laid by for sickness and old age. Il
Is monopoly which will De blight UPON
the nation. 1. has risen for the frs
time in American history. II Is repeti-
tion Of the historic English RI giles be.
tween the people snd monopolies granted
| by the crown On the neCessariss OF life
struggles which the people successfully
wsged when Queen z IL ,beth, snd sgain,
when Charles /, ruled the. Kingdom OF
England. 10 those days the monopolies
went down With the contest. WHAT is to
| be the result in American
| The contest re ween the people and
"trusts" is beginning. The forces ar
ranged on either eide foretell desperate
struggle. The Standard Oil Trust by IL
self alone, has thus far pursued its way
unconquered and unimpeded. And now
| it is re enforced by N ny powerful allies.
The "Trust" seems to be all powerful,
and it is becoming the despot, the die.
tAtor Of trsde. It's wealth mounts into
the hundreds OF millions OF dollars. I.
employs tens Of thousands Of men. Its pow
ers are not limited by charter nor puolic
npinioD. Its NOV Laents are secret, un-
erriDg, silent snd all-powsrful. l. rnmi-
fees Into all branches of industry. 1t
Dues the price of raw material which
it purchases, and raises the price OF the
finished product, which 1t sells. 1t ig-
nores the newspaper press, and has
{ Fl ctive methods of dealing with legis-
laiures. Ia the struggle that is st hand,
the Crust" relies upon its c.pitaI, it's
secrecy, It's INSCRIPTIONS talent, it's
feaTlsssns IS and its concentrated power
And yet ell these will not avail it.
a "trusl" cannot succeed unless l. CAD
practically crush out competition. l.
must compass the coua'ry lrlgive uD the
struggle Competing concerDs, content
with reasonable prices. will supply the
market. Unless the Crust" Is absolu e,
1t is BODY without bones-a machine
without motive power. And even after 1t
b comes absolute, it is never safe. It's
vast pro fl:s are tempting prize, to be
conte nded for by the wealth and enter
prizes of all men. Capital ever
ready to make daring ventures in the
hone Of great returns is q power danger.
Gus and uncesslng in it's menace to the
crust" And there Is another factor,
grest and growing which the "t1ust" b, 8
not yet met. Competition and capital
nav be subdued throughout the length
snd breadth Ct the land. A system Of
laws msy be retained on the statute book
which will exclude the foreign competi-
tor. But when these statutes are repeal
ed, and when the wall which shuts out
foreign competition is thrown down, then
there comes G competition, which cannot
be controlled. A world wide "trust," 8
"trust" embracing all lands and all peoples
is yet to be seen 1t may be attempted,
but 1t Is yet to be proved 8 possibility
The "Frust" of America may destroy
competition at home, but how is it to
meet competition from sbrosdf Il is be-
ginning to dawn on the American people
that the exclusion of foreign competition
is the cause as we'll as the safety of the
American "Trust." Il is found in no
other land, and ;the benefcent workings
Of international trade will sound the
death kuell Of the American "Trust."
But there yet remains an antagonist OF
the trust" more form idahle thsu all
others. Aud the "trust" will not prevail
It will go down in the struggle against
the lstiucts, self reliance and fertile in
tellect OF race OF men who for 500 years
have come to no compromise with
monopoly. Even Queen EFzsnerh bent
~ the In iIg0aIion OF the English House
If Commons, and repealed the monopo-
lies which she had granted on iron, coal,
oil, vinegar, lesd, starch, germ, leather
and glass. Ooe OF the chief grievances
that sent Charles the FIRST to the block
was his creation of monopolies.
Sir John Culpeper. in a speech to the
Long Parliament, thus spoke of monopoi-
les and "poilers'' of the peo-
pie: "They are nest of wasps-
a swarm of vermiu whi;h have
overcrept the land. Like the frogs Of
Egypt they lave gotten possession Of cur
dwellings, and We have scarce q room
free from them. They sup in cur cue;
thep dip in u dish; they sit by our fl e;
we fnd them in the dye-vst,l wash bow
s"d powdering tub. They share
with the butler in his box They
will not bate us pin. We may not
huV our clothes without Their broksee.
These are the leeches that have sucked
he commonwealth so hard that 1t is al
most becticsl This speech, quoted by
counsel In his argument in the Slaughter
House CASES, WAS made at time when
ex sted coucernin wire, coal,
salt, starch, the dressing Of meats, beav-
ers, belts, bone lace, leather, pins, and
other necesssries, and even to the gstn-
ering OF rags.
1t has been truly said that the most OF
the crest English struggles for consti:u-
tioual liberty have grown out OF III just
exsctions of money from the people. The
of discomfort started aud grew
from deep down among the yeomep, the
mechanics and the laboring men The
same causes that were at work then are
at work now. The storm is brewing. II
will be wise for those who are in its path
wsy to beware.
When the railway in England and
America showed itself to be a monopoly,
BY reason of the enormous expense and
loss incurred in psrelleling it, and when
then the railwsy began to insist on the
exsctions Of monopoly, there came 8
popular uprising. In Epgland for IF y
years policy after policy wss tried and
until now the system of private
Ownership and governmental regulation
OF rates and accommodations has become
firmly established. In America the
Granger laws, regulating rates, was fol-
lowed by discussion which here, too,
has led tn a governmental restriction NJ