Waco evening news. (Waco, Tex.) 1888-1889, 1888-11-22
A HOPELESS FIGHT.

sion at St. Louis, endeavorlng to un.
earth a great cattle trust, said to have
its headquarters in Chicago. 1t is
acting under the usual obstacles, such
as the spiriting away of witnesses and
will most likely end in failure Of prac-
good. The truth is that the mort
gage and the trust have come to stay
and the attempt to check them ever
will be as futile as Miss Partington's
effort to mop out the Atlantic ocean
Trusts are concocted by brains,
money and skill; they are made in
closed rooms and spread their Shiny
tentacles over the land while good
men sleep, and when men wake up
the mischief is done and the conspira-
tors have enriched themselves with
their i'll gotten gains and can afford to
look complacently on while the VIC
tins wall and gnash their teeth. 1t is
the Indian method of creeping on the
sleeping camps. The country was
never more deeply reused than over
the bagging trust, but the indignation
of the nation and enrichment of the
trust were synchronous in time. Sen
ate committees nor law makers can
ever put down the new form OF legal
lied robbery, it being as unequal a
contest as chasing cavalry with infan.
try. The trust, like the mortgage, is
new or newer form of civilization
and an i'll that must be endured, be-
cause it cannot be cured. Already
there are many known trusts which
have advanced prices on the food OF
the nation, and are able to maintain
those prices against all the senate
committees in the world. But the
trusts which are not known are more
numerous than the trusts which are
exposed, and the happy time is evil
IDENTIFY soon coming when the price of
every drug and ever edible will be
regulated by secret trusts, and the old
theory Of supply and demand be piled
away along with the other rubbish of
the ages. Against this increasing
evil the law can make no Roadway,
because great bodies move slowly
and the consplrators move swiftly and
secretly. The cattle trust under in.
vestigatlon at St. Louis is a case in
point. 1t got in its work two years
before attention was called to it; it is
nearly a year since the senate COM
mittee was appointed to look into il
and it will be year longer before any
legal remedy is suggested. By that
time the syndicate will be enriched.
The trusts are here to stay and to act
as middlemen between the producer
and consumer, reaping harvest from
both by depressing the price of the
raw material and enhancing the
price of the manufactured article,
What the effect must be when this
modern octopus shall have environed
the products of the country may be
seen by its effect on the cattle and meat
business. Cattle are so low that the
raisers can hardly make expenses and
meat is so high that poor men can.
not buy it. Let the system of trusts
continue to spread as it is spreading
and general stagnation and disaster is
as sure to follow as it is sure to spread
The trust is the more mischievous be.
cause there is no hope of a remedy.
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The Gods help those who help
themselves and Fort Worth is a pretty
good Illustration of the truth of that
adage. Negotiations have been
completed this week by which syn.
dictate of Boston and Chicago mer
became owners of the Rosedale anc
Queen City car lines, and III acres
of suburban property, paying therefor
$4,000. The railway lines will be
extended fifteen miles and made ar
electric railroad. This is the largest
single deal ever made in Fort Worth
The syndicate is headed by Irvine
Evans and Walter Potter, of Boston
and ]. V. Farwell, of Chicago. The
syndicate has donated ten acres O
land on which to build $I2s,ooo col
lege.