Mexico weekly ledger., 1888-07-12
COLUMN
w. e. Editor.

o. ecrs "t tiir mni. Ware are: J. A. yeer.
kamp, President, Rush III : J. W. Middleton
Secretary. Rush Hfi.
On account of harvest being now
upon us, the County A. W. is post
p"ned until July 18th. Every
sub Wheel should be represented
ut this meeting, at which will be
held the annual election of this
order.
j. p. Neerkamp organized a sub
Wheel at Washington school
house, June 9th, with eigh. char
ter members. On the night follow
ing brother VIM. l.. Lowrance or
ganized Wheel of seventeen men,
bers at Central school house.
Eureka A. W., No. 400, met July
9th, and after transacting the usual
business of the Wheel, a resolution
was offered as follows:
Resoloed, that we, the members
of Eureka A. W., believe that a
union of all labor societies in the
United States will conduce to the
working mans welfare, by direct
ing their united efforts in the same
channel and at the same object;
and,
ResoIred, that we urge upon our
County Wheel the Importance and
necessity of bring this matter be-
fore the next session of the State
A. w.
The adoption of these resolutions
was advocatedb by several Wheelers,
one of whom-Bro. S. O. Wright,
of Benton City-showed that at
present the laboring men of this
country are divided; each particular
class of laborers having its own or
%ganization, and trying to fight its
battles alone, not because they
have any antipathy toward each
other, but because they have not
yet learned that they have a COM
mon cause. The resolutions were
finally adopted, and Will be
brought before the County a. w.
at its next meeting.
At the next meeting of Eureka
A. w, July 20, 1888, an open ses-
sion will be held. The public in
general is invited to attend and
sec what we are doing.
In answer to the Martinsburg
brother, who wants to know the
meaning of the word Crust" in
its mercantile sense; will say, after
giving the subject some thought,
that a Crust is an agreement
secretly entered into by a number
of persons who are engaged IN the
same line of business, by which
they agree not to undersell each
other, but that each must ask the
same price for the commodity in
which they are dealing. If any
dealer refuses to enter into this
agreement or''trust," those who
have already entered it, will COM
bine and undersell him for a time,
/. G. until they force him to enter
either the "trust," or a bankrupt
court. From this it will be seer
that"trusts'' are organized for the
purpose of arbitrarily controlling
prices by destroying competition.
1t may not be generally. known
that there are two kinds ~of"trlsts,"
each having the same object in
view, and both detrimental to the
consumer. They differ only in
respect to the place where the
commodity is manufactured or
produced. The old parent "trust"
from which all modern trusts are
lineally decended, destroys COM
petition between American made
goods, and those of foreign manu-
facture. This trust is very bold
and confident, on account Of its
having received the approval of
our federal Congress; it is like
wise very seductive in it's mode of
perpetuating itself, some times
calling itself the "American
System of Taxation" or "Protec-
ton to American labor" 1t mat
tiers not by what name it is known,
it is still a Crust" compelling
the consumer to pay more for the
necessaries of life than he would
otherwise have to do.
State deputy Barton, of Mexico,
recently organized several sub
Wheels and a county Wheel in
Monroe county. Montgomery
county wants an organizer very
badly.