The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1889-10-24
WHO KILLED THE TRUST

"a correspondent signing nlmSeu IN.
quisitiveness" asks The SENTINEL
some question which we are glad to
answer. He says:
81 see an editorial in the Republican
on trusts which says that the day of
trusts are upon US, and gives the diff
ferent combines to show it, and furth-
er says: But the people have risen in
their might, irrespective of either
Democrat or Republican party, to
rule them down. Now what I want
The SENTINEL to answer is: How
have the people risen to put these
trusts down? How have they put
down the jute bagging trust And
how will they put down the tobacco
trustf Are they organized in any
way, or have they risen in their might
without organization Or have they
ever done anything without organiza-
ton heretofore, or have their wishes
been consulted without organiza-
ton ?"
Before we answer our friends ques-
tions let us see who is responsible for
trusts. Under a high tariff on
all the necessaries of life it is impos-
sible to import goods and sell them as
cheaply as they can be sold in this
country. This being the case, it was
easy for the manufacturers of
rubber or jute to meet and put up
the price of their goods until it was
equal to the price of imported goods
plus the tariff tax.
Now who established this high tar
iff, The Republicans did it. They
call it Protection" and Protection"
or high tariff, is the main plank in
their platform. They glory in it and
their orators in every campaign laud
high tariff, and never cease to sing
the praises of "Protection."
Well, if the Republican party origi.
mated and to day maintains this high
tariff, that party is responsible for the
trusts which are formed under it. and
are "protected' by it, is it not Ger
tainly it is. And here it would be
we'll to repeat that Mr.. James G.
Blaine, Secretary of State under Pres
ident Harrison, said that "trusts are
largely private affairs, with which
neither the President nor any private
citizen has any right to interfere"
Under the fostering care of the
Republican party the monster suga,
trust, protected by a tariff tax of 80
per cent has robbed the people of over
fifty million dollars per year.
The rubber Trust and the envelope
trust we're protected" by tariff tax
of 25 per cent. the linseed oil trust
by a tax of SIS per cent. the Irvine
trust by duty of 80 per cent, and
the steel trust by duty of "a per
cent. These are the results of Re.
publican high tariff, gentlemen, and
every man who votes the Republican
ticket is voting for party that is
proud of thus robbing the people.
Of course the people could hope
for no relief from the oppression of the
jute trust from the Republican party
The lamb had as well ask for mercy
from the devouring lion. Neither
could they hope for relief through
legislation at the hands Of the Demo
cratic party. A Republican high-tar
iff robber-baron Senate sat ready to
kill any measure for relief of the peo-
pie that the Democratic House nigh
propose.
Now. in answer to our friends ques
ton, GLOW have the people risen i,
their might to put these trusts down ?
"The people" who killed the jute bag
ging trust and brought the price o
jute down from IA cents per yard t.
two cents were the Farmers Alliances
At their convention in Atlanta ant
at other conventions in nearly ever,
other Southern State the Farmers AL
lance adopted resolutions declarin,
against the trust, and appealing to tn
farmers not TO use jute baggine
This was what killed that monster.
1t was bloodless conquest game
through organization. The farmer
might have suffered for years an
would have been robbed perpetual,
ifrhey had not made an organized ei
fort. Every farmer in the South
indebted to the Farmers Alliance. ]
was their only safety in the past, an
it is their only hope in the future
They have perfect right to organic
TO resist oppression, and unless the
do do it they may always expect to b
the victims Of trusts and combines {
capital.
North Carolina farmers did thei
part in throttling the jute trust, an
TIE SENTINEL knows they will stan
firmly together in any other anti tru,
& yht in the future.
Ar to . tobacco trust. A .rume
was set ahoat that such q trust vi