The great West., 1889-12-20
A FIRST-CLASSS SHREK.
A WALL OF WOE, 1T GRIEVES US
SO-OUR
CAKE is DOUGH.

influence and clrculaUlOn, caIIle "
orr table last week and 10! We dis
covered that the Farmer had at last
driven sharp tack into the monop-
olist. Silence and division has been
their method of operation so long
that the warlike breath OF the plu
tocrat struck us like cyclone OF
onions. The "Financier" opens up
a ten column article as follows:
A INDUSTRIOUS WRONG THAT THREAT
EMS WITH ANNIHILATION NOT ONLY
OUR INVESTMENT PUBLIC, BUT COR
PORATIONs ANDLARGE ENTERPRISES
OF EVERY CHARACTER.
1t is high time our business public
awakes to q realization of a danger
that is steadily growing to the pro-
portions of an overwhelming panic.
A few foresee this great threatening
evil, foresee consequences that mean
disaster, poverty and ruin, if some
open and decided stand is not at
once taken against the ignorant in
reference OF law-making bodies and
court interpretations OF insane JUS
tice.
OF all trusts, that of the law, as
rendered in these instances, is the
most mischievous and pronounced.
No trust, as the word is used, in
existence ever yet dreamed OF such
expressions as the law is now put
ting in force under the plea that
trusts must be suppressed.
For the facts in support OF this
statement read what follows:
"ST. LOUIS, Mo.-The charters of
700 Missouri corporations and 200
foreign corporations doing business
in Missouri have been revoked by Sec
retary OF State Leasurer for refusing
to comply with the antitrust law.
Of the 900 revoked at least half
have already ceased to exist"
The above dispatch outlines
enough for the merchants of New
York and elsewhere to call a mass
meeting for the purpose OF crying out
to our courts and legislators
"Halt!"
Among the corporations who have
thus been literally robbed OF all pos
sibility of doing any more business
in that State are: The Seth Thomas
Clock Co., Western Associated Press,
J. l. Case Plow Co., Westinghouse
Electric Light Co., Michigan Salt
Association, in fact 900 of the great
est businesses in the State.
And to heighten these idiotic acts
that deprive Missouri of her greatest
resources and wealth producing
power, the honorable Secretary of
matter, adds:
lone good effect of the law will be
that an immense amount of rubbish
will be taken out of the archives of
the State
No words of ours can increase an
alarm such as language of this char
acter is likely to give. Especially
when the authoritative source of
their expression is remembered.
But we are deeply astonished at
the apathy OF our merchants and the
continued asinine comments of many
of our newspapers, concerning which
the following, taken from the N. Y.
Herald is an example:
TRUSTS contain in themselves the
elements of their own destruction.
They were organized to suspend the
law of competition and grind the
faces of the poor. AS their stocks
dwindle and collapse on the market
the public will shed no tears"
on %h;r1, 4bo oo,,r4c o~,J
legislators OF Missouri, and they lit
orally order the business community
out of the State under the plea that
no man has a right to buy and sell
at prices that accord with their own
idea of what proper returns should
be obtained on their investment.
For him to assert such a right
which is the first principal OF business
he makes himself a monopolist;
consequently the court reads, "he
must be suppressed"
Yes, Mr.. Five-per-cent-a-month-it
must be suppressed. Your complaint
is our platform-we are glad you un-
derstand it. We work on that prin-
ciple: That no set of men shall buy
and sell-or force others to-on
''prices that accord with their idea of
what proper returns should be-" We
propose that if you say ''supply and
demand is good enough logic for
labor-for wheat-it shall be good
enough for the plutocrat, or the
manufacturer When the wheat ring
will permit body OF operative farm
ers to dictate the price of grain we
will allow you to dictate the price Of
stoves or sugar!