The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1891-02-06

soap Manufacturer Extending TheIs
Trust In order "a Enjoy Their Tarin >poils
-NcKSnIeyl<m the breeder of Trusts-
The Boston Commercial Bulletin. .
high tariff organ, prints she following
piece Of news:
A large number OF soap manufacturer In
Philadelphia. Pa. have organized . branch
Of the National soap Manufacturers As-oci-
alton. NJ. VI. Eavrn-on was elected pr<si-
dent Peter Day vice president. and William
Hamilton secretary and treasurer. The ter-
rIfory covered b, the new branch was Fixed
Is pennsylvania. east OF the Al~leghenIes.
New Jersey. west OF the New York A--ocia-
tion'- district. and the States Of Delaware
and Maryland
The association here referred 10 Is
what is known as the soap trust
The soap makers are but another OF
the vast number Of industries which
are making haste TO form trusts in or
der to get rid Of competition" and en-
ter into the full enjoyment of the spoils
which the tariff makes possible. The
Mckinley duty on CASTLE soap Is ~
cents per pound. on fancy and toilet
soaps Is cents per pound, and on all
other kinds il Is 20 per cent. ad valorem.
Some prominent Republicans teach
tie nOIk[knF lAiAL III [0tEo WAE4E I'll
binations are formed for checking COM
petition or for raising prices the pro-
tecting duty should be revised in order
70 invite competition from abroad
This is the doctrine heard only from
the stump; il never appears in practical
form on the floors Of Congress. The
Republican leaders wilfully shut their
yves TO the fact that in every depart
ment Of industry trusts are springing
up. and that this pernicious tendency
toward consolidation has never been
more active than during the past six
months Trusts were sprouting up
rapidly ever while the Mckinley bill
wa still under discussion: but since the
passage Of this bill. with all its jobs
and deals. the trust-making industry
has leaped forward with unexampled
vigor. Trusts come 50 rapidly that il is
scarcely possible to keep a record Of
them.
Some Republican Journals are fearful
lest these trusts will undermine the
Sznle protective system" But these
Journals are clearly not in harmony
with the spirit and purposes Of the Nc
Kinleyites. The purpose Of the Mckin-
lev law was 70 raise prices and thus
give the manufacturers higher profits
If this was not the purpose Of the law,
then there should have been no
object in passing il; and Republican
leaders, like Mckinley himself. wero
doing a very inconsistent and needless
thing when they wert up and down the
country in the recent campaign making
speeches against cheAyness- Mckin-
ley himself said in his speesh on his bill
last May in the House Of Represents
tives: I'VE want no return to cheap
times in our own country and he
argued that where merchandise Il
cheapest men are poorest"
II being thus a sound Republican doc
trinc that cheapncss is bad anddearsiess
is to be preferred. now can Republican
newspapers and statesmen consistently
lift up their voices against trusts?
Major Mckinley a that a cheap
country .is not the kind our fathers
builded. Furthermore, il is not the
kind their sons mean % maintain
Now trusts are the most potent
agencies imaginable for realizing the
ideal here set forth by Mckinley: and
IL thai ideal Of a dear country be ac-
cepted BY the Republicans il is folly
for them 20 denounce trusts The presi-
dent Of the sugar trust takes this view.
He says: The great cry Of one Of the
great parties is for protection; that Is,
they cry for il loudly during campaigns.
But when we proceed to give ourselves
some protection a howl is raised. They
demand protection for the industries.
When an industry protects itself Il IS
said that IL is illegal The sugar trust
was making 20 per cent on wat.red
capital when this was said: but what
good Republicans can object 70 that
The trust at n rate was a blessing 70
the country in giving rs sugar which
was neither cheap nor nasty