The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-04-07
MORE ABOUT TIE BIG TRUSTS.

Supplementary TO what has already been
siio on the subject of the great trusts or
ganized under the shadow OF protection.
some details, not new perhaps, but inter
e'ung, may be given The American
s'nooiooy gets his slate from protected
trust which has advanced the price 30 per
cent and sends its best school states to
England and Germany. We buy our lead
pencils of a protected trust which charges
US more than double what IL charges the
foreign buyer. The war duty on linseed
oil was 25 cents gallon and was prohibi-
Tory MCKINLEY advanced it to 81 cents.
and the linseed oil trust advanced the
price of oil FROM IS to 60 cents. In England
the price Is "a cents The amount of cotton
seed OIL and petroleum sold as linseed oil
under the shield of protection is a matter
10 which The MCKINLEY law gives no heed.
Inc white 1ead trust which controls 96
per cent of the production of white lead
ana enjoys prohibitory duty of %
per cent. charges Americans So. so per. hun
drea pounds, but cells the same article to
Canadians for 500 per hundred. Pig lead
Is sou IN Canada by another com bine which
mas I" per cent protection, at Is per cent.
less than Americans must pay for it.
The plate glass trust which enioved nro-
tecuion to the tune of 14l per cent. under
tne war tariff and has still more under the
MCKINLEY act, has paid dividends as high
as "a per cent The furniture,making in
dustry. which employs 100000 men and
makes SIPS, 600 worth Of furniture an
nually, protested against this outrageous
duty on glass which itconsumes. but it was
in vain.
The glass trusts appear to be particular
1aVorltes of protection. The makers of
WINDOW glass began the formation of'their
trust while the MCKINLEY tariff was being
manipulated by the ways and means com
mittee, and before the bill had been re-
ported they advanced the price of glass
nve times. For its benefit the war tax
ON window glass was raised to an
average rate of over 100 per cent. AS
mark of especial favor Mr.. McKIYLEr had
MS bill amended in the secret sessions of the
conference committee so as to require the i'm
2orters to use the smallest packages known
TO the trade. This arbitrary restriction
amounts to an additional duty of about 10
per cent.
a trust in table glassware was formed
some time ago ucder the 60 per cent. PRO
tectionp accorded by the MCKINLEY law.
which was an advance OF 20 per cent. over
the war tariff. And this in the face of the
TACT that glassware can be produced fully
as cheaply in this country as in Europe,
the Wheeling glass underselling the cheap
est German manufactures in the South
American markets.
FOR great many years." says Mr.
buTTERwoRTH, prominent Republican,
american citizens have paid a higher
price for American copper than the same
article Che production of our own minesl
sold for In other nations, while it cost the
producer less than the product OF any other
copper m-nes on earth" This under
70 per cent. tariff The same authority says
one Of these copper monopolies has taken
from the people not less than $50, 900, 600
"a dividends in twenty years Oh an actual
Investment of sl,25O,OOO. In a recent
speech delivered in Congress it was said:
In the manufacture OF agricultural imple-
menfs and other articles used by the farmers
no end of monopolies under the name of trusts
and other DISCUSSES have been organized The
manufacturers OF the spring-tooth harrow,
which has driven nearly every other harrow out
of the market, sold their patents for term of
nifty years 10 a central corporation. and bound
themselves TO sell harrows only as agents of
the trust. Thus an absolute monopoly was
formed, covering the whole length and breadth
OF the American Union. One OF the parties OF
this despotism became tiredof it, and sought
to be released. The matter was carried into
the court over which presided righteous
judge who said: There is nothing to prevent
this defendant at any time from raising prices
at viii. It is hard to conceive how monopoly
could be more firmly intrenched or how COM
petition could be more effectively strangled"
Such is the harrow, with MoKINLEY on
top of it, under which the farming inter
est of the country has been placed. And
so we might 60 on describing one robber
league after another, organized under the
wing OF protection to prey upon the
American people.