Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-16
COMPETITIONS STRUGGLE.

Is as follows:
While the authorities of New Jersey and
Of Pennsylvania are vigorously exerting
themselves to break up the coal combIna-
tion, the original Indictment of the officers
of the whisky trust, under the Sherman
antitrust act. recently obtained in Boston
by the United States Government, has been
uuashed by the court on technical grounds,
leaving the vital points at issue yet to be
decided. This point, as remarked four
weeks ago. is whether the whisky trust men
can properly be punished for offering spe-
cial inducements to customers to trade ex-
clustvely with them. If thew can, a great
many other people are in the same box,
and equally liable to the penalties of the
act. Unless, too, 1t is allowable in some form
or other for men in business to combine to
protect and benefit themselves, the whole
law relating to the formation of partner
ships and of corporations will have to be
abrogated.
Moreover, as also pointed out If combi-
nations of the producers of commodities in
the management of their business are to be
prohibited, those of the laborers employed
in production will have to be prohibited
also. The ground of the opposition to the
so-called trusts is that they tend to raise the
prices of commodities to consumers, and
yet unions of laborers to secure higher
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manner to obtain greater compensation for
their labor. evidently no less tend to raise
the prices of whatever their labor produces.
So far as that element is concerned, there
fore, trades unions are open to the same OBJ
Jectfons as trusts. The only distinction Is
that trusts primarily benefit the rich and
iniure the moor whereas trafes nnions an
parently benefit the poor and injure oEly
the rich. Hence. human sympathy, which
naturally sides with the moor against the
rich is opposed to trusts and In favor of
labor unions.
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ereaIloii, anu 10 WHICH we are hiueoteu lor
our progress from the savage state to an
ever improving civilization Among plants
and animals and the lowest type of human
beings the struggle is for bare existence.
and defeat results in the death of the de-
feated. Later the contest becomes one for
something more than existence and men
strive for dominion over one another, and
tribes and nations for the conquest of other
pursuit of wealth and of luxuries that
wealth procures.
In every trade, profession and occupation
the stronger and more skilltul get employ
slxillful and Tins life becomes n battle in
which the victors are few and the van
ouished are manv That this state of things
Is unpleasant and even pain fui has been rec.
ognized ever since it began to exist, and
remedies of many kinds have been sought
competition COZ bv % destrovinS the compesitoT.
as animals and savages did long ago.
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immigration OF Tile Chinese anu Oh laDorers
under contract, to say nothing of our pro-
tectiye tariff. which is designed TO shield
AnerIcon 1.bor from the comnatition of
tbot Of Enrona
The combination called trusts and the
un;ons ~ wnrtinomen have TINS for moved
the most a. efFectnaI Of ali devices for snbsti
tutfng peace for the perpetual and painful
CO.. AIT which baTe ,Iescrihad bnt tbot
tbav orc for fron nerfectIv serving their
nnrnose ali must GREE
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bost;Ti+ o go ottaoI- hnth -, t1.a pross nnd
f,.oy, osnisIat .to tnres need not nan,io on Uo1
FRO des n5inns IN sntte Of the good thev do
bg onnosina nnited front 70 the ayact;ons
~ empforers insteod ofa SEQ ttered and un9
or,eo y, nf1od ond tbarefore bainIaSs crowd
q rs fait bL nanr n WorSman 20 he tI"rannicaI'
is e1naIIy trne Resides neither combfna
tions nor trades nnions annihiiat te that state |
Of wa arfare which Is fonnd to he SO disapree- |
able Init onlv sniff its around and change |
the node Of its n1anifesta tions |
Kent con.nual,v m tbs aIert
sunnose for eramnIe. that all the coal
,roducers and coal carriers of the country
botb ontbroci and bituminous could he |
combined into one rreat concern thew couId |
r,ot II, tbe n rot nla ce nrevent some kinds or
throoite from, COMBATING with 1ess dosir-
obIo vinde nor bituminous coal and colo |
from comnetine with all The managers
would bove To he nernetuaIlv ON the alert IN |
1;,,s.i-,o ,,ic.s az "a 70 mt the ,,rodnc,s of
their yarious mines on an equal footing. and |
they would have to be likewise vigilant in |
preventing new mines from being opened |
and interfering in the market with theirs
The officers of the Standard Oil trust have |
apparently for O series of years been able to |
main tain their monopoly of the market for |
refined petroleum, but they have had the |
best talent of the country in their service,
and they have used it unremittingly and un-
sparingly. The strait in which the American
Sugar Refneries Company found itself from
the competition of the Philadelphia COM
panies has been relieved by the expensive |
expedient of purchasing these refineries, |
but it now finds itself threa tened with Euro
Dean competition which it will not be easy |
to defeat The whisky trust Is likewise not
only struggling with the Government, but
with the problem of contriving satisfactory |
terms to offer to the distillers of the finer
brands of whisky who think they do not
need the help of the trust but can rely upon |
the reputation OF their whisky for steady