Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-10-14
HOBART AND THE
:, COAL TRUST.
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He Is the Founder and Promoter
of a Criminal Con.
spiracy.
COAL AT $40 A TON.
The People of the United States Com
PEELED to Annually Submit to
Systematic Robbery.
Garrett A. Hobart the Personal Repre-
sentative and Paid Lobbyist of J. Pier
pont Morsan-How Would You
Like such q Man rs
President.

ton to the Republican campaign cor
ruption fund.
Garrett a. Hobart. the Republican
nominee for vice president. is the
founder. promoter and one of the chief
beneficiaries of the anthracite coal
trust, the most criminal ard heartless
conspiracy against the American peo-
pie that was ever carried into merci-
less execution.
This is not campaign lie. 1t is an
absolute fact. and is a part of the his
tory of the infamous Reading combine
with its colossal conspiracy, backed by
$500. 00o 000 of capital.
MIR Hobart says there is no coal
trust What do YOU think about it,
Who do you suppose raises the price
of coal lust in proportion as the sea-
son advances: in proportion as the
cold grows more intense. and the suf-
ferings of the poor increases? Do you
suppose the rise is occasioned by the
law of supply and demand? Do YOU
suppose hard coal is worth SO. or 50.
or IS. or 81 or So a ton?
And YOU are thinking of voting for
q ticket with Garrett 4. Hobart on it,
Garrett A Hobart. the paid attorney
and legal representative of ]. Pierpont
tanned lobbyist of the New York rail-
road wreckers; Garrett a. Hobart who
has promoted and engineered more
trusts and invented more legal tricks
with which to defeat justice and OPP
PRESS the people. than any man in the
United States.
The man who votes for Hobart for
any Office in the gift of the American
people deserves to be robbed by trusts
and compelled to spend the remainder
Of his days in abject slavery and pow
erty.
The man who declaims against trusts
three years and nine months. and then
spends three months yelling and work.
ing for the biggest trust robber in the
United States. and winds up by vot-
ing to make him the presiding officer
of the United States senate. should
take out an insurance policy against
the fool killer.
Imagine The people Of the United
States engaged in struggle against
the trusts. with ]. Pisrpont Morsan's
man. Hobart, the presiding officer of
the United States senate. Any voter
who will endorse such a calamity. will
Cheerfully vote if he is given a chance,
TO disfranchise himself.
Suppose in the possible course Of
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cnntro, of the country. They viii NO,
do ~ There are many many FOOLS In
the United States. but they are not We,
i'm n majority.
When Won so TO YOUR coal Office and
order your coal: when YOU go down
into YOUR pocket and nav two prices 20,
one of the absolute necessities of life
console Yourself with the Thought tha,
a good share of your hard earned
money will he added IN Mr. Hobart.
hank account and tba, Mr. Hobart 4,
a candidate for the second b;rbast ne
flee in the sift Of RI. A,,er;c,p naonlo
And ,ben On home and sir down am
tbint
The most y;c;ous po,dbur manor q,
Chicago is Tho E,verins POST In a mo
mont of acknowledgements &, nrin,aa RI,
truth about the coal trus, Hero ar,
some extracts from The Evening Pos
Of Oct :.
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fore the winter is over And shou,f
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for 10 ,yin,ar f,,aI
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