Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-08-15
iSENATOR JONES AND I'll.
 TRUSTS.

The truth was never better said than in the utteranee, money IS the root of all evil" As a medium of exchange it is invaluable. Com pressed into system of oppression, it's dangers are illimitable. Diffused honestly among the masses laboring for it according to their industry, it is general blessing. Centered by any unfair means in the hands of an intriguing few, it is an evil which destroys virtue and supplants gov ernments. It in turn creates hapI,i- ness and misery, but the misery produced springs from the mean use of it, often backed by power.
 When it grows so strong that it can make seventy millions of people, in supposed model federal fabric like the United States, bow in semi submission to the balance of a seventy three million population, it threatens to change great republic into serfdom.
 When Congress becomes so power ful, as is ours, and it's members per sonally become interested in large trusts, that they by combining their influence and theirs and other s capital, can fasten high prices upon the voters who placed them in office, the example becomes dangerous and the tendency is to lead in the oursee of time to a wonderfully revolu- tionary spirit which will only down when public affairs are leveled to the rights of the whole people.
 When an income tax is thwarted by the highest court of the land and the poor made bear the burdens of government, and the rich escape nine-tenths of their just share of taxes, it is time for serious thought and earnest action.
 When considerations of capital, forming trusts, combines and con spiracies against the wants, the sheer necessities of man, are aided by public laws in protective tariffs and federal injunctions to make mandatory their expressions, it forbodes no promise for a fruitful condition of our future
 When taxation rests npon the best, but financially, the lowest strata Of society, it will necessarily at an early period produce an irre- concilaole aiscontent.
 These propositions are automatic, but many pampered with power, fearlessIy disregard them Later on they will see what they will see.
 The Senate of the United States now stands openly characterized by the world as a nest, where a brood of schemes are constantly matched out, fed upon public pap until able to go cut and feast upon the masses.
 Until lately, Arkansas has kept herself away from the espi dage of such charge, even of such 3 sus. picion, bu0 alas now James K. Jones is mixed up with j cotton packing combine.
 No one industry in che South, or anywhere else, needs to have harpies kept off it more than does cotton.
 It is a sensitive plant in it's growth, has to meet all the natural diversities of weather, labor, mar kets and insects, and when il is through with these contests, has run the gauge Of battle with Che money centers for it's production, marched through . marked era of contention. to be Met ab 4he gia house with baling gros< is piiin9 oppression upon vexaion.
 t may be e blessing in disguise for the cotton farmer, but trasts are rot often formed on that line of benevolence.
 There may be no wrong in it, but we wish our Senator had kept out of it. No anarchy of trusts are going to control Arkansas general voters. and while these voters have been