The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1897-10-14
THE ovEKsaADOHI 0rKoBLEM OF
rue AGE

THE OvEKsHADON MIN OrkOBLEn OF
rue AGE
| More trusts organizing every day.
! pf course they are. The government
hiss turned over the instruments OF
commerce completely into the hands
Of private syncicstes- Those who con-
troll the instruments Of commerce con
Itrol aii cnmmerce-every line 81 in
austry 4 trust is monopoly OF any
line OF business. No private syndicate
can get monopoly OF any line Of bust
ness unless they can first control the
INSTRUMENTS Of comDerce. They get
control Of the in>truments OF com
merce by either foolinz or corrupting
Congress.
In order for any individual TO have
Al opportunity TO go into any line of
business and have chance TO succeed
by pluck and energy aad BY compel
ing with ail others in the same bust
ness, 1t i necessary for each individual
to have an equal opportunity TO use
the instruments Of commerce at fair
charge without discrimination in IA
vor of or against any one. 1t is just as
necessary for the life and health Of
commerce that the in ,truments Of COM
merce should not BE- monopolized ny q
private syndicate, as it is necessary for
the life and health OF the people that
the air, sunshine, and water should
not be monopolized by private syn
dicate-a syndicate that would charge
any price it pleased for so much air,
! sunshine and water, a syndicate that
a would charge one man one price and
. charge another man another price, a
r syndicate that would, when it saw fit,
q refuse to furnish or cut off the supply
n of air, sunshine and water-this
q is Just the kind of syndicate that
q now controls our instruments Of COM
Y merce.
j. What are the instruments OF com
n merce? They are three: Money, trans.
- portation and the transmission Of in
r telligence (telegraph)-all in the hand:
20 of private syndicates who use then
|
whole business world is at the mercy
of these syndicates. They having
monopoly Of the instruments of com.
II MERGE can mOnOpolize commerce a
= will. They can put any line of bust
ness into trust and crush out all com
~ petition. Thu, our government ha
!, permitted, in fact created by viciOu
. legislation a gigantic engine of indi
;, vidual oppression and put it into tn
= hands of private syndicates to be Op
- Grated according to the dictates o
their own greed. 1t is grinding dali.
;, and hourly. OF course it turns GU
IA trusts and millionaires at one end an
10 wrecked business enterprises an
tramps at the other.
" Can these evils be cured by so calle
antitrust laws? Not any more thai
NC an eating cancer can be cured by salve:
~ The cause of blood poisoning must b
nc removed. The only remedy is, to tax
the last ruments of commerce from tn
n' hands of private and selfish greed. Th
" instruments of commerce are naturs
~ monopolies. No man who is oppose
VI TO monopolies can favor putting a n.
az tural monopoly into private hand
"' The instruments of commerce are pull
10 he factions. They should and mu
>" be controlled by the people, by tt
~ government for the public good. Tn
NC M Il be done if trusts are to be kille
'ic and prevented, it must be done
icy we are to protect and encourage ind
Va vidual enterprise and efforts, it mu
done if prosperity IS to be restored.
sic must be done if this government is
g. to be preserved. The Peoples par
oe- platform offers the only remedy-tl
'he only effective trust cure.
ISL ~
tr the APING OF A LITTLE APiNG NJ
* NOPOLIsr.
nd I\THE CAUCAsIAN's exposure of Il
M trickse of the Moore County Railroad
en- evade just taxation by getting the
has good easy Railroad Commission to va
NV ue it for less.than one third of what
owners have been saying it is wort
has touched one Of the railroad c1lal
-. ity .howlers in raw and tender sp'
Mo He replies in long-winded artic
r., that is as loud in its abuse of the Cpl
IA bians" who dare to step between st
wind and his nobility" as it is deficie
nod in disestablishing single point tt
.a was made by the exposure. We sim
49, ly pointed out that here was your
.s ster who tried to take himself into pr
r. lie notoriety and into the notice a
70, patronage of the money kings By G.
ing the usual fantastic tricks Def,
high heaven, SO as to make the aGg
:, nissioners weep a. his abuse of
-. men who refuse to slavishly submit
-. the lawless usurpatio1 of Fede
Judges and the isolated arrogance
corporation bandits. We further 20
~ ted out that this very chap had 8
ceeded in working the Railroad ca
mission, so as to get them to value
~ railroad as one hundred and thirtt
~ thousand f$l13,0OO.OO) dollars and tt
went to Dragging about Its being wo
= :, three hundred and fifty thousand Z
-,oL lars (s35O, 000O O). We simply cited
- - as little example of the small mon
olist, who as matter of course tries
stand in with the big ones and sci
e' upon this as an opportunity to vel
WIN late himself through uncounted
w umns of evasion, subterfuge and ca
the into which bo ,,o, +ho .,
,e"s most convenient refuge wherein
'hi'' cover his exposure. These are
ANTS lind If f.llou. ubo .,a ,o.,;, -,
nio- the champions of what they call "wl