The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1897-08-12

sicker aud sicker. Has either Of these
political doctors looked for the cause
or causes ~ the disessef Are these po-
liticsi doctors doing their duty: Do
they not know that sores that break |
our on the surface. caused by blood |
poison, cannot be cured by saves! DO
they not know What the system must
bave strong blood purifier. and that
such remedy IL NECESSARY before the
sores will heal and cease to break
out? II they have not looked for the
causes. then they are incompetent and
unworthy III they baye,'hen they know
that the body polite is reeking with
monopoly blood poison, and that this
is the cause Of the Industrial cancer
on the surface. II they know this, and
have failed to apply the remedy, the
remedy that will purify the blood--the
artery Of commerce-and thus remove
the CAUSES OF the industrial cancer
called a trust, then they are Enfaith-
full servants and are not to be trusted.
Now what is the remedy-the real
trust cure? First, let US see what q
trust Is. 1t is q monopoly OF any line
of commerce and industry. How is it
possible for any few men to monopolize
industry and commerceI 1t is not
possible unless they can FIRST monopo-
lie che INSTRUMENTS Of commerce
Those who control the instruments OF
commerce have the power to control
commerce and m0nopolize any line OF
Industry, crush cut competition, and
form gigantic trusts at will.
The next question is, Has any set OF
private individuals got monopoly Of
the instruments Of commerce? Now
let US see what are the Instruments Of
commerce? They are three in Ium-
Der, namely:
The frat is money, the medium o
Exchange, which is the necessary in
strument in making every trade or busi-
ness transaction. 1t is also the yard
stick for measuring values, and it is a
long or short yardstick, according to
the amount of money in circulation
This instrument of commerce is ia the
hands of the gold synditates and
banks. They control the volume o.
money-they can make the yardsticl
short or long at pleasure.
Tn, second is the means of transpor
tation. In large country like this
where nearly all of the products of hui
man industry from the fields, th'
mines, the factories, etc must be trans
ported from one section to another
the question of cheap transportation
without Observation-Disclosures Low
rates to one and high rates to another
is of transcendent Importance. Ii
small countries the transportation
question is one of much less imp0r
lance to the people than the mone'
question; but the larger the country
the more powerful the question o
transportation effects every bushes
and industry. In the United State
fair and honest transportation, will
easy and ample facilities, is almost, i
not quite, as important an instrumen
of commerce as money. j. PierpOn
Morgan and half dozen other specu
lators to-day control the great trans
portation lines of the country.
The third instrument of commerce,
is the transmission of Intelligence. w,
have cheap, fair and safe means o
transmitting letters through the pos
tai system, but this is slow means o
transmitting intelligence. Marke
quotations, important business infOr
nation and political and bushes
news is transmitted by the rapi'
method, over the telegraph wires. Th
whole telegraph business of the coun
try is owned by two monopolies, VIII
do not compete.
: Thus we see the three powerful in
! struments of cOmmerce-money, trans
81 por' alton and the telegraph-th
three vital forces of industrial lif,
: to-day in the hands of cliques, syndj
3 Gates and private corporations. Thu
: these monOpolists have in their hand
e the instruments and the power t
e make times hard, or they can PERM
l the people to prosper temporarily
D they can raise prices or they can lowe
0 prices; they can keep the truth frol
= the people, or they can feed the publ
: on falsehoods; they can by discrimin,
k tiOn in freight rates drag down or
v man or one section or city, and the
: can build up another; they can put e,
h cry line of industry into trust an
!. then they can combine all of thes
g trusts into one gigantic trust, coverin
a all industries, when they desire; the
/ can tighten their greedy clutches an
o depress business or they can rela
n their DEVILS grip and allow a temp,
e rary revival of business; they can pr
y cipitate panic at will.
y In SHORT, the men who control tt
8 money and transportation aud INTEL
D gence Of nation, hold in their gras
y the industrial life and fate of the n,
d ton. They will control the Cover,
r ment of such nation, just as the
s control our government at Washin,
d ton to-day. This nation cannot pro
d per, the republic cannot live. unle
e these three great instruments of cor
II MERGE are wrested from the clutches
> private corporate greed. These a.
the eyi!s-the causes that produ,
trusts Now shall we remove the
causes aud kill the trusts and give
every man and every business fir,
>. and equal opportunity to use the
: great Instruments of commerce, ia
n as each man has an equal opportuni,
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