The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1898-11-30
The Scarlet Mother of MonopoIles
and Trusts.

The blooming lunatic who de-
claims against trusts and monopo-
lies while he stands for protection"
is apparently hopeless case. Pro-
lection 10 the mother of trusts and |
monopolies. The gigantic concen-
trations of capital and power by
which the country is now threatened
are the children of McKingleyism
and Dingleyism. They prolong their
lives and power by the old, old meth
cd OF liberty, resorted to by the East
India company when it bought the
duke of Leeds for 1000 guineas and
later tnrned the naval forces of the
kingdom to its uses in forcing the
ChiAese te smoke its opium. There
is no nation that has not been used
and looted by subsidize and pro-
tected plungers of this class. To
protect or to subsidized ono set of
citizens against citizens In other
lines In to create masters and slaves
in the commercial and industrial life
of the country. In such q state the
slavei is actually forced by the gov
ernment to contribute the very
money used in keeping him in bond
age. His substance is extracted to
maintain the trusts by which he is
oppressed. The man who stands for
protection may not know it, but in
standing for protection he stands for
trusts and monopolies and other hard
masters. There is only one remedy
for those diseases of the body polite.
Liberty is the remedy. Leave men
free to buy and sell where they
please. This gives to all the benefits
of worldwide competition. There
is justice in nothing less. How any
intelligent American, with. the spirit
of self-reliance and liberty and fair
play in him can give his consent to
have this or thai gang of politicians
control him in his buying and selling
is past finding out. 1t is quite as
diffiucult to und srstand just how any
sensible person can declare for pro-
lection while declaiming against the
monster trusts which owe their or
igin and life to rich subsidies and
outrageous advantages and bene-
fits that have been handed out to
them by their agents and attorneys
in high offices of state. AS long as
Dingleyism lasts the people may ex.
pect these highly-favored masters
10 make prices both ways and to ap-
ply even the law of supply and de-
mand to suit their own interests. Al
long as this method of rewardinf
powerful party helpers is tolerated
. the people may expect the grand
buyers of voters and sellers of pat
ronage to control the government il
the interest of themselves and o
their jobbers and dependents. Th'
man who permits his greed to make
him blind to the dangers of thiI
method of interfering with the lib
ertv and rights of the citizen will
certainly pay many prices for hi
Iaw-engendered trusts have crowde,
him to the wall, chased him cut o
business, forced him to close the doc
of his little shop and taken from hir
: the privilege of serving them as
: cheap e:aploye he may console hin
L self if he can with the reflection ths
: he has stood up for the policy out c
/ which his oppressors have grow
and from which they derive the pow
r er to crush him and other fools {
= his kind. He may be brought at th
J. last to realize that he has helped {
create and to fatten the giganti
o monsters by which the trade an
y liberty and peace of the nation al
L seriously threatened and by whic
J. his power to earn living has bee
q greatly impaired or taken away :
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