The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-01-31

cannot accompany 1t with his respect.
The professor is one Of those amiable
men, with soul overlooking with phi
lanthropy, who would smooth down all
the roughness in the paths Of men and
bestrew their way with thornless roses.
| He belongs to that sentimental school
that blinks the real, refusing "to draw
the Thing as he sees it for the God Of
Things as they are" and insists on
drawing it as he would have it. It
is needless to add that the professor
is staunch, undertaking disciple of
that governmental school one section
of which teaches the wisdom, the be-
great American system
But the professor follows his nose
| and turns not back nor aside because
1t leads him into conclusions from
which his fellow disciples flee. While
they are reviling those luscious fruits
Of their policy which have been clas-
sif1ed and labeled trusts while they
are enacting futile laws ostracizing
| their own creations, the professor
points to them with pride, proclaims
| their nativity, defends their legitimacy
and finds in them compensations am
pie to justify their existence. Ones
| admiration. for the courage of the man
rises as he sees this sincere man, led
by his logic to the maintenance of that
| law Of existence, the survival of the
| fittest, against which his whole policy
is directed. For it is from the competi-
| tive struggles of all life that come the
| f1ttest who have proved their ability
| to survive. The trust from it's incep-
| ton to its full fruition is a strife for
| the mastery over weaker competitors.
It brushes them, where it can, with
ruthless hand, and reaches it's end only
over their PROSTATE forms. But there
is no turning back by Gunton merely
| because the syllogism of his logic de-
velops a conclusion adverse to his
| ideals. Forward he goes unwaveringly,
| Indifferent to his desertion by the
whole pack of his fellow schoolmen.
The professor, finding the reach Of
his Magazine too short to reach the
multitude, has established an Institute,
over which he presides, at which he is
the sole lecturer, and where, week af-
ter week, he delivers his lectures to
those who are minded to go and sit at
| the feet of this Gamaliel. After the dis
course he invites questioning from the
audience. One of these lectures was
| given to the solving of the conun-
drum why Have We Trusts?" and it,
with the questions and answers, is con-
| tanned in Bulletin of the Institute"
with a copy of which the professor has
! kindly favored US. We pass his ar
| gumentS to come to his answers. One
querist asked if he conceded that trusts
compel smaller concerns to capitulate
and become servants, and did the pro-
! fessor think it was for the general well
fare to crush out these smaller con-
Germs Generally he did, because these
small affairs were on lower plane of
methods, are not as secure in business,
do not make as good profit. They suf-
fer by their smallness. Their suppress
son by the trust lis the very best
| thing that can happen to the COM
munity."
Pursuing his quest for knowledge,
the questioner wanted to know what
the professor was going to do with the
people driven out of work by the trusts
citing the piano trust that is even now
getting in it's work and crowding out
the dealers who have hitherto pur-
sued the vocation of selling pianos.
This is what will be done with them,
says the professor, with a calmness as
needless of individual suffering as if
he were the law of the survival of the
fittest incarnate. They will be dis
charged to save expense to the trade;
they will have to get positions in de-
partment stores; the responsible peo-
pie will be retained, but the 'medi-
ocrity" will not be employed. 1t may
affect the advertising mediums very
much, but, my dear fellow, look at
the compensat:Ons. Pianos will be
improved and cheapened, and more
will be made and sold and more men
will be employed to make them. Is
that not sufficient? And so on. Straight
as a bullet to the bulls eye goes the
professor to the ultimatum of his logic,
while all his compatriots are SILVER
ing. Beginning with protection from
exterior competition he ends in eXclu-
sion of internal competition. Defend
ing the policy of defeating the opera
ton of the law of the survival of the
fittest in trade he ends with assert
ing it because he discovers that the
logic is memorable and the one follows
the other resistlessly. We close as we
began, in admiration of the sincerity
and courage Of this unflinching protec-
ZIONIST 1t is something, among so
much humbug and pretense, to find one
Gunton.
a RETROGRADE MOVEMENT.
Tn that vital factor of any govern