Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1899-08-25
TRUSTS.

| heard fellow doing better UP until
the time of the break.
TRUSTS.
One Of the Great Evils Of Modern
Times Mercilessly Flayed.
Goebel was telling you about the
trusts. / do not want to take it out
of his mouth. He can describe them
better than | can, but l want to say
one word about them. No man can
overstate the dangers that threaten
the people of this state and country.
Listen to me, my countfymen. He
told you that the Republican party was
the party of trusts, and some doubted
It, | did not. l know that the Re-
publican party is unalterably opposed
to the growth, expansion and develop
ment of trusts. | can not doubt it, be-
cause Mckinley told you, so. And IL
that were not conclusive, he proved
1t by Mark Hanna, and IL that did not
end the controversy and take it out
of the realm of disputation, l had a
talk the other day with Mr.. Griggs,
this New England or eastern attorney
general of the Republican party, and
he told me that the Republican party
intended to stamp out the trusts.
asked him why they hadn't done lit
tie of the stamping. They have been
almost stamped life out of Amer
lean trusts / speak by the record.
and If any man disputes it, / stand
ready to prove 1t. There Is no we'll
informed man in this country that
don't know l tell the truth, 2# q there
is not an honest one that don admit
1t. The Republican party is so dead
set on crushing out trusts that under
Republican domination, with both
houses OF congress, the supreme court
and the presidency all Ia the hands of
the Republican party, within the last
is months there has only been $780,
100000 gone into trusts in this free
land of ours. They have not been able
to get quite $1,000, 100000 into trusts
In the last is months, because Of tie
unconquerable opposition of the Rb-
Think Only ,000.000,000 have gone
into trusts in the United States Va the
last Is months. Why, clock is al
ways busy, but clock in 5000 days
won't click off as many minutes as the
trusts have organized dollars in the
last eight months under Republican
rule in this country. Think of it. and
you will realize the debt of obligation
you are under to the Republican party.
Devils Invention.
There are just So 900, 100000 of money,
together. And Notwithstanding the
uncomfortable opposition of the Re-
publican party to trusts with Repub-
lican domination, with every depart
ment of the government in the hand
of that party, they have managed to
gather into the safe investment of
trusts only $7000,000,000 within the
last Is months, Some people tell you
that the trust is the cruel, heartless in
yention of the Republican protected
piunderers and thieves. That is
SANDER. The trust is not human in
vention. In its construction and dis
covery like in its operation, it is a
double-barreled, automatic, self-ad-
Justing, back-action machine. No HUI
man or mortal brain ever devised or
discovered the trust. 1t required In
its construction and discovery com
bination of human ingenuity, supple
mented by devilish malignity, and 1t
took both man and devil to create the
trust. 1t is the only machine ever
known among men that robbed at both
ends at the same time, and you can't
stop 1T. trust robs the producer at
that end by fixing the price of the raw
product. The flour trust robs thefarmer
of Graves county and the tobacco trust
robs the tobacco raiser of Graves coun-
ty by fixing arbitrarily the price of
wheat and tobacco. The tobacco and
-four trusts say to the farmer at that
end, 81 will give you SO much for your
tobacco and so much for your wheat;
take it, or you will not sell it, have
made corner on the market. | am
the only buyer. You take my price
or you take none" That same to-
bacco trust and that same -four and
wheat trust turns to the consumer on
the other side and arbitrarily fixes the
price for which they will supply the
trade. The say to the chewer and the
smoker, 1--WE fix arbitrarily thef price
at which you can buy your toRaeco,
and you will pay that price or you
must reform your tobacco habit, for
we have corner" That same wheat
and flour trust says, II am not going
to rob you and you have no business
complaining" And the tobacco
trust says. II am not going
to rob any tobacco grower. steal the
wheat and the tobacco by taking it at
my own price, and / am going to give
You an arbitrary price, at which Won
will have to buy or starve. for Kdve
corner on the -four market and you
can not buy anywhere else.' Now, IL :
you don't like the trusts, If the Repub-
lican party gets In power againb apd
will only keep on fighting the t}Ssts
like they have been for theA la4tt is
months, there will be twice ~ many
dollars in the United States covered
by trusts as there are dollars Of money
among the civilized people throughout
the whole habitable world,
If you don't like the trusts, II you
don't like the domination Of railroad
corporations, If you are opposed TO
combines; If you would rather prefer
that the people Of Kentucky shall
shape its policies and rule its destinies,
than for the corporations and COM
bines and trusts, get asman ard make
him governor who will stand with the \
people and against trusts, and when
you come to find that man, let me tell
you, you don't need to have a search