The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1899-08-29
TRUSTS.
One of the Great Evils of Modern
Times MerciIessly Flayed.


One of the Great Evils of Modern
Times MerciIessly Played.
Goebel was telling you about the
trusts. / mot want to take, it out
of his mouth. He can describe them
| better than ! can, but / 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 countrymen. He
told you that the Republican party was
the party of trusts, and some doubted
| 1t. | did not. | know that the Re
publican party is unalterably opposed
| to the growth, expansion and develop
ment of trusts. / can not doubt 1t, be-
cause Mckinley told you so. And if
! that were not conclusive, he proved
1t by Mark Hanna, and if that did not
end the controversy and take it out
] of the realm of disputation, l had
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. I
asked him why they hadn't done lit
! tie of the stamping. They have been
| In this last three years, and they have.
almost stamped life out of Amer
lean trusts. | speak by the record,
| and If any man disputes it, | stand
ready to prove it. There is no we'll
| informed man in this country that
don't know | tell the truth. and there
is not an TOMBSTONE that don't 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 in 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 $7,000,000,000 into trusts
In the last rs months, because of the
unconquerable opposition of the Re
publican party to Trusts Stop and
think! Only $1,000, 000,0 have gone
into trusts in the United States in the
last 1S months. Why, a clock is al
ways busy, but a clock in 5000 days
won click off as many minutes as the
trusts Rave 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,
gold and silver, in the world all put
together. And Notwithstanding the
unconquerable 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 S7000,000,000 within the
last Is months. Some people tell you
that the trust is the cruel, heartless in
ventiOn of the Republican protected
plunderefs and thieves. That is a
SANDER The trust is not a human in
venticn. In its construction and dis
coverY, like in its operation, it is a
doubie-barreled, automatic, self-ad-
Justing, back-action machine. No hu-
man or mortal brain ever devised or
discovered the trust. 1t required in
its construction and discovery a COM
bination of human ingenuity, supple
mented by devilish malignity, and it
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 it. 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
flour trusts say to the farmer at that
end, II will give you so much for your
tobacco and so much for your wheat;
take 1t, or you will not sell it. / have
made corner on the market. l 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. They say to the chewer and the
smoker, I'VE fix arbitrarily the price
at which You can buy your tobacco,
and you will pay that price or you
must reform your tobacco habit, for
and flour trust says, II am NOT go ,g--
to rob you, and you have no busir ISIS
complaining" And 1.-THE Tobacco
trust says, am not going
to rob any TOBACCO grower. / steal the
wheat and the tobacco by taking it at
my OVID price, and | am going to give
yoE an arbitrary price, at which you
will have to buy or starve, for have
a corner on the flour market and you
can not buy anywhere else" Now, If
you don't like the trusts, II the Repub-
lican party gets in power again, and
will only keep on fighting the trusts
like they have been for the last Is
months, there will be twice as 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, If you
don't like the domination of railroad
corporations. il you are opposed to
combines; II 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 man and 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
warrant The Democratic convention
has found him for you, and here he is,
and we ask you to make him governor
[Great applause.