New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1899-03-15
WILL WE TOLERATE THEM.

ment Of factory in New Ulm at the
meeting of the Commercial Union last
Friday it developed that there is great
trust in the particular industry under
consideration, and the question arose as
to whether the trust would interfere
with the success of a factory at this
place. Some thought it would not, but
the pernicious and blighting character of
such combinations was brought wildly
home to those present by a statement
from one who knew of what he spoke to
the effect that this trust had bought up
factories of the same kind in certain
small cities mentioned, put out the fires
in the furnaces, discharged the employ
ees and moved the machinery and all
the parapharnalia away. Thus was the
town deprived of one of its feeders; idle
labor thrown on the community and a
competitor choked off to enable the trust
to monopolize the product and thus f..
nally raise prices and tax consumers to
any extent it sees fit.
For some days past the writer has
been clipping from exchanges reports of
the formation of new trusts and COM
ments on the same with view to pub
fishing synopsis of these, but we found
the undertaking too vast to carry out;
almost any paper that you may pick Up
will give you columns concerning trusts
and their operations and anyone attempt
ing to keep track of what is said on
this subject by papers of all parties, ev-
en- for one week, will find himself de-
luged under a heap from under which
he could not emerge for weeks. Even
coffin manufacturers have formed a trust
to add more sorrow and grief to those
who mourn the loss of departed ones. A
trust on cradles and it is literally true
that trusts hound the American citizen
from the cradle to the grave and if Saint
Peter is protectionist we may yet see
these artificial monsters reach out their
aH-grabbing fingers demanding toll
from knockers at the Pearly Gates. If
this should come to pass, many demo-
Gratis of Jeffersonian faith, if, perchance,
they should have strayed up to this por-
tai not supposed to have been made for
them, will turn around in disgust and
look around for the other place.
The truth is that trusts have become
so general during the last few months
and have so nearly gathered in every
phase OF industry, that the formation of
new one of gigantic proportions has
ceased to attract serious attention, and
are used as food only for the newspaper
Jester and cartoonist. A few days ago
the Pioneer Press, the leading corpora
ton sheet of the northwest, contained a
cartoon of a large mill by which trusts
were beingturned out by the thousands.
But there is day coming when the
iadlcrous aspect of this matter will have
faded and people will wake up to are
alization' of the conditions upon them.
Some day when they have suffered and
endured enough. they will wake up and
ask the why's and wherefores of some of
these things. They will want to know
why this is thus.
Few will be found 10 deny that the
existing Dingley tariff law makes this
state of affairs possible and the party
which is responsible for the law and
which now winks its eye at the fruit
which that law bears will have to ans
Wer to the public sometime in the flu
tlre. No political party has ever claim ed
that trusts are good thing. Such dec
1aration would mean death to any party
and yet: the Republican party can lie
said to directly encourage them while
they, at the same time, want the public
to believe that they are opposed to such
combinations. In its platform Of 1892
this party inserted strong declaration
against trusts, which were condemned as
dangerous to the public welfare. Have
trusts ceased to be dangerous or has the
Republican party had change of heart?
THERE is claimed to be considerable
restitution at Dawson City and the Uni
ted States consul there has written to
the state department at Washington APP
pealing for aid. Verify the lot of the
gold seeker is hard.
IT is really funny to see the admins
tration papers tumble over each other
IN pndoTsincr the anpointment of Merriam