The daily sentinel., 1899-02-07
TRUST SLAVERY.

IL seems tne trueCS are amenaOlo to tho
law. In the state OF Ohio the Standard
Oil trust has been compelled to come
before tho tribunal of the people and ac-
knowledge that there is law that even
governs them.
They have fought every effort to make
its officers come before the courts. They
have bulldozed, threatened and pur-
chased testimony but have failed thus
far to contravent the officers of the law,
who are determined to make them dis
gorge some OF their ill gotten gains and
break up the gigantic octopus, which
annihilates all opposition and makes the
people pay double tribute to them.
A monument to the unpurchasable in
tegrity OF the Ohio officer OF the law,
who has withstood monumental opposi-
tion to his determination to bring these
trust thieves to justice, should be erect
ed. In this era Of trusts and their ra-
pacious demands, his public career,
and those associated with him, stand
out q mighty example, because they are
alone, seemingly, in their endeavor to
crush trust of mammoth proportions,
which has openly defied the government
and whose thievery and opposition TO
competition has made it by word and a
terror to the people.
Almost every state in the Union has
an anti-trust law but they seen to be a
dead letter, except in the case Of Ohio.
OF what use are these. laws upon the
statute books, il they can be openly de-
fieds
The trusts are being multiplied, under
this administration, with q rapidity
which has caused the greatest alarm
among the people II they continue to
multiply, all the commodities which en-
ter ipto daily consumption viii be in the
hands of the giant monopolies, together
with those neeessaries OF life. which are
in everyday use.
What the end will be no one can fore
see, that it must end in disaster to the
people, no one will gainsay. The mill
lions Of concentrated wealth, an unnat-
ural accumulation, will be the downfall
Of the republic, unless arrested by legis-
lative enactment.
No republic has lived, where the
wealth OF the nation has been concen-
trated in the hands of few. No less an
authority than Wallace, one of the
greatest living economic writers, now de-
mands free bread for all who will take
it, thereby relieving the workman Of the
distress of.providing for actual living,
that he may refuse the starvation wages,
which is offered by and through the
combinations formed by capital and
commonly known as trusts.
A trust has NO standing before the
law, il they had there would be no me-
cessity for laws against them. They are
iniquitous, else why should they be
brought before the bar Of Justice, as
they are being brought in the state Of
Ohio.
II the legislature of Colorado would
stop blowing an empty bazoo against
some imaginary evil and endeavoring to
pass unnecessary laws, and concentrate
its attention against tho trusts which
are gaining q Arm foothold in this state,
they would be accomplishing moro than
they have ever accomplished in the
past.
Tho formation OF trusts has become
moro than alarming. They have become
defiant. They practically defy the Law
and calmly ask, "what arc you soiDg to
do about itf" The people will answer
this question II the law makers do not
In this country al things have their
measure and il tho trusts become 20 ra