Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-09-20

But I must beg your pardon for talk.
ing SC long on this question: when there
the trust question. don't know whether
all of you have heard of II or not but /
do know that here in Iowa the republican
QUESTION as eVdenced by it's Platform Ga s%n,
declaration. 1t proposes to investigate the
trusts and to do away with them If
exactly how they are going. to discern
between the good trusts and the bad
trusts, but take it that the good trusts
VIII be the ones that contribute the larg
funds
Parent Trust of All.
But why not start at the root The
money trust is the parent trust and the
greatest trust of them all. What is the
use of fighting the toothpick trust or the
nail trust or the rubber trust or the
soap trust, one. against which the
ably have the least antipathy. when we
have the. money trust to commence on.
L Is the greatest and the worst trust of
others combined. Some people call on me
to stop fighting the money trust, but /
%ant to 81. say f. them that we can't stop
a cub once in a while.
Il want to warn you that whenever you
start In to fight the industrial trusts you
will find the same foe back of them, the
ey trust and who fought US on the silver
issue. / don't want you TO take my word
for II, but take the words of the tinanciers
In the Chicago Times-Herald with John
j. Mitchell, president of the Illinois Trust
and Savings bank, in which he declared
that trusts do not harm. that they do good
accompanied by an editorial, In which 1t
was declared that there are good and bad
trusts. but want to tel you that as soon
as the people learn to discern between
good and bad trusts and go after the bad
trusts the demagogues will try to di-
vert their attention TO some other ques-
ton that their brains do not comprehend
and that they cannot understand
Recently Mr.. {. r. Flint. president OF
the rubber trust. in a speech at ban.
quet In Boston, declared that trusts are
beneficial and gave as a reason that when
there was strike at one mill another mill
could be opened to supply the lade until
the striking operatives had beel frozen
out. Mr.. Flint is right from his sand
point. After the men have keen fioe
out at one point the trust can then c.osa
down mill at another point. while 1t il
stu doing business. and freeze the work.
Inc men there. This report said that Mr..
Flint mad a sympathetic audience and con-
cluded with the statement that 1t con.
sisted entirely of Boston bankers. They
are the same forces we found behind thu
money trust and they are behind the I'M
dustrial trusts and will be-
"A trust. means that every man who
buys an article must buy 1t at the trust'i
prices, that every man who sells an articls
must sell 1t at the trusts prices and that
every man who works must work at tn
trusts prices. 1 am surprised to see that
the people are only now commencing t.,
understand the trusts. am also pleased
that the travelling men have commenced
to understand them and must admit that
am disappointed because they did not un.
derstand them in 1896 They could not SEQ
then that the trust question applied to
the money question as well as to the in.
dustrial question, but they see 1t now.
Why, at this time not more than one man
in 100 sympathize with the trust. and We: