The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1899-05-12

I'~'t"A~ "a AAA~ HCOHAts TAf' tti'
indianapolis Sentinel, there appe ,r,
: To be very little concern on the part
loi the people interested in trusts,
and for two reasons. The first j.
that having entered on a course OF
law-breaking, and having become
accustomed TO il, they think that
by the aid Of shrewd lawyers they
can .evade or defy any law that caV
be made. This is not a matter OF
surInise- II l. proclaimed openly
and detiantly The current number
OF the Wall Street News, discussing
the recent Missouri decision agains,
trusts, under the caption "Who
VIII Suffer-" puts the situation
thus;
Assuming that this decision
stands, Is there anyone foolish
enough TO believe that trusts will
abandon the state OF Missouri as a
profitable business field? We think
not. II the trusts find they cannot
legally collect their bills, they will
compel purchasers to pay cash for
what they want. or in the names OF
dummies conduct business on their
own account. A trust las more
lives than a cat.
That Is precisely the attitude OF
bosses of the trusts. They know
that they are lawbreakers, but they
do not care for that so long a they
can find "a profitable business
field" Hang the law. 1t is mon
ey they want, and they propose To
have it, Just a. any other class of
criminals do. Worst Of all, the
failure to enforce the laws against
the pioneers in this iniquity has
led hundreds of others to 90 into it,
They say "Others are making
money that way, and why should
not we?' We nave already reach
ed the point where men talk serious
ly OF the trust system being "a busi-
ness development y and being es-
sential TO commercial success. Ii
will be 50 if the laws are not en-
forced. There have been some
countries where brigandage became
almost necessity for those who
wanted to earn a living. 1t was %
common that if you did not get into
the swim YOU We're plundered. Even
more significant than this defiant
note Of the Wall-st. organ is its
complacent reflection on the power
back OF tha trusts. and it, tone Of
contempt for their opponents. 1t
says:
$50 long a. the richest people in
the United States are interested in
financing and carrying
the securities of industrial corpora
tions, as j. now and has been the
case for some months past, ii seems
idle to expect any serious setback ,
to prices-barring some calamity. 4
These interests are in duty bound TO
stand under the marSet, and such |
being the case, who i there on the
other side tina. can compel them toll
Surely it is not the peo- /
pie who are now so bu-ily engaged
n predicting lower prices, as they j
ire afraid of then own shadows, and I
are pigmies. = I
This is the source of confidence. K
The richest people in the United
states" are eng iged in the business
# breaking the laws in order to add
0 their already stupendous for c
unes. They must have more. &
freed knows no limits. Ii feeds '
IN its own accumula.ions with an J
ver-increasing appetite. And yet a
With this stupendous evil before
hem, thousands of men OF small h
means have been deluded into be- o
Ieving that they were a part of "the
money power" and that the effort to I,
'reak its control Of our practical 7
'overnment was an effort to injure !
hem. Note how the Wall street |,
rgan sneers at them. The law .
'reakers have no care for those who f,
financially are pigmies, except at {
lection times. Their votes are !,
leeded then, and they are coddled 4
Ip to think that they are really Of !,
ONE Importance. They are drawn I,
n to vote for continu ,nce of the J,
'arty, AMI the system, that i hurry h
ne this country on to Imperialism
nd the domination Of concentrated
wealth. This is no pessimistic !,
lream. The movement has acquir ,
a such momentum that sober men !,
4 all parties see its progress, and !
ome are helplessly asking "What !,
an be done?" while others are
arnestly insisting that something
hall be done, and that il snail be
adical enough TO meet the necessi-
les of the case.