Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1899-03-16

ownership Of public utilities is prac-
tlcally the private ownership OF hum q
beings; that private property in public
resources is destroying private proper
ty In individual resources making even
the ownership Of their daily bread n
wretched uncertainty to the vast ma
iority of human beings Now, why
not pool our differences for awhile and
form u national reform trust upon the
basis Of the things we all wontP Why
not at least agree to clear the field Tor
our differences before we undertake to
settle them? fear that II we do not
very soon come to such agreement we
will find no field left on which to dis
pute; the most Of It is already in In
trenched and fortified possession OF the
common enemy.
"While we each 60 our hating and
feeble ways of reform the bulk of the
population of Christendom Is being
reduced to helpless economic serfdom.
While we stand bewildcred and dis
putting, letters Of steel are being forged
for every citizen in this nation--fet-
terra that, II not broken soon, will bind
our children's children, to be broken
at last by the mortal agony the bleed
ing and dying Of their children,
1--WE may well consider at this point,
the power Of nearly 100000 900 OF
capital organized in combinations, in
open defiance of law II the great
steel trust, which has lately been cap
italized at 5000, 900, 900, fulhlls the pos
sibilities of its charter, that one mon
opoly alone will wipe private industry
and ownership from the face OF the
earth. According to the Banking Law
Journal of September 1898, the arti-
cles of incorporation of this trust
which was organized under the guild
ance and direction Of Mr.. j. Pierpont
Morgan whose banking house is to
finance the new company states that
the objects Of the new company are to
engagc in mining, manufacturing, the
transportation of merchandise and
passengers on land and water; build
ing vessels, boats, railroads, engines,
cars. wharves and docks; operating
and maintaining railroads Outside of
New Jersey, steamship lines and 9TH
or lines of transportation; the buying,
improving and selling of landsi the
manufacture, purchase, acquiring
holding, owning, mortgaging, selling
transferring, or otherwise disposing OF
investing, trading or dealing in or with
goods, wares, merchandise and prop
erty Of every description; the acquir'
ing and undertaking of all or any part
of tho business assets and liabilities OF
any person, firm, association or corpor'
alton, and the making and performing
of contracts Of every kind; the holding
purchasing, mortgaging, leasing and
| conveying of real end personal proper
ty in any state or territory OF the
United States or in any foreign coun-
try or place, and in carrying on any
other business in connection there
with In fnc, here Is trust which
deliberately proposes, by sheer econo-
ic might, to centrulize tho whole ip'
dustry of the nation in single gre't
economic despotism that deliberately
plans to reduce labor to complete
economic subsection; that alreody prsc'
tically owns the machinery OF govern
ment as literally as you own the coat
on your back.
IF we reforners can find no basis
of agreement as TO what is to be done,