The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1899-02-28


and IL must be by grand juries in the
Courts throughout this country thai
trusts are to be DESTROYED, If they car
he destroyed at all.
eve have these trusts in Kenton
county. There is an insurance comb.
nation in this county--indictment'
were returned by the last grand jury
1t is the duty OF the grand jury to ex.
anime into this matter, and II Satisfied
from the evidence that an illegal com
bination exists under this statute tbSn
it is your duty to find indictYents,
and / hope when the trial juriss come
to dispose Of the matter thstthey go
further and inflict jail sentences as
well as fines. i hope -nd believe the
next Legislature - Kentucky will
make the commission of these acts a
felony. IN orde that the doors of the
peni,entiary Aay be opened to receive
the men w,6 are guilty of these COM
b;nat;o,,. 1t say 1t is your duty to
ind" these people if they are en-
@ged in that business. In Frankfort
"a OF them were indicted aud fined !:
9 number of individuals, agents, were
tried. and one man on a jury of II
saved them from going to Jail. In
Georgetown the other day they tried
Az odd of these companies who had
entered into this illegal, unjust and
oppressive insurance rate, to make
you pay more insurance than you
ought ito pay, for their benefit, in
other words, systematized robbery,
and there they were!fined by the petit
jury, and probably will continue to be
lined until they abandon it. The pur-
pose of it is that those in a certain bust
ness will fix certain prices, and You
can't get it unless you pay that price,
ana that thug exist in Covington
ana henton county to-day, just as il |
does at Georgetown and Frankfort
and it devolves upon the grand iuryi
't this county to say that il doesn't
exist any Longer.
"lf the grand jury finds that tho
brewers in this CITY and county are
lnder contract or agreement that
zones within heIterms of this statute,
hen 1t is your duty 10 return indict-
nent7 against them. My opinion is
hat one or two Jail sentences will do
more good than a hundred fines.
"They 90 further than this; there is
nothing on earthat the trusts won't
10. l believe that an aggregation of
,reat wealth always has tendenty TO
'rutaI lie; | believe that the aggrega-
ION OF great wealth always has
e"dency to remove every instinct and
very spirit and every feeling of hui
unity that men ought to have. You
viii find in the hearts OF the worst
rlmlnsls that come into court some
mug that is good, something that is
esirable, something that is worth
sVing, bat you will find nothing on
arth in organizations of wealth that
good or that is worth having. There
DO limit, there is no business in
'hlch they are not willing to engage
l9re Is no people that they are not
'illing to rob; there is nothing sa-
red, nothing that they will let alone
lere ts nothing poor enough for them
have pity on; there is nothing 6
umble enough or weak enough for
lem to pity. They would rob the t
raves of the dead if they could re. CHI \
leir hands into them.
"For every five cents that You pay
'r school books for your children you
ny 10 or 10 cents in addition by way
tribute to the School Book Trust
here isn't a school book sold TO a
hool child in the city of Covington
lat isn't unmitigated robbery. There
MT school book or school imple- h
ent purchased by child in the city n
Covington that does not involve the
ansaction of taking two or three
mes the price of that book from the Il
Irents of that poor child and putting u
in the pockets of the robber trust. | f
y to you, go after these people, in d
stigate as to these Covington schools
tablish what connection, if any, any =,
hool book concern has with the Gov ~
gton School Board, as it exists now -
has existed, or with any of the n
9mbers OF it; see where these books
Q purchased and what prices are
id for them. The great mass of in
ople of this country sit to-day not it