The times., 1899-07-15
THE PARABLEO OF TRUSTS.
BeinE an Account OF How an Over
production BcEot HnrIS Mnnnn.

Il D.
ReinE Account OF How an Over
production Begot aarIS Mamma.
Now in the days when the people had
chosen a new king over the Americanites
| and men stood upon the walls of the cities
and cried aloud for sound money. there
came great oyerproduction upon the land
OF America. And the overproduction was
OF such exceeding dimensions that all men
| were taken with it.. And because of the
great overproduction many men hungered
and thirsted, and there were those who had
not raiment with which to cover them
| selves, and there were those who wore
bare feet because that there was an over
| production of sandals.
| And the people found much fault with the
overproduction, and they gathered them
selves together and cried one to another:
Behold, here am I. l have not of food.
yet there is an overproduction of food"
And the wise men of the party answered
and said unto them, Verify this is be-
cause Of thy underconsumption." And the
people were amazed and departed each into
| his own home, saying, Verify the Repub-
| lican party doth live.
| Now it came to pass that certain rich
man who had great wealth and precious
stones and possessed many slaves even
| unto those whose votes and influence in
| Legislatures he had purchased. And this
| mans name was called Rockefeller, be-
cause he was possessed of much rocks. And
he came unto the wise men of the Legis-
latures saying: Behold there is great
overproduction in the land and the people
cry against it. l will relieve them of a
portion of the burden by taking unto my
self the oils of the land and / will hold
| the oils that they may not cause an over
production and burden the people"
And the wise men of the Legislative halls
had much JOY and cried aloud, saying:
''Oil hail Rockefeller. for in him do we put
our trust" And the people hearing the
loud rejoicing caught up the words and
cried, Trust, trust" And henceforth was
Rockefeller known as trust"
And it came to pass that Rockefeller
waxed mighty and fat. And he took the
oil of the country and stored it iptn tanks
that there be no overproductioE And
those of the people who failed to give
over their oil were cast into prison and
their oils were taken. And when all the
oils had been taken, the men who had
gathered oil were idle and were sent to
hunt for other labor.
But there came upon the land a great
overproduction of coal. And SO great was
the overproduction that few men had fuel
for their fires So there came a good
Samaritan out OF the wilderness, crying:
Behold, l come to relieve you Of your
overproduction of coal. AS has my brother
Rockefeller done, so will l do likewise -
And he bought up many wise men of the
Legislatures and went about and gathered
together all the coal into his bins and
storehOuses. And the people and those
who sat in the market places again took
up the cry, saying, Trust. trust
And there came men from every land
seeking to relieve the overproduction, for
the glad tidings had spread abroad. And
the coal trust begat the railroad trust,
and the railroad trust begat the steel trust.
and the steel trust begat the gas trust,
and the gas trust begat the sugar trust,
and the sugar trust begat the tobacco
trust. and the tobacco trust begat the
whisky trust and the whisky trust begat
the electrical trust and the electrical
trust begat the telephone trust and the
telephone trust begat the paper trust. and
the paper trust begat the ink trust, and
the ink trust begat the news trust, and
the news trust begat the tire trust, and
the tire trust begat the tack trust, and
the tack trust begat the food trust. and
the food trust begat the medicine trust
and the medicine trust begat the coffin
trust, and the coffin trust begat the GENE
terry trust, and the cemetery trust hegat
a certain centurion, one Hark Mamma.
And Hark Mamma was the greatest of the
trusts and knew all the trusts and had
dealings with them And when it was
come to the time when no more trusts
might be formed and the oyerproduction
still was, Hark Mamma called the trusts
. together saying: Behold, we have II all
We are but waiting for an air trust and q
sun trust and 1t will be completed. But
the people see not that we are good anC
kind and are crying for another King who
will not deal in trusts. Therefore, lei
L. .t,.E,
ways and byways and cry aloud, Dow
with the trusts And the people viii
again be with us and will vote with us and
will say. Verify, we have killed the
trusts"
And the trusts did as was hidden ant
: all was well. And a certain man of the
, Sugar Trust who was called Havemore
because that he was exceeding greedy, be-
, came scattered from his fellows and be-
came wanderer and was lost. And GER
tain OF his tribe took him up into the tem-
pie and sat him upon a seat. And hs
opened his mouth and taught them, saying
Verify, / have taken from the people
many cubits OF shekels. l am the Sugar
, Trust. / am wise dingbat. Blessed are
the trusts for they shall inherit the earth
Lay not up treasures for yourself, but give
them to the trusts
And the people maryeled at these teach
ings and they grew afraid of trusts anC
said Verify. we have not yet killed tn,
trusts" And the centurion. Hark Mamma
departed into ether lands and said unto
the natives: Even trust hath muc;
troubles. and the way of the Republican
party is hard"
So the people set themselves together tt
swat the trusts upon their helmets, an;
many strange things are written in To,
First Epistle of Pingree to Alger. AnC
the last of the trusts was the beef trust
which begat Aegean, for this was the limi
, and the people slew it.
. These things came to pass in the thirC
year of the antitrust law. Selah,
HE WILL NOT CHANGE IT.
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