Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1899-05-20
Don't Scare Yourself.

Don't worry so much about trusts.
They have benefited more people
than they have injured. They have
come in answer to the universal de-
mand for cheaper and better goods;
for cheaper and better transportation,
cheaper and better convenienceS in
everything we need to have done No
trust can prevent you from making
your own shoes. They only make
shoes and sell them to you so cheap
that you can no longer afford to be
your own cobbler. No transportation
company can preyen you from haul
ing your products TO market. They
only haul for you SO cheap that you
cannot afford to be your own drayman.
No great university can prevent you
from sitting down and educating
yourself. They only instruct you so
quickly and cheaply that you cannot
afford to blunder along by yourself.
No great combination can prevent
you from making your own wagon.
They only make wagons ana sell them
to you cheaper than you could make
carts. No great packer can prevent
you from killing and eating your own
hog. He only furnishes you with pork
cheaper and better than you can do it
yourself. All these great comhina-
tions of capital have been made nee
essary by the civilization that de-
mands the best of everything at the
lowest possible cost. By the civilian
tion that refuses to accept cobblers
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ducts of skilled mechanics can be pur-
chased for less money, One great
general manager controlling a trans
portation line from ocean to ocean
can give you better and cheaper SER
vice than the same line could if it
were divided into dozen separate
lines with separate general mana
ger on each division and dozen
transfers from company to company
had to be made during the trip. Gen
eral Grant in command of the armies
of the United States suppressed a re-
bellion more scientifically than the
2S, 1000 captains who each commanded
100 men could have done if each cap
tain had been permitted to fight at
will and direct his own campaign. Our
great nation has in its citizens me-
chanical genius and wealth to back 1T,
and executive ability to manage and
control great industries, and the peo-
pie demand the fullest and best posi-
BILE use of these resources. Our civiIi-
zation demands these great concentra-
tions of capital to do things in large
way under control of master minds
who hire Skillful employees to do for
us everything that requires the skill
full and trained hand. When combin-
ed wealth can serve US better and
cheaper than we have ever been Serv-
ed before we are not wise when we
make war on the combination. a
successful war against combinations
of capital would turns US back half a
century and make us again plant and
pull bleach and brake and hetchel and
spin and weave the flax on our own
ground or do without breeches. 1t
would make us again wash and clip
and card and spin and weave the wool
and furnish our own dye stuff or go
without ''wamuseS.n 1t would send
us to mill again on the pack horse
with "a bushel of grain in one end of
the sack and a stone in the other.''
The civilization of to-day does not
want TO go back there. 1t is progress
sive and wants to go ahead, it de-
mands the combination of capital or
the trust or what ever you may please
10 call it, ana the good common sense
of the people of the United States
will find way to prevent any of them
from intiicting injury upon the pub
lie. We always did have a law to pre-
vent the miller from taking to much
toll. Marshall County News.