Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-03-24
coNsPIRACYoF CORPORATIONS
The Evidences Should 10 Carefully Pre-
served by the People.

served by the People
The senatorial conspiracy in prosesss
at Sacramento is only part OF D ton-
spiracy operating from one end OK the
United States to the other, conspir-
acy whose success will mean tina en-
slavement of the working people OF
the United States, and the reducing Of
their condition to that abject poverty
that exists among the miners OF Penn
sylvania and Ohio. says the San Fran
cisco Daily Examiner. The people are
inclined to laugh when one talks Of a
conspiracy to enslave free Americans.
They think the expression is an ex-
aggeration; a theatrical display. I'm
fortunately, conspiracy but feebly rep
resents existing conditions. We will
try and illustrate: Suppose in San
Francisco today a man having capital
at his command desires to start his
son in business. In which direction
could he turn? He would find every
bookseller in San Francisco doing
business on an Improbable basis, be-
cause Of the organization of the Book
Trust. He would find the dealers In
paints and oils limited to practically
one concern, because Of the organiza-
ton of the White Lead Trust, the LIN
seed Oil Trust and affiliated trusts. He
would find the number OF hardware
dealers reduced to a minimum OWNS
to the operation of Transportation
Trusts. He would find the milling IN
terests, of San Francisco in very poor
condition, because the northern trade
has favorable discrimination from the
railroad company. He would find that
practically every wholesale business
was owned and controlled and hedged
around by the operations of the trusts
He would find our breweries In the
hands of q trust, and also our street
car lines. Temporarily, he would re-
mark that the butchers had secured a
certain measure of freedom from peer
embalmers, but he would observe with
regret that the grocers were IN the
hands of the Sugar Trust, and the sa-
looms practically controlled by the
Whisky Trust. He would find nothing
left for his son except gambling, real
estate speculation or a political Jop'
Were he to turn his thoughts to other
places he would find similar condl-
ton existing. All of the trades en-
gagged in supplying the necessaries OF
life, from cradles to collins, from feed-
ing bottles to shrouds, from salt 10
turkey, are practically owned and con-
trolled by trusts. In few years the
United States will be divided into Two
classes only, capitalists and agents. In
dependent workers will be driven to
the wall. Why, they are even going
to drive the express wagons OIL the
streets of San Francisco with nVe-
million dollar autotruck ORGANIZATION
When this scheme shall have been
contaminated, and nine-tenths or the
American people reduced to industrial
servitude. discomfort will naturally
arise. To meet that discomfort, the
trusts and capitalists are busily en-
Gagged in securing control of the gov
eminent which will enable them to
ouell trouble with a strong standing
army. Even the popular body defeated
Cummings measure, limiting the right
NJ the president to send troops into
state until requested to do SO py the
governor of that state. The defeat OF
the measure means that, on orders
from Washington, General Shafter may
be sent to suppress a strike OF girl
walters in a Market street restaurant.
It means all of the most odious fea-
tures of European militarism, without
the compensating features of European
government. which is generally just
and nearly honest.
The evidences of this conspiracy
that are being printed at the present
time by the republican organs shouio
ha carefully preserved by the people.