The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-02-08
MR.. DOOLEY ON TRUSTS.
TFrom the Chicago Iournall


''Weu, WELL" said Mr.. Hennessy, set
wondher whin this here for-min' iv
fhrustsn stop. I've been an alternate
to FIVE aldhermanic con-vintions whin
they was denounced, but they're
stronger thin liver, an are sthranglin'
tn liberties iv our country, be hivins.
day be day. What tn divvle ARE they,
anyhow"
"a thrust" said Mr.. Dooley, ais an
Illegal combination to rayjooce prices.
IT'S to prevint foolish people firm
spindin' too much money. A lot of ray
publicans is in tn same business, an
says wan iv thin: Behold he says,
tn suff' rim iv tn poor he says. Ivry-
where they tur-rn,' he says, they're
overcharged.' he says, be cormorants
in human FORM he says. ''Tis our
jooty,' he says, as humane men, he
says, fr to combine he says, FIR to
desthroy tn rapaciOus crathers,' he
says, that ARE gr-rindin' tn faces off
tn poor he says, an do tn Wurruk
Ourselves he says. If they'se amy
grindin' to be DONE he says, lave tn
poor come around an poke their
noses into first-class imery wheel, in
stead iv bein' polished be little two
fr-a-cint grin'-stones all over tn coun-
thry,' he says. Wen be abused he
says, an popy1ists an arnychists'H de-
nounce US as inimies iv civilization he
says, but in our holy wurruk we must
fxpict such threatment,' he says. Look
at me- he says. BE desthroyin' COM
petition, I, with tn help w. tn good
Lord, an tn railroads, an tn state iv
New Jarsey, have rayjooced tn price
iv lie so a poor man can have an ex-
plosion today FIR three cints that, whin
was a boy, he cudaen't buy FIR amy
money he says. I'm a benefacthor iv
me kind be says. An if they're not
NANNY iv me kind he says. ''tis no
fault iv mine he says. I've helped
tn poor. I've give dividends to tn
three pardners I mintioned. Wan iv
thin gets it's fees he says, 'th' other
gets it's freight he says, AN to tn
third he says. have put up a coll
edge he says, FIR to prove that a
Baptist he says, can mix up with tn
lie business an net go broke he says.
Still I'm not appreciated be me coun-
thry, he says, They call me an octo-
pus,' he says, an plutocrat,' he says.
But he says, 7 persavere in tn good
wurruk,' he says Lave US niver mind
tn assaults Nv tn ongodly,' he says,
but in tn inthrists iv tn poor desthrOy
tn hellish competition that is grajully,'
he says, 'roonin' tn widow an tn or
phan with high-priced prunes,' he says.
An so tn prune thrust is FORMED.
FIR mesilf, Hinnissy,I can't make out
whether a thrust is a good thing or a
bad thing. McKenna says tits a good
thing because it rayjooces tn price.
Schwartzmeister that belongs to tn
Arbeiter Bowlin' club, says it's tn ma
theral way ivrything is goin'. Ye think
tits sthranglin' our fair land an so does
tn whole Willum J. O'Brien Lithry
an Mar-rchin' club. But to me it looks
like JUS tn difference between a man
bein' robbed be wan sthrong-ar-rm
man at a time, an bein' sarched be
twinty. A 1a-ad at tn mills gets his
months pay an goes down to Hal
sted sthreet an has a tub iv beer, an
some wan lifts his watch. On his way
home a pickpocket gets his pin; thin
a sthrong-ar-rm boy at Deerin' sthreet
holds his up FIR his money. At his
durestep two or three young young an
inexpeeryencedr robbers throw him down
an take tn shoes off his feet. Now, If
twas a thrust, if these here competin'
merchants was to unite an meet tn
la-ad at tn start, they cud sthrip him
clane as a bone an lave nawthin' FIR
tn loathsome an disunited competitors
up tn sthreet. They'd be sthrong enough
to do business in spite iv tn polls they'd
have no thrubble in bein' Incorporated
In New Jarsey, where tn green goods