Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1899-01-21
WHERE WILL END /?

some wholesome truths i'm the
following remarks about Trusts
and what they are doing for
the poor man
Millions upon millions of cap
ital have joined together con
Germs in all sections of the
country, and there have been
extensive railroad combina-
tions, and extensive street
railway consultations. OF the
latter the people of Baltimore
seem likely to taste the fruits,
and it is tasting the fruits of
the tin-plate and sugar trusts.
The same lying excuse is
given in each instance, Ito
economic i'm the cost of pro-
duction. 1t is d lie i'm spirit.
though not in word. The com
bination is for the purpose of
economizing in cost of produc-
ton. Ii is also to turn men out
of work. to kill competition, to
rob business of its incentive
progress. 1t is to keep prices
at the top notch, or if not
already there, put them up. 1t
is to force down labor and force
up prices. 1t is to grind the
masses in the mill of greed to
turn a grist of dollars INTO
pockets already well lined with
the golden product. 1t is an
examplification of that now his
torical saying, 1.-The public be
damned" There is no other
way to look at it.
1t is the scramble for the
almighty dollar. and greed
piles the dollars higher and
higher. Men are piling them
up to-day who cannot find
investments for their incomes,
while other poor souls are cry
ing aloud for bread, or drawing
closer day by day to the grave,
while hunger chisels its lines
of human agony deep into
their faces. The clink. clink.
clink of the golden flood makes
the hearts of hundreds of men,
women and helpless children
heavy with woe. The one lifts
a bright face to God and at
tempts to pave his way to
Heaven with contributions to
fashionable churches and col
leges, while the others sigh for
clothes to so hide their naked
ness that they can enter the
house OF Tod.
Where will il end
Is il any wonder that there is
anarchy, that there are revolu-
tions . Is it any wonder that
the masses cry out against
Wall-st., and the corporations :
Is it any wonder that the peo-
pie seek such isms as free silver.
greenbacks and some other
fancies in the hope of finding
a panacea for the ills which
beset them
Oh. but all men have the
right to make money. Surely.
No one questions the right. SO
far as the legal point is con-
cerned. But there is limit to
the moral right. All men have
the right TO make money, but
no man has the moral right to
profit at the expense of another;
no man has the moral right to
stand by and see another mortal
suffer when assistance is in his
power. OF course. all men
have the right to make money.
They have the legal right to
grind their fellow man down to
the last farthing. TO gloat over
his misery, to hoard wealth
while he watches his neighbor
starve. But manhood and hui
manity demand something else.
Humanity, however, is no:
characteristic of trusts. The
brotherhood of man is not one
of their cardinal principles.
The one thing that leads them
on, that is their guiding star, is
money"
Concentration of capital is
dangerous to public welfare, to
progress and humanity. Greed
is making the monied element
more aggressive i'm their as
saults upon life. They can go
too far. The people will submit
for a time, then there will be IA
crash.
Where will il end