Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1899-05-11
BLOODY REVOLT PREDICTED BY
A REPUBLICAN PAPER.
HThe Very MOnopolists Themselves are
Growing Fearful, and Already They
Speculate on What Form the Dread
cd Catastrophe VIII Take"

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You will not find In the editorial
columns Of the New York Sun or the
New York Commercial Advertiser, "
in any prominent paper owned by men
in close touch with capital, outspolSen
defense OF the manifold trusts that
thoughtful people regard ms offering
the greatest menace TO the country's
future. You will discover, however,
In those columns carefully worded and
specious arguments in favor Of CEN
tralization Of labor and capital and
plausible illustrations OF the benefits
conferred upon mankind by aggrega-
tions OF men and money In separate
fields OF production, 1t is claimed for
the trusts that they cheaper the cost
Of articles, effecting these ends by
economy in administration, plentiful
command Of cash, 80 that the raw ma
teral can be bought ut the lowest fig
ure and dealt with on the most scien-
tidc and modern principles II Is in
sisted by these defenders Of the oil,
sugar, coal, steel, paper and transport
tation kings that In these days OF wide"
ly diffused capital they IRE too wary
to oyercharge lest others, seeing the
extent Of their gaiAs, rush into their
planes OF profit and oversupply any
possible market A favorite argument
Is to insist that sugar, oil, coal, etc,
nre much cheaper than they were be-
fore the trusts were formed, and that
the constant effort OF the combines 10
toward increasing demand by cheap
ening production. OF course the oper-
tions Of the immutable laws Of econ
omic development and the steady
growth OF both production and require
ment, as man grows more civilized, is
ignored by these special pleaders, or,
II averted to, the very working, II not
the original enactment Of these laws
is indirectly attributed TO the trust
formers and pool promoters them
selves.
Argue as they may, however, through
the newspapers, on the rostrum, IN
congress, or-alas, that 1t should be
possible--from the very pulpit the
most earnest writer or talker OF them
all knows in his heart that there Ia
danger In the air. They know that
since money has existed immense CEN
tralizations thereof for purposes Of
personal profit or pleasure have been
inimical to the real interests of the
race, and that disaster has followed
fast upon the heels Of greed. II the
disaster affected only those who are
responsible for it, VIC might possess
ourselves in patience and quote the
inevitable garnering Of whirlwindt
when the seedsmen has sown the
storm. But the innocent-the plair
people-must suffer in any bushes:
avalanche, and strongest governments
ere now have tottered and fallen wher
monopoly came to regard the masses
rs of little worth.
The very monopolists themselves are
growing fearful. Already they specu-
late on what form the dreaded catas-
trophe will take. To The Times quite
recently came the views Of two mel
who are in the very core Of the trus
business, and who are as fully capable
Of judging as to coming events as an!
Rockfellers or Carnegie of them all
One Of the gentlemen believes that la
Dor riots--extensive terrible, mayb,
uncomfortable, will be the outcome
lie insists that the trusts, by central
izing labor, by improving machinery
and by lowering wages will eventual
ly bring the wolf of want to TIN
threshold of the toiler and that han
cry men will not be Gained by argu
nent or moral sauslon, but will bege
riot IL not revolution. The other all
thority looks for financial collapse
and predicatcs his prophecy upon tn
collaboration of capital upon certain
productions or industries to the exclu
sion of many which do not offer inor
dinate gains; which are not, in othc
words, susceptible Of being gathered
into a trust. He insists that no pri
vats organization with fifty million
or moro of capitalization at stake
safe against sudden panic or even TEN
porary business depression.
The universal rush OF capital to Oh
ranize into the trusts, he further averi
will result In the formation Of man
that cannot be made profitable, man
that are bound in the nature OF thing
to fail. These figures would precip
tate general crash in which th
strong would topple to ruin, pullc
down by the panic terror inspired b
the misfortnnes Of their fellows. II
points to the fact that upon more tina
one occasion in our commercial histor
stocks whose dividend-paying abilitit
were beyond suspicion or cavil, loi