The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-08-01
ABOUT TRUSTS.
They are COvetOus, Yet Protected by
Law IAN Unsel6sh Industrial Trust
Practicable The Wreckers Should
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Law IAN Unselfsh Industrial Trust
Practicable The Wreckers Should
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Correspondence of The Progressive Farmer.
The modern trust" as Used in
America is q combination of one or
more industries or kinds Of business
under one head or act of corporation
in which the membership agree to be
governed by the will Of the majority
In the corporation. In other words, it
is organization Of selfish interests.
IT is ORGANIZED s~ELFIsHNEss.
Your excellent and able correspond
ent, James Murdoch" in The Farmer
of June 275h, gives the whole trust
business an airing and seems to arrive
at the conclusion that the only, or best
way out of the dilema is to organize
a trust. He says, form farmers trusts,
cooperate, work and trust in God for
the result"
This reminds me Of the story of the
two Original Irishmen, Paddy and
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early day. In their westward journey
they had to ford a river. After get
ting out part way the water was get
ting up to their chins and they con
suited about what to do. Paddy said
to Jamie, "PhstIl we do, Jamie, the
watherl o'er3ome u.s." "Can you
shwim7" says Jamie. mot more'n a
shtone, be dad, right to the bottom"
"WelI, bejabers. Paddy, I'll tell ye
phat we'll haze for till do. You luft
me an I'll luft you, an Well carry
aich luther right across the sthream."
"Ah, Jamie, yer a jewel to plan, an
be gorra it's the very thing Lay hold
an let's go; now luft jamie" "Luft,
Paddy, lutt, Ia, ''howly Moses, Pad
-lut-gurg-Ia-gur--." They grab
bed a floating log and got ashore away
down the stream.
This Jordan before US is a fearful
stream, because it has in it the ele
ments of retributive justice, which
may not overcome the individual who
violates the charity principles in this
life, but it alwsyshas overtaken, must
and will overtake organiz2d covetous
nCs1, such as conspiracies, companies,
corporations, trusts and governments,
just go far as
THEIR MOTIVES ARE COVETOUs.
l certainly do believe In combina
ton, CO operation, and would quickly
join an Incorporated trust, provided it
ia not selfish as against the consumer
or the worker who ia the weakest and
most ignlrant human being. Let Bro.
Murdoch incorporate a trust that will
throw open the doors for membership
to all industrial people and establish in
Ective operation as the orders funda
mental motive, the promotion Of the
greatest and tqIal good 70 each and
every person under like conditions,
whether in or of the order in the
United States, and "a far as possible to
all persons in the world, and l for one
will join it at once. The ordinary
trusts r combining in harmony with
selfish principles; therefore combina-
ton even Incorporated trust, in har-
mony with unselishness will be right
and would succeed in crushing them
or in overcoming their selRshnese.
Trusts are sanctional by law and are
protected by government; 80 must such
an one as I suggest be
SANCTIONED BY LAW,
in order to be eff GIVE. Toe member
ship must be bound together in broth.
erhood ties 80 as to have power and
means to carry out its ends. Trusts
are now
TAKING CARE OF LEGISLATION"
in the interests of invested capital"
in their respective Industries; so this
new n should not only tear down
their wrongs, but should have ready
and substitute fully agreed upon, eco
nomic principles which will reverse
such evil conditions and results. In
this kind Of union there is a strength
that will result in victory in the end,
but in the other there is strength,
whose victory even, is defeat in the
end.
To-day there is a storm of trusts that
is carrying everything financial and
economical with it, and the danger is
that all honest industry will b9 torn
up, root and branch and carried off
with this Legitimate craze of graapIDg
mammonism after which we shall find
ourselves more completely than ever,
under the power Of the
'MAMMON OF UNRIGHTEOU NESS"
The industrial element has the