The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-06-14

that the laborer can have access to
them only on the terms offered by the
trust.
Here am reminded of the words of
Burns:
"See yonder poor o'erlabourd wight,
So abject, mean and vile,
Who begs a brother of the earth
To give him leave to toll;
And see his lordly fellow worm
The poor petition spurn,
,Unmindful, though a weeping wife
And helpless offspring mourn"
At no time in the worlds history
were these lines more applicable than
they are at this time: upon all sides
we see trusts springing up as if by
magic, reducing the wage-earnerS TO
the merest pittance, driving thousands
of business men into bankruptcy or into
the ranks of the unemployed and Gre
ating paupers which society must feed.
All the industries of the nation are
fast passing into trusts and combina-
tons whose real object is to control the
entire wealth of the nation and thus
dictate to the people what they shall
pay for what they eat and wear. All
the natural resources of the nation are
controlled by a few corporations that
dictate to their white slaves how much
they shall receive for their labor and
where they shall spend what they do
receive.
The railroad corporations own 2l1,-
e00, 600 acres Of land, foreign land own
ers own over $1,000, 900 acres of the
finest agricultural land on the Ameri-
can continent. A few corporations own
the entire coal fields Of the East. They
have gone little further and organized
a coal combine, through which they
raise and lower the price of coal, shut
down their mines and reduce the wages
of their white slaves whenever they so
desire.
In addition to this they have their
corporation stores where their wage
slaves are compelled to trade; if they
object they are discharged blacklisted
and, if necessary, shot down by deputy
sheriffs, for VIII. III there is no redress
In any court in the nation.
The Standard Oil trust, the cruelest
of all under the supervision of that
pious old fraud and religious hypocrite,
Rockefeller, controls the oil industry of
the nation and makes it impossible for
any Individual to compete with 1t in the
market. The Standard Oil company
has, in many instances, put oil on the
market for nothing in order to freeze
out it's competitors: when the Compel
itor has been driven to bankruptcy or
absobed by the Standard Oil trust the
price of oil is increased from 1 to 4
cents gallon and the public is made
to pay the trust for the free oil it
placed on the market while freezing out
its competitor. It also controls the lead
industry of the world, as it owns the
controlling stock in the lead trust. 1t
owns nearly all the large lead mines of
the United States and pays it's wage
slaves whatever wages it wishes re-
CARELESS of organized labor, and sells
lead at the maximum to the consumer;
in both of these industries the people
have no voice. They are at the mercy
of one trust which can shut down every
lead mine and close, up every oil well in
the country in "a hours.
Recently a smelter trust has been or
ganized which appeals to the miners
and small mine owners in the West
mere directly than any of the other
great trusts, because in a short tim
the trust will set a certain price CT